WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:05.280 Metalhead Podcast, Metalhead Podcast, Go! 00:00:26.260 --> 00:00:27.960 You must listen. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:30.180 You must listen. 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:32.560 You must listen. 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:38.740 Now, here is the podcast. 00:00:39.180 --> 00:00:39.980 Metal Heads Podcast. 00:00:41.260 --> 00:00:42.520 Hello, and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast. 00:00:42.760 --> 00:00:43.760 My name is George. 00:00:44.540 --> 00:00:45.000 This is Jay. 00:00:45.460 --> 00:00:46.820 This is Will, actually. 00:00:47.300 --> 00:00:48.260 Will, the real one. 00:00:48.460 --> 00:00:48.700 Who? 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:50.240 I remember him. 00:00:51.180 --> 00:00:51.780 This is John. 00:00:52.820 --> 00:00:53.400 This is Matt. 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:55.100 This is Markisan. 00:00:56.800 --> 00:00:57.680 And Justin. 00:00:58.400 --> 00:00:59.100 And Justin. 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:01.080 Welcome, Justin. 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:03.640 Thanks for having me again, fellas. 00:01:04.420 --> 00:01:05.180 Good seeing y'all. 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:06.100 Yeah, you too, man. 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:06.760 Hell yeah. 00:01:07.100 --> 00:01:07.600 Awesome to have you. 00:01:08.380 --> 00:01:20.660 So this is our epic mid-year 2023 episode where we will be bringing you the top 25 albums that we believe are top 25 at mid-year. 00:01:21.380 --> 00:01:48.580 But before we do that, we're going to do a quick t-shirt and beer check, starting with Justin. All right, I'm wearing my hat shirt. I'm sorry, I'm going to interrupt you. I just have to laugh, Matt. Your hair looks so good. This is what I do and I don't comb it. It's like you just got out of bed. It's like an 80s poof. It must be humid in Minnesota. I thought you were going to interrupt and say, 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.960 your shirt but it didn't go down far enough i was like he's not wearing pants 00:01:55.720 --> 00:01:59.460 are you wearing pants justin already off the rails 00:02:03.619 --> 00:02:07.180 all you listeners you're gonna get a full half an hour of will 00:02:07.940 --> 00:02:12.600 yeah one half hour yeah will's got will's on the tight schedules he can only stay a little while so 00:02:12.700 --> 00:02:17.699 let's get moving all right anyways yeah i'm wearing this because i just saw them last week they were 00:02:18.819 --> 00:02:45.900 I'm drinking Great South Bay Brewery Jody Honey Ale. It's the same shit I brought when we were all hanging out at Decibel. It's easy to get and I like it. So it's a good summer drink. And I also have a whiskey with some bullet bourbon, actually. Nice. Some bitters. Yeah. You saw Hath. Who are you seeing tomorrow? Tomorrow I'm seeing Emperor. Nice. Nice. Yes. 00:02:47.700 --> 00:03:17.660 We're doing a couple dates. Yeah, my buddy. Actually, my buddy that I, the one that I reconnected with when I was in MDF. Like, I know some people know, like, the story behind that is cool, but he picked up tickets, so I'm going with him. It's going to be really cool. That's awesome. Cool. Sweet. Did you meet this guy, Emperor, on Grindr? No, on Scruff. Actually, on Scruff. On Scruff. That's right, Scruff. That's right. Yeah, yeah, you told me about this. Dude, you just said, did you meet him on, like, MySpace? That's what you just basically said. I showed Will Scruff. I figured that out. 00:03:17.720 --> 00:03:45.980 That's why he's been so busy lately. See it? I've been growing it out. After all the radiation, this is like full on scruff I got on my face. Which for the listeners, we can't see at all. You will see that. It doesn't look like much. No, I'm never. I'm just very clean shaven, but I cannot grow a beard anymore after all the radiation. Oh, yeah. Interesting. All right. All right. Magazon. I'm wearing a black braid shirt because I just saw them. 00:03:47.720 --> 00:04:17.680 Nice. Camera down, camera down. That's later. Check your DMs. So yeah, they were really great live. So the new album, I think they just did the pre-order was yesterday for it. So it's coming. Yeah, I've seen people pre-ordering it. And then I'm drinking collaboration between Old Irving Brewery, which is right around the corner from me, and Phase 3, the Barrel-Aged Migration from 2023. Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrel-Aged 00:04:17.739 --> 00:04:46.680 Imperial Stout with coconut, vanilla, and cocoa nibs. Nibs. I like nibs. And it's pretty sweet, but it's delicious. I'll tell you what you're not wearing right now, Markisan, is glasses. I just realized, because I'm very self-conscious, I have to wear glasses now. You're the only one not wearing glasses. And I think we all have the same exact black rimmed big fucking glasses. What's funny is I actually have black glasses. I feel like you wore them last time. 00:04:47.720 --> 00:05:17.440 I have really bad eyesight. It's like negative 11 each eye. I just wear contacts. It's funny because I'm wearing my glasses and my glasses, my prescription is so low. They're not even on my license. I just like to wear them. I used to be there. He looks sexier. Makes you look scruffier. I think it's the opposite of that actually, Will. He's more studious now. Did you say what you were drinking? Yes, he did. He did. Okay. Matt. Yeah, yeah. 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:46.900 I've got my Crip Sermon Longsleeve from Philly two years ago. Longsleeve. May I point out that it's white and purple? That's right. So is Matt. Yeah, exactly. It goes with my colors. I've been failing to wear it because it's a little tight in some areas and I told myself it's mid-year. I don't care. I'm going to wear it. So here it is. And then I'm drinking from Wayfinder Brewery. Yeah, Wayfinder. They're cold IPA. It's delicious. It's cold. Is it cold brewed? Frost brewed? 00:05:46.900 --> 00:06:16.520 It is indeed. By the way, there's no such thing. Liars. He's making stuff up already. I am. Ross comes from the freezer. Okay, then, John. All right, I got my amorphous Tales from a Thousand Lakes shirt because it's like the coolest album cover ever. And I'm drinking a zombie ice double IPA from our friends at Three Floyds. Oh, you know what? I saw that. I used to only see that in total wine, John. 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:19.620 The one near our house. 00:06:20.010 --> 00:06:20.240 Yeah, yeah. 00:06:21.110 --> 00:06:21.700 You can get it. 00:06:22.640 --> 00:06:24.360 But I saw it in Safeway the other day. 00:06:24.490 --> 00:06:25.500 I was like, whoa, okay. 00:06:26.280 --> 00:06:27.080 It's actually good. 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:27.920 It's really good. 00:06:28.140 --> 00:06:28.660 It's actually good. 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:30.520 Were you like me when you saw the name? 00:06:30.530 --> 00:06:32.060 You're like, oh, no. 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:33.120 Because it was. 00:06:33.260 --> 00:06:34.460 You thinking like Molson Ice? 00:06:35.140 --> 00:06:37.660 Because usually ice comes after any beer. 00:06:37.880 --> 00:06:38.360 It's bad. 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:38.920 Yeah. 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:40.800 It's been kind of the gimmick lately. 00:06:41.150 --> 00:06:43.780 And I had it tap and I was like, what the fuck? 00:06:43.940 --> 00:06:44.520 This is awesome. 00:06:44.960 --> 00:06:45.900 Yeah, it is really good. 00:06:45.980 --> 00:07:15.780 And I can see you guys. I can mostly see, yeah. I have some of that in my fridge. Yeah, it's a super nice beer. Yeah, it is. All right. I am wearing my Atlas work shirt because I'm about to go to Atlas. That's not your work shirt where you just showed us. The tank top with the cum stains on it is, I packed it in a bag, okay? It's under the work shirt. Yeah, and I am drinking a Monster Orange energy drink because, 00:07:15.980 --> 00:07:45.720 I have to go to work for the next eight hours. Yeah, probably five or six. I have to wake up. Oh, right. Four o'clock in the morning. So I'm only going to be there for part of the show. Jay. I'm drinking ice cold, delicious water. And, but my t-shirt is. Let me cut off tea. Wait, is it a cut off tea? Are you wearing a cut off tea? No, it's so handsome. And I think he's drinking either a million genuine draft or a Corona. 00:07:45.960 --> 00:08:15.680 I can't tell which. Did you see the picture of Carl online the other day that looked just like that? Carl from, you know, Scala. Oh, yeah. And he was all like super short cut off shorts. And yeah, that man is shameless. I love him. I did see that. Who is he? Who is this guy? Because I saw the picture. Chris's band Scala. Okay. And then he had his own band Alcyone, the one where everybody dies. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. I don't always know why I know people. Yeah. Facebook. 00:08:15.980 --> 00:08:45.660 Yeah, so kudos to him for that. All right, I am wearing my brand new variant of the Metalheads podcast new shirt with the new art and completely readable logo for walking around in so that people can actually read it since the majority of the public cannot read metal logos. I got this for walking around and people going, oh, Metalheads podcast, what's up? You sexy billboard, you. I am, man. So many people ask me about my shirts, podcast or not. 00:08:47.120 --> 00:09:15.040 that I'm like, if it says this, maybe more people will ask about it. Yeah. Everything I wear, Barb just rolls her eyes because everywhere we go, somebody's always talking about my shirt. Free advertising, right? And I am drinking a Nepenthe Primordial Mayhem double IPA, which I would like to toast Dan Lake at Decibel. We were talking the other day and he was drinking one of these and I was like, hey, I got some of that. So this one's for you, man. It's birthday today, I think, too. Is it really? Well, then happy birthday. 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:43.680 Skol Danny Lake. Yeah. On deck right after that is from Civil Society Brewing Company. I've never heard of them, but it's a fresh Supreme triple IPA, 12 and a half Markisan percent. So tie me down. That's awesome. I don't even. Oh, mine's 13 percent. You've been tied down. That's point five more. What'd you say, John? I said he's been tied down for three percent. 00:09:48.100 --> 00:10:14.640 All right. We've got that out of the way. Let's see how far we can get on our lists. Starting with the number 25 spot, Justin. All right. My 25 is newer release. That's why it's a 25. Probably will get a little higher. Some more listens. Band is Creeping Death. The album is Boundless Domain. They're from Texas. 00:10:15.500 --> 00:10:43.100 It came out June 16th. Yeah, it's just it's that Texas hardcore-ish death metal that's been around. I feel like they do it the best in terms of that section of people right now for me. Yeah, just super catchy. A lot of good songs. It's actually a really good song with Corpse Grinder on there. Oh, nice. Any guests on, which is a cool, stompy type of song. 00:10:45.500 --> 00:11:15.340 Goes up the ranks as the year ends or if it stays where it is. But I threw it on there because I have been digging it. It's probably the only release in June I've really been listening to. Yeah, I haven't listened to that yet. I meant to. I forgot. All right, Mark's on. Yeah, all right. My number 25 is Necrifier, Burning Shadows in the Southern Night on Season of Mist Records. So it's black metal mixed with traditional metal. Plus, I'd say there's a little, 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:45.400 hard rock in there, a few folk elements. It makes for a really fun and interesting sounding record. And it's a change for this band because they were more of a melodic black metal band. And I would say it's a welcome change because I wasn't really, they weren't really on my radar until this record when I heard that combination of elements. Nice. Matt. All right. Number 25, The Absence, Oak Pantheon. In prep for them coming on the episode. I'd only listened to it. 00:11:45.520 --> 00:12:15.460 I liked it and then after that episode I put it on and I just have not stopped listening to it it just completely grew on me it's I don't know it's just it's a cool proggy sound but it it goes all over the place and I really dig that yeah 25 George was like shaking his head because you know he's gonna have it higher on his list that's right I didn't want to go number 25 but here's the thing it's a little early for that here's the thing we never like like the spiel about my list and I know some of you will 00:12:15.500 --> 00:12:45.460 some of you will disagree like 20 through 25 could flip them anywhere 10 through 20 could flip them anywhere my number one is definitely my number one but like number two through 10 like it's just the order that it is today they've just been flipping in and out and like as we're talking that's the year it's been for me i've spent more time listening to older music than i have newer music and like my old bitchiness is just it's not that i don't want to go out and listen to new music because there's a lot of good stuff but just get stuck in these like i just i want to do a deep dive of like i did this year was my deep dive of rush which 00:12:45.500 --> 00:13:15.460 was amazing. It took up a lot of time. It was so worth the time. Your whole life should be a deep dive of rush. I don't disagree with that at all, John, because there's just so much there to offer. That's what I want. You shouldn't be in a rush your whole life. You got to slow things down a little bit. That's true. That's true. Don't rush, rush. I just said that the other day. Yeah. All right, then. My 25. Excuse me for butchering all these different languages that these albums are in. Band names are in. I'll do my best. I am not a Dutch speaker. So my number 00:13:15.500 --> 00:13:44.900 is Vitae Vivan. Cue the Crickets. And the album is called Deval Licht. They are a Dutch atmospheric band, black metal, post-metallish band. This is their debut album. It's pretty cool stuff. It's got a lot of atmosphere, a lot of cool atmospheric black metal without kind of the traditional meandering atmospheric black metal. That's all I got. It's a cool little album. Pretty sure I listened to that one. Yeah. 00:13:45.480 --> 00:14:15.380 So I have to go back flying under the radar came out right. I think when we were at either the week we were at decibel or the week after. Okay. All right. My number 25 before I jump into my list, I had a very nice conversation back and forth with Mr. Matt Stewart, which I am very much enjoyed about setting in my list or my incomplete list. And then my actual list, I only had about 17 albums on my list until yesterday. So I, 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:44.660 I did my best to fill out my list. I saw you filled up your band cap cart. Yeah, yeah. There's a few things that are even not on the cart, and I'm like, I'm going to include this. However, I'm pulling a Jay Dickinson for my number 25. I am throwing out all the rules. And my number 25. A live clutch album? A live compilation clutch album. I was so trying to get. 00:14:45.480 --> 00:15:15.460 to 25 that I put clutch on there and I realized I came out last year. Fuck it. It's on anyway. Fucking rules, bitch. Anyway, sorry, let's take it more time. I'm putting Black Sabbath Live Evil 40th Anniversary reissue as my number 25. And it's only my number 25 because it's not a new release-ish in a traditional sense. But holy shit, that's good. In the tradition of the Rush XYZ 359 00:15:15.500 --> 00:15:45.400 2.8 codex of the rulebook. It is acceptable. Yeah. Let me take a look. Let me take a look at the rules for our stats. There's a YYZ, whatever it is. It's one of those ones that it didn't quite get. Joe Barassi didn't do it, but it might as well have been Joe Barassi. It's that the mix is that different, I think. So I totally, it's basically a new record, Will. Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome. I listened to it many times. You can hear the keyboards, by the way, but they're on it now. 00:15:45.500 --> 00:16:14.800 There's a keyboard player under the stage for that tour. And also, did you listen to it, John? Not yet. They added some in-between song, Jibber Jab, and one of them is he announces Mob Rules as the song from the movie Heavy Metal and our own record. There's a whole bunch of stuff on there. You know, what's interesting about that album is I actually saw that tour. That's how old I am. Oh, my back. My bunions. All right. Jay. 00:16:15.900 --> 00:16:16.260 25. 00:16:17.050 --> 00:16:20.680 And it refers to themselves as progressive death metal. 00:16:22.260 --> 00:16:31.200 They're more grindy if you ask me, but I don't remember if one of you guys chose this and I found it through you or where I found it, but blindfolded and led into the woods, rejecting obliteration. 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:38.020 This is really cool, epic, grindy, tech death, everything that was described. 00:16:38.140 --> 00:16:38.940 It's unprosthetic. 00:16:39.340 --> 00:16:40.520 If you have already, you should probably check it out. 00:16:40.660 --> 00:16:41.260 It's heavy as fuck. 00:16:41.300 --> 00:16:43.480 It reminds me of a more 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:46.600 metalized napalm death a little bit 00:16:46.860 --> 00:16:48.340 I've heard of them and I've heard them in the past 00:16:49.420 --> 00:16:49.820 What's that? 00:16:49.880 --> 00:16:52.540 They got some Ulcerate vibes to them too I feel like 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.260 It's a good record and I ended up listening to it a few times 00:16:56.660 --> 00:16:57.700 once I heard it so 00:16:58.300 --> 00:16:59.740 good enough to end up on 25 00:17:00.180 --> 00:17:01.640 They were a contender for me too 00:17:01.740 --> 00:17:04.839 I enjoyed their last one a little bit more so it didn't quite make this for me 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:07.560 I don't know their last one to be honest with you 00:17:07.579 --> 00:17:09.579 it's the first record I've heard by them but I'll check it out 00:17:09.600 --> 00:17:37.140 They went a little bit more, I would say, experimental in this one than they did in the other one. Justin, thank you for saying Ulcerate. I've been trying to think of their name all day. And I was like, something about digestion. Yeah. Is it? Ow. Ungested? No, it's not ungested. Rose disease. Australian with diarrhea. What is the fucking name? Irritable bowel syndrome. Diarrhea. You closed the circle for me. Matt, that's just diarrhea, mate. That's true. Diarrhea. Diarrhea. 00:17:39.640 --> 00:18:09.320 I'm not putting that black Sabbath on the way. Jay's number one is changing right now. I love how we already have bunions and diarrhea on the caps. I just want someone to come out with a band called Australian Diarrhea. It's in the works. It's in the works. Sounds like a punk band. And it is, of course, diarrhea that could kill you since it's from Australia. Everything in Australia can kill you. It's poisonous. George, I think it's you. It's me? Alrighty then. My number 25. This will be a volleyball cricket. 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:39.440 A Band Called Turbid North. They're an independent release. The Decline. They're sort of a death, sludgy kind of band. This is their first album in eight years. I remember them because I love their previous album. I used to talk about it all the time. Yeah, they were great back in the day. And then they just disappeared for eight years. And they came back with this. And it's clear that the progression of the songs kind of changes the style as it goes along. Because it's probably written. 00:18:39.600 --> 00:19:07.760 over eight years. So it's a nice mix of things and it's cool. So number 25. Weird. All right. Back to Justin. Back to me. All right. My number 24 is Sangwisugabag. Homicidal Ecstasy from Columbus, Ohio. They're on Century Media. Came out February 3rd. Yeah. I mean, it's lost. They lost a little bit of the caveman charm, I would say, 00:19:07.840 --> 00:19:37.800 they had on some of their other records that I kind of dug. I kind of dug the fact that everyone was triggered by how popular they were and how caveman they were. It was cool. They definitely beefed up their songwriting on this one. If you didn't like the drums on any of the other shit, you're probably not going to like it on this one either. But yeah, they do a really good job of toting that line of brutal death metal that I like where it's got that stomp and groove, but it's still pretty ferocious. And I would say if you're going to listen to one song, listen to A Lesson in Savagery, that's 00:19:37.840 --> 00:20:07.760 probably my favorite track off of there. I feel like there are some tracks that I could probably do without, but there are some really good tracks on there. That's one of them. Sweet. I've really got into that album in the last month. It almost made the list. It just was jumping back and forth. But yeah, it's super solid. I just saw him at Hell in the Harbor. Oh, hey, that's a thing that happened. Hell in the Harbor. How was that? I'm not going to get too into it because I got to leave soon, but the setup was really nice. 00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:14.120 where if you're all familiar the seven of us on this here is are pretty 00:20:14.280 --> 00:20:18.920 familiar with the baltimore soundstage and that street area there so what they did is they put up 00:20:19.580 --> 00:20:23.800 like a big stage right in the middle of the street right in front of baltimore soundstage 00:20:24.540 --> 00:20:29.140 and so they enclosed the whole area off so that stage one was out in the middle of the street 00:20:30.120 --> 00:20:35.220 and then the second stage was inside baltimore soundstage you can come and go you go out to 00:20:35.220 --> 00:21:05.200 their car and come back like the old maryland death fest thing so they weren't in like ram's head and in soundstage nope oh interesting no no they were in they were in soundstage there's nothing in ram's head it was basically there's two stages one outside like so cannibal corpse played on the main outside the power plant stage in the middle it's not it's not even the power plant stage it's just a stage in middle of the street in front of baltimore soundstage i can't explain it yeah no i get that yeah and then the other stage was in 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:11.920 So then you went inside the Baltimore Soundstage venue and you would see other bands. 00:21:12.120 --> 00:21:13.740 I see. So there was no power plant at all? 00:21:14.600 --> 00:21:14.840 Nope. 00:21:15.080 --> 00:21:15.320 Wow. 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:17.580 No power plant, no Ram's Head, no nothing. 00:21:17.650 --> 00:21:21.660 It was literally a stage in Millie Street and then Baltimore Soundstage inside. 00:21:21.940 --> 00:21:22.520 That was convenient. 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:23.780 It was convenient. 00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:30.300 Having the stage in Millie Street, you still had the dividers that divided the east-west lanes of the street. 00:21:30.990 --> 00:21:31.980 People trampled the bushes. 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.200 But there was plenty of great... 00:21:35.220 --> 00:22:04.740 So easy to get between the two venues, just walk in and out. And then if you want to go outside and go back to your car, we saw a metal Chris and Melissa Suarez Skinner, the photographer all went out to Chris's car in the parking garage. We had a couple of beers and then we came right back in. And you go in and out as much as you want. Yeah. So it was nice. Lots of people there that I went by myself, but I knew like tons of people there. So it was a really nice setup. It was a nice little mini death fest. Awesome. 00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:34.020 Unfortunately, I muted myself there for a second, so I didn't get to drop a... That's what she said after you could go in and out as much as you want, so just throw that out there. The buffet. Opportunity missed. I was only there, my son had a baseball tournament Saturday morning into the afternoon, so I only got there probably 3 or 4 o'clock on Saturday, and I could not go Sunday because he had another baseball tournament, so I only went Saturday, so I got to see Cannibal Corpse, and that was like my... I got to see Deceased, Cannibal Corpse, Cloak, 00:22:39.200 --> 00:23:04.780 I missed Outer Heaven just by like a half an hour. I saw Zach there from Outer Heaven. Nice. Can't wait for that record. Yeah, for sure. All right. Where are we? Mark is on? Yeah. Can I just say I love that Jay is a joke revisionist? It's pretty awesome. I was going to say this. Didn't say it, but I'm going to let you know I should have. Love it. Love it. 00:23:05.220 --> 00:23:34.700 All right, my number 24 is Oromet and it's self-titled album from Transylvanian Recordings. Just really striking funeral doom with these gorgeous orchestral parts to it. So it has a real sweeping emotional feel to it that always puts doom albums over the top for me. It's an album from this band that features two guys from Battle Hag, which was an album I spun a lot in around 2020, I think. 00:23:35.220 --> 00:24:05.180 I'm curious to see what they're going to do next with this because I thought it was a really good record and I feel like there's room to be even better like I can incorporate more things into it so good debut awesome Matty my number 24 is I believe this band's 11th full-length album it's not my favorite of theirs but it definitely holds a special place in my blackened heart it's Holocene by the ocean there as I spent so much of my life listening to post-mode 00:24:05.220 --> 00:24:33.800 They were one of the first bands that was my gateway into that genre. And it's just like their sound is always like warm and home for me. So, Holocene, Ocean. Nice. Number 24. All right, John. All right. My number 24. Bring in the first Death Doom to my 25% Death Doom list. By the way, I spoke to James five minutes before we started. He asked me to say hello to everyone. Hello, James. We love you. We love you, James. 00:24:35.220 --> 00:24:35.700 Hello, James. 00:24:36.600 --> 00:24:37.880 Y24 is Soulmass. 00:24:38.170 --> 00:24:40.660 Let Us Pray, independent release. 00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:43.240 They are a Death Doom band from Florida. 00:24:44.060 --> 00:24:46.740 Third album, just good, solid, crushing Death Doom. 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:51.780 It's inspired by the story and atmosphere of the video game Bloodborne. 00:24:54.060 --> 00:24:57.560 I think this is my biggest Death Doom year, John, since we started doing less. 00:24:57.640 --> 00:24:58.980 I have more Death Doom records on. 00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:00.600 It's a lot of Doom this year. 00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:01.280 Yeah. 00:25:02.420 --> 00:25:02.660 Definitely. 00:25:03.080 --> 00:25:03.800 I love it. 00:25:04.560 --> 00:25:34.420 I may have one. I'm not 25% in it like John, but I've got a few on here for sure. I'm definitely less death this year, I think, than other years. Now it is only in the mid-year, but we'll see. John, we should add a column to this spreadsheet that says the genre so we can track that. Yeah, the problem is too many of these bands are like cross-pollinating and it's really hard to differentiate which they would fall into the most. 00:25:34.980 --> 00:26:04.040 But I agree. It would be nice if we could umbrella it a little bit. You can get Justin and he's the death metal police. So he can come in and tell you if it's pure or not. Exactly. There's one of a hundred subgenres taken care of. Yeah. So anyway. Will. Is there a platinum level death metal band, Justin? Bro job. Bro job. Do you know them, Justin? You must know them. Yes. 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:34.040 That's platinum level. Death metal. This will be my last live pick. And then I hand the reins over to the venerable Mr. Matthew Stewart. Venereable. No diseaseable. Yes. And I would say, listen, don't hate to play or hate to game in this because you made me come up with 25. So I came up with 25. It'd be weird how your list matches Matt's list from here on out. Matt's looking at my list. 00:26:34.560 --> 00:27:04.380 the fuck? Did you make these names up? I love them all. He's going to just make them up for you. So my number 24, and like I said, don't hate me, but I had to come up with 25, Metal Church, Congregation of Analylation. A lot of people like that album. I did go, after hearing this, I did go on a huge Metal Church kick, and the first four albums are really amazing, and I think Blessing the Skies may be one of the most perfect albums from start to finish. 00:27:04.560 --> 00:27:34.300 Production, songwriting, everything is just, there's not a bad song on that album. And so they do have a song on there. I think it's the number two song. What's it called? It's about the Titanic, which I thought was pretty relevant these days. Anyway, so yeah, Middle Church Congregation Annihilation. I'm going to take off because I need to get to Atlas because I have a show tonight. I need to host and set up for and all that fun stuff that I do. 00:27:34.380 --> 00:28:04.280 We've got some butts to go slap. Warren will be there. Oh, Warren, put your padding on. Yep. Warren will be there. It's good to see you, Will. All right, Will. Take care, man. I apologize. I shouldn't apologize because you guys are probably relieved, but I have not been on. Hey, Will, when you get done at Atlas, just call in. We'll be at pick 17 by that point. You know what's funny? I thought about that because I'm going to leave early because I need to get home. Call in. Call in from your beddy box. 00:28:05.060 --> 00:28:34.240 And I'm going to leave everything set up. And then I will check in once I get home. You never know. We've only done one. Two. One and a half. Two picks in 30 minutes. You're not even done with two picks. Actually, right. In 30 minutes. Matt has very specific instructions on how to introduce all my tricks. I asked Matt to play the part of you. To be you. He needs to tell dick jokes. He needs to be as offensive as possible. 00:28:35.340 --> 00:29:04.080 I think the word I told Matt was be obnoxious and brief. Yep. He's got the brief part down. Yeah. Loud, obnoxious. Yeah. Loud, obnoxious and brief. And mention the black album at least seven times. And make sure that you don't unmute. Justin mentioned this earlier. You got that caveman charm. That's right. Matt, if you practice muting yourself and you get the picks. All right, guys, I gotta go. I love you all. Love you, man. 00:29:04.360 --> 00:29:34.340 Yeah. Thanks for letting me crash and party for at least a half an hour. And maybe I'll see you later. Maybe we'll see you at pick 12. Okay. Bye guys. Later. Bye. All right. I think that puts us at you. Yes. Me. Boy, it's too bad we didn't get to hear this one because I thought it was probably something he knows. And it's because we'll tend to really dig into the international, sometimes Middle Eastern, sometimes, though this is more Eastern Europe, but it's this cool Eastern European 00:29:34.400 --> 00:30:04.040 Turkish Black Metal Upal Kastanatnyi. There's no way I'm going to say it right. Are you having a stroke? It's one of those ones where the influences of the region are clearly heard in it and it makes it super interesting and fun and good. And I got emotionally attached to it when I first heard it because I'm pretty sure you're not probably, I'm sure what this guy's doing is pretty, probably frowned upon in Turkey. Maybe even in a bureaucratic and official way. So anyway, pretty cool record. 00:30:10.040 --> 00:30:10.940 I'll check it out. 00:30:11.700 --> 00:30:16.920 Yeah, it's good. I'll say it again. Kostin Upal is the name of the band. That's all you need to know. You can find the title. 00:30:17.100 --> 00:30:22.740 I think I only know one band from Turkey. I think, Justin, you might know them. And some of you guys might know their burial invocation. Is that their name? 00:30:23.460 --> 00:30:24.960 I think they're from Turkey. 00:30:25.060 --> 00:30:27.000 Are they from Turkey? Yeah, they might be. Yeah, they're good. 00:30:27.840 --> 00:30:31.700 Who's the goodest really band that hasn't put a record out in a couple of years? A bunch of us liked them. 00:30:31.960 --> 00:31:01.620 They got the Jewish hand thing on there. That one record, the famous Jewish symbol. Okay, not them. You talking about orphan land? No, that's what I was thinking of. I don't mean to stop things, but a few of us liked it. Oh, Malakash. Yeah, Malakash. They're in the Netherlands now. Yeah, they haven't put out in a long time. Oh, I didn't know they moved. They moved. They had to, I think. Did they? Yeah. Or so the story goes. This doesn't remind me of Malakash, but it's that kind of thing where it's like those local influences are deeply felt. Nice. That's cool. All right. 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:31.940 Number 24, another Crickets. Nobody's ever heard of this band. They're from Switzerland on Dying Victims Productions. They're called Megaton Sword, and their album is called Might and Power. Oh, yeah. Nobody's ever heard of them before. I know, right? Give me my beach ball now. It's all right. Or volleyball. This is the answer to the joke, how do you make Jay and Marcason shut up? You say that. No, I was going to... 00:31:31.980 --> 00:32:01.040 I was waiting for that actually. I feel the same way about Matt's list. All right. I actually quite like Matt's list so far. Thank you. I know both bands. Likewise. Yeah. We haven't gotten to the fiction yet. No fiction section. Right. So far. Justin, take us to 23. All right. Let's see. My 23 is ominous scriptures. 00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:30.660 The album is called Rituals of Mass Self-Ignition. They're from Belarus. They're on Willow Tip Records. Came out January 27th. It's actually another kind of brutal death band. Brutal Death isn't necessarily my go-to subgenre of death metal, but it just sounds really good. It's got a very evil sounding production. I would say if you're fans of a decrepit birth, 00:32:31.980 --> 00:33:01.780 where there's some technicality to it, but it still sticks within the brutal death realm. But it's not, you're not getting like the pingy drums or anything like that. It's just really intense riffs, really guttural vocals. It's catchy. It's got some, you know, some kind of corpse riffing in there too, style-wise. Yeah, really good. Cool. Hey, Microsoft. More death metal. Shocker. Weird. All right. So my number, 00:33:01.980 --> 00:33:31.640 Number 23 is Decipher, Arcane Paths to Resurrection, Transcending Obscurity Records. This album, it's 36 minutes of ferocious death black. It's aggressive, but it's always fun. Really great melodies and hooks throughout. There's a visceral, explosive punk energy to this album that really makes it stand out for me. I find myself coming back to it quite a bit just because it's a little bit different. 00:33:31.980 --> 00:34:01.940 some of the other stuff that I've been listening to this year. Like we mentioned before, there's a lot of doom stuff and I'm into that. So this is a chaser for that when I want to get up, get a little energetic. I heard it at some point because I put it in my wish list and I didn't go back to it. So I need to do that. Yeah, do that, George. It's really good. I think you'll enjoy it. I think so. From what I recall, I was like, oh yeah, I'm a little more discerning when I put things in my wish list now. Okay. All right, Matt. Yeah. 23 void ceremony threads of unknowing. Hmm. This is one of the most important things that I've been listening to this year. 00:34:01.980 --> 00:34:31.639 my more recent albums of the month, I believe. This is their second album. It's just really solid, proggy, black and death metal. I don't have a whole lot more to say about it. Other than I like it, obviously. That's all I got to say about that. Good pick. Good pick. Thank you. I think that's going to come up on other people's list. I think it's probably going to come up on almost everybody's. It's got that dissonance to it. Yeah. All right, John. Or John. This is weird. I've known now, 00:34:31.960 --> 00:35:01.700 First three picks. It's crazy. Let's see how long we can go with this, John. He's going to switch things up on you and mess you up by having all real bands. You feel closer to Matt now, John. I always feel close to Matt. There's a warmth. There's a warmth here. Snuggie. Running down your leg. Matt and I have come up with a future product that we're hoping that we can market one day that will go a long way to making a lot of people happy. Change people's lives. The liquid Snuggie. 00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:05.840 No need to put your Snuggie on when you can drink it. 00:35:06.900 --> 00:35:08.660 It's not bulky. It's just liquid. 00:35:09.240 --> 00:35:09.960 You'll feel bulky. 00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:12.740 Who needs to be warm on the outside when you're warm on the inside? 00:35:13.580 --> 00:35:14.260 That's right. 00:35:15.340 --> 00:35:18.600 It's cold outside, but you feel like the sun's bursting in your heart. 00:35:19.540 --> 00:35:19.800 All right. 00:35:19.900 --> 00:35:23.560 So my number 23, I think this might come up on at least one or two lists. 00:35:24.940 --> 00:35:28.440 Gatekeeper from Western Shores on Cruz del Sur Music. 00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:58.020 Canadian metal slash traditional metal slash US power metal band. Some real nice stuff. I actually like this album better in their debut. So I, when I listened to this, I was like, wow, where was this on the first time? First time was pretty good, but I think this is a much better album of just a really good US power metal. There's some choruses that are a little, not cheesy, but they're not bad, but the rest of it's all North American continent power metal, not European power metal. So it's cool. 00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:28.420 That's great. That's how they get you, John. Those choruses, that's where those bands can so easily fall afoul is the choruses on those trappings. Yeah, and I think they just get a little close here on a couple, but then there's other ones that are just great fist-pumping choruses, so it's good. They got a new singer, this album. That's why it's so much different than that first record. I think the writing's actually a little better, too, on this one. Yeah. Everything's better on it, production. Yeah, I agree. The album covers, you're like, oh, that's neat, and you look a little closer, like, man, that's fucked up. 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:58.780 All right, number 23, Will. You want my number 23? Yeah, I want your number 23, Will. My number 23 is Necrofire, Burning Shadows in the Southern Night. That is not a surprise at all, Will. No, not at all. By the way, my name is Brew Meadow Will, and I season my steak with pepper spray. Wow, do you have a whole narrative? Possibly. A whole script? All right, thanks, Will. Go to J. My pleasure. I'm guessing only Will, no longer present, 00:36:58.940 --> 00:37:26.960 We'll have... Oh, he's present. Actually, George might have it up, maybe. It's not as good as the last one, but there's a couple of really strong tracks on it, and we are trying to squeeze out 25 at mid-year. Sometimes they go high and you go low. Overkill, Scorched. It's got a couple of really solid tracks on it. It's not as good as The Wings of War was, but... Especially the title track is fucking really cool, actually. So, probably gonna fall off... Definitely gonna fall off by end of the year, but it's not that they made a bad record. 00:37:28.940 --> 00:37:58.560 I bet she has on one's list. All right. If only because he had to get 25. Yeah, that seems likely. All right. So my number 23 is from the United States. Another independent release. The band is called Necropanther. The album is Betrayal. It's their fourth album. They're kind of a melodic. It says melodic death thrash here on Encyclopedia Metallum. But I don't know. I think it's just more deathy. 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:28.640 than thrashing, but I don't know. Anyway, they're from Denver. And if you have not listened to these guys because you think their name is cheesy, which I do, you really should listen to this anyway because it's pretty damn good. I agree. That's a fun one. Yes, I agree as well. Excellent. No crickets. All right, back to Justin for number 22. All right, number 22. Shocker. 00:38:28.700 --> 00:38:58.360 They're another death metal band. This one's Street Tunes. The album is Reclusive Decay. They're from Santa Fe, New Mexico. They're on Carbonized Records, and they came out February 17th. This is just more of that raw, kind of D-beat style death metal. It has a little bit of a more like that punkier edge of death metal, kind of bouncy, fast-paced. Yeah, it's good stuff. Yeah, it's got Galen on there. Yeah. 00:38:58.700 --> 00:39:27.840 I really like the song Diseased Existence. That's my track, I would say. If you wanted to check them out, you should check that track out. Galen is on it? Is that what you said? Yeah. He was on here a couple episodes ago, Jay. I know you don't remember anything past the last couple days, but yeah, Galen was on here a couple episodes ago and he was pimping that among other bands. Like his own heritage band. I do remember him being here, yes. Hey, it's not my fault the guy's in 454 bands. No worries. 00:39:29.260 --> 00:39:58.560 All right, Mark's on. Okay, this is probably going to be the first more controversial positioning, I guess, for an album, because I'm pretty sure you guys are going to have this pretty high. Downward Dog? No. No. It's Cattle Decapitation Terracite. Oh, no. Mine's lower than that, Mark. Yeah, I know. 202. Yeah, it's got all the elements I love from the band. It's ferocious. It's got the catchy choruses. 00:39:58.680 --> 00:40:28.560 It's got the story behind it about the end of the world with weird-ass bug things. The songs sound fantastic live. I just saw them recently. I feel fine. But it's just more streamlined and more direct to me than Death Atlas. And I like that it goes right for the throat. I like that they switched it up a little bit, but I just can't help but compare it to Death Atlas, which is probably one of my top one or two Cattle to Cap records. So for me, this one kind of feels like it's missing. 00:40:28.700 --> 00:40:58.400 a little something. Yeah, it's definitely less cinematic. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's what I really enjoyed about the last one. So it's a very good album. It's just not an album that I'll spin as much as the previous records, especially Death Atlas. So that's why it's a little bit lower, a lot lower than the last time I had them on my list. Legit. Yeah. I think that's probably the common view more or less. We'll see. All right, Matt. Groovy. 22. The band is called. 00:40:58.680 --> 00:41:28.540 Oh damn it's crying mirror. I think the album is called. Um, this is a, like, to me, this is the year stereotypical. I avoid hanger, like weird avant-garde black metal band, which I, every year I fall in love with one, which started with East octolium, which I haven't been as into some of their more recent releases, but this one is just like all over the place. So you mean the last 12 releases from this year? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. This one, like I hear bits of grunge in there and being a child, 00:41:28.700 --> 00:41:58.660 I naturally gravitate to that sort of thing. But this is the first album. They're actually out of Finland. And that's all I know. But yeah. All right. John. All right. Number 22. I know one person might think this is too low. But it's where it just happened to fall because it's a lot to take in. Dot Heimsgaard. Black Medium Current. Hey, it's on there. Yeah. It's a good album off of Peaceville. They're a Norwegian well-known black metal band that has 00:41:58.700 --> 00:42:28.660 evolved every album to the point where I think I don't even know they're a black metal band anymore they're just like an extreme proggy avant-garde-ish I think they're avant WTF yeah exactly but this time it seems like they've got some more electronics mixed in or is that not correct you know better than I do if you go back to 666 international that was very electronic so it's not like they haven't done that before but it's in a different way for sure yeah it's cool I like it it's I said Georgia message 00:42:28.660 --> 00:42:57.620 And I said, hey, weirdo metal. And I said, I like weirdo metal. It's the kind of weirdo I like. And I wasn't being disparaging. It's just, it's very, it's different than your traditional froggy, extreme, blackened, post, whatever you want to call it, avant-garde. I don't even know if it's avant-garde anymore because there's nothing revolutionary about what they're doing because they've been doing it for so long. It's just a catchphrase now, but it's a good album. I like it. Excellent. All right, Jay. Wait, nope. 00:42:58.660 --> 00:43:28.600 Come on. Sorry, Will. My number 22, Wild Beyond, self-titled. It's a band out of Philly. They're on Gates of Hell Records. Also, Freddy Krueger has nightmares about brew metal, Will. Yeah, that's the band that has Grim Jim, a.k.a. Necrosexual. He's on here. Yeah, he's on there. Sure is. Yeah, so. Cool. Excellent. Thanks, Will. Mine in this next D1 is definitely a J only, but it's a band that I have a lot of respect for. 00:43:28.680 --> 00:43:58.600 been around for 40 or 50 years. Currently touring the UK or about to tour the UK with Saxon and Judas Priest. And man, would I love to see this bill. And for some reason, their post 2000 records for a band that this old seemed to be some of their best records. Uriah Heep, Chaos in Color. Nice. That stuff's good, man. And they have their singer's name is Mick Box, which is the weirdest fucking name ever. But man, this fucking guy can sing it for a guy with long gray hair. He sounds like a latter day Bruce Dickinson with a better ring. 00:43:58.660 --> 00:44:28.620 Wow. And they just write really interesting stuff. And their last one wasn't that great. And then they came back and knocked out of the park. So it's proto metal roots metal, but with modern instruments, it was just to say, it doesn't sound like an old, you write heap records. So it's palatable to the metal head and then some, but made a very enjoyable records here. Cool. Excellent. My number 22 from Germany on Napalm Records with their fifth album of Dissexual. 00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:31.140 Fulcandra hail the abyss. 00:44:33.120 --> 00:44:33.560 Trickets? 00:44:34.640 --> 00:44:35.320 I know, I know. 00:44:36.120 --> 00:44:37.720 I know, but nobody said anything. 00:44:38.140 --> 00:44:41.100 They're just like all nodding sagely like, mmm. 00:44:42.560 --> 00:44:46.140 It's like a really subdued year-end or mid-year show right now. 00:44:47.260 --> 00:44:48.780 We need Will to pick things up a little bit. 00:44:49.070 --> 00:44:49.700 Cool story. 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:54.300 I'm waiting for someone to pull out a pipe here pretty soon and put on an ashcock or whatever those things are called. 00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:57.620 So this next bond is from Germany. 00:44:57.900 --> 00:45:27.860 Brilliant pick. Brilliant pick. Brilliant pick. Alright, number 21. Justin. Alright, this is actually Black and Thrash Band. Band is Hot Graves. The album is Plague Wielder. They're from Gainesville, Florida. They're on Gurgling Gore Records and it came out March 31st. Just like that, it's like that punky Black and Thrash. It gives me a lot of that early 00:45:40.179 --> 00:45:57.240 It was one of those ones that I wasn't hung on to a little bit longer before I decided if I was going to stick with it, but they really do have some memorable stuff in there that has been sticking with me. So that's why they made it to 21. Sweet. Mark's on. All right. So my number 21 is Usnia. 00:45:57.900 --> 00:46:27.860 "Bathed in Light" on Translation Loss Records. It's an Atmospheric Doom record with touches of psychedelic post-metal, I'd say, and there's some dark synths on there. Yeah, it's a pretty moody record. I haven't spun this one a ton, so I'm wondering if it will go up a little bit higher on my list, because I do quite like it. I can get a little bit slow at times, but when it really kicks in, I mean, there's like nothing better in Doom. Yeah, "Aznia Bathe in Light." 00:46:28.580 --> 00:46:57.820 Okay, 21, Durge with the album. Durge, super aggressive sludge metal from India. This is their second album, and it's pretty awesome. Yeah, I remember that record. Yeah, I think I listened to it too. Absolutely. I'm going to check it out. I feel like I'm very low in my sludge this year so far, so I'm going to check it out. Everything's been death metal so far. I'm sorry. I threw a little thrash in there. Yeah, just a little bit. Dash of thrash. A little smidge. 00:46:59.680 --> 00:47:27.660 All right, John. All right. Number 21. From our good friend Trevor, Ashton Hort, answer me off Transcending Obscurity Records. They're from Los Angeles. I don't know. They're from all over, aren't they? But Trevor's from Los Angeles. Exactly. Too much clean singing, damn it. Shut up, Will. Yeah. And that's what I like about this album. I actually like the clean singing and the killer riffs and the nice mix of proggy black metal. There's some techie death parts. 00:47:28.120 --> 00:47:30.720 It's actually, I think, my favorite Ashton Ward album. 00:47:31.490 --> 00:47:31.580 So. 00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:33.660 Just keeps getting better. 00:47:34.520 --> 00:47:34.620 Yeah. 00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:35.320 It's a good album. 00:47:35.420 --> 00:47:38.180 Shout out to Trevor right now, who's laid up with COVID right now. 00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:38.620 Again. 00:47:38.970 --> 00:47:39.400 Oh, shit. 00:47:39.830 --> 00:47:39.940 Shoot. 00:47:41.020 --> 00:47:41.860 I don't know his name. 00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:45.420 I wrote to him because, actually, I wrote to him, and I'm totally willing to admit 00:47:45.600 --> 00:47:49.360 this, a band I fucking hated for years, and finally was like, holy shit, that's actually 00:47:49.550 --> 00:47:49.960 pretty good. 00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:51.800 And he loves them. 00:47:51.910 --> 00:47:52.800 And it's Dokken, dude. 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:53.860 The first four Dokken records. 00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:54.820 Dude, yeah. 00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:56.140 Not like Dokken. 00:47:56.200 --> 00:47:56.680 Like up through. 00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:57.540 Back for the attack. 00:47:57.640 --> 00:48:26.940 Back for the Attack. That's the last good one. I just didn't know. And I have listened to Dokken so much in the last two weeks. So I wrote to him and I was like, okay, dude, sorry about that. Yeah. I understand that Trevor takes it personally when someone doesn't like Dokken. But yeah, boy, how wrong I was, George. Seriously. Oh, like Tooth and Nail and Back for the Attack are my jams. Those records are great. Underlock and Key. Is that the third one? Yeah, that one. It's okay. Like it's got Hunter and George Lynch is a mad genius, dude. 00:48:29.700 --> 00:48:57.220 Yeah, too bad they're full of drama. Drama! That's for sure. That's most bands. No, they're up there at the top. Oh yeah, no, they are pretty far up there. George and Don are best friends, brothers for life. That's pure sarcasm. And so who, okay, I'm sure you guys know this, but who is George Lynch's daughter married to? Oh, I know this. But I don't remember. But I remember hearing it. Yeah. What? Wow. 00:48:57.620 --> 00:49:27.440 I knew it was somebody. Okay. Yeah. I knew she was married. Cool. Saw the ring. Richie Faulkner would be the new guitarist for Judas Priest. For people who don't know that, I'm not saying anybody here doesn't know that. He's only been in the band for 12 years. Okay. I'm adding a new line. Travis is a band for 30 plus. Faulkner's been there over 10 years now. Paralogs like it too. Who is that? 00:49:29.500 --> 00:49:56.460 Oh, was that John? So that was John. Will. 21. Death Collector UK. Death's Toll. Can you tell us a little bit about that one? There's a lot of death, and it's from the UK. Do they collect it? They do. It's on prosthetic records. Okay. When brew metal Will plays dodgeball, the balls dodge him. Just FYI. I don't think Will dodges many balls. 00:49:59.880 --> 00:50:26.120 He stole that from Chuck Norris. Mine falls in the, hey, couldn't this have been higher category? And I'm not sure. I'm going to call this like Markisan's last pick, not the Cattle Decap, but the one after that, which is, we'll see. I don't know what this is going to do before the year closes. Anyway, I thought it would be higher, but it isn't. Ahab, the Coral Tombs. Ahab, I'm just so glad they're back. So there's that. I haven't found a deep connection to this yet, but I like it because it's Ahab. 00:50:27.640 --> 00:50:57.100 times. But I think I need to find the right weekend afternoon where I just sit down and go, okay, do your work. Album. Because they usually rock my boat. Yeah, I feel you on that one, Jay. Because they're, I'll tell you right now, AM is not on my list. And their last album, The Boats of Glenn Kerrig was my number one. It was in my time five for sure. So I don't know what it is. I just don't feel the connection to it like I did the last one. And I've tried to listen to it over and over again. It's not that I don't like it. I just don't. 00:50:57.620 --> 00:51:27.340 It's not something I want to keep spinning. I'm just gonna, it's another one that I'm going to go back to the previous material and play that over this. Yeah. So that's how I know that an album might not make my list if it doesn't have a playability factor for me. Yeah. So I hear you on that. Yeah. We'll see where it floats before the year closes, but I couldn't easily fall off the list. That's how I'm not so sure. It's good. It's good. It's not a bad record. So. No. I checked out that record and I can tell you as someone who's not like an eight, 00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:57.180 I've not followed Ahab that much. I've only known a couple things, but to me, it definitely fell into that. I could appreciate it. It sounds good, but it requires a lot of work to listen to. Yeah, no, there's some work. Maybe that's what it is, yeah. All right, number 21. Jay, please ignore Marcasson's comments and tell me what my number 21 is. Ignore Marcasson's comments. Ahab. Oh, Ahab. Thank you. The Coral Tombs. So, well, 00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:25.980 And I think we're on the, it is the 21st best record of the year. I believe it is. Clearly. We are in sync. Wow. That's pretty cool. Is that the first one? Yeah. That's the first one. Yeah. It's probably the first repeat. No, I think we've had repeats for sure. Cause we'll had, um, Oh, the Necrofire. Right. Yep. Yep. Okay. All right, Justin, bring us into the 20. All right. My number 20 is the band is Scourge. 00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:57.280 It's called Torrential Torment. They're from Houston, Texas. They're on Locking Out Records, and it came out March 10th. These guys are more of, I would say, they fall into that crossover hardcore realm. I would say that's probably where you would put them, but they do have some, they slow their pace down a little bit, so it falls into that more death-y type of sound that I enjoy. And yeah, they're just, if you like that kind of stuff, 00:52:57.420 --> 00:53:26.420 I would say if you're a fan of Zabalba, they have that same type of vibe. Isn't that the guy from Star Wars? Zabalba? I would say check out Visions in the Mist, but all those tracks on there are really killer and they're catchy. Cool. I'll check it out. He likes Zabalba, actually. Yeah. They haven't put out something a while. Didn't they do that? They haven't, no, yeah. That last one I loved. It was good. Yeah, they did it full length, but that was like 2018, I think. Yeah, didn't they do like an EP too or something? I don't know. 00:53:27.420 --> 00:53:57.400 Yeah, they're good. Maybe. Yeah, they are. All right, Mark's on. Number 20. Oh, this is interesting, too, because George, you had this on your list, so it's a repeat, and you thought that maybe I'd have it higher, and I don't. Oh. And it's Megaton Sword, Might and Power. Wow. On Dying Victim Productions. Yeah, I like the record. I just don't like it as much as the last record, but it's still really good. I think it has some of the cheesy qualities John was talking about for Gatekeeper, which 00:53:57.420 --> 00:54:26.880 I don't hear on Gatekeeper, but I do hear on Megaton Sword, especially the whole Might and Power part of it that I just don't like as much. There's something about the songs in the last one that really got me going, that really made me want to pump the fist, and I don't have that same feeling, but the more I listen to it, the more I connect to it and try to see what they were doing on this record a little bit differently than the last record. I don't know. It's one that's climbing a little bit because it was down a little for me, and now it's up to 20. 00:54:27.420 --> 00:54:56.580 how it plays out when we go to the year end. Actually, Marcus, I didn't say the album was cheesy. I said some of the choruses were venturing towards cheesy. Meandering in the direction of. I'll say this. Some of the choruses on Megatons are cheesy. Are cheesy, yes. Cheese has been a cheese. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, John. Venturing versus actual. Yeah, because I don't think it's as, it's not European. 00:54:56.700 --> 00:55:24.380 And I don't think Megaton's sword is necessarily European power metal, but they have a little bit more of it in them. Yes, I agree with that. But I will say that the vocalist is really unique, and that's something I really like about Megaton's sword. So I just wish some of the lyrics were a little bit better and some of the chords are a little bit punchier, like they were on the last one. But again, I think it's something I got to come back to and give a few more spins. Matty. 00:55:25.780 --> 00:55:55.400 The band is Conspiracy of Zero. The album is Athos Aurorus, I think is how it's pronounced. I talked about it real briefly when Tanner and Sammy were on. Tanner had mentioned the band. And remember, it's some pretty solid progressive death metal, which I usually don't gravitate towards as much these days. But just something about this album grabbed me. And it was one of those things where I heard it on a New Music Friday, listened to the whole thing, and then probably spun it again. And then weeks had passed, I'm like, these songs are stuck in my head. 00:55:55.420 --> 00:56:25.400 what is it to come back and find out that it was that and so i kind of revisited and listened to it some more that was sort of what he said too that it was like yeah it got stuck it's like mentally catchy but there this is their second full length throw out a grease it's good stuff excellent john speaking of uh tanner and sammy my number 20 pantheon the absence a hodgepodge of atmospheric black metal post metal progressive metal some neofope just don't say there's any pirate metal on that album 00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:55.380 One Song Has a little pirate metal in it. Arrr. Yeah. Ahab. I just, every time I hear that, I just think of pirates. Anyway, it's a good album. I like it. I think of pirates. That's my new pirate metal band name. I think of pirates. And a shout out to Tanner and Sammy who were on our last episode, a.k.a. The Heart and Balls of Oak Pantheon. Yes, good album. Yes. It's been a while since they released their last one. I think was In Peace came out in what? We're not supposed to talk about this. 00:56:56.380 --> 00:56:57.020 I'm joking. 00:56:57.250 --> 00:56:59.040 They were like, 00:56:59.730 --> 00:57:01.220 we joked about it on the show. 00:57:01.380 --> 00:57:01.500 Yeah. 00:57:01.600 --> 00:57:04.000 Cause I was like seven years and they were just like, 00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:04.260 Oh geez. 00:57:05.200 --> 00:57:05.400 Anyway. 00:57:05.580 --> 00:57:05.720 Sorry, 00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:05.960 John. 00:57:06.160 --> 00:57:06.700 I'm not talking. 00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:08.020 I'm not talking about it. 00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:09.440 Jesus, 00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:09.960 John, 00:57:10.470 --> 00:57:11.180 just keep going. 00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:11.700 Go. 00:57:12.040 --> 00:57:12.720 I don't want to talk anymore. 00:57:12.900 --> 00:57:13.080 I'm done. 00:57:14.839 --> 00:57:17.180 No talking about delays or pirate metal. 00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:17.960 Yeah, 00:57:18.740 --> 00:57:18.880 exactly. 00:57:20.060 --> 00:57:20.460 Come on. 00:57:20.770 --> 00:57:20.880 Good. 00:57:21.660 --> 00:57:21.940 All right. 00:57:22.030 --> 00:57:22.780 Then we'll all right. 00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:52.680 Shut up, John. Ashen Horde, Antimony, Trevor is handsome. That's all you need to know. But what about the clean vocals, Will? All right, I can deal with it because Trevor's handsome. All right. Also, brew metal Will doesn't breathe. He holds air hostage. FYI. I feel like Will got drunk and hung out on the Chuck Norris page or something like that. I love it when Will talks about himself in third. 00:57:52.840 --> 00:58:22.480 from a second person. And Will, I apologize, because your voice is much smoother than mine. This is like a proto Chuck, Chuck, Chuck Will. I actually think it's pretty funny, Matt, because Will's voice is actually higher than yours, but every time you do Will, you're going deeper. I'm going deeper because I want to get that lower end to it, you know? And these things, these sayings that Chuck Norris borrowed from me, I just want to get them out of my own voice. So should we just start calling you Just Chill? You could. Chuck Will? Chuck and Will? 00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:28.120 How much will would a will chuck could chuck will sometimes pronounce 00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:30.500 kuhill chuck cook 00:58:33.340 --> 00:58:40.200 all right jay then epic atmospheric black metal from switzerland there's some bands like coming from 00:58:40.940 --> 00:58:45.320 not on their first record so this could be well known amongst the podcast or not i don't even know but 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:49.540 um what's the apologies if it was somebody's album of the month once upon a time 00:58:49.540 --> 00:59:19.520 A-A-A-R-A-Triad 3 colon Nix N-Y-X really cool thought out um yeah Sir Blackmo yep cool that album so maybe Matt maybe I got this from you I think Matt is that what it was number two yeah number two their second album was on my lap whenever it came out it was on my list and I did I spun it a little bit earlier and it is very solid and it just it was one of those ones that just it disappeared not for any reason other than I'm an idiot but yeah 00:59:19.560 --> 00:59:49.500 Super solid. And I believe it's a female vocalist. Not that should be a thing, but I was just impressed by some of the tones that came out of it. I'm impressed then because I didn't guess that. So like it's because it's straight up black metal vocals. So interesting. Yep. John. Wait, no. Wait. Who are you, Matt? You were Will. I was Will. You were Will. So Jay. Are you on the triple IPA now, George? No, it's you, George. Yeah. Wait, you've cracked open the triple? It's your turn. Yeah. Really? What did you just do, George? 00:59:49.560 --> 01:00:18.400 Oh, you did? Sure. I'm not as tink as drunk I am. I gotta get a drink, shit. So hurry up and do your picks so I can get a drink. All right, my number 20 from jolly old England on prosthetic records. Whoa. It's their second album of, I'm gonna call it prog metal, Sermon of Golden Verse. That's a cool record, dude. It is. You did. Nice. 01:00:19.540 --> 01:00:49.480 Of a type, it's got a flow that the songs aren't that deeply varied, but there's some vibe in that thing that's pretty fucking solid. It's just, yeah, it's like good. It's a good listen. They actually, George, under their tags in Bandcamp, Prog Rock is one of their tags, which I don't think is totally appropriate. It's a little heavier than rock. I thought so too. Interesting. I think, I honestly wonder if the tags are there for a lot of bands just to grab new fans. Oh yeah. It's just so that they get, they show up on other searches. Yeah, that's exactly. 01:00:50.599 --> 01:01:14.880 I stepped on your toes, George. You deserve to describe that more than I do. Oh, no. I mean, it's cool. It's clean singing, but it's heavy music. And I don't know. Normally, this kind of thing isn't exactly in my wheelhouse, but something about it just grabbed me and I really dug it. And I got the first album, too. Oh, cool. It's not my wheelhouse either, George. And it's got a little extra pepper on it or something. There's some extra factor that just makes it listenable. Yeah, totally. 01:01:15.600 --> 01:01:45.520 You're listening to the Metalheads Podcast. These guys have faces made for radio. Before we get into number 19, let's do an updated what you're drinking. Justin, you drinking anything different? Are you still working on what you got? Nah, I'm still drinking the same shit, yeah. Okay. Moccasan. Oh, man. You gotta up your levels if you're gonna be on the Metalheads Podcast here, buddy. Smoked some choice weed. He's fucking playing both sides of the table. 01:01:45.600 --> 01:02:15.500 So what snacks are you going to have? What do I have? I got pretzel twists. And what else do I get? Oh, it's a big caramello bar. Big caramello bar. Nice. Did you say bunions or Funions? I said Funions. So you've done bunions and Funions on this cast, John. Pretty good. He said he smoked weed. So I was like, yeah, Funions. I used to love Funions. Yeah, see? That's so good. I did too until I threw up on them. Flamin' Hot Fritos. All right. So I'm drinking the God Complex. 01:02:15.600 --> 01:02:45.560 from River North. Nice. And it is 17.5%. I've been sitting on this one forever. Lock it down. It says it's an infallible barrel-aged ale. It's good. I've had it. Pretty good. And on tap, because I'll probably get to this, and I'm very excited because I've had this once before, but I've never had it in cans. It's called Girl Named Herb from Low Res Brewing. And this is the brewery I've told you guys about because they specialize 01:02:45.580 --> 01:03:14.780 and this one is a Belgian-style golden ale with basil and sage. And I had it at the brewery. They didn't have it in cans. And I was very excited to see it at Benny's here because, you know, Lores is local. So apparently they've gotten into Benny's. And I wanted Tracy to try it because she loves those kind of flavors. She loves Belgians. So I'm excited to have that one. That's on tap. Yeah, man. Oh, I haven't cracked it open yet, but I have the Paraboloid from Firestone Walker. 01:03:15.040 --> 01:03:44.540 What year? 2023. Andrea Stout aged in 20-year-old bourbon barrels. I guess that sounds okay. Yeah. Parabola is awesome. What's the ABV? That is a 13 percenter, so it's going to be real difficult to do Will's voice as my speech slows down. Although, you know what? It'll remind me that night. Remember that night years ago when his microphone like totally slowed down and lowered his voice? Yeah, but your pants will be off, so you'll still be Will. Quite true. Spank your own butt. Yeah. 01:03:45.040 --> 01:04:13.960 Wait, that's not my chicken. You should totally do the rest of the podcast in that slowed down voice. That'd be great, Matt. And we won't know what picks you're making, so you could literally make the rest of his list up. That's true. All right. I guess it's me. I'm drinking some Brimminghorn Allspice Mead made with Allspice. So it's very descriptive, this one. Allspice. Wait, it doesn't have a name? It just says Allspice. Huh, weird. 01:04:15.040 --> 01:04:44.900 You see it's a little hard to see it. I don't think I've ever had that one. It's from the Mead Club. It's in one of those boxes in the corner. Yeah. It's somewhere between 11 and 14 percent. I like how they just kind of guess. It says here it's made with honey and old spice. Old spice. Not old spice. Old spice. I would drink old spice. Did you apply some of that to your pits? 01:04:45.980 --> 01:05:13.900 No, I use that Squatch stuff from Dr. Squatch on YouTube. Squatch. Ever seen Dr. Squatch? Yeah, I love those. Dr. Squatch is awesome. I love how my man smells. Hey, they have now they have a Star Wars Dr. Squatch. So you can go dark or light. Fucking awesome. I think I've used Dr. Squatch. Do they make like soaps for beards and stuff too? Yeah. I feel like I have one of those. Yeah, they're totally mocking neck beards, which is great. 01:05:15.040 --> 01:05:44.520 I love it. Jay, how's the water treating you? So good. All right. So I'm working on that 12 and a half percent fresh supreme, but on deck, I have the Sierra Nevada Hoptimum triple IPA 11%. For those keeping track, that's two triples and a double. So you're doing a double triple. Yes. We're a triple triple double. This is like a basketball game. Yeah. It's more like a baseball game. Baseball. Yeah. You need to hit a home run and a single. Clearly you guys don't listen to Ice Cube. Come on. 01:05:44.580 --> 01:06:13.780 Nope. Nope. Nope. It's an auto. I'm on my island. Yeah. I used to, when I was a kid, like death certificate and shit like that. Not even when I was a kid, but that was a very small window in my life. All right. I have a large, I have large windows. I knew that. Wait, is that you or Will? That's me. Oh, okay. But they're optimized. You scaled up. Exactly. They blocked the UV rays. 01:06:14.560 --> 01:06:44.280 It doesn't change color. Like the Ambervision. Ambervision, yes! That's a callback to the other podcast, Stairway to 11 episode 2. Check it out. I gotta send you guys that video. Oh, I gotta listen to that. Ambervision. I'll send it to you later, George. I swear to God you're gonna agree with me. You're gonna be like, I see, I hear. Yeah, I remember the ads, but I don't remember the music. Fuck yeah, Ambervision. I love that you guys are doing that cast. It's fun. It's really cool. It is. It's very different. It's a lot more work, actually. Yeah, it is. 01:06:44.980 --> 01:07:14.220 I was like, oh, here, all I got to do is I have a script template. I just throw in some shit. For that, I actually have to think and come up with stuff for every song. So these guys are picking albums. I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah. Just kidding. Just kidding. Yeah. So you guys are having fun. That's the point. All right. You would actually like the one we just dropped, Jay. A Kira one? With Rush. With Rush. Oh, I didn't even see it. But you did a Kira one, right? Am I making that up? No, it's the same episode. 01:07:14.580 --> 01:07:44.040 We each do an album. So mine was the cure. TR was Donald Fagan and John was rush. I love the cure. It's the pornography. They're actually here right now. Yeah. Yeah. They're in New York right now. I think they're doing, I think day three is tonight or something. I saw on social media. Yeah. Markisan that weird thing ended up him being him challenging ticket master and winning. Well, 01:07:44.560 --> 01:08:14.460 They had a thing where you had to sign up and they notified you if you could get tickets. They did that with Bruce Springsteen. That's typical, yeah. Yeah, but I didn't get notified, so then he actually got people their tickets. Yeah, I've got to give him a lot of credit. He's one of the few that took on Ticketmaster and won. Yeah, that's cool. I like that, and I know that they're trying to change their fees so they're more transparent or they're just, you know, or getting rid of that. They're not trying to. I haven't seen it. They're supposedly going to be forced to, but it won't happen. 01:08:14.560 --> 01:08:43.420 In an election between Putin and Ticketmaster, I'd vote for Putin. I gotta tell you. That reminds me of The Office where Michael says if he was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Toby and he had a gun with two bullets in it, he'd shoot Toby twice. I have never watched that version because I watched Ricky Gervais, the original version, and I was like, I can never go to anything else after that. It wins you over, though. I did watch the British one first. 01:08:44.580 --> 01:09:14.540 It's just so irreverent. It's just... See, I'm the opposite. I tried to watch the British one. I'm not very good with British humor. I just don't like it. I'm not a Monty Python guy. Like, I just... Just stop while you're behind. But I watched the American version, and I like that a lot better. He's not dead. He's just... But he's nailed. Absolutely fabulous? Come on, man. Yeah. I love everything Ricky Gervais does, too. I've watched all of his series. I think he is the funniest motherfucker. His greatest moment ever is... 01:09:14.580 --> 01:09:43.420 10-minute monologue at the Golden Globes where he literally destroys all the entertainment industry and they're all mad at them. And he says, I don't give a fuck what you people think of me. That's the most amazing thing ever. Anyway, we've derailed. Let's rail back in. Yeah, so number because earlier we were talking about how like, oh, there's not a lot of energy on this cast. We just had to have a few drinks. Beer break, Marcus. Shit storms are coming. Sorry to derail once again. Go, George. 01:09:43.940 --> 01:10:13.000 Number 19, Justin. Okay, my number 19 there, pretty much I think everyone knows who they are, Memoriam, Rise to Power from UK, Reaper Productions came out February 3rd. Yeah, I'm just a fan of these guys. They're pretty consistent. I almost wish that they would put out less records and then maybe focus a little bit more on like, here's the thing, it's like there are so many like bolt thrower bands right now, right? 01:10:13.060 --> 01:10:42.980 Oh my god. And I guess, yeah. Yeah. But like, yeah, there's so many bolt thrower type bands right now. And I guess everyone kind of looks to them because it's, oh, it's a guy from Bolt Thrower. And that's the thing. It's like you go there. Like, I feel like for me, Memoriam is for Carl Willits and the way he delivers his vocal stuff. And it's very catchy. And he comes up with some really good hooks and he's talking about actual shit. And it's cool. But it would be this record. 01:10:43.080 --> 01:11:13.040 probably isn't going to last to the end of the year for me. There are songs on here that are probably going to last in terms of regular rotation, but in terms of the album itself, probably not. I did definitely like the one that they came out with last year. I think it was last year already. Probably. A little bit better. I did too. And that's the whole thing. Like I said, I love his vocal performance on this. The music is solid, but it's not necessarily super inspired, I guess. But it's still adequate for 01:11:13.060 --> 01:11:42.600 his vehicle of delivering his side of things. And that's what I appreciate it for. I appreciate it for Carl Willits, not for like, oh, I want to, this is just a bolt thrower. I mean, at some point you got to realize nobody's ever going to be bolt thrower. Like even a band with Carl Willits can't produce something that's that. You think that somebody could do it, but no one has really been able to do it like bolt thrower. And that's, what's cool about the band. Right. Yeah. No, those two guitars, man, I'm blanking on their names. Cause I smoked weed, but. 01:11:43.080 --> 01:12:12.240 In terms of that classic bolt thrower sound, they're like when we were talking I think the last time I was on here about how Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell and Elaine Staley, that combination of two people, that's not really going to ever happen again. I feel the same way about those guys in bolt thrower. It's just like they managed to get that machine rolling that was so specific and I don't necessarily know if anyone's going to really be able to totally pull that off. 01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:42.800 There was one band that Stacy recommended called Chainsword that got pretty close. I think. Yeah, Chainsword was actually on my, actually Stacy, yes, Stacy recommended that on the podcast and I picked them up too. They're great. They are, they are very, very good. And I have a couple, there are going to be a couple of people on here that are definitely feeling those bolt thrower riff shoes for me this year. Yeah. Shout out to Stacy. I'll see you Tuesday. An atheist. Every time I hear, 01:12:42.960 --> 01:13:12.940 somebody say a bolt thrower like band i just go back and listen to those once low and i'm like loyal and i'm like i don't need to listen anything else no you don't it's like literally the greatest final album ever out besides monotheist yeah yeah great it's is it my favorite i don't know those both throw all those both that's why it's so hard to take a favorite yeah it's not it's for victory come on they're all good yeah yeah all 10 of them all right mark us on 19 all right 01:13:12.940 --> 01:13:16.160 I think Justin mentioned this band so it's a death metal band of course 01:13:16.840 --> 01:13:24.920 Creeping Death Boundless Domain and RK Heavy Records yeah I don't have much to add it's something I 01:13:25.060 --> 01:13:42.920 definitely want to listen to a little bit more too but it's an absolute berserker of death metal and it's got a lot of different touches to it which I like in death metal I don't really like it's super straightforward I like when you bring some other elements to it and I hear that in this album and so I definitely want to spend a little bit more time but it's already at number one 01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:45.480 19. So it's had an effect on me. 01:13:46.800 --> 01:13:47.360 Berserker. 01:13:48.540 --> 01:13:49.100 Berserker. 01:13:50.660 --> 01:13:53.560 Would you like to making fuck berserker? 01:13:54.520 --> 01:13:55.180 All off. 01:13:56.440 --> 01:13:57.140 So good. 01:13:57.520 --> 01:13:57.660 Yeah. 01:13:57.840 --> 01:14:07.260 But yeah, I don't have a lot of death metal on my list, but this is definitely one of the ones that I immediately responded to when it came out, which was very recently. 01:14:08.540 --> 01:14:08.740 Matt. 01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:09.060 Nice. 01:14:10.380 --> 01:14:10.900 Number 19. 01:14:11.180 --> 01:14:41.020 the band is, I'm going to mess this up. I think it's Herod, Herod, Iconoclast is the album. John, you mentioned them, I feel like on the last podcast, we had a brief conversation about them. I remember when, a couple albums ago, they were one of my first made up bands and I've just followed them through ever since. They're like swish sludge metal. But what I didn't realize up until this album was that they have ties to the ocean in some capacity. Is it literally the ocean's former singers now? 01:14:41.800 --> 01:15:10.280 I have to go look but okay there I like the actual current singer was on one of the songs on this album I think you it's the last song because I was listening to it at work and I'm like wait a minute when did I switch to an ocean album yeah so maybe he's doing a guest like they have a paragraph about it I have it in front of me but because I'm not really good with reading comprehension I don't really understand what they're saying but they're mentioning in the singer from the ocean Harry's a great album I like that new one absolutely so yeah Harry Iconic last nice 01:15:10.300 --> 01:15:10.960 John. 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:12.580 So my pick, 01:15:13.120 --> 01:15:14.740 I used to think this band was from Spain, 01:15:14.860 --> 01:15:15.800 but apparently they're from Greece. 01:15:16.580 --> 01:15:16.820 Ah, 01:15:16.920 --> 01:15:18.660 19 ocean of grief, 01:15:19.220 --> 01:15:21.340 pale existence on personal records, 01:15:22.100 --> 01:15:22.300 death, 01:15:22.440 --> 01:15:23.940 doom or death doom. 01:15:24.740 --> 01:15:25.520 That's their second album. 01:15:25.960 --> 01:15:26.440 Really good. 01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:26.980 Polished, 01:15:27.220 --> 01:15:28.800 gothic infused death doom. 01:15:29.040 --> 01:15:31.660 They got some slight proggy vibes, 01:15:32.180 --> 01:15:33.280 some great guitar work. 01:15:33.400 --> 01:15:34.900 If you're a fan of swallow the sun, 01:15:35.700 --> 01:15:36.640 some of their periods, 01:15:37.060 --> 01:15:37.160 it, 01:15:37.500 --> 01:15:38.460 you might like this done. 01:15:39.080 --> 01:15:39.560 It's a really good. 01:15:39.620 --> 01:16:08.640 I actually like it a lot more than the first album. It was on my list and fell off my list and it's I'm not his he's a little too screamy for me. There's this one there's a screamy thing that happens with some bands and I don't know how to you know what I'm talking about. Funny thing is I don't know why that grates me a little bit. They're not a memorable band but when you listen to it like yeah this is really fucking cool I like this. But yeah no and I did like it and I but it was I guess that's why I was like so yeah but it's a cool record. Yeah. 01:16:09.620 --> 01:16:39.540 All right, back to you, Will. My number 19, I already mentioned Memoriam, Rise to Power. This is a Birmingham band on Reaper Entertainment. More importantly, when the boogeyman goes to sleep at night, he checks his closet for Brewed Metal, Will. There you go. You mean for chill? That's right, for chill. Chill. Yeah, chill. So mine is, if this band doesn't have to learn to edit themselves, but if they would just put cuts in their tracks somewhere in the middle. Oh, really? 01:16:39.620 --> 01:17:09.520 Really? One of you guys might be able to guess who this is. Yeah, that was a hard one. Cheers. The Ulthar. Oh. Oh, shit. I forgot all about that. It's really good, dude. It is really good, and I forgot it from my list. That's album two, right, Jay? Yeah, and the right ones. No, I think they weren't that. No, that's, you said Ulthar, right? Yeah. Did they release two albums? Yeah, they released two. Two, yeah. That's the second album you're talking about, right, with just two songs? 01:17:09.620 --> 01:17:39.580 Just two songs. Yeah. Yeah. It's really got all the crunch and punch of a two mold record or something really, but it's just that they're just two 20 minute fucking tracks and that's okay. It's just, I don't know. They released two albums right together. Oh, I didn't understand what you're saying. That was the concept. That's the first one. I think it's got eight or nine songs and the second one's got two. Yep. Yeah. Gotcha. They're slightly different directions. Like the one you like is a little proggier. Yeah. You chose the better one. You chose the better one. 01:17:39.620 --> 01:17:40.960 a better one too. Yeah. Yeah. 01:17:41.380 --> 01:17:46.460 It's cool. And I'm, my complaint is not even a complaint. They should, should, and will do whatever they like. 01:17:46.900 --> 01:17:51.980 You just need a break sometimes. Yeah. So give me a place, give me a track two or three and four instead of one. 01:17:52.020 --> 01:18:09.520 I got to go to the bathroom. I don't want to stop the track. Exactly. And I don't always have 40 minutes motherfuckers. Nevertheless, solid, very cool. Very much in that kind of tune mold satisfaction type stuff. Yeah. And it's not much of a complaint because it's on your list. You know what I mean? Totally. But the second one is, 01:18:09.580 --> 01:18:37.980 the better one. Yeah. I got to get that on my year end. I screwed that one up. Oh, George. This is a mid-year. You can throw darts on the mid-year. So much changes by year end. Yeah. You're assuming that there'll be nothing good coming out in the second half of the year, which there's a shit ton coming out in the second half. More and more. It's unbelievable. 01:18:39.560 --> 01:19:09.540 for the first five months and we'll fuck them and drop like 14 albums on one day they all want to buy oh my god black braid outer heaven horrendous cannibal corpse primordial probably is gonna have an album crazy crazy did i mention cannibal corpse yes they just dropped they just announced that yeah this week didn't they yeah yeah the fucking mutoid man i'm really looking forward to there's so much stuff you baroness but you guys are forgetting that won't be on the list but you guys are forgetting there's the one album to 01:19:09.560 --> 01:19:39.080 All is coming out this year. See, nobody remembers 2018. Jay's putting on an album? No. Oh, God. Do I have to bring Kiefer Sutherland into the conversation, Mark? Alkaloid. Oh, my God. One band to rule all. Oh, yeah. We're out of time. By the way, you mentioned the Mutoid Man. Right about Alkaloid. You might know this, Mark or Son, but I just saw a picture, so I'm assuming it's him, but I think the bass player for Clam Fire is playing the Mutoid Man now. I think that's right, actually. 01:19:39.560 --> 01:20:08.940 Yeah, that's a side gig, obviously. But he, oh, High on Fire's got a record coming out, by the way. High on Fire's a record. Did you know that they really re-released their first record? They remastered it. I didn't even know. I was looking at High on Fire because we were talking about it. And so I looked, I was like, what the fuck? I got to get this. I'll be sending you that record too. I just don't have a record box right now, but it's good. I really appreciate it. That was so out of the blue, but I really appreciate that, Jack. I got your back. That's the last one I need. I was wearing my High on Fire shirt yesterday. 01:20:09.560 --> 01:20:12.340 And as my wife and daughter were heading to Taylor Swift, 01:20:12.820 --> 01:20:16.140 and I begged and begged Melissa to wear my high on fire shirt. 01:20:16.560 --> 01:20:17.440 You know what's funny? 01:20:17.640 --> 01:20:19.580 I wore a high on fire shirt yesterday too. 01:20:20.380 --> 01:20:22.820 And it was, I did the Dungeons and Dragons one. 01:20:23.580 --> 01:20:24.600 I don't know if you've seen it, 01:20:24.620 --> 01:20:26.680 but they do the cover to Dungeons and Dragons, 01:20:26.740 --> 01:20:27.600 but with high on fire. 01:20:27.700 --> 01:20:28.400 It's freaking awesome. 01:20:29.160 --> 01:20:32.060 I would have been begging for her to get you a Taylor Swift shirt. 01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:33.840 Oh, it's hard. 01:20:34.060 --> 01:20:36.800 It like, it's just like the whole merch thing was just insane. 01:20:37.160 --> 01:21:07.080 I will say she played 44 songs last night. They were there for three and a half. Well, they were. Yeah. She was playing for three and a half hours. They were there for seven hours. But yeah, 44 songs. That's crazy. It's insane. But I digress. Yeah, I was definitely making it to 10 pick 10. Will loves Taylor Swift. He's back. Her shows are shorter than ours. Yeah. 44 songs. We're doing one song. That's all we're doing. Come on. 01:21:07.920 --> 01:21:36.980 All right, where are we? Background. I did Creeping Death? Yeah, it's George. Me. Okay. Yep. My number 19 from Atlanta, Georgia. Ooh. On, looks like, Season of Mist, with their third album, Cloak, Black Flame Eternal. That'll be on Will's list for sure. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure, yeah. We got to see them at the upstairs at Decibel, 01:21:37.980 --> 01:22:06.200 Yeah. That was pretty cool. It's a band I feel like I should really like. And every time I listen, I'm like, I don't, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I kind of feel the same way actually. Yeah. Really? That's the thing. I don't know what it is about the band because they have all the ingredients that would make me happy. And yet I'm not sure. You don't bring the sugar. You know how it is sometimes. Music's got to hit you. That's the whole thing with music. Yep. It's got to hit you in the right way. Right in the nuts. 01:22:07.160 --> 01:22:08.640 We're in the nets. 01:22:09.580 --> 01:22:11.620 That's like, Marcus, I'm like, it's so weird. 01:22:11.960 --> 01:22:13.640 I think I hit you up when I went and saw 01:22:14.400 --> 01:22:15.960 Astronoid and like how I previously 01:22:16.380 --> 01:22:18.160 before I saw them, I didn't really 01:22:18.380 --> 01:22:20.080 get it. And then I saw them and I'm like, 01:22:20.420 --> 01:22:22.020 holy shit, these guys are fucking 01:22:22.400 --> 01:22:24.120 amazing live. You gotta be high for them. 01:22:24.150 --> 01:22:26.180 I'm just listening to all their shit. Now I'm just listening to 01:22:26.180 --> 01:22:27.500 all their shit. That's awesome, man. 01:22:27.650 --> 01:22:29.260 I mean, I was at a show. Of course I was high. 01:22:29.860 --> 01:22:32.000 It's like that sometimes. It's something that has to 01:22:32.160 --> 01:22:34.100 put you over the edge. Something that 01:22:34.240 --> 01:22:35.020 clicks with you. 01:22:35.940 --> 01:22:39.080 And sometimes it's live, sometimes it's an album, sometimes it's a song. 01:22:40.060 --> 01:22:42.140 Astronoid does not strike me as a Justin band. 01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:48.280 It's not really, but when you see them live, it makes you, you're like, okay, I understand this now. 01:22:48.580 --> 01:22:48.880 That's fair. 01:22:49.920 --> 01:22:53.140 Yeah, no, I wouldn't have said that even when he sent me that message, oh, I'm surprised by this. 01:22:53.660 --> 01:22:54.700 And yeah, that's really cool. 01:22:55.020 --> 01:22:58.220 Because it's a band, like, they have a lot of metal elements. 01:22:58.350 --> 01:22:59.160 They're not quite metal. 01:22:59.230 --> 01:23:00.820 You don't really know how to categorize them. 01:23:00.890 --> 01:23:02.780 They just, they don't really sound like anybody else. 01:23:03.620 --> 01:23:04.760 You don't know what to do with them. 01:23:05.180 --> 01:23:34.900 But if you see them live like Justin did, something changes. You're like, okay, I see what they're trying to do with it. I love that. I love that about music. I felt the same way about Mushroom Head. No. I mean, listen, we've talked about it many times that Wake was the same way for you and me, Matt, when we saw them, you know, like completely reawakening now, like one of my favorite bands. Absolutely. All right. All right. Go do it. 01:23:35.960 --> 01:24:04.860 Number 18. The band is Body Farm. The album is Ultimate Abomination. They are from the Netherlands. They are on Edge Circle Productions, and it came out February 24th. Shocker, it's another death metal band, but they have a little bit more of a different sound. They're very, I would say, they have more of that European polished feel to them in terms of death metal. Thrashy paste. 01:24:05.040 --> 01:24:05.820 I would say, 01:24:06.180 --> 01:24:08.460 but they have really great double guitar work. 01:24:08.490 --> 01:24:14.180 They float into some of their riffing kind of floats into a mellow death and black, 01:24:14.400 --> 01:24:16.760 like almost atmospheric black metal at times. 01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:17.560 It's just cool. 01:24:17.940 --> 01:24:19.580 Very varied on the album too, 01:24:19.740 --> 01:24:23.080 considering the genre and blasting to your knees. 01:24:23.340 --> 01:24:25.660 And I would suggest if you want to check out a track from them, 01:24:25.780 --> 01:24:27.600 because the one I go to the most. 01:24:28.260 --> 01:24:28.340 Yeah, 01:24:28.440 --> 01:24:29.040 it's a good record. 01:24:29.110 --> 01:24:31.860 I got the promo for that because I'm on the list for edge circle 01:24:32.360 --> 01:24:32.560 productions. 01:24:32.640 --> 01:25:01.780 because they've had a couple albums that I really like. So I just asked them if they'd send us stuff. And so I put that in the box. That's a good one. I really enjoy it. What's in the box? In the box! Yeah, I never really paid attention to them before either, which is funny. But yeah, they're, I'm digging them. All right, my number 18 is Verminous Serpent, the Malign Covenant on Amor Fatih Productions. This is a sinister, 01:25:02.660 --> 01:25:32.080 It's a slithering black metal of vitriol and menace, but with flashes of melody throughout it. It's really beastial and really dark. What intrigued me, the reason that I got this record is because it features Alan Averill of Primordial on vocals and bass. And I love his evil vocals on this. You would never know it was him if you didn't see the credits. And I love that he has that kind of a range because it's like, 01:25:32.100 --> 01:26:02.080 far different than what he does on Primordial. He does harsh vocals and he does clean vocals. Where does it fall in that range? It's black vocals so it's almost like screechy kind of just high pitch. Yeah horrible like just scraping. I don't know all the adjectives you would use to describe black metal but he's really good at it and the album is quite good too and sometimes it's very black metal so sometimes you get that 01:26:05.000 --> 01:26:06.800 I like. 01:26:07.660 --> 01:26:35.380 So I'd like to see them on the next record put a little bit more variety into it. Because obviously they have that ability. So I'm curious to see how far this... I hesitate to call it a side project, because I'm sure Al and Alvaro wouldn't call it a side project. But how far it's going to go? Are they going to keep doing many albums like his other band? But yeah, it's really cool. If you haven't heard it, to me, it's flown under the radar. I haven't really heard that much about it. 01:26:37.660 --> 01:27:06.380 the album, but I like it a lot. Matt? All right. My number 18 already mentioned, Ashen Horde, Antimony. I agree with everybody's comments, especially those like, I really do. I think this is Ashen Horde's best album so far among many fabulous albums. And yeah, that's all I can say. All right. Get better soon, Trevor. Yeah. John. All right. Hopefully I don't butcher this too much. 01:27:07.120 --> 01:27:37.060 Don't Speak Icelandic. My number 18, the band is Altari. The album is Kruf Loiter. I think that's how you say it. It's probably 100% wrong on Svart Records. Icelandic, psychedelic black metal. Jay, you might actually like this because you and I have bonded a little bit over Orancy Pazuzu or Orancy Pazuzu, how you say it. It's got a similar vibe. They're tangentially like them, but they don't sound anything like them. I believe Matt, Markison and I drank and listened to this album in a couple hours. 01:27:37.120 --> 01:28:07.080 I was just going to say that. The three of us took time for ourselves to enjoy a company of our warm personalities. It was nice. And we all had liquid Snuggies that night. Actually, we had a couple of liquid Snuggies. And we just sat there and listened to a bunch of albums. This is one of the ones we listened to. While I was watching Suicidal Tendencies? I think so. Yeah. It was the second night. Yeah. We went for a real nice taco dinner, which we weren't sure where we'd get food that night. I love this album. It's my kind of 01:28:07.120 --> 01:28:37.080 I don't know how much black metal it is to be honest with you but they keep getting tagged as black metal to me it's just psychedelic extreme metal and it's not even that extreme but it's cool could you repeat the name Joe Altari A-L-T-A-R-I just look for that I'm adding it to my diary yeah meanwhile Justin and I are walking down the main street in Philadelphia in the middle of the night trying to find some place to eat Justin yeah after suicidal was that the same night 01:28:37.100 --> 01:29:07.080 Yeah, it was a different night. No, it was like the second night. It was. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, there's only two nights. It was you, me, Will, and Jeff and Steph. I don't remember. All I remember is that suicidal set was pretty, listen, I'm not the biggest suicidal tendencies guy, but that was fucked up. That was like once a night. I know I'll never see something like that again. That was really fucking cool. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Yeah. And then we got 01:29:07.120 --> 01:29:36.560 Pizza. Eventually. We got pizza one night. The first night. No, that's what I'm saying. I think because John was there when we got pizza. Pizza the first night. Yeah. Was it the first night? Yeah, the first night where we decided to drive and walk all over. Oh, maybe you were there. We got hit with. Everything was closed, yeah. Yeah, it was just close. We had a better place, I thought, to be honest with you. Okay. It's decibel metal and beer fist. It all goes together. It's fine. I feel like everyone was staring at my pizza folding skills. Yeah. 01:29:37.120 --> 01:30:07.040 Yeah. Some big ass pizza. I believe that's what they called it. Yeah. Yeah. Big ass. All right. Anyway, who was it back to me? Obviously, it's back to me. My number 18 pick from Portugal, Colosso Zero. As in zero about it? Exactly. What does Chael have to say about this? Basically, the brew metal will made a Happy Meal cry. All right. There's no toy inside. 01:30:08.080 --> 01:30:37.040 When you put Chihil together, is there an apostrophe between the H and H? I want to know, is there like a website you can go to that is for tough guy dad jokes? Yeah, those are all Chuck Norris things, I'm telling you. Yeah, it's called Fox News. Yeah, it's on my side. It's all Chuck Norris jokes. And the funny thing is, the best part is they're all categorized. There's versus nature. What's this one? Scared jokes. The best strength jokes. Miscellaneous. What else we got? No, that's it. 01:30:37.100 --> 01:30:37.880 And then it says, 01:30:37.930 --> 01:30:44.320 what, six pack of abs start here. Nope. Okay. So more to come. All right. And then Jay, 01:30:45.620 --> 01:31:06.680 just cause it's my turn to talk. I was going to mention something to you, George. Did you see, I just got it and it's kind of short, but I haven't read it yet. But, um, what's this fuck from metal blade has a new book out. Oh yeah. Some people who were at decibel picked it up there. I did not. So I have not read it yet. Yeah. I picked it up there. Yeah. I haven't read it yet either, but I, we hadn't mentioned it to each other. 01:31:06.780 --> 01:31:36.520 and there it is. Yeah, me and John got it, right? Yeah, I haven't read it yet either. We got it, yeah. Jay, I thought you were going to say the Geezer Butler book. Is that out yet? Yeah, I keep reading about it. I'll find out. But I just read that he did the audio book for it. Oh, sweet. Which is cool. Yeah, that's all. Yeah, I think it's out. Actually, I would like to know that. Yeah, that's good. I'm definitely going to read that. For sure. Yeah, it came out on May 29th. Oh. The Geeze. Mine is, my choice is, was one of, I got this one from Will, 01:31:36.580 --> 01:32:06.240 because it was one of his records of the month. And it's super fucking heavy. And the title of the album is Apocalyptic Doom, which is appropriate. That's basically what this record is. It's by a band called God Disease. Oh, yeah. Justin likes that band. I think Justin's the one who told Will about it, right? Yes. Yeah. Justin by way of Will. By way of Matt. You'll be hearing about them again. 01:32:06.560 --> 01:32:33.340 Okay, cool. Then I'll keep my comments brief. George. All right. My number 18 from the United States of America on Century Media Records, a pale substitute for Bolt Thrower, Frozen Soul, Glacial Domination. You did. Wow. Yeah, no. But not that pale because it's like halfway through your list. I know. The first album I didn't pay that much attention to. 01:32:36.580 --> 01:33:05.960 the Metalheads podcast. I saw them at Decibel. When I saw them live, I was converted. I was like, oh shit. Even though I agree with Mark's son, he's a little too energetic with the let's get the crowd moving. But that aside, I was like, hey, this is very bolt throwery and I'm into this. I checked it out and fuck yeah, Frozen Soul. Yeah, no, it was a complete turnoff for me. I don't know. Maybe I'll get back to it around. Not that the music's bad or anything. I just, the presentation. 01:33:06.560 --> 01:33:35.100 Wow, let's get this pick circle and let's go. Come on. Exactly. Like every song, though. It was just like. And in between. Bro metal. I can't. It's too bro-y. I just can't get into it. It completely soured me on the band, to be honest. They just need some seasoning. We'll see. Seasoning the obese. All right. Storm to preserve death. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. 01:33:36.560 --> 01:33:36.740 I'm totally, 01:33:37.600 --> 01:33:39.620 even though that should be a totally canceled band, 01:33:39.700 --> 01:33:41.980 but is Metallica on your list? 01:33:42.580 --> 01:33:42.660 No. 01:33:43.880 --> 01:33:44.000 Okay. 01:33:44.720 --> 01:33:45.020 Interesting. 01:33:45.880 --> 01:33:45.960 No, 01:33:46.140 --> 01:33:47.200 as I told everybody, 01:33:47.480 --> 01:33:47.800 I'm like, 01:33:48.560 --> 01:33:49.920 Metallica is like major league. 01:33:50.100 --> 01:33:52.100 Everything else is minor league. 01:33:52.480 --> 01:33:53.260 And they were like major. 01:33:53.380 --> 01:33:54.220 It's not fair. 01:33:54.820 --> 01:33:55.080 I mean, 01:33:56.200 --> 01:34:00.100 my number one metal album of all the whole year, 01:34:01.220 --> 01:34:02.020 aside from everything else, 01:34:02.120 --> 01:34:02.860 Metallica for sure. 01:34:03.460 --> 01:34:04.260 But there's, 01:34:05.000 --> 01:34:05.440 that's a given. 01:34:05.620 --> 01:34:35.580 I'm not putting it on my list. All right. Let's just move on to 17. Right then, Justin. All right. Are you going to talk about Metallica on Stairway to 11? No. Because they're rock. They're not. Okay. But anything is welcome on Stairway to 11. I see. Okay. In fact, you're going to be like, we're not. What? John's like, that's when I leave the podcast. First four albums I'll talk about. Wait till next episode. Will, do you have anything 01:34:35.840 --> 01:35:04.600 to chime in about Metallica? I love the Black Album. Hook, Line, and Sinker. If it had children singing, I would like it, but no. Nice. All right. Serve it up. Number 17, Justin. All right. My number 17, the band is Bastard Grave. The album is called Vortex of Disgust. They are from Sweden. They are on Pulverized Records, and it came out March 10th. 01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:35.580 This band, and I don't want to, it's actually like I have it in the notes for it, but the description that I use is that if you're not digging Frozen Soul and you don't quite know why, maybe check out this band. Go for it, Marcus. I would say they're more, I would say not necessarily, I feel like Frozen Soul is a lot, takes a lot from like bolt thrower like we were talking about. These guys are a little bit more in this 01:35:35.640 --> 01:36:04.920 Like an old school sweet death type of sound. They're very ferocious, but they do a lot of, they just have a lot of really cool guitar sounds that they're using. A lot of memorable stompy riffs. There's the track Icon Bearer. It's very cool, very cool intro to it. And yeah, just a, it's a fun record. It's a fun, if you're looking for a good Swedish death record, this is one that is worth definitely checking out. Sweet. All right. 01:36:06.320 --> 01:36:35.580 Cool. Go. Go. George is a little bit tipsy. All right. So my number 17 is Alocuria Commotion, Unvenerate Industries. It's a dark post-metal sludge band with some melodic progressive elements tossed in and full-on black metal vocals, which is really a striking combination. I really love the pace and the 01:36:35.640 --> 01:37:03.720 groove on commotion. It has a real fresh, kind of a, I hesitate to say contemporary feel, but that's what I think when I listen to it. But it still delivers that chugging, dark viciousness that I look for in metal. Alecuria, their last record was on my top 40, top 25, top 40, whatever I did. That was before the Metalheads podcast. So it's cool to see them come back after so many years because I've been on the Metalheads. 01:37:04.440 --> 01:37:33.760 I think this is my fifth year on the Metalheads podcast which is insane. I don't know how that happened. Time passes. Yeah I really love Alicuria and yeah excited to have him back in the mix. Sweet. What you got Matt? All right number what is it 17? I think this is my January album of the month. The band is Iruvoo. The album is called The Fate Worse Than Home. I believe this is like a Malaysian one metal one man black metal project. For the few albums 01:37:33.780 --> 01:37:37.140 here that I actually wrote notes for. I wrote super spacey yet intense 01:37:37.380 --> 01:38:03.400 atmospherical black metal with some really moody, fuzzy rips. It's complex, moody, which with me being bitchy, I feel like I kind of gravitate towards the moody stuff. But yeah, it's. That's a good record, man. It was like the first record I listened to in this year. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, early on. And it's definitely hung around in my life. So. I love that cover. It's like an astronaut. Like it's a horrific space scene with an astronaut. 01:38:05.280 --> 01:38:33.360 What did you call it? Iravu? Iravu. I don't know. Maybe it's Iravu. I-R-A-V-U. No idea. But yeah, it's a pretty good record. John? I think this has been mentioned. I can't remember who mentioned it. Maybe Matt. I don't know. On number 17, Boyd's Ceremony. Threats of unknowing 20 bucks spin. Aggressive, technical death metal. Second album. It's chaotic. It's all over the place. There's some fusion and jazzy guitar work. 01:38:34.320 --> 01:39:03.180 infused in it. If you're a fan of atheist or cynic, you might like these guys. So. Sweet. Give it a spin. Has anyone mentioned this or am I just imagining it? Was it Matt or Will? I don't know. I didn't. I'm not sure. Matt, okay. I couldn't. I did it as myself. It was my number. It was early on, wasn't it? Okay. Yeah. I thought so. Yeah. Cool. Now they're doubled. No triples so far, I don't think, but two doubles. Ashton Horde's got three. Yeah. Trevor, you're on the fucking board. 01:39:04.140 --> 01:39:33.360 For now. Just kidding. Back to Will. Back to me. My number 17. Hellripper. Warlocks. Grim and Withered Hags. Scottish. Peaceful Records. But again, nobody cares about that. All we care about is that Brute Metal Will can dribble a bowling ball. That's great. I speak the truth. All right. Will, Jay, whatever your name is. 01:39:33.440 --> 01:40:03.400 Wait, where do you think the show is right now? Has it started yet? Oh, no. Yeah, it's not going to start for another hour. Yeah, at least. He's got to do all the setups. Yeah, it's at seven, right, usually? Yeah. Mine is, and one of the things I do is we're compiling our lists. I'm sure we all do this is I start looking around to see other people's lists that are out there because there are some mid-year best albums of the year. And I think one record I saw in common all over the place was this record. It was usually pretty high 01:40:03.440 --> 01:40:03.540 up. 01:40:04.480 --> 01:40:04.680 You know, 01:40:04.740 --> 01:40:05.520 fires in the distance. 01:40:05.780 --> 01:40:06.700 Air not meant for us. 01:40:07.200 --> 01:40:10.080 I think this might have been album of the month. 01:40:10.240 --> 01:40:11.960 Maybe it was my album of the month. 01:40:12.100 --> 01:40:12.280 Marcus. 01:40:12.540 --> 01:40:13.060 I thought, 01:40:14.270 --> 01:40:14.360 yeah, 01:40:14.560 --> 01:40:15.480 this is really fucking cool, 01:40:15.580 --> 01:40:15.740 man. 01:40:15.820 --> 01:40:16.740 And I do know this band. 01:40:16.980 --> 01:40:18.560 I don't own everything by them, 01:40:19.240 --> 01:40:21.240 but I think it was the album of the month. 01:40:21.540 --> 01:40:22.940 Things that prompted me to get it. 01:40:23.540 --> 01:40:23.900 I agree. 01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:25.140 It deserves to be on my list. 01:40:25.150 --> 01:40:27.640 I didn't put it high as the rest of the internet world seems to be doing, 01:40:27.820 --> 01:40:29.240 but super fucking solid stuff. 01:40:29.360 --> 01:40:31.400 And these guys are pretty fucking world-class too. 01:40:31.500 --> 01:40:33.320 All the way around their catalog is pretty. 01:40:35.800 --> 01:41:03.280 They only have two albums? Yeah, this is only their second album. Yeah. Let me see here. They have... Yeah, they did Echoes from Deep November. Yeah, that's not their Echoes. And that's it. That's the first one, which was a good record, too. It's just so good. It seems like they have more. The new one is a lot better, even though I like the first one quite a bit. But yeah, that's it. That's all they got. They haven't even released any EPs. I think maybe they did a live album, but that's it. All right. My number 17. 01:41:03.360 --> 01:41:33.280 on Century Media Records, from the United States of America, all hail and forced. War Remains from Richmond, Virginia. Nice. If you can't find any sepulchre, this'll do. This'll do, pig. That'll do. Yeah, good stuff. I do have another beer. Yes. All right, on to number 16, Justin. All right, my number 16. 01:41:33.420 --> 01:42:03.320 16 is the band Command with a K. The album is Death Age. They're from Los Angeles. They're on 20 bucks spin. Came out in March 31st. If you want the best bolt thrower riffs, this is where you go for the best bolt thrower riffs, in my opinion, I think. I wouldn't necessarily call them. I wouldn't put them in that category. They're definitely a lot more ferocious. Maybe you'd throw them into that like caveman 01:42:03.360 --> 01:42:33.280 kind of vibe of death metal. But yeah, really good fleeing the Western territories that groove stomp chorus that they do in that. It gets stuck in my head all the time. And yeah, another death metal take for me. That's good. I listen to this and I remember thinking, yeah, it's definitely got this bolt thrower vibe, but I feel like the vocals were a little more screechy maybe. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like I said, the riffs are definitely bolt thrower, but I wouldn't say that they're just trying to be bolt thrower. 01:42:34.740 --> 01:43:02.920 I think Stacy's really big on that band too actually. Bring her up again. But I think she's talked about that one. The metal queen of the Midwest. Yes, absolutely. It's funny. The last time I went out to a show with her, which one was that one? Two days ago or three days ago. I don't remember. Anyways, she knew like all these people kept coming up to her because they just know her from shows. She isn't necessarily friends with them. She's a fixture. She just met them at shows. And they would come up to us and they just started buying us. 01:43:03.360 --> 01:43:33.000 beers and shots just because she had met them at a different show. And I was like, this is great. I got to hang out with you more often. I don't even have to buy any beer or shots or nothing. Did she get hammered? No, she never does. I know. That's why I asked that. She leaves early a lot of times. The last show, she didn't feel good and ended up leaving early. So it was cave-in, was there, and I think she left during that show, maybe. I don't know. But yeah, she never drinks that much. She has like a beer, usually a beer, maybe two beers. 01:43:33.360 --> 01:44:03.120 She's responsible for sure. Definitely. Awesome. She knows a lot of people. She's met so many people. Metal Queen of the Midwest. Yep. Where are we? That's me. Me? Justin went. Justin went. Yeah, I thought it was you, but you were talking, so I couldn't. Yeah, Command. He just said Command. That's a good one. I considered that one. All right, so my number 16 is LeBan's name and the album title is in Russian, but I did the translation. 01:44:03.360 --> 01:44:33.160 So the name of the band is Rye and the name of the album is In and it's on Reflection Nebula Records. And so this is a Crickets one. I guess it shouldn't be because it's been on my list before, but only on my list. And this is really mellow, kind of ritualistic black metal. It really bleeds atmosphere from, I would say, dark ambient veins, which I love my ambient music. So it has a real slow churn to it that I enjoy. 01:44:33.340 --> 01:45:03.300 And it's a little bit different than other things because it's not quite Dune. It's more of an ambient metal, ambient black metal record. It's definitely for late night listening. It's like cigarette after sex. Yeah, I really love this band. They've been on my list almost every single album, I think. Usually in the middle because it's got that kind of a slow vibe to it. So it's never something that I'm like, I have to listen to this all the time. It's something that when in the middle of the night when I'm all alone. 01:45:04.020 --> 01:45:32.980 And I feel like I need a little bit of metal, a little sexy metal time for myself. And you're out of liquid snuggies. Yeah, I put on that liquid snuggie. So it's your in the middle of the night, alone after sex, cigarette music. You got it. You got it. Yeah. You got it. Cool. Noted. Summer. Good summer, guys. Good summer. Matt. Like a cruel summer, but a good summer. A cruel. Cruel some. 01:45:36.560 --> 01:46:02.440 That's Bananarama, thank you. That is Bananarama, although Taylor Swift has a song by this name. No, it's Bananarama. That's what I said. It's a whole different song. That's why I was like, you shouldn't make a song called Cruisalmer unless you're covering Bananarama, long story short. Anyways, my number 16, the band is Nightmirror. The album is Deformity Adrift. It is super darkish, sludgy, posty, techie death with sprinkles of blue-tow snored. That's how I describe them. 01:46:03.360 --> 01:46:31.980 Just sprinkles. Nothing too crazy. Excellent. Who also has an album coming out later this year? Part two of part one. More Cthulhu-ish craziness. Excellent. All right, John. So Matt asked me to make sure I let him know when my cheeky mover album of the year comes up. Cheeky! Cheeky! 01:46:33.340 --> 01:47:03.240 As you hear me go on and on about world football. I'm a big fan. And I love when announcers use the expression, oh, that's a cheeky move because it just sounds so funny. Hear that. If it was this podcast, we'd think something else was going on, but it just means a sneaky move. They just say cheeky. So my cheeky album of 2023 mid-year is Herod Iconoclast. Nice. On Pelagic Records from Switzerland, Sludge Metal. This is a cool album. And every time I listen to it, I like it. 01:47:03.360 --> 01:47:33.060 So I had to stop at some point. This is where the little spin wheel stopped. You will not pass. I did the wheel of podcast. Right there. We stopped right there. That's my number 16, Herod. I hear the wheel in my head, but I can't duplicate it with my mouth. Have a few more beers and you'll be surprised what you could do with your mouth. Yeah, exactly. No, I'm not going to be surprised. The part of will be played by John for two seconds. 01:47:33.340 --> 01:48:02.940 All right, back to Will. Is it? Yes. 16. This was already mentioned, and I'm going to mess up the name. Usnea, bathed in light. Does that sound right? Yeah, right on. Right on. I call it Usnea, but I don't have no idea. No, actually, I pronounced it the way Will slash Matt pronounces it as Usnea. So that means I'm probably right. Yes. I think what's more important is that brew metal Will can cook minute rice in 30 seconds. So that's what you should take from this. 01:48:03.040 --> 01:48:33.000 That is the takeaway. I think the takeaway is you should get some real rice. Yeah. All right. Start 30 minutes earlier than the rest of the meal. Jay. A little time saver for us because I already commented on this record when George blurted it out. Sermon of Golden Verse. Nice. Wow. No volleyball here. Yeah. Hell no. No. Good record that I'm sure I will continue listening to. Sweet. Sure it'll stick around. I like how Jay's already thinking about 01:48:33.060 --> 01:49:02.840 Saving Time and we're not even at fucking 15 yet. I know. There's no time saving on top 25, Jay. You just got to buckle in, bitch. There's no time in the mid-year podcast. There's no crying in baseball. There's no time. Also, congratulations on the house. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, congrats. We seem to have passed every chasm we had to leap to get it, and it's just a matter of signing the papers now. Yeah, at some point, your background is going to look different. 01:49:03.040 --> 01:49:32.680 It will. Yes. J will be retired. That's like officially old. No, it's not. You're just getting out of the game early. That's true, too. I love that he's getting out of the game early. That's freaking awesome. I fucking hate it. I am jealous, and you can go fuck yourself. I can do it. Hey, Mark. But loving me. I'm under two years. Two years? Oh, yeah. I'm under two years. Yeah, but you're like 97 years old. No, I'm not. TR as well. So at some point, the Stairway to 11, 01:49:33.020 --> 01:50:02.180 is going to be a couple of retirees and me. I'll barely be 57 when that comes up. Fuck y'all. Yeah, that's exciting. Well, I'm probably going to work until I'm dead and I'm younger than you guys, so I guess I don't have anything to... I'm not going to retire, though. Don't get me wrong. I just can't. My wife's older than me, and she's retiring. It just makes more sense for where we're going, and I've been where I'm at for 20 years, so I've got a passion. Yeah, Jason, I'm done working. I want mountains and metal. That's all I fucking want. That's right. And Jupacabra. 01:50:03.040 --> 01:50:32.620 Can I get a llama? I'm going to get a donkey because I need my horse. You need a donkey. You're damn right you do. Who's going to carry your shirt for you? Are you going to have horses, Jay? It's awesome. So moving forward, when Will says big floppy donkey dick, you can just point over there and go, yep. Send an actual picture every time. That'd be great. Jay, who are you going to hire as Rip? Me. Oh man, I have to watch the new season. You could probably hire Rip. Yeah. And who's going to play teeter? 01:50:34.840 --> 01:51:02.940 That's random. That's not. It's the only female name that popped to mind because she's the metal queen of the Midwest. Yeah, but we can understand what she says. True. True. Yeah. She's nowhere near as crazy. All right. Disregard that. Let's just keep running off those rails. Justin's like, what the fuck did I do? Why am I on this? I thought I knew this cast. It's like we're robbing a bank out in the desert near Jay's house. You're in top 25. I think I'm just going to stick to the regular. 01:51:03.040 --> 01:51:03.280 episodes. 01:51:04.660 --> 01:51:04.760 Yeah. 01:51:04.930 --> 01:51:06.480 Because those are so much more sane. 01:51:07.460 --> 01:51:08.620 No, this is very entertaining. 01:51:09.080 --> 01:51:09.860 Is me? 01:51:10.440 --> 01:51:11.120 It's you. 01:51:11.400 --> 01:51:11.520 Yes. 01:51:11.970 --> 01:51:12.780 All righty. 01:51:14.119 --> 01:51:28.420 From Norway, Bergen, Norway, on Charisma with a K records, prog metal, avant prog metal band, Vulture Industries, Ghosts from the Past. 01:51:29.660 --> 01:51:32.140 This was a last minute edition. 01:51:32.600 --> 01:52:01.140 Not last couple days edition. Yeah. Ultra Industries? Vulture Industries. It's really good. I would not categorize this as metal, but I do really like it, George. It's on Encyclopedia Metallum, and it is listed as avant-prog metal. It's goth rock. But hey, we got live albums. We've had all kinds of stuff on here. You put what you want. I think it's a great record. The vocalist is freaking awesome. Maybe when the age of the podfather you reach, 01:52:03.040 --> 01:52:03.660 you will have. 01:52:04.780 --> 01:52:05.260 Oh. 01:52:07.540 --> 01:52:09.960 Dropping some Tibetan podfather on us. 01:52:10.120 --> 01:52:10.460 That didn't even sound right. 01:52:12.100 --> 01:52:13.060 Drunken podfather. 01:52:14.220 --> 01:52:15.020 That was my Yoda. 01:52:15.400 --> 01:52:15.680 Come on. 01:52:17.120 --> 01:52:21.180 Maybe when 800 years old you reach you look just good or whatever. 01:52:21.180 --> 01:52:23.280 One of the guys at Brimminghorn really likes that too. 01:52:23.400 --> 01:52:25.480 I remember seeing that on the metal front. 01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:26.460 Metal at Brimminghorn. 01:52:26.840 --> 01:52:26.940 Yeah. 01:52:27.220 --> 01:52:27.320 Yeah. 01:52:27.380 --> 01:52:27.700 Pretty metal. 01:52:28.260 --> 01:52:30.180 George, you just need Grogu. 01:52:30.820 --> 01:52:31.620 And just say no. 01:52:32.040 --> 01:53:01.200 Oh, man. I just finished that. No, that scene was so fucking funny. I just love that. Yes. Oh, my God. Jean didn't even watch the show. And I made her come in and watch that scene. I haven't seen anything. No. And don't give it away. Just saying a word. That doesn't give much. Yeah, it's fine. That's fine. All right. We kid does is funny, even though he's older than me. So we're about to hit the top 15. Any, any, any breaks? You'll be 15. You'll get your first colonoscopy. 01:53:02.700 --> 01:53:06.540 I just went to the doctor actually I don't like going to the doctor I got a new doctor 01:53:06.920 --> 01:53:32.020 because I haven't really had a set doctor since Hawaii so when I came back it was the pandemic and I just got a doctor who would do it over online so I could just talk and get the prescriptions or I have one prescription for gout that's it so now I was like I gotta go in and take care of myself so I went and had a new doctor and they do all this everything's online now apps and shit they're really forward thinking and the colonoscopy thing came up 01:53:32.020 --> 01:54:02.000 up right away and I was like I gotta wait till I'm 50 they tell me you really should add it when you're 45 yeah 45 is the new 50 the 50 numbers all bullshit it used to be 40 they pushed it to 50 and it's coming back again so bullshit get in there I gotta schedule it yeah I had my blood work and they're pretty good my blood works actually good but yeah gotta do it anyways you're listening to the metalheads podcast they're two 01:54:02.020 --> 01:54:31.960 for this podcast. Too sexy for this podcast. Too sexy by far. Do I really have to say this? All right. Let us. Fifteen. Fifteen? Oh, boy. Yeah, let's do number fifteen, Justin. All right. My number fifteen is Astropharis. The album is Pulsations from the Black Orb. They are from Costa Rica. 01:54:32.060 --> 01:55:01.880 The record label is Misako Un Oho Records and it came out March 10th. Just really cool. If you like that, that more cosmic-y, still very much rooted death metal in that kind of... I wouldn't necessarily put them full on like blood incantation progressive death, but like more like there's some slowed down like suffocation deicide vibes to them and it's just... But they're very good at doing the building. 01:55:02.020 --> 01:55:31.980 the tension with atmosphere and then unleashing on you. Blinding the Seven Eyes of God is a pretty cool track from them. I like a lot that kind of showcases that. And yeah, it's very enjoyable if you're into that cosmic-y type of death metal stuff. It's a cool album. They're in the same solar system with blood incantation, just not as far out. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Space. The Frontier. Just to keep the Star Trek thing going, after I finished Picard, I moved on to the new 01:55:32.000 --> 01:56:01.980 of Strange New Worlds, but of course, that shit's only coming out once a week. It's not scratching the itch, so I have started binging Star Trek Enterprise, which I never watched that series other than bits and pieces. So what I take away from that is you're itchy. A little bit. Okay. I'm itchy for bitchy. Oh, man, we're going to get more of that. All right. All right, let's do it. Number 15 for me is Aramit, where 01:56:02.020 --> 01:56:28.740 of numerous forms on my favorite name for a record label, Fucking Kill Records. Fucking Kill. Yeah, I listen to this. I have to redefine what I think of as epic when it comes to metal albums because this is a gargantuan tome of a record. It's three songs, two hours and 13 minutes of dim. Holy crap. 01:56:34.120 --> 01:57:01.940 It's crazy. So obviously this album requires patience. It requires time. And yet you couldn't do Bellwitch. Yeah. And that's the thing. Bellwitch is so ridiculously boring that you can't even do, what is it, like an hour, hour and a half. But the thing I love about Ehrman is they construct these winding and immersive worlds in their music that are textured with death, doom, brutality, slow cavernous passages. 01:57:02.760 --> 01:57:31.760 And they've even added trumpet to the mix on this record. So it gives the album more of an epic, royal feel to it. So I've heard long Doom albums like Bellwitch in the past few years, which kind of bored me to tears. And this one is by far the longest. But somehow I find it more engaging than most everything else that I've heard in this genre. I like getting lost in this record. 01:57:32.020 --> 01:57:33.340 for a couple of hours. 01:57:34.320 --> 01:57:35.820 And I've liked their previous records. 01:57:35.910 --> 01:57:37.500 I think this is the best one that I've ever done. 01:57:37.640 --> 01:57:38.700 It is very long. 01:57:39.900 --> 01:57:42.120 Like the first it's four LPs. 01:57:43.540 --> 01:57:45.640 The first track is like over an hour long. 01:57:46.040 --> 01:57:46.960 So that's, 01:57:47.300 --> 01:57:47.740 it's different, 01:57:47.900 --> 01:57:55.800 but I have to give them credit for being able to keep me there for an album that long. 01:57:56.180 --> 01:57:56.720 And yeah, 01:57:56.720 --> 01:57:58.620 I think it's the best of this kind of, 01:57:58.760 --> 01:57:59.140 of doom, 01:57:59.170 --> 01:58:00.080 this long form doom. 01:58:00.160 --> 01:58:30.100 So Aramit, wearer of numerous forms, give it a shot. It came out just really a couple weeks ago now. Cool. All right, Matt. My number 16. Number 15. 15 is what I meant to say. 16 minus one, dying of everything, obituary. This is probably not my favorite obituary album, but I just love the obituary sound. It's always a welcome sound and it's a super solid record. Forgot about that. I don't know how, but I did. How do you keep forgetting? 01:58:31.080 --> 01:59:00.060 I'm a very busy man. I forget a lot of things. Sorry. Must be all that time spent on stairway to 11. Not hardly. Not hardly. Alrighty. John then. Our second three album so far. My number 15 is Sermon of Golden Verse, Prosthetic Records. Double, triple. Progressive, kind of alternative metal. I think, Jay, what you were saying, 01:59:00.200 --> 01:59:30.140 before that, yeah, about the album, it's rhythmic. It's hypnotic with the drumming on there, which I guess would be the Tool vibe of it, but it doesn't sound anything like Tool. It's a cool record. It's just, it's heavy as fuck, too, you know, and you don't think that when you listen, and then you realize it really is, but the drumming's hypnotic, and it pulls you in, so it's a very good record. I need to listen to the first one still. I haven't listened to that one as much. I don't know if I did say it, or if you were the first one to drop that, but I was going to 01:59:30.160 --> 02:00:00.060 the Tool vibe. If I did not mention it, and they're not, they don't sound like Tool, just like you said, they don't sound like Tool at all. It's a Tool vibe to it. It's tangentially like them. Like I used that word twice now. I'm like really impressed I remembered how to say it. But it does, it has that vibe. It just, his drumming is similar to that. It's just like, it's the whole kind of building. Yeah, and it just pulls you along. So it's cool. Like the undertow. No, there you go. No, you don't want to get pulled by the undertow. That shit will sweep you out. I know, but that's a tool. 02:00:00.160 --> 02:00:29.880 Tool Reference. I know, I got it. Tool. I'm just probably too sober right now to... I mean, why are you sober, John? Have another beer. Why must we be sober? Yes, we are. I need to go... That sounded like a JFK Tool kind of thing. Why must we be sober? You're like a herpes. Were we just talking about Undertale like the other day? Were we just talking about that? I love that. 02:00:31.160 --> 02:00:59.680 We were just talking about how like 80% of it is about anal sex. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. A lot of the early stuff is pretty much about that. Yeah. In prison. Sex. Yeah. Or with yourself. Yeah. Yeah. All right. True story. Back to me. Yes. Well, my 15 already heard once dirge self-titled. This is a sledge metal from India. It's awesome. 02:01:00.860 --> 02:01:04.300 That's all you really need to know other than the fact that once a cobra bit 02:01:04.600 --> 02:01:09.240 Brumetal Will's leg and after five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died. 02:01:10.380 --> 02:01:10.860 This is great. 02:01:11.240 --> 02:01:12.300 This is better than having Will. 02:01:12.760 --> 02:01:14.840 Man, Will was really hammered one night. 02:01:14.870 --> 02:01:16.120 He was just writing this shit down. 02:01:17.040 --> 02:01:19.480 I like when he actually talked to Matt about this. 02:01:19.590 --> 02:01:22.020 Like they had a little powwow before he left. 02:01:22.280 --> 02:01:22.440 We did. 02:01:22.760 --> 02:01:23.320 That's the best. 02:01:23.600 --> 02:01:25.080 It was like, just make me sound cool, man. 02:01:25.240 --> 02:01:27.080 Matt's the one who's making all this up right now. 02:01:27.090 --> 02:01:27.360 I know. 02:01:28.280 --> 02:01:30.780 Matt's version of Will is better than actual Will. 02:01:32.380 --> 02:01:45.900 I love it when we double up on a number because it makes it sound like that is indeed the 15th best record of the year. This record definitely has my favorite title of the year, Dying of Everything Obituary. 02:01:47.640 --> 02:01:55.300 And I agree with Matt. It's just, you know what you get with obituary and not necessarily the best record, but they got a very comforting sound. 02:01:55.680 --> 02:02:23.580 And I also pulled the famous Polish motherfucker in for the artwork this year, whatever that guy's name is. That guy. The Belwich guy. Yeah. He passed away this year. Oh, shit. They passed away. It's been a while. How are we going to have metal album covers now? How about if we just do top ten covers? He did a lot of paintings, and you can commission those paintings. 02:02:25.600 --> 02:02:28.940 gone doesn't mean that just because he's dead doesn't mean somebody can't make some money 02:02:30.020 --> 02:02:40.640 true that all right uh my 15 yeah indeed from australia mate what what that's far away that's far away 02:02:41.140 --> 02:02:46.100 crikey crikey it's from what did you say jay i think i know where you're going with this i think you do 02:02:46.270 --> 02:02:54.800 because you told me about this one this is king gizzard and the lizard wizard petro dragonic apocalypse 02:02:54.840 --> 02:03:24.760 or Dawn of Eternal Night, An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation. You went past the colon. Yes, I did. Is that the actual title? Yeah, it's really long. What the fuck? Also, John, that's what she said. Also. Hey, I've never heard that joke before. What is this band? What is this long lizard you're talking about? That's Will, but this album, this is a band that I've known for years, but I never left. 02:03:24.820 --> 02:03:30.000 I listen to them because they're always really weird, psychedelic, trippy, weird music. 02:03:30.040 --> 02:03:30.980 They're all over the place, yeah. 02:03:31.400 --> 02:03:35.460 But Jay pointed out that this album is a metal album, and it is a metal album. 02:03:35.680 --> 02:03:39.760 It's basically just a straight up, I don't know if it's quite thrash, but it's... 02:03:39.900 --> 02:03:41.300 It gets a little thrashy at times. 02:03:41.980 --> 02:03:42.560 It does. 02:03:43.040 --> 02:03:45.480 The vocals are like if Rob Zombie didn't suck. 02:03:46.080 --> 02:03:46.760 That's what I told Jay. 02:03:47.340 --> 02:03:48.120 That's not encouraging. 02:03:48.520 --> 02:03:49.720 No, it's good. 02:03:50.060 --> 02:03:52.600 If he didn't suck, this is what he would sound like. 02:03:53.220 --> 02:04:23.140 And apparently, a couple years ago, they did another album like this. So this is actually their second metal style album. But most of their stuff is nothing like this. Nothing like this. They're kind of stunder-dumish a little bit, aren't they? Not even. Or psychedelic. Just all over the map. It's bizarre stuff. I'm looking at it in band camp. Does it have a gecko on the front? Yeah. That's a lizard, dude. It's a metal gecko. As far as fine, it's sheer. 02:04:23.220 --> 02:04:53.180 energy and intensity go they actually remind me of the first me toy man record yeah it's got riffs for days and seven people in the band yeah it's and dan clown car was pimping this the other day i don't know if you noticed that george but he posted on his facebook i did not notice that but but dan clown car is a good man and he knows what's up yeah yeah this is you posted this on our chat and i was just like whatever jay i'm just gonna click on it because fuck you and then i was like oh fuck me 02:04:53.180 --> 02:04:53.760 Hold on. 02:04:54.520 --> 02:04:54.980 That's good. 02:04:56.300 --> 02:04:58.280 And yeah, no, it was like immediate. 02:04:58.840 --> 02:05:01.280 It was just like hook and mouth, gone. 02:05:01.580 --> 02:05:01.840 I was. 02:05:01.940 --> 02:05:08.660 Jay, George, you'll be happy to know that is the number one album by a mile on Rate Your Music for Metal this year. 02:05:08.880 --> 02:05:09.220 I know. 02:05:09.240 --> 02:05:10.300 By a mile. 02:05:10.540 --> 02:05:11.460 I need to listen to this. 02:05:11.460 --> 02:05:12.080 It's really good, dude. 02:05:12.280 --> 02:05:12.680 It is. 02:05:13.040 --> 02:05:13.320 It is. 02:05:13.340 --> 02:05:14.240 What is this? 02:05:15.220 --> 02:05:15.920 Just listen. 02:05:16.160 --> 02:05:20.780 Honestly, Markisan, I assumed you didn't listen to it because I thought you were going to be like, holy shit. 02:05:20.820 --> 02:05:50.800 I don't even I can't I'm not even done reading the title yeah we'll come back an hour when you're done I gotta listen to this it's good I honestly think this one's right up your alley it sounds like something I'd like except for the all the words in it it's not a death note not a death doom record just I don't even just it's just a fucking cool there's very few records I haven't heard so that's what's cool about it I'm gonna give it a shot I think you're gonna dig it okay let's do it can't imagine there's something you didn't hear I can't 02:05:50.820 --> 02:06:20.780 I can't believe it. I listen to so much metal. It's unbelievable. What have you guys done to me? Before I came in the Metalhead Podcast, I did not listen to this many records. Now I'm listening to 700 records. Nobody's pushing that needle in your arm. You're accepting it. You're an enabler, John. That's right. That's what we do here. We enable. Hey, it's all about you making your own choices. If your choices are metal, then so be it. And even if you don't make a choice, you've still made a choice. I was going to go there. 02:06:20.840 --> 02:06:22.680 You've got free will 02:06:22.880 --> 02:06:23.940 Yes you do 02:06:24.200 --> 02:06:25.040 I'm responsible 02:06:25.980 --> 02:06:27.140 But just between us 02:06:28.040 --> 02:06:28.640 Sorry 02:06:29.320 --> 02:06:29.920 Alright 02:06:30.400 --> 02:06:30.840 Who's up 02:06:31.020 --> 02:06:31.420 Who's up 02:06:31.620 --> 02:06:32.540 It is now 02:06:32.940 --> 02:06:34.240 Justin for number 14 02:06:34.860 --> 02:06:35.740 Oh that's me 02:06:35.860 --> 02:06:36.060 Okay 02:06:36.280 --> 02:06:37.120 Mentioned before 02:06:37.440 --> 02:06:38.160 Enforced 02:06:38.620 --> 02:06:39.420 War Remains 02:06:39.840 --> 02:06:40.480 Richmond, Virginia 02:06:41.100 --> 02:06:41.840 Century Media 02:06:42.300 --> 02:06:43.260 April 28th 02:06:43.700 --> 02:06:44.360 Yeah 02:06:44.540 --> 02:06:44.740 Yeah 02:06:44.780 --> 02:06:45.260 If you want 02:06:46.020 --> 02:06:47.100 Good supple Torah 02:06:47.240 --> 02:06:47.780 If you want 02:06:48.480 --> 02:06:49.420 Good power trip 02:06:49.420 --> 02:07:18.400 This is a band that's doing it right now. Hell yeah. This one I think took a little bit longer for me to kind of latch on to. Really? Compared to their last one. I just thought their last one had maybe a couple maybe hookier choruses than this one does. But this one is, once I got a few listens in, I'm like, yeah, this is. It's the shit. Yeah, it is. I would say Hang By My Hand is probably my favorite track off of the record. But yes. Sweet. 02:07:19.420 --> 02:07:49.400 Number 14. All right. Number 14. All right. Number 14 is Morwenyan Wastelands on Natermacht Productions. This is the second full length from this atmospheric black metal band. And the thing I like about Morwenyan is that they play this vicious black metal, but they weave so much melody and orchestral textures into their songs that listen to them 02:07:49.420 --> 02:08:18.240 It makes me feel like I'm lying in a sleepy field looking up at the stars. So I'm not sure if a lullaby black metal is already a subgenre of metal. And John was talking about this earlier, how many different subgenres we have, but that's what I'd call more Wignon style, lullaby black metal. Just a really beautiful floating soundtrack of a record. 02:08:18.360 --> 02:08:48.320 Their last record, I think, made my top 25 too. This is a band that I'm into. The sweet and gentle sounds of black metal. Yeah, it's really odd. Because you've had, there's a lot of atmospheric black metal bands, but for some reason, this one is, it's like being in a cloud. And I like that part of it. Cool. Check that out. All right. Matt. Number 14. In recent years, I've really developed a love of just like straight 02:08:48.360 --> 02:08:54.040 up heavy metal and i would say that was probably started with a chemist or a crypt servant 02:08:54.660 --> 02:09:03.320 spirit adrift more recently silver talon and so one band i came across haunt and super i think it's led by one 02:09:03.360 --> 02:09:09.740 dude who also does beast maker beast maker yeah we've talked about it and so the album is golden arm that 02:09:09.780 --> 02:09:13.659 came out this year and then there's an ep that came out with it that has a good i think it's a tears 02:09:13.680 --> 02:09:43.640 for Fierce covers, but maybe two covers. He's super prolific. Yeah, he has stuff coming up all the time. But it's just super catchy, straight up heavy metal, and I really dig it. Speaking of prolific, he's prolific, and so is Isak Trillium. But I learned recently that King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are the most prolific band ever. They had five full-length albums last year. None of them were metal, but... 02:09:43.700 --> 02:10:13.280 or 40 albums. I think you had them on your list. I think it was Haunt, to be honest with you. Oh, no. I think it was Haunt, because it was the year that he put out. No, it's not. They actually literally have 30 albums. And they've all come out in the last 10 or 12 years. God, I wish I could remember who it was. I'll go back and think. Almost positive you had them on your list. I'm not convinced it's not Haunt, though, because the year I had them on my list. No, they're like a Norwegian band. Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, Circle. Yes. Yes. 02:10:13.680 --> 02:10:43.200 They've released so many albums. By the way, Jay will know this. Han's from Fresno. Go figure. Fresno. Yes. Not really. Yeah, that's funny. I had Circle on my list and they're like King Lizard and King Gizzard in the way that they don't always do metal type stuff. And that was like one of their more metal releases ever. That was a good record. That was really good. I just like how many Zs are in King Gizzard and the Lizard. A lot. Four to be exact. Okay. 02:10:43.680 --> 02:11:13.640 All right, John. My turn. All right. I'm joining Matt again. Matt and I are hitting on a number of albums already. Simpatico. Yeah. Going to head out to the ocean for Holocene. Legric Records. You know who the ocean is. I like this album a lot, but I will say it's definitely a little different than the previous one. It's a little more electronic on their sound. Ain't nothing wrong with that. No, there's not. But I think Marcus and I talked about this on the one podcast. That middle section of the album picks up, and it's 02:11:13.680 --> 02:11:42.360 It's big. And it's traditional ocean sound. Just a little different. They're exploring some new ground. Still good. Ocean always does something a little bit different. That's what's fun about them. Yeah. And I like that they've had a consistent singer now for over 10 years, which is all the difference in the world. For a while, there was like 87 members every album. Yeah. And a good to a lot of members. Yeah. They have a, they really, he's, he makes Dave Mustaine look like he's got a solid band, but no, it's been a similar group for a while. So. 02:11:43.180 --> 02:12:12.640 The Oshenda. Cool. That's to the collective. Yeah, they are a collective. Wait, John, does that finish? Isn't it like a trilogy that they did too? Yeah, but the themes go back to the albums. But yes, I think they finally have finished whatever earthly exploration they were doing that's a hundred and something billion years old or whatever. Yeah. And I wonder if when they do the next record, if they're just going to go in a completely different direction because they finished this. 02:12:13.160 --> 02:12:42.960 Epic over three records. So I'm very curious to see what they're going to do next. Yeah. Me too. Jay. All right. Back to me. Oh, sorry. We've got to go still. Mammon's Throne. It's a self-titled album from a band from Melbourne, Australia. Unbrilliant. That's far away. Records. Way far away. It's almost too far. But the reality is brew metal will has counted to infinity more than once. So deal with it. Deal with it. 02:12:43.720 --> 02:13:13.080 Pru metal will. All right. Mine is surprised that it's higher than it's been mentioned twice already. And I'm surprised I have it higher than both times because I was the least familiar with it going into a recent podcast in which we featured Oak Pantheon absence. Nice. That's three. I really dig this record. I guess I wasn't familiar with them in any realistic way. And I listened to the ones before the cast and it's like, I was cool and everything. And then I put it on after and I said, Oh, this is really fucking cool. So it's one that's gone back. 02:13:13.180 --> 02:13:43.120 And quite a few times for me deserving of a higher place on the list. But where are we in here? What is this? 14? 14. Yeah. No, that's awesome. All right. Go on the top. No, that's awesome to hear. And they were just great guests. So really great to get them on. Good dudes. It was fun. That was a fun podcast. Yeah. That's what three so far? Yeah. Triple, triple. Three albums with three so far. Not bad. All right. My number 14 is another individual. 02:13:43.180 --> 02:14:13.140 I think there needs to be an award for most independent releases John there's a lot this year yeah from the United States of America what America all hail fucking Carl Alcion oh nice cult of Koolkin fuck yeah oh yeah yeah skull to your nipples sure man this album is just fucking crazy that's all I gotta say it's fucking crazy they're like loose tank tops too on top of that 02:14:13.140 --> 02:14:42.320 And it's, I don't know what happened with those guys, but it's fucking stupid that they're done because it's a great album. Yeah. Yeah. And I would just say, and to add, Carl's performance as a vocalist is amazing on that record because he just runs the gamut of styles. Everything. He does it all. And it's still cohesive as an album somehow. And I was very impressed by his vocal performance. I hope he gets another band that really puts out a lot of albums over and over. Yeah. 02:14:42.400 --> 02:15:12.360 I can't imagine he's not gonna he's so good he's got the chops for yeah man he's like one of the best talents I just want to see him get in a band where they put out a number of releases and really get some traction because I feel utilize his talents exactly he's a vocalist that deserves that it seems like he's in a lot of projects and that's great and we get to hear him but to have him be in something stable that's really amazing would be my hope for him I don't know what his hope is for himself but that's 02:15:12.400 --> 02:15:41.660 That's my hope for him. I think he's hoping for shorter shorts. He shouldn't even really wear a shirt. He's not even shorter. He rocks them. Yeah. Cool. All right. All right, then for number 13, we go back to the man. Oh, I got a piss. Justin. Okay, why don't you go? My number 13 is Valgrind. The album is called Millennium of Night Bliss. They are from Italy. They are on Memento Mori. 02:15:42.400 --> 02:16:12.340 came out April 24th. This is, again, it's like that it's got a very more so European death metal sound to it. It has some clean production. They throw in some elements. It's just really bouncy and groovy death metal. It has some more of an angel moment vibes to it. But yeah, they have some kind of cool, intricate things that you wouldn't expect from the overall sound kind of thrown in. 02:16:12.400 --> 02:16:42.360 and yeah they're a surprise to me apparently have a few records and i was not aware of them and this kind of came on my radar the title track is a good example of what i'm talking about with that too the millennium of night bliss and bob's your uncle 13 hey all right is it my turn what did justin pick his nose the what now bow grind they're called i don't know what that is is that more death metal yes 02:16:45.179 --> 02:17:11.440 Are you gonna branch out when we get to the top 10? No. A little bit, yeah. For fuck's sake. Okay. He's more consistent than Will. He likes his death metal. Let him play at the top. Listen, I fucking try. I fucking try. Listen to all this shit everyone fucking posts. It's just the shit I like. Yeah. You like what you like. This happens to be a lot of death metal shit. That's all. You sent me some prog deathy stuff earlier in the year. So he branches out a little. He does. 02:17:13.099 --> 02:17:14.460 is not death metal. 02:17:15.559 --> 02:17:16.200 And it is, 02:17:16.460 --> 02:17:16.580 uh, 02:17:16.580 --> 02:17:18.240 I can really like this record. 02:17:19.760 --> 02:17:20.240 Gorod, 02:17:20.540 --> 02:17:21.300 the orb. 02:17:21.760 --> 02:17:21.960 Oh, 02:17:22.280 --> 02:17:22.580 nice. 02:17:23.219 --> 02:17:23.820 I like orbs. 02:17:24.860 --> 02:17:25.460 Self-released. 02:17:26.840 --> 02:17:29.139 As we were just talking about a lot of independent records this year, 02:17:30.019 --> 02:17:34.639 just really great progressive technical death metal. 02:17:34.860 --> 02:17:36.040 I guess it is a little bit death metal. 02:17:36.300 --> 02:17:37.580 It's definitely tech death. 02:17:37.920 --> 02:17:38.019 Yeah. 02:17:38.019 --> 02:17:42.179 The riffs are just incredibly playful on this record. 02:17:42.260 --> 02:18:11.860 That's what I like about it. It's fun. And songwriting, it feels alive with personality to me on this LP. There's this kind of driving, rolling power to the album that instantly makes me want to move my old fucking body. You know what I mean? So it's a fantastic record. And it's also a reason to exercise all in one. That's what I would say about this movie. It's good. I like it too. It's so good. It's the shake weight of metal. Hear about it again. 02:18:13.539 --> 02:18:39.980 Yeah, I hope John has it on his list because I don't know how people feel about this one. I think it's just, it's great. It's so good. It might rise higher on my list, to be honest with you. Yeah, it's a solid list. It's good. All right. Addy. All right. This is 13. My number 13 is Vortex of Disgust by Bastard Grave. Justin said a lot of wonderful things. I would like to just copy paste that right here. 02:18:42.260 --> 02:19:11.840 example of dirty, dirty, dirty. I'm disgusted just hearing about it. Yeah. I'm a little bit sick to my stomach. Yeah. I was going to say, I'm feeling a little nauseous. All right. All right. John. Great record. Great record. My number 13. I don't know if anyone's going to mention this one. It's, this is a weird year for me. I actually have two sludge albums on my list and I have, I know. What are you even doing? Getting sludgy. And I, it's not that I dislike sludge. 02:19:13.019 --> 02:19:41.059 I like all the older bands better. I still need to venture past them. But I checked this out because the album cover is cool. As one does. Yeah, I judged the cover before the book. But it's actually a really cool album. And it's a little infectious when you listen. And that is Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Obsession Destruction on Red Scroll Records. They're a U.S. sludge band. It's their debut album. But I think they've got a bunch of EPs. It's just crushing sludge. 02:19:41.380 --> 02:20:11.040 with really harsh, kind of almost screechy vocals at times. And I didn't think I'd like that part of it, but I've gotten used to them. And it's cool stuff. It's pretty hypnotic. The sound is massive. So yeah, two sludge albums. Yeah, that's a really good record. Yeah. Now I will say my cheeky album of the mid-year may pass it at some point, but as of right now, that's how they're falling. Yeah, that's a pretty recent record too. And again, another record. 02:20:11.240 --> 02:20:41.220 I know Stacy really likes. I it's not on my list, but I toyed with it. It's close. It's unlike my honorable mentions. So who knows it's going to happen at the end of the year. At least we know it might be on Stacy's list. Yeah. And I think that it's a the name of the band is a reference to thou or thou. Yes, it is. Actually, I think they got it from a song or somewhere. Yeah. All righty then back to Will. All good to know. All good to know. My number 13. Is this number three or number four for 02:20:41.300 --> 02:21:11.140 Void Ceremony, thread of unknowing. Beautiful Ramona, California on the beautiful 20 bucks fin label. That's three, four now for that? Three. The number is three. It is one more than two, one less than four. But California is not that cold. It's not a place where you get frostbite and Brew Metal Will would not get frostbite. Wait, what part of California are you talking about? Ramona. Yeah, you've never been. Honestly, I have no idea where that is. 02:21:14.279 --> 02:21:39.680 You've obviously never been to Tahoe. No, and this is Matt speaking. I have no idea what I'm talking about. So John, you know, Will, shut the fuck up. John, you interrupted the chill. So please repeat the chill. No, it's chill. I don't get frostbite. I bite frost. That's the whole point. It doesn't matter. I bite frost. That's why he does not get a visa to come to this country. 02:21:41.260 --> 02:21:42.180 and I'd bite it. 02:21:42.800 --> 02:21:44.240 That just ended up being a bite matter. 02:21:45.540 --> 02:21:46.200 Bite Frost. 02:21:47.040 --> 02:21:48.640 Bitchy Matt's new album. 02:21:49.120 --> 02:21:50.080 That's not Bifrost. 02:21:50.240 --> 02:21:50.760 It's Bite Frost. 02:21:51.560 --> 02:21:52.980 Thank you, Chip L. 02:21:54.020 --> 02:21:55.180 All right, Chip A. 02:21:56.120 --> 02:22:01.000 So all this Star Trek talk, we're going to eventually have some new Star Trek alien name here at some point. 02:22:02.140 --> 02:22:02.580 That's right. 02:22:02.580 --> 02:22:08.000 I have unusual, not unusual, but more Death Dune than I might normally, whatever. 02:22:08.660 --> 02:22:10.601 We're contraptionally objigrated for 25%. 02:22:10.620 --> 02:22:11.120 25%. 02:22:11.240 --> 02:22:11.760 Obligated dimension. 02:22:12.520 --> 02:22:12.920 Obligated? 02:22:13.840 --> 02:22:15.080 What did Jordan just say? 02:22:15.920 --> 02:22:16.320 Obligated. 02:22:17.060 --> 02:22:17.780 This is good. 02:22:18.140 --> 02:22:20.780 You can call this definitive death doom. 02:22:20.940 --> 02:22:23.300 If somebody was like, what's that sound like? 02:22:23.300 --> 02:22:25.480 You could give them a copy of this record, and they'd figure it out. 02:22:25.580 --> 02:22:27.280 Vapor chamber, parallax occlusion. 02:22:27.560 --> 02:22:27.620 Yes. 02:22:27.620 --> 02:22:30.180 I don't know if you guys listen to this, but Jesus, dude. 02:22:33.319 --> 02:22:34.120 So heavy. 02:22:35.280 --> 02:22:35.600 Okay. 02:22:35.880 --> 02:22:37.280 There's not much to describe about it. 02:22:37.280 --> 02:22:38.840 If you haven't listened to it, you probably should. 02:22:38.960 --> 02:23:08.500 would go down with fans of incantation to everything else. More doomier. It's just so freaking heavy, man. Nice. Wow, that's sweet. The death doom is starting to pick up a little bit. It is. James is interested. Yeah. No, he's not. I love that record. I actually didn't expect to see it on that many lists. I hope Will List do it because I think he would enjoy it. It might. It seems like it could show up. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see. I agree. Stay tuned. 02:23:08.960 --> 02:23:37.680 Nice. Great record. Hey, Will, your mic is muted. Good job. Just like the real thing. I had to do at least one of those. Awesome. Yeah. I think you should do it on one of your, one of Will's picks too. My number 13 has been mentioned. You better not be breathing any of this because this is not meant for us. This is fires in the distance. They're not meant for us. 02:23:38.960 --> 02:24:08.920 Two or Three? Two? At least Two. Who else had it? You and Jay so far. Nice. Okay. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of us had it. It might show up again. I know. You never know. It's a great record. Yeah. Some Death Doom. Yeah. Gotta get that percentage in. Oh, yeah. The Death Doom is strong with us. Yes. Yes. So I hear a good wise guy. You're definitely over 10% Death Doom. All right. Number 12, Justin. Holy shit. We're like around the half 02:24:08.960 --> 02:24:38.680 This is a halfway point. Justin's sinking to that couch. He's getting tired. Yeah. Oh, no, I'm good. It's a recliner. I can raise them. Are you on the second beer yet, though? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm on a second beer, second whiskey. Nice. Yeah, nice. Second. Amongst other things. And I would just say, it's really great to have you on again, dude. We really appreciate it. I'm so stoked. I'm so stoked to be here. It's so cool. It's one of those things where I know as a listener, everyone could relate to it. 02:24:38.700 --> 02:25:06.120 was you always look forward to the mid-year and the year-end. That's like the big ones. So it's super cool that I could be participating. But then you already know what's happening, so you don't want to listen to it. Yeah. No, that's not true. All right. I'm narcissistic enough. I want to hear myself. And also you get to cover every single death metal album that came out. Yeah. So I fucking love it because there's so many. Maybe I won't be as much of a man alone on an island with some of my death metal by the end of the year. Maybe. 02:25:08.700 --> 02:25:38.660 death metal album of the year. So funny you mentioned that, John, because we were talking about progressive death metal and throwing stuff out there. So my number 12 is Hacks Process. And I knew it was coming. Yeah, the Caverns of Duat. They're from Jacksonville, Florida. They're independent release. They came out January 13th. Yeah, I talked to John about these guys a couple times. Yeah, it's just really cool progressive death metal. I would say my description for my 02:25:38.700 --> 02:25:44.360 The Chasm meets Opeth. 02:25:44.620 --> 02:25:46.340 That's kind of where I put them. 02:25:46.880 --> 02:25:47.000 Wow. 02:25:48.220 --> 02:25:53.680 Just, yeah, like they have that same type of production style as The Chasm, 02:25:54.140 --> 02:26:00.180 but they have a lot of riff structures and progressions that you can pick up from Opeth, 02:26:00.480 --> 02:26:01.880 early era, maybe more. 02:26:02.100 --> 02:26:02.180 Yeah. 02:26:03.460 --> 02:26:04.200 The longer songs. 02:26:04.520 --> 02:26:04.640 Yeah. 02:26:05.220 --> 02:26:05.280 Yeah. 02:26:05.420 --> 02:26:08.400 The Infinity Paradox is probably the one I go to the most. 02:26:08.420 --> 02:26:38.100 the track. Yeah, it's just, I think it's a cool, interesting listen. I'm digging it. Nice. I knew it would be on your list. Cool. Markazan. Number 12, Blaze of Sorrow. Oh, there you go. Faltus, Fati, and Eisenwald Records. This was an album I somehow shelved for a while and came back to. Wow, that is so interesting you're saying that. Sorry, keep going. Really? Yeah. 02:26:38.420 --> 02:26:39.020 This is Matt talking. 02:26:39.579 --> 02:26:41.160 I like he has to qualify. 02:26:41.500 --> 02:26:42.260 It's kind of awesome. 02:26:43.160 --> 02:26:44.120 Yeah, no, this is one. 02:26:44.180 --> 02:26:50.240 I mentioned this, I think on an instant messenger where I was like, did you guys have an album where you kind of like shoved and you came back to it? 02:26:50.380 --> 02:26:52.200 This is one of the, this was the album. 02:26:52.980 --> 02:26:54.520 So I was talking about when I said that. 02:26:54.960 --> 02:26:56.400 Two days later, I had the same thing. 02:26:56.520 --> 02:26:57.820 And I thought of the thing you said. 02:26:58.200 --> 02:26:58.320 Yeah. 02:26:58.520 --> 02:27:05.720 And full disclosure, Blazer Star did not make it back onto my list, but it was one of the two albums that was like, oh my God, why did this fall off? 02:27:05.880 --> 02:27:07.600 Like, why did it fall out of my like radar? 02:27:07.980 --> 02:27:08.060 Yeah. 02:27:09.119 --> 02:27:38.380 I'm sad I didn't make your list but that's cool that you reconsidered because you listen to so many metal albums and you listen to it a lot of times I'll just preview an album I'm like I don't know I'll come back to it and sometimes I forget I make a list but sometimes I forget and then with a mid-year or year-end I try to go back and listen to all the albums that are on that list just in case because I know that sometimes that'll happen and this was one of those so I had to I wanted to kick myself 02:27:38.380 --> 02:28:07.700 Immediately for putting this one in the dustbin, because it's really excellent melodic black metal with acoustic guitars and viola sections throughout the album that give it this folky medieval bent to it. So I think those extra elements really elevate the music and they make the song sound, I guess, evil carols set in the dark ages. Totally. And it's different. Like it's unique. 02:28:07.780 --> 02:28:12.420 It's cool. It's got that renaissance flavor, that dark age flavor. 02:28:13.460 --> 02:28:37.560 And I'm glad that I went back to it and gave it another shot because it's not that I didn't like it when I first heard it, but sometimes I'll listen to an album like, oh, this is decent. Let me put it to the side for a second and then listen to something else. And sometimes I don't come back to those and I've tried to be better about that. But it's hard when you have all these different metal albums to listen to. But Blaze of Sorrows, an album, I think, 02:28:37.600 --> 02:29:07.560 If you haven't heard it, give it a spin. If you spun it a little bit like I did, come back to it because it is one of the more unique and interesting albums and every song is just really well crafted and great. So Blaze of Sorrow, Voltus Fati, number 12 for me. Yeah, it's cool that you brought that up. I haven't given this too much of a listen, but I've listened to some of their past stuff and I think I even have one 02:29:07.580 --> 02:29:37.480 other albums on vinyl. But yeah, no, everything in the past that I've heard from them has been really good. And this is the best one, George. So if you like stuff in the past, in my opinion, this one is the best one they've done. Definitely. All right. I'll check it out. Okay. And my problem, again, speaking as Matt, is that I don't like clutter, especially digital clutter. And so when I let my wishlist or yeah, my wishlist on Bandcamp collect what I'm considering. And then I go in there and if it gets, the list gets too long and I just, I start getting bitchy up. And I just finally, 02:29:38.439 --> 02:30:07.560 I don't know what it was about that one that I just kicked it off and then I ended up having to really dig because I couldn't remember the name of it again with the other one I'll refer to which is actually my number six which again I will get to at number six but just thinking to myself like you idiot like you you just almost stampy we idiot you idiot especially this year like I'm looking for stuff that is really mind-blowing and that album is definitely that and I think maybe I'm just going to change my number I don't know 22 and I'm going to make it that in retrospect 02:30:07.580 --> 02:30:37.560 It's tough because there's so many albums come out and sometimes when you listen if you just preview an album you have to be in the right mood for it. Totally. And if you aren't and you listen to just like a track or part of a track you might relegate it to the dustbin when in actuality it's something that you really would gravitate towards so you have to go back and it's hard because for me I mean I've listened to 700 albums in this just in this six month period. How many albums per day is that? It's ridiculous. Now some of my 02:30:38.739 --> 02:31:05.940 I'm talking about. I just preview them. I don't listen to the whole thing through. I'll know right away. I think I know right away when I listen to them, but sometimes I don't. Sometimes you don't. But I write them down. I put them all in the spreadsheet. But yeah, it's just metal is vast and there's just so many records coming out. So it's nice when something like that happens when you go back to it and you're like, oh, I fucked up a little bit. Done. 02:31:07.600 --> 02:31:37.560 It's number 12 on your fucking list. Anyways, Matt. Alright, my number 12. I really, I think it was probably back, I talked about this last year being in Mexico and I was just craving really heavy riffs and it ended up being that I just needed more High on Fire in my life. And that really sold a lot of things, but it was really, strangely enough, and I wouldn't consider High on Fire to necessarily be a, I don't look at them as like your typical fuzzy stoner band, but it opened my eyes a little bit more to that genre. And I just, it's interesting because I don't love 02:31:37.600 --> 02:32:03.480 Stoner Sludge band, but some really hit me hard. And otherwise, I just pass up. But one that I found this year, and I think part of it is because it gives me a little bit of Mastodon-ish vibes. And so the band is Witch Ripper, and the album is called The Flight After the Fall. This is the second full-length in this band. They're out of Seattle and on Magnetic Eye Records, if anybody cares. But it's, I don't know, it just makes me happy. It's zen for me when I put that on, which I guess is a point of Stoner Sludge. 02:32:03.500 --> 02:32:33.200 What you can get from that band, Matt, is it's like listening to Mastodon if they hadn't changed so much. And honestly, Jay, that's exactly what I thought. If they had continued it on their regular arc, that it's kind of like in Back to the Future where they go back in time and they change it. And like 1985 is a completely shitty place. That's where we are right now. We have to get back in time, but we don't have to because we have this album by Witch River. It's Christ, is that it? But I still would go back in time. Yeah. Trying to change things. But anyways. Go back in time. 02:32:33.500 --> 02:33:02.880 With Huey Lewis. Exactly. On the news. Is that a Cher song? No. Yeah, if I could go back in time. If I could turn back in time. It's not back in time. You do not. Same fucking thing. The fact that you guys know more than I do is that's scary. John, if you're going to be on Stairway to 11, you do not compare Huey Lewis to Cher. Huey Lewis is a god. I know. I've seen him live. So have I. Twice. Yeah. 02:33:03.500 --> 02:33:31.320 Power of Power Horn section? Maybe. Maybe. That'd be cool to be. Interesting. I like how we just turned into the Stereo 211 podcast. It's great. We actually turned into the Huey Lewis podcast. Huey Lewis, yeah. Actually, they were awesome live. So we were just doing that Cher bit, and apparently Barb heard that, and she texted me some lyrics. She's like, what the fuck? I feel like we need to get on top of a tank and put our clothes on. 02:33:34.199 --> 02:34:03.220 Yeah. All right. Technically, it's the stairway to 12. Number 12. It is not. Yeah. How long have we been doing this podcast for? How am I going to start? Three hours and 20 minutes. Yes. Move it. Move it on. We're doing it. Is it my pick? I hope so. I don't know. I have no idea. Matt just went. So my number 12, Markistan, let's go for Rod. Yes. Rod, the orb. You did it. 12 and... Wait. 02:34:03.500 --> 02:34:32.860 No, Gora was number 13 for me. I love Gora. Nice. I thought you might have it on your list, John. Their last album didn't make my list, but the previous one, I think it was 2015 for my first final or year-end. Amaze of Recycled Creed's made my top 10, I think. So, yeah, I've been a fan of these guys. I like the later stuff better than early stuff. Maybe that's heresy with Gora fans because they're a little proggier now, but they're not proggy-proggy. They just inject enough to give it a lot of flavor. 02:34:33.240 --> 02:35:03.180 They're pretty consistent in all their records. Yeah, I will say this. Whatever they're doing, everything sounds, yeah, everything's good from them. But I completely agree with you, John, because they've never made my list before. There's something about this record, I think, that they just got everything right for me as a listener. Yeah, the one that made the list for me in 2015 actually had a little bit of fusion injected in the sound. So they tinker a little bit. They keep the formula, but they like to vent. 02:35:03.260 --> 02:35:33.180 true here and there. It's a solid band from day one, I think. So everything's good from them. Yeah. It's a great record. I'm really impressed with it. Yeah. But the whole independent and no physical release thing is strange, but I guess. Yeah, I was really surprised when I saw that they were independent. I'm like, really? They're not necessarily a smaller band. I mean, they're not a huge band, but in the tech death world, they're pretty big name. Yeah. There's some bands that just choose to do that though. I'm seeing that with a black braid a lot. I'm wearing the shirt, but a lot of later, 02:35:33.240 --> 02:36:03.180 Bables wanted to sign BlackBread because of that success of the first album. And he just decided not to do it because he just thought he could do it himself and then take all the money. Yeah. Take the money and run. It's funny. I just, I just linked up with my dad recently and he built his retirement house up. My family's always lived right where the guy from BlackBread is. He's actually the guy in the store. Yeah. There's a lake. There's a lake up there called Lake Sacerdale. 02:36:03.220 --> 02:36:10.020 and there's a song called Sacandega and yeah my dad lives up there probably wow that's 02:36:10.040 --> 02:36:17.840 crazy it's weird how you were like you're like a part of this family that knows all these people and metal 02:36:19.601 --> 02:36:27.020 what the fuck is going on yeah it's weird it's weird dude you're connected cool hey will what's your 02:36:27.080 --> 02:36:31.180 Yo, my number 12. Matt told me about how much 02:36:31.340 --> 02:36:35.220 funny he had seen him live a few weeks ago, especially when they're set open with the 02:36:35.440 --> 02:36:40.680 theme song from Jurassic Park. The band is Cattle Decapitation and the album is Terracite. 02:36:41.720 --> 02:36:45.700 And speaking of evolution, brew metal Will can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass 02:36:46.480 --> 02:36:50.080 at night. I was going to say, I can do that too. 02:36:50.520 --> 02:36:52.980 But not at night. You can't do what Will does. 02:36:54.080 --> 02:37:24.020 That's cool. Yeah. I actually thought he went, well, he's always not like the, like the transformer type vocals to cattle decaps. That's actually pretty high for Will. It is. They're better than singing children, but they're just, they're still all for singing vocals. I think I'm going with the kids. I think I'd rather have a Christmas carol. Yeah. John, just no cattle decapitation for John ever. Nope. Jay. Sorry guys. Okay. We're starting to double up a little bit here, which tends to happen as we get later in the list. 02:37:24.080 --> 02:37:53.300 or possibly quadruple up on this one. I can't remember. Void Ceremony threads it on this one. Oh, another one. Wow. Interesting. That's four. That's four. Wow. Yeah. It's crazy. Surprising. Double and up points plus comments. On to you, George. All right. My number 12 from the United States of America. 02:37:54.100 --> 02:38:22.640 All Hail, Eridus, Serpent Moon on Eisenwald Records. Interesting. This is, of course, Galen, who has come up previously with Street Tombs. Friend of ours in Farrah Brewer. And, you know, he tours with some band you might have heard of called Wolves in the Throne or Manila. A little black metal band from the Northwest. 02:38:24.100 --> 02:38:54.060 He moved back to New Mexico. He kind of got the itch to write about where he grew up. And this is the result of that. It's pretty fucking badass. It's just straight up black metal and it is what it is. It's fucking cool. And he likes Fate's Warning, so he's pretty cool. He's a cool dude in general. Yeah. Yes, he is. All right. Cool. Number 11. Yeah, Justin, number 11. You are. All right, I'll keep this short because fucking... 02:38:54.100 --> 02:39:23.940 What landscapers show up at 7.30 at night? What the fuck is going on? Anyways, my number 11 has been adding to the checklist. My number 11 is a void ceremony. So there you go. Nice. Wow. Five. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's just, it's awesome. Pragy death metal, right? Now, Justin, you being the death metal king of our podcast crew, do you like this one better than the first one? 02:39:24.739 --> 02:39:53.860 From Void City? I do, yeah. The first one didn't really connect with it that much. This one, I don't know. I feel like they smoothed it out a little bit. It's a little bit more nuanced. It doesn't feel as noodley as the first one did. Which is interesting because I thought some of his guitar solos on this new one, or some of the guitar solos were much better. They're not as chaotic. It's where they do the chaos and then he does his Alan Holtzworth's guitar solos, 02:39:54.100 --> 02:40:23.900 is cool. I feel like they throw a little bit of black metal in there, which I think helps. Not much. Yeah. And it's not overbearing. It's what, like 35, 36 minutes? Yeah, 37, something like that. Yeah, exactly. Just enough. Just enough. Just enough. All right. I did void ceremony, Marcus. You're up. Oh, nobody's saying anything. Waiting on you. Sorry. 02:40:24.100 --> 02:40:54.040 I'm distracted. I had to get tacos. I had to get this livery. Okay. Void Ceremony again. How many is that? It's five. What the fuck? Five? Really? So it's going to be like me, Jay, and this shit? Sorry, Jay. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Okay. All right. Number 11 for me is Hellish Form, Deathless, another independent release. This is a really great album of droning, sludging, 02:40:55.040 --> 02:41:23.820 that somehow lifts my spirits up. I know that's weird to say, but there's something about the bright tones of the guitar soles that feel incredibly hopeful, despite the fact that it's really overall a slow devastation of a record. It's just a remarkable album, I think. And I've mentioned this on a previous podcast, might even be the last podcast, but I think it's worth saying again. 02:41:23.860 --> 02:41:52.100 And on the Bandcamp page, it states that Deathless is meant as a judgment of the purveyors of systemic transphobia and a bomb to those suffering beneath its hold. And I think it's a great message, but also a message that encapsulates what the album feels like. And it shines a light on a positive light amidst a very harrowing reality. 02:41:52.761 --> 02:42:22.120 And so you get those two opposing forces in the album. And I think that's what makes it special. So yes, Hellish Form, Deathless. Definitely give it a listen. Sweet. Nice. Matty. All right. My number 11, sorry to mention, only once, surprisingly, Helionomicon by Ulther. Granted, it came out, I felt, super early in the year with its companion piece. But with that popular consensus of, 02:42:22.180 --> 02:42:50.380 The second one being the more favorable one. And I really like it a lot. So. That's all that matters is that you like it, Matt. I just, I feel really positive about that. Oh, what's up with you guys and your long proggy songs, 20 minutes long. You think it was a pick by me or something. Geez. I know, really? Man, what a bunch of weirdos. So my number 11, my February album of the month, my first one to show up on the list, Insomnium. 02:42:52.160 --> 02:42:52.280 1996. 02:42:53.920 --> 02:42:59.420 Not a huge Mellow Death fan, but I do like a few Insomnium albums, and this is one of them. 02:43:00.520 --> 02:43:02.860 Don't really have much to say. You guys know who they are. You've heard them before. 02:43:03.560 --> 02:43:07.620 I think Winter's Gate, I think, was pretty high when that came out on my list in 2016. 02:43:08.260 --> 02:43:08.460 Yeah. 02:43:08.840 --> 02:43:19.920 I don't usually reach for their stuff, and I don't usually reach for melodic death metal, but their albums are well-made and well-performed, 02:43:20.540 --> 02:43:49.720 And this is one that kind of caught me off guard in February. And I liked it. And I've been spending it quite a bit. So. Sweet. What do you got? Really good. I have a band called Ashen with the album Ritual of Ash. They are also from Australia, but more in the Perth region. And the album came out on Bitter Loss Records. And? But again, it doesn't really matter because when Brew Metal Will enters a room, he doesn't turn the lights on. He turns the dark off. 02:43:50.000 --> 02:44:19.000 Oh, nice. Again, just an FYI, if you didn't know that already. Yeah, I want to meet this chill guy. So here's, I've got a lot of crossovers left for the rest of my list already. This one, I think I'll be the only one that has this old school Black and Thrash band that has a little bit of Goathore in it and then earlier stuff, like earlier influences than Goathore's influences. The band is called Spirit Possession. 02:44:19.819 --> 02:44:48.500 of the sign. This is just like my happy place. This dance like this. It goes back to when I was buying old possessed records and the cool 80s black thrash stuff. And this one fills that void. If you're a Goat Whore fan, you'd probably like this. Spirit Possession of the Sign. That's a cool record, Jay. I've listened to that a bunch. It was a super pleasant surprise because I didn't really know them. And perhaps it's even their first record. I don't know. I can't remember now. I don't think it is. Wasn't it? Okay. 02:44:48.580 --> 02:45:18.560 I don't know either but that was the first one I listened to and I actually thought it was really good I love that cover too for it good stuff yeah the cover is crazy one of those guys drew that in junior high and it was like we're gonna make a record dude all right my number 11 on transcending obscurity records from the United States of America all hail Ash and Horde and Timony 02:45:19.220 --> 02:45:48.540 What are you going to say, man? Trevor's the fucking motherfucking biatch. No, seriously, though. I've been an Ashenhor fan since before all of you were born. According to Markisan that, it's impossible. It's 207 years old. I don't know what you're talking about. And it just keeps getting better. What is that from? That's from something. And it just keeps getting better. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Thank you. And it just keeps getting better. 02:45:49.399 --> 02:46:18.520 And the sequel's coming out soon. Yeah. So. Love you, Trevor. Feel better. By far their best record. Oh, I agree. Yeah. By far. I think so. Trevor is ultra talented, but as a band coming together to make this record, just the best they've done. I'm looking forward to his progmental album being on our 2027 best year list. He is a thrashman album too. And I wrote lyrics for three of the songs. 02:46:19.400 --> 02:46:48.140 So that's coming soon. Again, Matt's only getting my jokes tonight. He's the only one listening. I'm hearing it. He's doing a prog metal album though. Yeah. Yeah. But don't you remember the joke? Yeah. I'll be putting it out in 2027. Even though it's been in a can for four years. All right. You're listening to the Metalheads podcast. Just be glad you can't smell them. Justin, are you drinking again? Anything new? I'm drinking the same shit. I'm drinking the same shit I was drinking before. 02:46:48.600 --> 02:47:17.880 You just poured yourself a triple is what you're saying. Yep. I got my, uh, yeah, I got my, uh, good for you. That's a pretty big drink right there. Yeah. That's why I said he poured himself a triple. That's my third one. That's my third one. And I'm on my third jetty honey ale that I was drinking from great South Bay. So you should be feeling pretty good. Yeah. I feel pretty good. Yeah. I've had some, I've had some weekends of practice. So I feel like my tolerance is a little higher. Nice. Yeah. 02:47:18.600 --> 02:47:48.540 I realized I went out to Fire Island and I'm like, oh shit, I think I drank for like eight hours and I didn't realize it, but I did. I drank for eight hours. Boom. Zombie. Zombie. Okay, Mark is up. I was going to go downstairs to get the special beers, but then I had a zombie ice in the fridge. Fuck it. It's a fucking good beer, man. It's a good shit, man. Let's have it. I can't believe we've been drinking this many beers already. These beers are really, 02:47:48.580 --> 02:48:18.540 a high test. All right. So we got Markisan. So you're up, Matt. Yeah, I got nothing. That's bullshit for the evening. I know. That's some bullshit. It is bullshit. Oh, he stopped. What are you, Jan? No, I so like you, John, if I drink too late into the evening, I get insomnia. Yeah, it's only seven o'clock there. I know. But like booze stays in my system. He's being a little bitchy about it. All right. All right. Soffball tournament in the morning. Oh, there you go. All right. 02:48:18.600 --> 02:48:47.440 All right. So against my better judgment, I am drinking Bravelita. Hard to see. Sorry. Hard to see. Which is salted caramel or caramel, depending on what part of the country you're in. Bourbon barrel aged stout with vanilla beans, cocoa nibs, and sea salt. This is from Firestone Walker. They are the masters of barrel aging as far as I'm concerned. And I got this from the Metalheads Butler TR. Thank you. 02:48:49.779 --> 02:49:17.740 And I saved this one for this moment. And it's only 9.2% for Parabola Lita, which is nice. Because it's not that big, but it's big enough. It's pretty big, dude. Some other stuff is like 12, 13, 14%. That's why it's nice that it's not. It's a baby. Yeah, it's a little kid. It's a light beer. This beer alcohol, TR, we'll know what this means. This beer is for a baby. We'll know what that means. 02:49:18.540 --> 02:49:48.320 T.R. is awesome. Jay, how's that water? No coffee yet? No, my wife, who's being very kind, I actually don't want to make supper in her house. So I always feel bad when I do this in the middle of when it's tidy supper because she's in there making a supper. So I'm about to eat. That's five, right? Yeah. We're having vegetarian bacon, lettuce, and sandwiches. And then I'll have my blue bottle coffee. Yes. Okay. And then later, the 21st Amendment. And I don't know what you said. 02:49:49.420 --> 02:50:18.420 I've been liking the Johnny Walker Black Lightning. I'm doing a bowl of bourbon. That's good. Walker just tastes like apple juice to me, man. I can pour way too big of a glass of that. That usually means you might have a problem with not having another problem. I even splurged and bought the blue one time, which is like a lot of money. Yeah, if you have the right time of year, you can get it for about $1.50, though. 02:50:18.500 --> 02:50:19.260 I mean, 02:50:20.120 --> 02:50:20.800 you're almost, 02:50:21.440 --> 02:50:22.060 you're almost retired. 02:50:22.340 --> 02:50:22.960 Get what you want. 02:50:23.540 --> 02:50:24.060 That's right. 02:50:25.060 --> 02:50:26.280 I just went with a new, 02:50:27.539 --> 02:50:32.280 another primordial mayhem from Nipente cause I don't have anything else new to try. 02:50:33.460 --> 02:50:33.600 George, 02:50:33.760 --> 02:50:36.360 can I just say that metal heads podcast shirt is very clear? 02:50:36.360 --> 02:50:37.020 I can read it. 02:50:38.120 --> 02:50:39.360 That is the point. 02:50:40.380 --> 02:50:40.820 Very good. 02:50:41.460 --> 02:50:43.040 I'm going to wear this everywhere I go. 02:50:44.220 --> 02:50:44.380 Really? 02:50:45.200 --> 02:50:45.540 Everywhere. 02:50:46.680 --> 02:50:46.920 Everywhere. 02:50:47.140 --> 02:50:48.220 How many shirts do you have though? 02:50:48.340 --> 02:51:18.140 I have that. I have like with this graphic, I have this one plus I have a lot of metalhead shirts now because I keep like changing up ideas and ordering test ones. So I have 12 different fucking podcast shirts now. It's fucking stupid. You are the podfather. It's what I do. Yeah. Nathan explosion. Exactly. We're ready to do number 10. We're ready to top 10 here. We are entering. 02:51:18.340 --> 02:51:46.800 We are entering the top 10, Justin. Holy shit. Shit's getting real. Getting real up in here. My number 10 is a band called Wretched Fate. The album is called Carnal Heresy. They're from Sweden. Their own Redefining Darkness records came out February 24th. If you really love early Bloodbath records, 02:51:48.340 --> 02:52:17.620 We should definitely check this record out. It's not really much to say about it. I feel like that kind of surmises the sound of the record. It's really good. It's very much hits that sweet spot for me, at least. And yeah, that's my number 10. Nice. All right. Markisan. All right. This album has come up a number of times already, which is great, I think. And it's Oak Pantheon, The Absence. An independent release. Number 10 for me. Really, 02:52:18.320 --> 02:52:46.820 Awesome to have Tanner and Sammy on. If you listen to that last podcast and if you haven't, shame on you. Go and do that. Do it now. Plug, plug. Yeah, I love Tanner. I met him through my wife because they're both structural engineers and he came on the cast and it was really fun to have him and Sammy on there and talking about the album. But even if I didn't know them, like this album is still going to be pretty high on my list. It's an eclectic mix. 02:52:48.340 --> 02:53:16.420 atmospheric black metal, post-metal, prog, folk, just really killer arrangements, heartfelt passages, just amazing melodies. If you listen to that cast, the last song we did, those guys joke around a lot, but you can tell that they're really close. They've been doing this together, the two of them, for a long time. They have a little bit different sensibilities, but yet it still comes together on the album. And that's what I really liked about. 02:53:16.620 --> 02:53:46.540 Yeah, that's what I loved about the interview too, George. Like, you could feel that, that they're friends. Like, they joke with each other and all that. But when it comes to making the albums, they just, they really gel. There's something about that. Yin and yang. That makes it really good. Just excellent musicianship on it. And the band just pulls from a lot of different elements. And I think still manages to make the album a cohesive listening experience for me, even with all that's going on. 02:53:46.600 --> 02:53:46.960 with it. 02:53:47.640 --> 02:53:52.380 And I just don't think there's a lot of bands that are like Oak Pantheon out there. 02:53:52.500 --> 02:53:55.840 They've been compared to other bands in the past, 02:53:55.940 --> 02:53:58.900 but I don't think you can really do that with this particular album. 02:53:59.640 --> 02:54:03.740 So just a stellar effort and I can't wait to hear more from them. 02:54:03.860 --> 02:54:05.240 Hopefully it won't be another seven years. 02:54:06.000 --> 02:54:07.980 We're not supposed to talk about that, but I'm doing it anyways. 02:54:09.380 --> 02:54:11.580 Oak Pantheon, The Absinthe, number 10. 02:54:12.100 --> 02:54:12.400 Nice. 02:54:13.500 --> 02:54:14.600 All right, Matt. 02:54:15.220 --> 02:54:44.880 My number 10 kind of fills my sludgy post-metal fix. What I would call a little bit of cult and worship. The band is Collapse, K-O-L-A-P-S slash E, and the album is called Phantom Center. This does sound a lot like something I would have made up, and maybe I did. I just really wanted to mix it up by using a K instead of a C in Collapse and all that jazz. That's where you failed. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. But. Should have been CH. 02:54:45.820 --> 02:55:14.880 Oh, you're right. But yeah, my number 10. Collapse Phantom Sintra. Nice. Awkward pause. John. Satan. Satan. I thought I'd beat Matt to the punch. The glass was perfect. Still the best moment of any documentary ever. Oh, the best. Satan. All right. My number 10 from the strange and the weird. Vi Catafelk. 02:55:15.220 --> 02:55:45.180 Alford. Their 152nd album, no, their 11th album, actually it's one guy, Tomas Katai, I think is how you say his name. He's from Hungary. He's pretty prolific. It is a hodgepodge of avant-garde. Again, we're using that word for somebody who's been doing it for 20 years, so is it really that new? But just really cool experimental, proggy death. A lot of Hungarian folk music injected in some electronics. But apparently this album's a little too straightforward for some of his fans, so they're 02:55:45.220 --> 02:56:13.080 It's too straightforward with the riffs. I think they fucking rock. And I think it's a great album. And it just came out, but it shot up my list fast because I like every song off of it right away and I keep going back to it. So. I meant. What's that? I meant to listen to this because I like pretty much everything he does. Yeah. But yeah, I missed it. And I just saw that he does play live. And I, the video I saw the show they did, he plays bass. 02:56:15.220 --> 02:56:44.300 And it sounded freaking awesome. I was like, man, I'm gonna have to go back and watch that video. So I don't know how much of a fan I am of everything. What's kind of neat about his catalog is I don't think you have to be a fan of everything. There's something in there for a lot of people while still maintaining his kind of consistent, folky, black metal-ish stuff. But there's not much black metal in it like it used to be in the early days. But cool. The last two albums I've liked a lot. Excellent. Number 10. Back to Will. 02:56:45.220 --> 02:57:14.040 So let it be written. So let it be done. To kill the firstborn Pharaoh's son. I'm creeping death. From Texas. That is my number 10. But really, the thing to remember is that Brumetal Will can strangle you with the cordless phone. I love Will. I love Will more now than I have ever loved Will. 02:57:14.820 --> 02:57:43.720 And I really love Chil. When my brother got his first apartment when I was a kid, I was a couple years younger than him, so I still lived at home. And I used to go over and stay at his place, and he was so poor. They didn't have a phone. And this was before cell phones, I'm sure you all appreciate. And there was a wire hanging out. And I was like, yeah, I need to call mom. And he goes, yeah, I used my phoneless cord. I thought that was pretty good. My next two picks, one will please John, one will please Matt. 02:57:44.340 --> 02:58:14.140 This one will please John. I want to please be pleased. I want to meet you. You might get your chance, buddy. Thank you. Shane to the bottom of the ocean. Obsessive. Wow. Nice. John about the strength of this album. And I don't even remember how I heard about it. Was it somebody's album in the month? No. When did it come out? I put it on the Friday thing. Yeah. I think that's the first time. Yeah. Yeah. That was one of those ones that jumped out at me has stuck with me. Totally list worthy. 02:58:14.760 --> 02:58:44.200 How about you thought you were going to be the only one that had it, John? No, I thought one person might. I figured somebody would dig the kind of... It's infectious, the sound. You don't think you're like, I don't know. I checked it out when it first came out. I definitely feel like I have to go back to it, though, now that everyone's kind of putting it. Also, isn't that the Polish guy who did the cover again? Yeah. The Polish guy. Dead Polish guy. Maris Lewandowski. Yes. So my number 10, 02:58:44.340 --> 02:59:14.300 Based on where we are in the list, I think I'm the only one that's going to have this. From the United States of England. On avalanche recordings. This is Godflesh, Purge. Oh, nice. Which is the sort of sequel to Pure, but it has a G. Eons ago, yeah. George, I love this. I just haven't had enough time and I didn't feel good putting it on without giving it 02:59:14.320 --> 02:59:14.680 more time. 02:59:15.510 --> 02:59:15.600 Yeah. 02:59:15.700 --> 02:59:16.060 But I agree. 02:59:16.260 --> 02:59:16.740 Like you, I do. 02:59:16.800 --> 02:59:17.220 I like it. 02:59:18.180 --> 02:59:19.960 That's maybe your end. 02:59:20.760 --> 02:59:21.480 Just teasing. 02:59:22.080 --> 02:59:28.060 I actually, I was telling him I'm a big fan of Justin Roderick, of his band, Yesu or Jessu, however you pronounce it. 02:59:28.180 --> 02:59:32.000 I like that side band a lot, but I do Godflesh a lot too. 02:59:32.200 --> 02:59:32.300 Yeah. 02:59:32.430 --> 02:59:37.860 No, actually, you got me into this because I hadn't heard it yet and you were like talking it up. 02:59:37.970 --> 02:59:38.500 So I was like. 02:59:38.560 --> 02:59:39.840 Because I figured you like Godflesh. 02:59:39.950 --> 02:59:40.320 Oh, yeah. 02:59:40.760 --> 02:59:40.960 Definitely. 02:59:41.700 --> 02:59:42.160 That's good. 02:59:42.900 --> 02:59:43.040 Yeah. 02:59:43.210 --> 02:59:43.420 Very good. 02:59:43.520 --> 03:00:13.020 All right, Justin, number nine. Number nine has been mentioned before. I think, I don't remember if it was Matt or Will or Chill or whatever I'm saying. The band is Ashen. The album is Ritual of Ash, Country Australia, Bitter Lost Records. That was Will. Speaking as Will, yes, that was me. Okay. Yeah. So that was, yeah, that's my number. That's my number nine. 03:00:13.520 --> 03:00:42.320 Just considering that this is their this band's first release they just it's just a super polish HM2 Swedish death type of record it's got everything that you'd want from an efficient band from that genre and songs are super memorable Harbinger is probably the one I go back to the most and yeah that's my number nine. Nine. Nine. Shit's getting real. 03:00:43.540 --> 03:01:13.480 Well, it's number nine. Friendships of the nine. Matt and I have both gushed about this album a few times already on podcasts. New band by members of Epsique and Nexrum that brings the early Gothenburg death metal sound back. Majesty's vast reaches unclaimed. All the tracks are glimpsed. 03:01:13.560 --> 03:01:42.160 Gloriously Intense death metal with big melodies and that twin guitar assault. It's the glory days of Inflames. And I was just completely hooked on this band when I heard the first single. And then when the album came out, it's, oh, you just kept doing it every single track. So I love Majesties. There was just that small window of time where that, like, 03:01:43.100 --> 03:02:12.080 Gothenburg Melodic Death Metal was really at its height. And then it just kind of... 1993, I believe. It went to something else and it just never was as good. And then this brought it back and it's just as good, if not better, than some of that stuff in the past. Really enjoy this one. I've spun a ton this year. Majesties, Vast, Reaches, Unclaimed, on 20 bucks spin. Really good. 1993 is 30 years ago. Yeah. 03:02:12.980 --> 03:02:42.480 And that's what's cool. There was a sound that was awesome and then it just went away and it really hasn't come back since then. So this is really the only band that's mined that territory, but also brought it into the modern times. I like that. I like that. I don't always like that. There's a lot of bands who eep on styles from the past, but for this particular one, because we didn't really get that many albums of that sound, it's nice to hear it again when I liked it so much. 03:02:42.520 --> 03:03:12.480 when I was a teenager and I like it even more now. I feel old now. I'm real old. You are old, George. I know. Shut up. All right, my number nine. The album is called Untopia, The Band of Cruelty. I would also categorize this as Dirty Dirty Death and of that genre of death, the sub-genre of death. This album is probably the one I've listened to the most all year. It totally gripped me. Totally loved it. I still, I just 03:03:12.520 --> 03:03:13.980 I can't get enough of it. Cruelty. 03:03:14.479 --> 03:03:14.880 Untopia. 03:03:15.560 --> 03:03:15.960 Number nine. 03:03:16.500 --> 03:03:17.240 Cruelty with a K. 03:03:17.480 --> 03:03:18.060 It's a cool record. 03:03:18.400 --> 03:03:18.840 Yeah, it's cool. 03:03:19.500 --> 03:03:20.140 I like that one. 03:03:21.260 --> 03:03:21.600 Nice. 03:03:22.860 --> 03:03:23.120 John. 03:03:23.620 --> 03:03:24.180 My number nine. 03:03:25.340 --> 03:03:29.340 The band, it took me a good, I guess, what, 10, 12 years to get into finally. 03:03:29.960 --> 03:03:30.480 Now I like them. 03:03:31.600 --> 03:03:35.140 Because I just didn't gravitate to them, but this album caught me. 03:03:35.780 --> 03:03:37.460 And that is Neopla Viscaris. 03:03:37.860 --> 03:03:39.680 And the album is Exul on Season of Mist. 03:03:39.920 --> 03:03:41.580 Another band from Australia. 03:03:42.340 --> 03:04:12.240 They seem to be a lot this year, so well done. Huh. I didn't know they were from Australia. Crikey. Yeah. And I saw them at Soundstage. Wow. Really? Yeah. That's wow. Yeah, they do tour quite a bit, so just never got into them. I tried and tried, I like them, because they got the whole opeth thing, and there's a little black and stuff and vinyl. I'm like, eh, it's not doing it, but this one seemed to grab me, and now I'm digging their whole catalog. Sweet. Always love bands you can go back to and add to your collection and be like, I got it. 03:04:12.959 --> 03:04:42.260 I can't believe I don't have this. And they're one of them. I could do a little less relentless drumming all the time. Sometimes I just need to dial it back just a notch, just a little. As a drummer, that's saying something. You don't always have to do blast beats every fucking second. It's a really good record, John. I mean, it toyed with my top 25. Not on mine, but I do really like that record. And I was not a huge fan, just like you. I wasn't a big fan. 03:04:42.340 --> 03:05:11.880 of the back catalog, but then he heard this record and was like, I gotta listen to some of this stuff in the past. And I feel like I missed out. And I like the old album. I like this one the best out of all the records. I think so. Yeah, I agree. I think it puts it in perspective a little bit when you go back for this band. At least for me, it does. Yeah, yeah. Nice. Good one. All right, Will. Real good one. My number nine, the band is Soul Mass. The album is Let Us Play. They're out of Florida and they are again independently. 03:05:12.360 --> 03:05:41.900 The Unsigned Band. That's two for Soul Mass. Nice. That is two for Soul Mass. But what's even more important is that Brew Metal Will doesn't shower. He only takes blood baths. Not to be confused with the band of the same name. Or is it? Why would we ever confuse that? I gotta tell you, Will will not shut up in this episode. No. I know. He's talking all the time. At least he's awake. He hasn't complained once. I know. 03:05:41.980 --> 03:06:11.500 Oh, that's unusual too. He's too busy talking about how awesome he is. That's not unusual. All right. Mike works too. Yeah. Yeah. I mentioned my last one would please John and then my next one would please Matt. I know that's true because of recent happenings. I think if Mastodon had made a record between Blood Mountain and whatever that fucking Russian one is, and I'm stupid, I can't think of the name right now. Help me out. 03:06:11.980 --> 03:06:39.740 The Refresh Sky? Thank you, Crack the Sky. And then made a demo or something. This could have been it. And it would have been Witch Ripper, the flight after the fall. It really does. It scratches the mastodon itch in the nicest kind of way. It's pretty forward-thinking. At the same time, it's not... I'm not even sure if sludge is the right word for it, even though they put sludge like five times in the descriptors at the bottom. Yeah. So it's not like Leviathan. Wow. 03:06:42.439 --> 03:06:43.480 It's because we're not doing it. 03:06:43.740 --> 03:06:44.980 We're not doing that this time. 03:06:45.819 --> 03:06:46.520 I'm doing it. 03:06:46.660 --> 03:06:47.840 Speaking as Matt, I'm doing it. 03:06:48.760 --> 03:06:49.880 We know Matt's number one. 03:06:50.920 --> 03:06:52.480 We'll pollute a debt this year. 03:06:53.580 --> 03:06:58.960 I'm not entirely convinced that I didn't have one of these guys' previous releases on my list, 03:06:59.100 --> 03:07:00.240 but I'll have to go back and look. 03:07:00.450 --> 03:07:01.360 But anyway, solid stuff. 03:07:01.910 --> 03:07:06.060 And like, really, by the way, like hooks and big riffs and stuff, totally catchy. 03:07:06.220 --> 03:07:08.900 It's not, you don't have to work to listen to this fucking thing. 03:07:09.010 --> 03:07:11.540 And yet it's pretty froggy too in its mastodonish way. 03:07:12.260 --> 03:07:41.760 Yeah, I totally missed this one. I'm going to have to definitely check this one out. It might, if you mention the word sludge, which is too often to describe them in their descriptors, and the fact that they're from Seattle, you might be like, I'm not going to listen to that, but you should. Just saying Mastodon is enough for me. Enough for you. Unlike most people, I like all Mastodon records. Okay, that's fair. We won't hold that against you, but the... He likes Baroness. I'll do that. Whatever. This definitely harkens back to the earlier part of the podcast. I think there's something wrong. 03:07:44.400 --> 03:08:11.440 My number nine is an absolute spike of a volleyball. Cause ain't nobody going to talk about this one. No one from the United States of America. Yeah. On decibel records. Venomous concept, the good ship lollipop. Normally you go venomous concept grind. Yes. Nope. 03:08:11.940 --> 03:08:41.900 Not this album. Not this time. It's a little more punky. A little less grindy. But it's still fucking awesome. So kudos to them for expanding their sound and doing something that still fucking rocks. No complaints here. Nice. Yeah, you really like that venomous concept because they were on your last. Yeah, the politics versus the erection. Yeah, but that was definitely a grind album. But 03:08:41.940 --> 03:09:11.860 is something else. And honestly, if you're not a grind fan, you should still check this out because it's not grind. It's not. So granted, it's difficult to find because it's on decibel magazine records and it's not on band camp. Hint, hint. What? But decibel doesn't have stuff on a band camp. They don't do records. They do. But yeah, do all the flexi discs. They could do that. Yeah, exactly. That's my point. They do. They do. 03:09:11.940 --> 03:09:41.760 stuff, but it's not as easy to find as some things. You can get the vinyl from them, but yeah. However you listen to it, listen to it. Listen. Now. Now. And now we move on to Justin for number eight. Eight. Fucked. All right. My number eight is, as we mentioned before, Necropanther. Oh, nice. Denver, Colorado. 03:09:44.500 --> 03:10:11.900 Yeah, it's funny because I feel like if you say black and thrash, there's a certain connotation you get of what's modern black and thrash. But to me, it's black and thrash in the skeleton witch realm of things. I think I mentioned them briefly the last time I was on here too. Because to me, they're just, they're doing skeleton witch and skeleton witch isn't doing skeleton witch. So you know what? I'll take 03:10:11.920 --> 03:10:41.860 this. I think it's great. It's got that same vibe, the same type of rhythm. The song Covenant is one of my favorites. I go to that one a lot. Yeah, that's been a great. I'm so stoked that you have that so high. That's awesome. All right. Yeah, I've been enjoying it since it came out. Yeah, it's fucking great. Markisan top that shit. You can't. What's up? Every single one on my list tops it. Oh, yeah, I'm definitely going to top it. Actually, Justin should have this one on his list. 03:10:41.920 --> 03:11:11.900 as a death metal guy. If he doesn't, then all his credibility is gone. Glove is thrown down. Yeah, it's the best death metal record this year. Jay already mentioned it, actually. And I was surprised by that. And it's Parallax Occlusion, Vapor Chamber, Debemure Morty Records. Yeah, it's a technical death doom band that formed over the pandemic. And they put out a few demos over the last 03:11:11.920 --> 03:11:41.900 the last couple years, and then suddenly they announced they were breaking up. But before they dissolved, they decided to put out a proper full length of their songs. Like I said, I think it's the best death metal record I've heard this year. If you can imagine, picture if you will, a death metal band as a wave the size of Everest heading for the shore to swallow all the earth in its path, then you'll understand the towering 03:11:42.680 --> 03:12:11.900 of this fucking record. It's so good. I will tell you that they are not on my list, but I love Parallax Eccliction and I love the release. However, in my mind, I didn't put it on because it's technically a compilation record. So I didn't put it on. Yeah, I hate, I don't like that because I've heard that. But there's a lot of bands that put out demos or songs or even EPs and then release a full length later that have 03:12:11.920 --> 03:12:41.520 those same tracks on there. Just to give one example, Tombowld released an EP called Cryptic Transmissions in 2017, and two of those songs appeared on Manner of Infinite Forms in 2018, and we had that on our list. So I thought about this a long time. It was just for my own standards of things, but I fucking love them. That split they did, what was that, with Mere Cognito a couple years ago? Oh, wow. That was fucking great. Those tracks were fucking great. 03:12:43.260 --> 03:12:46.920 I like that Justin that was read another way that was that read like this 03:12:47.960 --> 03:12:50.860 no I'm just saying for a person like me with higher standards than yours 03:12:51.620 --> 03:12:52.900 for being wrong here 03:12:53.080 --> 03:12:55.120 no I'm just being a death metal 03:12:56.500 --> 03:12:58.120 it didn't sound like that at all 03:12:59.320 --> 03:13:01.340 but listen I understand it's tough 03:13:02.220 --> 03:13:05.160 and I wrestled with it a bit because 03:13:05.700 --> 03:13:08.800 but the fact of the matter is we've had live albums on the list 03:13:08.800 --> 03:13:10.319 we had not live album on this list 03:13:10.500 --> 03:13:40.260 We've had Devin Townsend pop albums on this list. We've had fucking. Hey, now. Hey, now. So maybe this is. At least the Devin Townsend was new music. I feel like. Way more. Because it's on your list. That's why you feel that way. Exactly. I agree. I'm only giving you the business. I'm just giving you the business. I don't fucking care. Ain't nobody got no business for nobody. Shut the hell up and move on. For all our listeners, we're just fucking around. 03:13:41.579 --> 03:14:09.240 Anyways, so that's the thing. It's a killer, yeah, no, it's a killer release, and the only reason, again, it was a comp thing, and then also the fact that for me, again, I had so much death metal, it's like, I'd rather give it, I'd rather give those positions to bands that are still trying to do something. I would, I'd rather you give those positions to bands that weren't death metal, so you can vary your fucking listening habits. I tried. But they are death metal. 03:14:09.340 --> 03:14:39.120 What the fuck? What the hell? Oh my Christ. Anyway, so yeah, I thought about that hard because there is a lot of albums around. I don't know if it qualifies for the list, but in this case, I feel like there's just so many bands that put out demos and then they put out a number of these and we consider that a full album. It's happened over and over again. And this is probably like the only thing they're going to do. For me, it qualifies. And I never really heard any of the other songs before, to be honest, 03:14:39.220 --> 03:15:09.200 with you because they were just they even say their demos on their band camp page so you know what if you like it it qualifies yeah enough said there you go so parallax occlusion if you haven't heard it i mean it's just it's unbelievable death i can't believe they're just they're scrapping this project because it's i know that's the biggest bummer yeah yeah yeah and dan clown car agreed with me when i made it my album of the month it's fucking cladging car come on 03:15:09.240 --> 03:15:39.000 Clown Card never agrees with me so that's pretty good. Maddie. Sweet. All right my number eight. I feel like I've always learned about this band's albums after the fact so it's almost like I listen to them but I'm like too late to actually have it qualify for a list or anything like that. The band is Dawn Raid and the album is To Know The Light. They are a kind of folk, atmospherical black metal band from the UK. They're so definitely, I feel like it's, granted I'm not from the UK, 03:15:39.060 --> 03:16:07.719 but to me it feels almost like an irish celtic vibe to their black metal but it's i don't know it's super cool it's super unique and i dig it so number nine to know the light dawn raid great great record this one was in and out of my top 25 i really like dawn raid a lot i like the folk elements of it i feel like it's black metal for the forest totally and yeah it's really good so cool i'm glad it's represented on our list 03:16:08.580 --> 03:16:36.380 Good job, Matt. Gracias. Jean. All right. So I didn't realize that I've been throwing out quite a few volleyballs on a row here now, which is cool. And I'm probably throwing out another one here. I like volleyball. Yes. I wish I could do Tom Hanks' voice, but I can't. I'm sorry. My phone had to be wiped, and I don't have any of my sound effects anymore. That's fine. That's fine. 03:16:37.740 --> 03:17:07.460 You were doing a different version of the Wilson there. That's I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just almost thinking that when we put our like image out there with the 25 albums, like I should just put 25 volleyballs up. But anyway, so my number eight is a band that has not released an album in over two decades. I never thought they would release another album. I know who they are. It's probably my tweener album. 03:17:07.720 --> 03:17:37.660 in terms of it's a metal album, but there's a lot of prog rock on it too. And I admit that, but I don't give a flying fuck because the first song alone is just outstanding. And it's great prog metal. And that is Ice Age Waves of Loss and Power from Sensory Records. They're from New York. Been a fan of these guys since their first album came out in 99. And they had a second album in 2001, which a super drunk George proved me wrong and pulled that shit out of nowhere and dropped that album for me to see. 03:17:37.740 --> 03:18:07.240 while we were recording. That's right. I have it on CD. Which was impressive. I have everything. Just so you know, I have everything. I don't know about that. No, really. No, really. I have everything. No. Anyway. No, I do. There's just a really good band of just technical players without getting wanky with their sound. And Jay, I would think you might dig them, at least from the singer perspective. Not that I'm saying you're a Styx fan, but I know you appreciate good singers. 03:18:07.720 --> 03:18:36.540 And he seems to have the vibe that you like. The singer Josh Pincus has a lot of Dennis DeYoung in him. And it's just wild to hear somebody singing over metal songs like that, which is cool. And I was just so jazzed to see that they were going to be opening Prog Power, and they had to drop out at the last fucking second. Like everybody does. No, somebody got hurt in the band. There's not much about it, and they had to back out. But they replaced them with the Reticents, so that was cool. Anyway. 03:18:36.600 --> 03:18:38.980 So we'll just keep that's now I think 03:18:39.539 --> 03:18:42.260 One, two, three, four 03:18:42.400 --> 03:18:44.440 Almost got a whole volleyball team going on here pretty soon 03:18:44.660 --> 03:18:44.940 Alright 03:18:45.460 --> 03:18:46.480 As I know I will 03:18:46.480 --> 03:18:47.220 The next one too 03:18:49.319 --> 03:18:49.800 Wilson! 03:18:53.380 --> 03:18:53.660 Yeah 03:18:54.860 --> 03:18:55.580 That was my pick 03:18:56.919 --> 03:18:58.900 That was three of my picks 03:19:00.000 --> 03:19:00.940 Alright, Will 03:19:01.520 --> 03:19:02.500 Let's do this 03:19:02.540 --> 03:19:03.440 My number eight 03:19:03.880 --> 03:19:04.240 God Disease 03:19:05.599 --> 03:19:06.560 Apocalyptic Dew 03:19:06.580 --> 03:19:35.960 is a band from Helsinki, Finland, on gruesome records. Nobody cares about that. All they care about is the fact that brew metal will can kick a person in the back of the face. Number eight. Number eight. Exactly. I mean, here's shit for me. I know. Yeah, it should be like number 50. Right? Bitches. I thought Matt was the bitch you want. Wow. Somebody needs their litter box scoped. I'm trying to get a rise out of them. All right. 03:19:37.579 --> 03:20:06.540 I was eating pretzels and I couldn't say anything. Despite my agreement that this is not the tip top output from this band, it's still a good record and they're still a great band. And we mentioned previously when we were talking about them that it's by degrees at this point. You could say Number of the Beast is better than Peace of Mind, but that doesn't mean Peace of Mind isn't a good record. Fuck yeah. So Cattle Decapitation, Terracite. There it is. Oh good. Come on, man. And they're just really one of the most consistent and fun 03:20:06.580 --> 03:20:35.840 Fun to listen to bands in the last five years, probably, really. At least they'd be in that list somewhere. Because they have one album in the last five years? What's that? It's just a joke. Just talking shit, yeah. Fair enough. Yeah, I think this band would be in your top ten for all the year ends that you've done. They would make your top ten for showing up the most. And they are in the top ten. All three of their last records have been, started with Antipocene and then the last three. You've been consistent with them. 03:20:36.580 --> 03:21:06.300 Yeah, this is mid-year, but I'm sure they'll make your top. Oh, it's going to make it. It might even be higher. It might be a little lower, but it's making his list. Can you take me higher? Yes. Yes, I can. It's a challenge. Wait, that's Damian. Sorry. I think Matt was going for the Lion to Family Stone slash Tina Turner. I got that a little bit, too. Boom, Jackalock. I just want to turn back time. Oh, we've been there. 03:21:07.220 --> 03:21:09.820 If I could find a way 03:21:10.880 --> 03:21:14.560 Oh, by the way, I think I mentioned this, and so forgive me, but I'm going to mention it in person. 03:21:15.160 --> 03:21:18.640 Dude, on HBO, I think it is. The Tina Turner documentary is fucking awesome. 03:21:18.900 --> 03:21:20.200 It's so worth your time. 03:21:20.480 --> 03:21:20.560 Definitely. 03:21:20.880 --> 03:21:26.600 And seriously, you may not even truly understand the explosive performer she was from starting to fucking much. 03:21:26.720 --> 03:21:29.100 Wait, which one is this? Because I think I may have seen it already. 03:21:29.500 --> 03:21:30.440 It's just called Tina. 03:21:31.680 --> 03:21:35.140 Just go watch Proud Mary from when they performed that live in that one video. 03:21:35.660 --> 03:22:04.000 I guess late 60s? No. I feel like I saw this already. But it was before she died. It was even more manic. It's crazy. Yeah. When the beads on her dress are shaking so fast you can't even keep up with it. Start a fire. Yeah. R.I.P. Tina Turner. What an amazing talent. Yeah. We don't need more heroes so let's just keep going. We don't need another hero. Thunderdome. Yes. All right. 03:22:05.660 --> 03:22:32.380 My number eight unmentioned so far, so probably a volleyball from the United States of America. Wow. I only have six different countries. Get some culture. I need the America Fuck Yeah Award. Oh, you got it. Trust me. You don't want to take that from Argento Records. This is Lamp of Murmur or Murmur. Saturnian Bloodstorm. 03:22:35.640 --> 03:23:04.360 Panties and a bunch about how they sound good now. And they don't. And sound like Immortal. Immortal, yeah, whatever. From 1999, yeah. If they sound like Immortal back then, that's great because the new Immortal record has not been mentioned yet. You know why? Because it fucking sucks. No, The Lamp of Murmur is a good album. Fuck Immortal, Lamp of Murmur, or Murmur. Or Murmur. However you want to say it, this is. You're saying it weird. 03:23:05.640 --> 03:23:35.260 How would you say? Either of them are on my list, but I definitely agree with you with the Immortal comparison, for sure. Yeah, I get the sound, but I don't care. If Immortal sounded like this now, they would be good, but they don't. But this does sound like it, and it's good. Wait, Justin listened to Immortal? It's not death metal. Justin listens to black metal. I love Immortal. Yeah, I love Immortal. Justin likes good stuff. He's an Emperor fan. He's got creds. Yeah, he's going to Emperor tomorrow. He's got creds. He likes Emperors. 03:23:35.300 --> 03:24:04.800 He's got creds. Jesus. Okay. Sure. So, yeah. Sure. Suck it. We want a report from you, Justin, by the way. Yeah. I'm sure there'll be social media happening. I'm going to be totally geeking out about it. Because literally Anthems to the Wilka is like probably, probably, definitely top 20 albums of all time for me. So I'd like to know how it sounds in America as opposed to when I heard the whole thing in Germany. All right. I was just going to say, 03:24:33.380 --> 03:24:35.280 I just really don't know what 03:24:35.320 --> 03:24:36.400 I hope that I capture that. 03:24:37.780 --> 03:24:40.160 Just seeing Eson live. I've seen him solo twice. 03:24:41.020 --> 03:24:42.000 So fucking good. 03:24:42.000 --> 03:24:44.820 I haven't seen him yet, so that's why I'm like... 03:24:44.980 --> 03:24:48.480 We've talked about Eson before and how much I love him too, so yeah. 03:24:49.840 --> 03:24:51.060 By the way, George, that's the second... 03:24:51.060 --> 03:24:53.640 I know gay murderer drummers this time, so yay! 03:24:56.239 --> 03:24:59.180 That's the second Immortal record since Abath left, 03:24:59.280 --> 03:25:02.440 and so it's pretty clear where the fucking talent in that band was, dude. 03:25:02.640 --> 03:25:04.680 Yeah, it felt like to me, 03:25:04.800 --> 03:25:34.780 He had a bunch of canned riffs and he used all the good ones on the last one. And then on this one, he's like, let me just, I don't know, reuse the Tyrant's riff over and over again on a bunch of different tracks. Yeah, no, I'm good. Did that dude write a lot of the lyrics after he stopped playing with the band? Did he still write lyrics for that? Yeah. Some of them, yeah. So he was still indirectly related to the band. Okay. I mean, it sounds like when you listen to it, it sounds pre-At the Heart of Winter, which is 03:25:34.800 --> 03:26:04.520 I feel like was when he was still writing in the band and then at the heart of winter is when Abbott took over. Yeah. Which I prefer the stuff prior to that. But you know what my advice is just go get Dread Reaver dude. Oh yeah. That was your that was your number one last year. Was it number one or number two? Last year or the year before. Yeah. Whenever that came out it was your number one Jay. Good fucking record dude. I'm just going to stick with Battles in the North and fuck y'all. No. 03:26:04.820 --> 03:26:06.100 I'm not arguing against those. 03:26:07.060 --> 03:26:09.000 I'm thrashing you and mortal the best, personally. 03:26:10.070 --> 03:26:10.460 Fair enough. 03:26:10.550 --> 03:26:14.200 And nothing can be the video for what Full Moon Mysticism. 03:26:14.620 --> 03:26:15.620 Yeah, exactly. 03:26:16.900 --> 03:26:17.940 That's the one, man. 03:26:18.200 --> 03:26:24.320 That is, if you have that in your catalog, the thing that people want to make the most fun of, you did something right. 03:26:25.200 --> 03:26:26.880 Yeah, or Blastrick, that one too. 03:26:27.380 --> 03:26:28.720 But yeah, that's pretty, pretty good. 03:26:29.870 --> 03:26:31.500 Yeah, some frozen cheese up in there. 03:26:32.570 --> 03:26:32.940 All right. 03:26:33.080 --> 03:27:02.860 So I think we're moving on to number seven now. Eventually. Hey, Will's leaving in 17 minutes, folks. Is he? Oh, he's going to come on, maybe. He might make number five. Oh, that's awesome. I got to send a message saying, dude, get your ass home fast. We're still going. All right. Yeah. So my number seven, been mentioned before. I love these guys for a while. They do the progressive tech death the way I like it. It's Go Rod. It's the horror of France. Go for Rod. 03:27:03.080 --> 03:27:30.920 Independent Independent Independent, yeah. I liked these guys for a long time. I would say this album's probably hooked me in... I can't think of the name of the record, but I think it came out in like 2010. That one I enjoyed a lot, and this is probably the one I've enjoyed the most in recent years from them, even though I enjoy other releases. Yeah, it's really good, and I just... I feel like even if maybe you're missing some of those slightly more extreme moments, 03:27:33.080 --> 03:28:03.040 get from earlier Gojira stuff. I feel like you can find some of that in here, which I dig. And yeah, it's a pretty solid one for me. That victory track is one that I go back to probably the most, but even the title track is a great one. Nice. It's a good album. Three for that one. Pretty high too. All right, Markisan. Yeah, number seven. This album was a big list buster for me. I first streamed the full record from Metal and 03:28:03.080 --> 03:28:04.100 On Wednesday. 03:28:05.199 --> 03:28:06.500 And that's three days. 03:28:06.860 --> 03:28:08.000 It's a cheeky release for you. 03:28:08.480 --> 03:28:09.680 Just snuck up on your ass. 03:28:09.980 --> 03:28:10.920 Snuck up on me. 03:28:11.350 --> 03:28:12.980 Its official release was yesterday. 03:28:13.820 --> 03:28:14.040 Nice. 03:28:14.200 --> 03:28:16.540 So I had a couple days to spin it. 03:28:16.540 --> 03:28:21.660 But when an album is this phenomenal, sometimes you just got to go with your gut, regardless 03:28:21.770 --> 03:28:23.520 of that time that you spent. 03:28:23.720 --> 03:28:24.440 I know what this is. 03:28:24.960 --> 03:28:27.960 And it's Krigsgrave Fires in the Fall. 03:28:28.380 --> 03:28:28.760 It's good. 03:28:29.140 --> 03:28:30.160 On Wise Blood Records. 03:28:30.400 --> 03:28:31.560 It's fucking so good. 03:28:31.580 --> 03:28:59.880 I'm not even a big Kriegsgrave fan of the previous records, but this one is different to me. The band describes themselves as eternally doomed melodic black metal, which I love. So I'm just going to go with that. And like I said, the album just dropped. Give it a spin. But, you know, I don't know how far it's going to go. I've only listened to it a couple times and it's already number seven on my list. 03:29:00.640 --> 03:29:30.220 So it could go higher. I just think it's, I don't know. They've put out the best record I think they've ever done. So can you take me higher? I sample a little of this. I got to go back to it. It's good. I liked it. It's so good. I listened to the whole thing yesterday. I liked it. I've listened to it maybe three, four times. So like I said, it really was a gut feeling for me when I listened to it. I actually ordered the vinyl for it and I've slowed down on vinyl. 03:29:30.780 --> 03:30:00.520 quite a bit, but when I listen to it a few times, like I have to have this. I must have this album. That I know that it should be pretty high. So we'll see where it lands. Cause again, it just came out. There's some bands that are actually going to come out on the 30th that I'm like, I'm not even going to bother trying to find them. They'll just have to go in the year end. Yeah, exactly. But this one, cause I got it. They had the stream for it. I was like, I gotta listen to it. I'm going to listen to it. And it got me. It really got me. 03:30:02.000 --> 03:30:30.600 I think you got a nine in decibel too. And I don't, I don't really care what the ratings are, but that I thought that was pretty cool that they recognized that. And the latest decibel album, we're mad on the cover. Yeah. And so there you go. I wish my decibel would come. I haven't gotten the last three issues. Did you talk to Patty? That's crazy, dude. Yes, I did. I finally heard from them. She got back to me pretty quickly. Although I went through the main website to do it and she got back to me. She said, I'm sending all 03:30:30.620 --> 03:31:00.360 three of them to you. So I'm just waiting for them. Not complaining, just saying I haven't gotten them yet. Yeah. Decibel takes care of you. Yeah. Yeah. And she, when she, as soon as she got back to me, I was like, all right, this is going to happen. But then I saw yours was like, where's my fucking package? Your package is right here. Oh yeah. There it is. I couldn't find it there for a second. What are you going to do? I know I was born this way. Yeah. We know people there, so you'll get it, John, but hopefully you can get it out on the basis. 03:31:00.620 --> 03:31:30.480 I don't think I've gotten the last few decibels. And I looked through all my stuff. I was like, no, I'm going to have to get with George about this one. Cause I know he had this issue. Yeah. Cause I just renewed again for another two years. Yeah. I always do that. And then they, sometimes they give you these crazy discounts. If you renew early, I end up like getting four years. Something just happened. That's all. It's a big deal. I'll just add another death doom album to my 25 list. 30% in retaliation to them. But listen, for the, as far as the Krigs, 03:31:30.660 --> 03:31:33.880 I know John listened to it but everybody should listen to it because I think it's just 03:31:34.440 --> 03:31:40.500 it's an exceptional record even though I've only spun out a few times here I know we're at the 03:31:40.620 --> 03:32:00.600 mid-year don't forget that one even though it's going to be at the very beginning of the next chapter in our year-long saga it's fucking good would you say it's number seven good it's for now for now all right let's go let's find out what the other sevens are Matty my seven has already 03:32:00.620 --> 03:32:30.540 mentioned. And it was already mentioned as a seven. Because it is the Oreb by GORAD. GORAD getting the dove on GORAD. I would use my orb to just echo everything everyone has said about it. GORAD. Ever. And yeah, it's really good tech death. I've loved everything they've done. And do I really need to say more? No, I don't. No, you're fucking rubbing the Oreb and that's all you need to do. Exactly. The Orcasmatron, I believe it's called. Oh, nice. 03:32:30.600 --> 03:33:00.220 All right, let's keep those volleyballs going. I'm guessing I'm the only one who's going to have this on their list. That's cool. This was my May album of the month. That is Death of Giants Ventusorg. It's a Norwegian doom metal, a.k.a. grief metal that sometimes dabbles with a little funeral death metal. It's a one-man band. I don't know if you guys remember this one. I talked about it before. 03:33:00.620 --> 03:33:29.960 The Guy Wrote the Album after his wife passed away. She was young. And it has, reminds me a little bit of Swallow Son, the guitarist when his wife passed away, who was also a singer. And I believe they gave us Treaties of Eternity. Yep. Is the album? Yep. Oh, nice. So good. And I think they did a follow up with some of the guys from, or at least Tommy from Amorphous. They did another album, another band. So it's just really good doom metal. It's, 03:33:30.600 --> 03:34:00.040 It's a traditional doom, but it's not that kind of epic doom. It's a little bit different. He's a great singer. He's got some harsh vocals, some crushing riffs, and there's only, there's also, sorry, getting a little tongue-tied, there's a cover, Iron Maiden's Only the Good Die Young, which is appropriate for the album. I'm generally not a big covers fan, but it fits the theme of the album as he's honoring his wife who passed on. This is on my honorables. Yeah, it's good. It's solid. 03:34:00.840 --> 03:34:01.660 It's a good record 03:34:02.020 --> 03:34:04.760 There's moments where those riffs get fucking heavy 03:34:05.440 --> 03:34:06.520 And then he dials it back down 03:34:06.520 --> 03:34:08.100 And you're like, damn, dude, go back to that riff 03:34:08.240 --> 03:34:09.160 That was cool 03:34:10.699 --> 03:34:12.160 I just yesterday 03:34:12.520 --> 03:34:14.240 I went to my friend's house 03:34:14.400 --> 03:34:16.840 His wife died of cancer 03:34:17.520 --> 03:34:18.540 A few months back 03:34:18.780 --> 03:34:20.520 And he's a little older than me 03:34:20.680 --> 03:34:21.960 In his 50s 03:34:22.460 --> 03:34:24.200 And his wife passed away 03:34:24.420 --> 03:34:25.900 And he had a get-together 03:34:26.120 --> 03:34:28.440 A memorial to celebrate her life 03:34:28.900 --> 03:34:30.020 She didn't want to have a funeral 03:34:30.020 --> 03:34:59.800 She just wanted to have a get-together with friends and stuff. And I just went there yesterday. And it made me think of this record and what it would be like if I ever lost Tracy that way. I can't even fucking imagine it. It's the emotion. Yeah, because no one can, right? No one can. No one can. It's just insane. And my friend Brian, he's doing better. I've been over there. It's like two hours away for me to drive there, even though it's in Illinois. But of course, I go there to see him. 03:35:00.040 --> 03:35:29.380 He's gotten so much better. It's only been six months, which is nothing. But he's improved. It was very end of the world for him. And now it's changed a little bit, even though he still has that grief. So I thought of this record and what this guy must have gone through. And to write that, to have this thing, which had to be sad and cathartic at the same time, I just, I can't even imagine. It's special. 03:35:29.400 --> 03:35:59.340 and just really melancholy at the same time. But I just really admire that about it. You, of course, you're going to, if you're writing music and you do art, you're going to write about the things that you've experienced that have touched you so much in your life. But very few people have something like that moment where they can try to capture the way they feel in musical form. And so that's something that I listened to actually this morning, just because I was at my friend Brian's. 03:36:00.159 --> 03:36:26.800 house. So, I don't know. I love that. I love it and hate it about life. You don't want to see anybody go through that kind of tragedy, but then somebody makes something of art to try to honor the people that have come before, the people that they love. And I love that about humanity. That's something that's special. So, it's cool that you have it on your list, John. Sorry, I got heavy on that one. 03:36:26.800 --> 03:36:28.920 No, it's all good, man. Cheers to Brian. 03:36:29.000 --> 03:36:58.480 All right. All right. What's your pick? My number seven, Wretched Fate. Carnal hearsay, Swedish death, redefining darkness. But it doesn't matter that it's number seven because Brumetta will can divide by zero. I actually like that one a lot. That's like programmer nerd stuff. Being someone who works in statistics for a living, that's funny. 03:36:59.020 --> 03:37:27.980 It's so awesome because it's like tough guy dad jokes, which is perfect for Will. There's nothing better. This is so good. Normally divide by zero results in errors. I love it because I told him about it and he has it higher than I do. So that's cool. Yeah. Whoa. How did you do that? You like just talked to us and didn't move. I know Justin's frozen is visual, but totally frozen, but you're frozen and you look really serious. 03:37:30.040 --> 03:37:58.740 You're talking and it's not life. Your soul doesn't seem frozen. Did you pause your face? Did it get any better? Your picture's frozen, but we can hear you fine. Actually, if it stays that way, that's awesome, because you can say whatever you want. You have the best poker face ever. At least it's a good face that is frozen. You can get pissed, and we'd be like, man, is Justin mad at me for what I just said? Fuck, look at him. 03:37:59.000 --> 03:38:00.820 He looks very irritated right now. 03:38:01.900 --> 03:38:03.040 It's my resting bitch face. 03:38:03.720 --> 03:38:05.160 It totally is resting bitch face. 03:38:05.740 --> 03:38:06.580 Maybe turn off. 03:38:06.700 --> 03:38:10.300 I tell you, I have a talent for resting bitch face. 03:38:10.500 --> 03:38:12.040 Apparently, everyone tells me about it. 03:38:12.160 --> 03:38:13.600 So apparently, there you go. 03:38:14.000 --> 03:38:15.260 Matt, you're going to have to help your game. 03:38:15.740 --> 03:38:16.160 I know. 03:38:16.480 --> 03:38:17.380 He's getting in your world. 03:38:17.700 --> 03:38:20.680 I'm taking a screenshot of it just so we have it for posterity. 03:38:21.840 --> 03:38:26.100 Yeah, because my video is still working on my end, so I don't even find out what the fuck's going on. 03:38:27.200 --> 03:38:28.320 It's probably George's fault. 03:38:28.420 --> 03:38:58.360 It's always my fault. Jay, are you up for number seven? I thought... No, Will just went, didn't he? Yeah, Will went. Yeah, Will's been dragging this whole fucking pod. It's amazing that Will's not here and this podcast is dragging on because of all the Will's picks. It's ironic that you stated it that way, John, because my number seven is Cloak Blacks. Oh, nice. Another one of Will's picks. I'm mine. I got both sides of the comments on this. 03:38:58.420 --> 03:39:28.180 I understood the love of it and I understood people are like, I haven't quite connected with it. I'm not sure. I feel like I should like it, but I get it. I totally get it. And I haven't really been a cloak fan in the past. I wasn't a non fan, but this record is punchy and big and in your face and super heavy. It's great. It's a really good record. These guys deserve to be as in the field of vision as they seem to be right now. It's good stuff. Indeed. Nice. Did you already say it once, George? Was it on your list? I don't think cloaks come on. 03:39:28.240 --> 03:39:57.900 No, it was. It was my number 19. And I think Will had it, I think. Or maybe we haven't. No, Will has not had it yet. And Matt had it, actually, I think. I think Will had it. Did he have it? Matt, tell us. I did not have it, and I'm not at liberty to discuss the rest of it. So Will has had it. It's for George. Will had it. Will had it. I think I just mentioned. No, Will hasn't had it yet. It's going to be higher on his list. All right. I mentioned that Will would have it on his list, I think. I think he will. All right. 03:39:58.220 --> 03:40:28.060 If Will had it, he would have said it already. Semper Fi, bitch. Number seven for me. Will sleeps with a pillow under his gun. Mia. You're number seven. From the United States of Germany. Jesus Christ. On pelagic records. It is the Ocean Collective. Holocene. I know. I'm like, what? How do you bitches have it? 03:40:28.240 --> 03:40:29.440 It's lower than me. I don't know. 03:40:30.180 --> 03:40:31.080 You had it right in the middle. 03:40:32.300 --> 03:40:32.400 Yeah. 03:40:33.420 --> 03:40:33.720 Nice. 03:40:34.120 --> 03:40:36.780 No, this is fucking brilliant, as usual. 03:40:37.880 --> 03:40:40.440 Just so you know, George, I have 10 United States on my list. 03:40:40.500 --> 03:40:41.940 I just kind of deal with the states. 03:40:41.940 --> 03:40:45.200 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 03:40:45.600 --> 03:40:46.060 I have 12. 03:40:47.239 --> 03:40:48.720 Which states are they, though? 03:40:49.700 --> 03:40:50.680 Now you're asking for trouble. 03:40:51.479 --> 03:40:52.700 Now it's getting difficult. 03:40:53.080 --> 03:40:53.760 They're united. 03:40:53.880 --> 03:40:54.640 It doesn't matter. 03:40:55.260 --> 03:40:57.220 George, I'm happy to hear you have the ocean on your list. 03:40:57.260 --> 03:41:27.160 And not high, that's awesome. Sure. Fucking love it. They don't disappoint. If you're a fan of that band, although some fans get pissed about everything, I think Davey evolved just the way I'd like to see him evolve. Yeah, I agree. All right, Justin, number six. You are beautiful in every single way. That too. Just an FYI, I love The Ocean also. Davey did not make my list. This last album, 03:41:28.399 --> 03:41:56.500 I'm going to try it again. I'm going to try it again. I love the fan. Listen, I love, I love like the fan Zoic ones. Like I love those records and even the heliocentric like that one back in the day. Like, yeah. Just for the record, you've unfrozen. Yeah. You're back to normal. Oh, I have. I'm just going to ask that too. All right, cool. So my, what are we at? Six. Matt's frozen. Oh, wait. He's good. He's good. 03:41:57.280 --> 03:42:27.120 Everyone's frozen soul right now. Everybody's good. A frozen soul is good. Eh. Eh. Anyways, my number six is been mentioned. Majesties. Fast reaches on. Yes. 20 bucks spin. Yeah. I, Markisan kind of said everything that needed to be said about this. For me, my, I was never, for some reason, I always, I always enjoyed early inflamed stuff, but they weren't like the ones that really got their hooks into me back then. Yeah. 03:42:27.280 --> 03:42:57.140 This record for me, I think it's that Slaughter the Soul at the Gates vibe. More so, it's the dark tranquility, the gallery vibe to me. That really, like, when they go into some of those moments, it's, fuck yeah, what's the word? Name of the, Across the Neverwind, that track, like, that to me has, like, all those, like, elements that I love from, like, that dark tranquility, the gallery era of mellow death type of stuff. 03:42:57.260 --> 03:42:58.140 And yeah, 03:42:58.240 --> 03:42:59.720 they just do it really fucking good, 03:42:59.880 --> 03:43:00.100 man. 03:43:01.040 --> 03:43:02.140 The guys in it, 03:43:02.320 --> 03:43:03.640 those guys in XORM too, 03:43:03.780 --> 03:43:04.360 they're just like, 03:43:04.660 --> 03:43:05.980 they're just so good with the riffs. 03:43:06.040 --> 03:43:07.260 They just know what the fuck they're doing. 03:43:07.620 --> 03:43:09.500 The fact that you can say different style. 03:43:10.180 --> 03:43:10.260 Yeah. 03:43:10.580 --> 03:43:12.340 The fact that you can say dark tranquility, 03:43:12.460 --> 03:43:14.220 the gallery and know what you're talking about. 03:43:15.080 --> 03:43:16.920 That's just infinite cred right there. 03:43:17.220 --> 03:43:17.960 And at the gates. 03:43:18.100 --> 03:43:18.180 Yeah. 03:43:18.280 --> 03:43:18.600 For me, 03:43:18.780 --> 03:43:21.700 it's more horrible and yeah. 03:43:22.600 --> 03:43:23.160 And colony. 03:43:24.340 --> 03:43:24.420 Yeah. 03:43:24.660 --> 03:43:25.180 But yeah, 03:43:25.240 --> 03:43:26.040 I hear that too. 03:43:26.280 --> 03:43:55.900 I hear those things that you're saying. Yeah, it's all in there because they captured a time like a very small bubble of time when it came to Melodeth. So yeah, it wasn't very long. It's going to be in there. Yeah. And that's what's cool. It was a very small window where the sound was at its peak and then it just got. Yeah. Just it was like a four year window, I feel like. And after that, it got a little polished. It got distorted and fucking altered. And then it was garbage. It was from two to four o'clock in the afternoon. 03:43:56.280 --> 03:44:25.640 It really was, it was weird. It was like, it was such a good sound. And then they just, they couldn't sustain it. Like it just, they ruined it. To be honest, it got ruined. And now, Majesties is bringing it back. Very cool to hear that's on your list. Justin, expect that. So awesome. Mark is on. Oh shit. It's my turn. What am I on? Number six, six, six, six. Number of Mark is on. 03:44:27.921 --> 03:44:53.980 Yeah, this one's been mentioned already, maybe a couple times actually, and I'm happy about that. It's a Fires in the Distance air not meant for us on Prosthetic Records. Listen, I went from Krieg's Grave, Fires in the Fall, to Fires in the Distance, right? And their album Not Meant for Us, it's just a massive brooding, what do I want to say about it? 03:44:57.300 --> 03:44:58.180 I would say. 03:44:58.790 --> 03:45:00.780 I love the uplifting emotion in it. 03:45:01.240 --> 03:45:02.020 The melody. 03:45:03.040 --> 03:45:05.640 I can't get enough of the seismic guitars on that. 03:45:05.730 --> 03:45:09.760 And then they have that unique gothy keyboard sound. 03:45:10.580 --> 03:45:12.360 That really doesn't sound like anybody else. 03:45:13.160 --> 03:45:16.860 And the band for me has really put it all together on this record. 03:45:17.040 --> 03:45:21.300 I think they had all the elements on their last album, which I really liked. 03:45:21.900 --> 03:45:51.720 It did not make my list, but I feel like they fucking turned the knob and they found that perfect frequency, right, this time. And I would say their last record was like a little campfire, right? And this one is a raging bonfire in the forest. In the distance. Naked witches dancing around it. That's how I would say the difference between albums. And I like the last album, but it's, 03:45:51.900 --> 03:46:21.000 I enjoy being a metalhead and being on the Metalheads podcast. We listen to all these albums, right? And there's bands that have really great potential. And you wonder if they're going to realize it, if they're going to be able to shape that sound into something that's going to be what they're defined for going forward in the future. And I feel like that is what's happened with Fires in the Distance on this record. And it's great to see. And it's very high on my list. So number six. 03:46:21.900 --> 03:46:51.840 Fires in the Distance, Air, Not Meant for Us. Nice. Yeah. Maddie. My number six. My number six. So when I talked about a band that I had got out of my radar and then I found last week and was like, oh man, I'm so glad I found this because it's so good. The band is Old Throne, O-L-D-E, Throne. The album is In the Land of Ghosts. For me, I heard like a lot of Yellow Eyes in there, but then it would just transition into some folks. 03:46:52.399 --> 03:47:21.860 that completely fit with the sound. And they are, this is their second album. They're from, let's see, New Zealand. And yeah, it's really solid, powerful, kind of folky black metal with some atmosphere. And it's my number six. Wow. I didn't expect that one to come on the list. That's cool, Matt. It's a good record. Left Field. That's what I love about these lists. Obviously been doing this cast for years now with you guys, but I always feel 03:47:21.900 --> 03:47:51.860 a little bit surprised when we do these lists. You never really know what you guys are going to be into. And it could change from year to year. You could get into something a little bit different. Yeah. And that's fun. It's really fun. John. All right. Plan number six. Continue the tradition of the volleyball. Woo. Yes. Wilson. Strike that shit. Side out. This is a band that doesn't release a lot of albums. They've only had three the last since 2010. So the last 13 years. It came out from the 03:47:51.880 --> 03:48:21.820 album this year. Still can't find the physical copy for it to add to the other two that I have. And I discovered them after the 2015 year end. And I made a comment back then that had I known about this band, they probably would have been in my top three or four because I absolutely love the album. And right now they're sitting at number six for this year. So maybe they'll still stay in my top 10. And that is Pressure Points, the island for Art Gates Records. They're from Finland. They're progressive metal. 03:48:23.681 --> 03:48:28.720 I think George and Jerry were the only ones around when I mentioned them back in 2015. 03:48:29.170 --> 03:48:29.320 Yeah. 03:48:29.850 --> 03:48:30.540 Into 2016. 03:48:31.710 --> 03:48:33.060 They just, they do it for me. 03:48:33.780 --> 03:48:37.180 It comes off a little kind of prog rocky, but it's not. 03:48:37.800 --> 03:48:47.620 There's the whole thing is just all metal, but they just seem to have found that right niche of having some Opethian-like prog metal that meets fandom plus. 03:48:47.680 --> 03:48:50.740 And I don't mean they sound like Vandamplass, it's just the singer 03:48:51.460 --> 03:48:53.220 has that vibe that 03:48:53.620 --> 03:48:55.600 the singer from Vandamplass has. 03:48:55.740 --> 03:48:57.280 It doesn't sound like them, it's just there's something about 03:48:57.840 --> 03:48:59.720 overlaying, Jay knows, overlaying pianos 03:48:59.740 --> 03:49:01.620 on top of the music. They have these 03:49:01.760 --> 03:49:03.600 heavy crunching riffs in Vandamplass, but they don't have 03:49:03.680 --> 03:49:04.700 these overlaying piano. 03:49:05.560 --> 03:49:07.720 And it seems odd, but it works really well 03:49:07.820 --> 03:49:09.760 for them. And they do that a little 03:49:09.860 --> 03:49:10.820 bit in pressure points. 03:49:11.860 --> 03:49:13.600 So, my number six, The Island. 03:49:13.980 --> 03:49:15.880 I remember that. I did not know 03:49:16.140 --> 03:49:16.780 there was a new one. 03:49:17.320 --> 03:49:46.880 Yeah. It's been a while for them. It's been a while. I'm actually allowed to talk about that. So. Yeah, that was, that's almost as old as the podcast. At least for me. Almost. It dates back to my first year end. Yeah. Yeah. Way back when. Eight years ago. Eight years. Not as old as Jay and Will on the podcast, but pretty damn close. Indeed. 03:49:48.641 --> 03:50:17.000 Who's one of the first guests on this podcast, by the way? Oh, yeah. It was Jay. Followed by Will. Well, yeah. All right. I remember that. I think Will was on before me, actually. Yeah, what do you got, Will? I had a great time on that episode. It was really good. You weren't there. So much good conversation. My number six, you all knew this was coming. Overkill. Scorched. I didn't know that was coming. Records from filthy-ass New Jersey. 03:50:17.320 --> 03:50:47.080 New Jersey is fucking filthy ass. It doesn't have overkill. But the other thing to think about is that some kids pee their name in the snow and brew a brew middle will can pee his name into concrete. Oh, yeah. That's into concrete. Fresh. Us New Yorkers call New Jersey the armpit of America. Yeah, as does everybody else. Yeah. Okay. What's so funny is that South Jersey is nothing like North Jersey. Oh, no, not at all. Not even. 03:50:47.859 --> 03:51:17.260 I used to live in South Jersey. And my mom's from New Jersey. And then, as Jess knows, then there's West Jersey and a lot of money out there. But South Jersey's shit. No, it's a lot nicer. Really? No, it's nice. It's all farmland, a lot of it. As soon as I get into Jersey, it smells bad. No, when you go into Jersey, you're talking about crossing over the bridge there in Delaware. Yeah, that's because DuPont is right there. Yeah. That stinks like shit. Yeah. That's not the whole state. I just assume it's South Jersey. It is South Jersey, but that's just for one month. 03:51:17.320 --> 03:51:47.140 Okay, then it's South Jersey. No, when we talk about Armpit of America, you're talking about West Jersey where you drive through and it's like the Gothels Bridge area. I thought Delaware was the worst. Delaware's very nice. Compared to West Jersey? No, I wouldn't say so. Delaware's nice. It's got beaches and stuff. It's all right. Brimminghorns there. But then we've got West Virginia, Indiana. Yeah, we can. 03:51:47.300 --> 03:52:17.060 Make fun of them for sure. West Virginia. Although there's parts of West Virginia that are beautiful though. Sorry. There's nothing in West Virginia that I have seen that is either not fucking banjos or fucking hit in bread. First of all, you got it wrong. The banjos were in Georgia for the movie. I don't care. It's not West Virginia. I don't care. I've been in parts of West Virginia that are banjos. Have you been to Bakersfield? Okay, so Will is calling me. Hold on. 03:52:17.320 --> 03:52:46.180 Will is calling me. Yeah. I'm from Cali. We haven't gotten to the top five yet. Have you been to San Francisco recently? Seriously. I don't see you. Try again. Yeah. I know, Jay. I'm very depressed. Sorry. There's so many empty storefronts. I don't want Will to come back. I want Matt to read it. No, I want Will to come back, but I want Matt to read it for him. I want Will to be fucking quiet. To just sit there. Yeah. 03:52:47.320 --> 03:53:17.280 I don't know if it's possible though. We told Will he would be back. He didn't believe us. You told him. You believed it, Josh. I actually texted him. I said, get your ass home. We're only on pick seven. Yeah, so he just called me and bitched that he's been trying to get in for 20 minutes. I'm letting him in now. Oh, he just doesn't know how to do it. No, my list was covering up the thing, so I didn't see it. But this is the perfect time because it's top five. Here's the beauty of me sending Will a message. He says, I'm here with Warren right now. I said, can you 03:53:17.320 --> 03:53:47.280 Slap Warren's butt for me, please. And he did. Yes. Yes. All right. We're trying to connect. Yeah. He's all bitching, but he can't connect. How many butts did he slap? Yeah, let's take a break. He's in the car. He's not even home yet. Will is in the car. Will? Yeah, your mic's not. You got to turn your mic on. We'll concentrate on the road. We're going to take a break. And then so hopefully you'll 03:53:47.320 --> 03:54:16.640 be home and then we can do top five. Wait, I know where he is. I can see the background. Is that really? You can tell by the truth where he is. He's like literally when he gets home, he's I'm not even joking when I say is he's five miles from my house. I don't even know why he's doing this because he can't talk. He doesn't know how to work fucking computers. Wait, he's not wait. Who did this before? I think no, Will did this once. He did. He did it to my house. It's so weird. I don't know why we're looking at his arm. 03:54:17.320 --> 03:54:46.860 Do you want to look at something else? Yeah. Something longer. There he is. He's connected audio. No, he isn't. Is he? Yeah. He had to put his dagglasses on first. It's so old. Can you guys hear me? Yes. I'm literally driving. I'm about to go through the 395 tunnel. Oh, that's always a pleasure. Listen, Justin, I said tunnel. Don't get excited. Oh, wow. 03:54:47.300 --> 03:55:17.240 That's cold. That's cold. It's only exciting if you're driving down the wrong way. Are you driving down the wrong way? Yes. You know what's funny? I was driving behind Guitar Center today and the GPS in my car was like, you're going the wrong way! You're going to kill someone! I'm like, I don't even know where I'm going. Only this podcast goes on the road while we're all stationary. Oh, God. Yes. This is the second time I've done this where I've been on the road. 03:55:18.060 --> 03:55:46.240 and driving on the pocket. Anyway, what pick are you guys at? Number five. We're about to do the top five. So how far are you away from home, though, dude? I'm like 15, 20 minutes. Oh, I see. I'm going to take a little break right now to get beer. No, don't take a break. I just don't in. Come on. You sound awful. I'm tired of looking at your thumb. So I'm going to go get a beer. Just stay on. Nobody's... Okay. I got nothing else to do. By the way, Warren says hi. I was with Warren. 03:55:47.320 --> 03:56:16.740 Warren's butt. Dude, hard as fuck. Dude, that guy, he lost a lot of weight. He's dating weight now. Oh, he needs to be. I know. He's single now. He's like, he's asking me, like, you know, Eileen or somebody has single friends? I don't know. I think so. Does anybody know women? I was going to say, I have plenty of single friends, but I don't think Warren's interested in any of them. You never know, dude. On that note. 03:56:17.320 --> 03:56:46.080 I think I just swallowed my roommate's dog in my chair. You swallowed your roommate's dog? You swallowed your roommate's dog's cum? What? No, I accidentally closed my roommate's dog in my recliner chair when I was getting up. Oops. Let the dog out. Wait, you have a roommate now? Yeah. I know all the other stuff. I just didn't know the roommate. Yeah. Okay. 03:56:47.320 --> 03:57:17.260 At this point, it's you and me. Everybody else is gone. Oh, what are you wearing, George? Nothing. That's exciting. Yes, it is. It's just for you. Okay. Has Matt done a good job playing me? He has. Good. He's done a lot of Chuck Norris quotes. I love it. Yeah. I love it. Yeah, you coming back just ruins that, so you should just stay away. I can hang up. I'm going to be home for 15 minutes, 10 minutes. 03:57:17.580 --> 03:57:46.400 Yeah, no, we got the top five to do. Everybody's gone, so if you want to be here for top five. My list is garbage. It's not. Yesterday, I had 17, and I just, like, scrambled and just threw in a bunch of stuff. We've been there. We've done that. Your list so far has been fine. Yeah. What I want to know, Will, is why are you talking so much during the podcast? You haven't shut up the whole night. Oh, that guy, Matt, man. 03:57:47.320 --> 03:58:17.120 And did you get drunk and hit the Chuck Norris website or something? Yes. Yes, I did. I told you guys I knew it. Do you know why Chuck Norris never has sex laying down? No. Why? Why? Cricket? I said, you never fucks up. I didn't hear you, sorry. Yeah, I didn't hear you. Just a little bit. You're good. Where are you now? I'm on the 14th Street Bridge going over to the photo. 03:58:18.100 --> 03:58:47.040 That's like the best feeling when you cross that bridge, isn't it? I know, it's like crossing the Rubicon. It's like, yes. Back in motherfucking Virginia. Anyway, is everyone back? Am I holding everybody up? You're not. No. Matt's a little bitchy now that he won't be able to continue as you. He probably can't because I have fun on my list in front of me. I don't even know what the fuck's on my list. So you can just talk and then Matt will take over. Yeah, I know what my number one is, but even my number one is, I didn't know where to put it, so. 03:58:47.320 --> 03:59:16.440 There it is. It's number one. No. Not yet. Yeah, I'll do a much better job at mid-year. I mean, I literally had to. This is mid-year. You mean year-end. Year-end. In your end. In your rear end. Yeah. I mean, there's a whole lot of stuff. And what's funny is the other day you guys were on the chat. You're like, oh, but Will's going to drop in September. What the fuck are you guys talking about? And I saw that Cannibal Corpse. I'm like, what? Already? Cannibal Corpse? The new album? Yeah. 03:59:17.320 --> 03:59:46.960 I feel like they usually go like four or five years between albums and this one was like two I think. Yeah. It's quick. But they said they started writing it right after Violence Unimagined. Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Or year end. Year end, yeah. Year end, rear end. All right, so we're just waiting for Justin and the Markisan. Are they making out? They might be. They're both sexy as fuck. Any surprises? 03:59:52.600 --> 03:59:55.540 I see you've been paying attention to Stairway to 11. 03:59:56.360 --> 04:00:01.200 No, I've been paying, I've been behaving pretty good, well, actually I have a lot of stuff that everybody else had. 04:00:01.360 --> 04:00:04.860 Yeah, only one live album and one compilation album so far. 04:00:05.440 --> 04:00:08.040 And I did have Uriah, I did have Uriah, so. 04:00:08.900 --> 04:00:09.620 Doesn't matter, dude. 04:00:10.060 --> 04:00:11.140 They get a lot. 04:00:11.200 --> 04:00:12.800 Hey, it doesn't matter if it's metal. 04:00:13.340 --> 04:00:16.580 Like, I can pick Clutch and I'll get shit, you can pick Uriah, Heat, but. 04:00:16.640 --> 04:00:20.640 You got shit one fucking time one time you got shit 04:00:21.540 --> 04:00:27.060 I was actually gonna put I think I said like I was gonna put clutch on this year and I realized oh that shit that was last year 04:00:27.720 --> 04:00:28.680 One fucking time 04:00:28.940 --> 04:00:30.840 I need to find albums and put on my own list 04:00:31.300 --> 04:00:34.400 The amount of times you giving me shit you got shit one time 04:00:35.440 --> 04:00:35.800 Wow 04:00:36.640 --> 04:00:36.840 Geez 04:00:38.000 --> 04:00:38.540 I know 04:00:38.900 --> 04:00:39.680 Let it go 04:00:40.460 --> 04:00:41.260 Let it go 04:00:41.400 --> 04:00:42.360 Let it go 04:00:43.280 --> 04:00:45.680 Yeah a lot of pop songs have come up tonight 04:00:46.359 --> 04:01:15.080 Where the hell did Markasson and Justin go? I don't know, man. I think Markasson went out for more tacos. Did we say we're not coming back? We're doing the top five tomorrow? And then Justin, I don't know. He might be there. We don't know. He might just be frozen. Yeah, could be. Let it go, let it go. Can't hold it back anymore. George, I want to see you put the AI to work now with this and see how much this gets clipped out. 04:01:15.700 --> 04:01:45.400 They do software. Oh, it's definitely good. Cut out. There's Justin. Looks like he's got some coffee. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. Or tea. Nothing wrong with that either. You got tea, coffee? What is that? Just another big glass of bourbon. Are you talking about me? Yeah. Are you talking about my small cup of coffee that I have here? That is coffee. Indeed. Do you think there's a rainbow in Chicago right now? 04:01:45.700 --> 04:02:15.620 There must be, because Marcus ain't coming back. There's a rainbow going on in New York right now, let me tell you. It's Pride weekend. Yeah. Fuck yeah. There he is. I think he went out for more. And I'm here, so that means how good metal is to me. That's right. It sounds like you've been having a good time anyway. Yeah, I'm good. All right. Are we doing this? All right. We are at the number five spot. 04:02:15.860 --> 04:02:45.460 Let's do this shit. And in case you don't know, Will is fucking back in the house. Hold on. He's not in his house, but he's here. I'm about two minutes from my house. I'm driving the car. I'm coming back from Atlas. Yeah, he's in the car, but he's in the house. What is Jay saying? Jay. Me and George didn't do number six yet. Yeah, do your six. All right, Jay, do your six. Oh, shit. Wait, what was my number six, Matt? Let's see. Wait, your dad. 04:02:45.700 --> 04:03:15.220 You're doing it in Matt's voice, Matt. You can't. You gotta do it in Will's voice. I know. I gotta find the cheetah. Where'd he go? He's all nervous now. He's all got stage fright. I know. Oh, that's what I got. Did anybody else's sound just change drastically? No. No. Hey, Matt, did you by chance happen to read the transcripts of our emails back and forth today on the air? No, I did not. Oh, you should. It's legendarily awesome. Like, English prose. 04:03:15.700 --> 04:03:43.640 It was definitely an exercise. Let's Will's picks and get to Jay and George. Okay, year number six was Overkill. Overkill. Okay. Scorch, yeah. Wait, what does Will do again, Matt? What was that one? Oh, some kids can pee their name in the snow. Grew metal Will can pee his name in the concrete. All right. That's right. All right, Jay. All right, my number six is, I don't know if anybody else knows this band. 04:03:45.700 --> 04:04:13.400 Maybe everybody does. I don't know. But I've never heard of these guys before and I bumped into this somewhere. It's this big kind of emotional doom metal band from Finland. Sometimes almost post metal in the weirdest little ways, but a band called Marianas Rest with a record called Our. A-U-E-R. I don't know. Like Marianas Trench? Yeah, that's the way I take it. Marianas is the trench. But it's cool, man. 04:04:15.720 --> 04:04:44.980 And I was like, dude, this is fucking awesome. So I recommend it. There also, there's a little mellow death in there, but it's not much. And so it's this big, weird, great mix of emotional stuff. And these guys are great. Check it out. You can see it when you see the spelling on my list. All right. My number six, this is a definite volleyball. This is from Indie Recordings. 04:04:45.700 --> 04:05:15.660 Record Label, a band from Norway, very near to where my sister lives, Pill and Boo, Special Agents. Oh, yeah. I forgot about them. I know you like them. Yeah, it's very good. It's very good. Very good. Very nice. It's very nice. Sexy time. It's sexy time in the Norway. Yeah, put it in your anus. Yeah, yeah, in the anus. Justin, you liking the an 04:05:15.700 --> 04:05:44.740 I don't know what the fuck you just said. Just say yes. Just say yes. Will affect my platinum status if I say yes. It will affect my platinum status. It will not. Trust me, you will retain platinum status. All right, I'm home, so I may lose you guys. Yeah. All right, we'll be back in a minute. If you're a listener, you don't get this kind of quality anywhere, all right? Yeah. We have people come in, they leave for a couple, like six hours, they come back. Yeah, that's how we roll, motherfuckers. 04:05:45.700 --> 04:06:15.640 All right. So now we are at number five with Justin. Fucking do this. Top of the order. All right. Shit is getting so real. You don't even know. You can smell it. It's so real. Yeah. Smell the glove. My number five is probably, it's been mentioned already by a bunch of people. I think probably considering the trend of my selections, people would probably be surprised that it's up this side. But my number five is Opie. 04:06:15.680 --> 04:06:45.340 Pantay on the absence. You fucking rule, dude. That's not death metal. What the fuck? Holy shit. Shit, I'm throwing a curveball here. Right? Yeah, this is my curveball pick for sure. Yeah, no, listen, I always have that one. I always seem to have one or two records every year that kind of fall into that, you know, unexpected pick for me. And yeah, these guys just fall into that for me. They just think it's a super interesting record. It is. It's super varied. 04:06:45.680 --> 04:07:14.340 but it still feels cohesive. The vocals are varied also but none of the varied vocals make me cringe which is typically what happens to me with things outside of my wheelhouse but they don't do that with this. Even that In Silence We Plead track like that one and Beating Heart, those are just really cool songs. They get definite earworms. 04:07:15.700 --> 04:07:44.720 Number five for me. Excellent. Very good choice. Very cool. Markisan. And surprising. Yeah, I would just like to say it's pretty awesome. That Will left, drove to a metal show that he put on. The metal show's pretty much done, and he's already back, and we're still going. I think they're still doing the show. He just left. The show, I left two-thirds away through the second band. 04:07:46.441 --> 04:08:15.020 So Horse Burner is on last, which I love these guys. A great, like, sludgy doom band from West Virginia. These guys are awesome. But all three bands tonight have played Atlas before. But yeah, I left because I need to wake up early in the morning. It's also been five and a half hours since we started. I know. We're still here, dude. Yeah. But John texted me. We're a pick seven. Hurry up and get home. 04:08:15.560 --> 04:08:45.140 It was like I have to get home anyway. And I'm like, but I'm with Warren. I sent John a picture of Warren and I fucking love that guy. You can't not love Warren. Warren. Warren. I told Warren this real quick. I said, dude, you could be my kid. And that would be awesome. Because I'm not much older than him. We just laughed. We laughed and drank more beer, which was cool. Love Warren. Plus Warren and I have shared one of our greatest concert experiences ever. We saw horrendous and orangey. 04:08:45.580 --> 04:08:47.400 So I'll never forget that. 04:08:47.400 --> 04:08:48.340 Wait, were you in Ciaranus? 04:08:49.080 --> 04:08:51.620 We saw them at the Metro Gallery with Aranci Pazuzu. 04:08:52.680 --> 04:08:53.540 Oh, yeah. 04:08:53.860 --> 04:08:54.920 I'll never forget that, Warren. 04:08:55.500 --> 04:08:56.000 I miss you. 04:08:56.800 --> 04:08:57.200 Memories. 04:08:58.340 --> 04:08:58.740 All right. 04:08:58.940 --> 04:08:59.900 Okay, my turn, right? 04:09:00.280 --> 04:09:00.840 I think so. 04:09:00.900 --> 04:09:01.340 Number five. 04:09:02.920 --> 04:09:03.240 Top five. 04:09:03.440 --> 04:09:03.700 All right. 04:09:03.860 --> 04:09:05.960 It has been mentioned before. 04:09:07.240 --> 04:09:08.940 And it is Gatekeeper. 04:09:10.600 --> 04:09:10.960 Nice. 04:09:11.020 --> 04:09:11.880 I want to say Gate Creeper. 04:09:12.040 --> 04:09:12.420 I did too. 04:09:12.580 --> 04:09:41.300 Keeper from Western Shores, Cruise Del Sur Music. This album really came out of nowhere for me to become one of my favorite traditional slash power metal records in the last five years. The music is really soaring. It's a fantasy epic filled with fogey parts, great solos. And I mentioned when John had it on his list, just the new vocalist, Eric Adam, just takes the band to another level. Just he has a powerful. 04:09:41.740 --> 04:09:42.560 Eric Adams. 04:09:43.650 --> 04:09:44.160 Eric Adams. 04:09:44.880 --> 04:09:45.320 No Adams. 04:09:46.620 --> 04:09:47.060 Man of War. 04:09:47.190 --> 04:09:47.320 Hello. 04:09:48.100 --> 04:09:48.380 Yeah. 04:09:49.079 --> 04:09:51.740 Anyways, he has a really powerful voice. 04:09:52.240 --> 04:09:56.840 And at times he'll do, he'll go King Diamond level and do those like, uh, he does 04:09:56.980 --> 04:09:58.160 on the opening track a little bit. 04:09:58.300 --> 04:09:58.780 He does. 04:09:59.000 --> 04:10:02.020 And, but, but he only, he does it in like specific times. 04:10:02.180 --> 04:10:04.040 It's not like all the time, which I appreciate. 04:10:05.280 --> 04:10:10.000 So I think if you're a fan of like traditional metal albums, it doesn't really get much better 04:10:11.060 --> 04:10:39.440 than Gatekeeper. I love it on vinyl. I've been spinning it a ton. And it's at number five for me. So that's pretty high on the list. And there's not that many traditional US power metal type bands that get that high. You have to be pretty special in order to get to number five on my list. So yeah, I really love this record. Nice. I knew you'd have it because I saw you posted it on Instagram. Yeah. Nice. Good pick. Thanks, Jeff. 04:10:40.020 --> 04:10:41.200 All right, Matt. 04:10:41.920 --> 04:11:07.940 All right, my number five has not been mentioned because it probably doesn't exist, but what I've created is a Canadian Tech Death Band. This is their first album. And they had a single out or they had a preview track for a couple of months that I really dug, and then the full album came out, and I loved it. The band is Ignominy, and the album is Imminent Collapse. And again, it's really that brutal, dark, in the vein of Ulcerate, Tech Death. And I like it, so I made it number five. 04:11:08.380 --> 04:11:09.620 Wow. Is it, though? 04:11:10.260 --> 04:11:39.620 Does it really exist? No. Maybe. It's all bullshit. It's hard. No, I listened to it. It's a cool record. Oh, it's real. Just as it's real. Confirmed. That's the one I asked him to comment on, whether he had actually heard it or not. All right, then we will go to John. All right. My number five, it's been mentioned. It's a little doomy. It's a little deathy. That's got me. That's got to get me at least to 17% right now. And that is 04:11:39.660 --> 04:12:09.620 Fires in the Distance, Air Not Meant for Us. Ooh, nice, John. I like this album. I just, the first one just slid by. Yeah. It happens. We listen to a gazillion albums, all of us combined, but this one is just, it's great. They're polished. They're sound, and not polished in production. They're just, they're a solid band that gets it done. There's that gothic vibe to it that I like, which I prefer that in my doom metal. So as evident by all the early nineties stuff that 04:12:09.660 --> 04:12:39.600 I like. It's a great album. They're good. I'm a little sad. I switched gatekeeper and virus in the distance back and forth between five and six. I'm a little sad that we didn't have it at the same number, but pretty close. Hey, we got the ear on baby. The hell. It's true. Yeah. He'll be back. He had to switch from his phone to his laptop or desktop. Probably. There we go. Plus he might've taken his pants off for us too. So come on. Of course he took his pants off. Don't look a whore. 04:12:39.640 --> 04:12:40.420 in the mouth. 04:12:41.040 --> 04:12:41.420 You don't wear a man's in the mouth. 04:12:41.420 --> 04:12:42.420 Don't look a horse in the mouth. 04:12:42.520 --> 04:12:43.260 You know what? 04:12:44.200 --> 04:12:46.060 Brew Meadow Will don't look horses in the mouth. 04:12:46.160 --> 04:12:46.340 All right. 04:12:46.560 --> 04:12:48.700 So what's Brew Meadow Will's number five bet? 04:12:48.980 --> 04:12:49.720 Brew Meadow Will's. 04:12:50.000 --> 04:12:51.060 Let's just wait and see. 04:12:51.680 --> 04:12:52.320 Yeah, he can listen. 04:12:53.140 --> 04:12:54.980 It is weird that he's on, but not. 04:12:55.300 --> 04:12:56.560 He's in limbo. 04:12:57.640 --> 04:12:58.160 Who's who? 04:12:58.300 --> 04:12:58.560 All right. 04:12:58.580 --> 04:12:59.320 There he is. 04:12:59.400 --> 04:12:59.760 There he is. 04:13:00.979 --> 04:13:02.520 Did I just hear a woman's voice? 04:13:03.740 --> 04:13:04.040 Maybe. 04:13:04.700 --> 04:13:05.520 That was you, probably. 04:13:06.480 --> 04:13:06.680 All right. 04:13:06.740 --> 04:13:36.360 So, Will, whichever one of you wants to answer, what is your number five? Wait, hold on. Wait, I got to find. Matt, whisper it in my ear. It's Allfather, an island truth. My number five is Allfather from the United Kingdom. Excellent. Riffs upon riffs. You guys are all familiar with it. We are. It's an EP for me, but I love it. 04:13:36.740 --> 04:14:06.680 Yeah, no, I agree. I like it was a rough year, guys. No, totally. Give me some slack. It doesn't matter. It's a single, okay, because brew metal will can kill two stones with one bird. Truth. Oh, Jesus. Truth. At some point, Will, we have to describe Will. We'll have to tell you who Ch-il is later on. What? Ch-il. You don't know about Ch-il. That's Chuck Will. Okay. I heard there was some Chuck Will. 04:14:07.279 --> 04:14:36.360 All Your Will-isms are really just Chuck Norris-isms, and so I just called you Ch-il. A hybrid. A hybrid, with an apostrophe between the H and the I. Of course, because it's more metal that way. Ch-ilist or whatever. Yeah, there's a band like that does that. That's why I said that. Just for the record, All Father, the name of the album is A Violent Truth. They're from the United Kingdom, and they're on Riding Throne Records. Which is, I believe, their own record label. 04:14:36.740 --> 04:15:06.700 I think so yeah but fucking great release that you may have heard I think they're on some of their own record labels yeah yeah I dare a podcast to have one of their members leave and come back five and a half hours later yeah I dare you all yeah you can't do it you can't do it only we do this shit all right yeah no all right definitely just saying old father great fucking release it was really good Jay Jay 04:15:06.720 --> 04:15:36.680 Sorry. Real Jay. Wait. Yeah. Go. I'm glad it was an EP because I totally forgot about it. And honestly, it is worth putting anything with the word Allfather on your list. So. Yeah. It's under the. The rain and blood. Rain and blood for me. Which is completely arbitrary number. Completely arbitrary. My rule for me. Yes. And mine. That's fine. That's fine. Okay. Is it really under 29 minutes? It is. 27 minutes or something. Oh. Wow. Yeah. Doesn't matter. 04:15:36.720 --> 04:16:04.400 They're kind of that hardcore, like metal hardcore. So it's like a kind of grindcore. It's like a triple grindcore album. Yeah. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's good. Brew Metal will watch 60 minutes in 20. Okay. Yeah. It's longer than all the grindcore albums, I guess. It's longer than all of us. It's the physical graffiti of grindcore. I was just thinking that. All right, Jay, what you got? 04:16:06.740 --> 04:16:08.900 I didn't expect anybody to say this one so 04:16:09.420 --> 04:16:12.500 since he said it I don't have to go off at great lengths but this is another stand in for 04:16:12.620 --> 04:16:16.900 goat whore record as in goat whore didn't put out a record this year hell ripper warlocks grim and 04:16:17.060 --> 04:16:35.460 wither pegs hell ripper coming up again has you said that man that matter well I think that's the third time actually it's that was my speaking as will number 17 ah well so it was a will so it was me oh well yeah number 17 hell ripper yeah it's a good record it's on my list Matt did you say it was on my list I did 04:16:36.140 --> 04:17:05.420 I call it ill ripper. But he said it like this, guys, I'm really sorry about this, but. My number five. No surprise. Cattle decap, terracite. That's high. That's the highest one so far. I knew it was going to be higher. I've got a couple more maybe. I want to get higher. But can you take me higher? Can you take me higher? That's like the third day. 04:17:05.480 --> 04:17:35.080 I think Justin is about as high as he can be. Probably. No. Way higher. He can take you higher. At this point in an eight-hour marathon of us, seeing Matt not in a snuggie and not seeing him only up to his eyes on the screen is weird. That's because he's got responsibilities, John. He's got to read Will's stuff. It's funny because honestly, John, I don't even know what to do with myself. Now you've got to get drunk. What the fuck am I going to do? 04:17:35.460 --> 04:18:05.120 Yeah, I know. I'm going to go hit the fridge. Come back with a juice box. We got four more to go and I'm out of beer. What am I supposed to do? I got a juice box from Birmingham. I drank my juice box from them tonight. I'll just point out one thing here real quick and I guess there's no mystery to this, but nobody has said enslaved you. I've noticed that. I was kind of wondering how that record was going to sit with people on their list. Clearly everybody hates it. That's shit. 04:18:05.460 --> 04:18:35.020 It's off everybody's list. I know it's Slavid, but I don't know enslaved. Yeah, who the fuck is enslaved? All right. And Slavid is right. Oh, yeah. Number four now. Number four, Justin. Okay. Sorry to spoil it, but yeah, this is probably the only time I'll say the name enslaved. But anyways, my number four is cattle decapitation parasite. One step higher than the previous guy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We planned it that way. 04:18:35.460 --> 04:19:04.240 That scores are the offspring song, like that fucking chorus is just, I just say, it's just so fucking good. I can't, I just, I love it. I don't know. And here's the thing, like Mark's song was saying, like this one is like good, but it ranks a little bit lower than Death Atlas. For me, it actually ranks a little bit higher than Death Atlas because while I love Death Atlas and I love the cinematic nature of it, I almost feel like when I want to listen to it, I want to listen to the whole thing. Whereas I feel like with this record, 04:19:05.280 --> 04:19:35.220 you don't necessarily have to do that. Actually, it makes me go back to it more than I was going back to Death Atlas, even though Death Atlas was probably my number two that year or whatever. I mean, it makes sense given our tastes in music. You like a little bit more straightforward like the death metal. I like Furishes. Right, exactly. Chicken's dead. He's not. Why is Will on the phone? Is he with us or not? 04:19:35.300 --> 04:20:03.020 with us. His hair is well coiffed. I gotta squeeze it hard enough, George. Come on. I gotta squeeze it harder. Squeeze that chicken, baby. Yeah, if you want to talk to McNoise, George. You're number four. My number four. Wander no longer. Enslaved Heimdall. There we go. Schlaven. Nuclear Blast Records. I don't really have much to say. Enslaved our masters. 04:20:05.320 --> 04:20:09.600 and this far into their career, I would say that they are still surprising me. 04:20:10.160 --> 04:20:17.180 They're still delighting me and they're making me want to pick up Mjolnir and Hoist to the Sky in triumph. 04:20:18.280 --> 04:20:21.080 And this is one of my favorite albums that they've done. 04:20:21.820 --> 04:20:33.960 And I think that pretty much says it all because after 20 plus years to have one of their albums this high on the list, and you guys are probably going to have it either at this level or higher, is amazing. 04:20:34.360 --> 04:21:03.760 That's 20 plus years of incredible music and they're still doing it. 30. This high level. Right. Yeah. So. Yeah, the EP came out 30 years ago. Is it 30 years now? 30 years. Oh, shit. That's insane. Yeah. Yeah. So I even, that's what I mean. I even cut him short. Like I'm saying 20 plus and it's even longer than that. That's insane. Came out 30 years ago, Marcuson, and they're still younger than me. Yeah. That's fucking insane too. Yeah. It is. I don't know. 04:21:04.360 --> 04:21:33.820 I don't know how you can get any better than Enslaved when you can still produce this high quality of album year after year. And so I'm in awe. I'm in awe of them. And then on top of that, I just saw them live. And of course, they're just phenomenal live. One of the best. So number four, Enslaved. I'm dope. Matt, what do you got? All right. My number four. 04:21:34.340 --> 04:22:04.020 another made up band from Norway. I've really been on this stoner sledge kick as I mentioned. I talked about this band earlier on, oh, I don't know how to pronounce this. Hangemang is probably how it's pronounced and Ultra Ritual is the album. Reminds me a lot of Kveller Talk. Not so much in the sound, but like in the spirit, kind of super fun. But this is their first full length album. They're on ripple music. I don't know, right? So yeah, number four. I feel like Matt should have his own podcast because he doesn't. 04:22:04.540 --> 04:22:33.740 He's on a completely different plane from the rest of us. What plane is that? A-N-E or P-L-A-I-N. P-L-A-N-E. Okay. As in like, he knows so much stuff that we don't know. Because it's not real. It was like that. Yeah, but it might be. If you believe that it is, then wow. It's not a lie if you believe it. The albums he's talking about, I've listened to these around. I know. I'm just. You know what Matt does? 04:22:34.340 --> 04:23:04.300 He actually reads his email every Friday morning. That's exactly what he does. I was more obsessed with it before. Now I know I'm just too lazy, but I've known, figured out like what my lanes are. And I just look for those lanes to go. Like enough already. Fuck 75 emails. Yeah. And I don't, the problem is I do feel a little bit of guilt. Cause I am, I'm like, we talk like some of it, I just preview it and I'm like, no, I don't feel like, or honestly there, there are days like if I can't get to your album, then I'm giving up. I don't want to have to dig to get to it, to listen to it. 04:23:04.380 --> 04:23:34.260 which I know is not cool. We're all like that. That's how it is. Everybody does that shit. There's just like a billion releases out there. It's like you have a minute of my time to get to your record. But I do miss doing like super big dives into things. But I don't even, this must have been like a New Music Friday one. And it, like the first track just pulled me in. And I just keep listening to it. And this is one of those where it's like, the songs have been in my head all year. And like we talk, these 25, if 10 are still here, come year end, I'll be surprised. 04:23:34.340 --> 04:23:36.760 But I feel good about this one being there. Nice. 04:23:38.060 --> 04:23:38.600 Shout out on that. 04:23:39.480 --> 04:23:40.300 All right, my number four. 04:23:41.160 --> 04:23:49.400 Won't spend too much time, but it's bumping me up over the 20 percentile, I think, on the Doom, which is surprising for me because I haven't been a Doom fan in the last few years. 04:23:49.600 --> 04:23:51.020 There's my January album of the month. 04:23:51.400 --> 04:23:55.180 It's Tribunal, The Weight of Remembrance from 20 bucks spent. 04:23:55.820 --> 04:23:59.040 They're a Canadian Doom gothic metal band. 04:23:59.800 --> 04:24:00.920 I absolutely love the sound. 04:24:01.220 --> 04:24:31.200 It reminds me of the early 90s. Doom sound with the gothic infused elements. Both clean and harsh vocals, but the clean vocals. While it's a female singer, she's not the kind of operatic stuff. She just has good, powerful vocals. So it's not that kind of beauty and beast stuff that was coming out there in the late 90s, early 2000s. It's a good mix. Great stuff. They use cello, not sax or 04:24:31.340 --> 04:25:01.120 Somebody mentioned another horn earlier, a trumpet maybe. I can't remember what it was. It was a trumpet for airmen. Yeah. Yeah. So all these wind instruments are making their way into metal. And I personally think it's interesting as long as it doesn't become something else. But really good album. I really enjoyed it. I spun it again. I didn't think it was going to be this high. And I listened to it again a couple days ago, maybe about a week. And it was just like, fuck, I forgot how much I like this album. So it shot up. It's not a cheeky. 04:25:01.260 --> 04:25:31.180 because it already was an album of the month, but it's definitely a little sneaky on getting that high. So. Nice. I enjoy that album, John. Really good one. Matt, if you were doing well, you were muted. Sorry. Sneaky, not cheeky. Sneaky, not cheeky. Cheeky is reserved for the one you don't even see coming. So whoever's doing well. I am curious to see how Matt would do me. Oh, yeah. Well, aren't we all? Why don't you comment? 04:25:31.240 --> 04:26:01.200 Coming on Will's Pickett, number four. Number four. Oh, this one's already been mentioned. Loke, Black Flame Eternal out of Hotlanta, Georgia on Season of Mist. But that doesn't really matter because Brew Metal Will can do a wheelie on a unicycle. I did join the circus for a while. In clown shoes, by the way. I'd also really like to point out that 04:26:01.240 --> 04:26:31.200 Justin very much enjoyed and laughed at the sentence of Will saying, I'd really like to know how Matt does me. So Justin jumped right in and he was like, yeah, yeah, I want to watch that shit. We are the party that keeps giving. I will say it was, this is the one that you kept, everybody was like, Will already said this. And I was like, if I would have said it, I would have said it by this point. So yeah, it was as you, as everybody thought it was high for Will. Yeah. I will only add 04:26:35.739 --> 04:27:00.820 I saw them at Hell in the Harbor and man, they just blow it away. Like they are so good. And John, we saw them when we saw Chemist at the Songbird. Do you remember they opened up for? I've actually seen them a few times and I'm not a super fan, but. They were also at the Decibel Prefest. Yeah, we saw them there too. No, when I saw them at Hell in the Harbor, I was like, whoa, like they just blew it away. 04:27:01.240 --> 04:27:30.920 They were so good. And then I bought the album. I was like, yeah. And so, yeah, I remember them from when we saw them at Songbird with Canvas and stuff. Yeah. Hotlanta, Georgia. Thank you, man. Hotlanta. I love you. Likewise. There's a lot of bands from Atlanta. Metal bands. Atlanta's good for a lot of things. Like Mastodones. And Prog Powers. And Mastodon. Yeah, and Prog Powering. I've drank with Mastodon in Atlanta. Oh, my. 04:27:31.240 --> 04:27:32.460 I've drank in Atlanta. 04:27:33.160 --> 04:27:33.960 No, I've not mentioned. 04:27:35.420 --> 04:27:35.840 All of them? 04:27:36.080 --> 04:27:39.220 Yeah, Brand dealer pulled up next to me at the Porter Beer Bar one day, 04:27:40.120 --> 04:27:42.200 looking like he was working one off, and he just looked over and says, 04:27:42.320 --> 04:27:42.800 what are you drinking? 04:27:43.580 --> 04:27:44.740 I said, this is what I'm drinking. 04:27:44.980 --> 04:27:46.800 The next thing I know, he and I are talking for 20 minutes. 04:27:47.739 --> 04:27:48.060 Nice. 04:27:48.740 --> 04:27:51.160 Yeah, and he blew me off for his friend and came back to me. 04:27:51.540 --> 04:27:53.700 He was like, we hooked up, made out for a couple minutes. 04:27:53.820 --> 04:27:55.660 He left to go for another chick, then came back to me. 04:27:55.840 --> 04:27:56.120 Oh, cool. 04:27:57.140 --> 04:27:59.780 Did you say, like, I don't really like metal anyway? 04:28:00.840 --> 04:28:30.800 No, that's Brent Hines. No, Brent Dillon's cool. The other guy. He's actually a really cool guy. He was really nice. All right, Jay. Enslaved, Time Bell. What? Oh, tied with me. And that's not the only reason I brought it up just before we got through this round, but yeah, interesting. I don't know where to place this in the enslaved catalog yet, except that it's good and it's enslaved and they don't really fuck up or anything like that. And this record could still move up a little bit on me this year. 04:28:30.860 --> 04:28:59.560 We'll see what happens. But the truth is, I listened to it a lot when it first came out, and I probably listened to it in about at least a few weeks. So probably I need to get back to it again, which I will for end of year, but when Slay doesn't really make mistakes. So four is pretty high. Yeah, four is pretty high. And I was pretty excited about the stuff that beat it. Nice. All right. George, my number four, another volleyball, another Wilson from, 04:29:00.860 --> 04:29:30.320 United States of England on prosthetic records. Pupil Slicer Blossom. Wow. That's cheeky from you. It is. Oh, it's fucking so good. Wow. Did you post that at some point in one of the chats? I'm sure I did. I remember Pupil Slicer. Yeah. No, it's so good. Previously, they were just a straight-up grindcore band, and this album, they just completely changed lanes. 04:29:30.840 --> 04:30:00.720 And it's a little grind in there, but it's more death metal and a little bit of clean vocals and whatever else. It's really different. That's all I got to say. It's not a grindcore album at all. Interesting. I have that on my wish list for Bandcamp, but I did not get to it. You should get to it. It's not a grindcore album. You should check it out. I heard about it. I didn't hear about it from you. 04:30:00.860 --> 04:30:30.820 I don't think you've mentioned it. I have. I sent the first single to everybody. Oh, which is the last song on the album. Blossom the title track. Yeah, it will grow good him. Yeah, I don't remember that, but he just went. No. Yeah, I think I had a message from the label and I was like, I got to check that out and I just haven't done it. It is very good. So check it out and I will do that and we will move on to Justin for number three. The top reference 04:30:30.840 --> 04:30:31.180 3! 04:30:32.900 --> 04:31:02.880 All right. It is now super serious. Super. Super serial. My number three is Iron Master Weapons of Spiritual Carnage. Nice. From Sweden. Black Lion Records. April 28th. Title track is what you want to listen to if you want to check them out. They're just, again, they have their little bit more of the clean type of Euro death metal sound. They have just the right amount of symphonic shit in there where it's 04:31:02.920 --> 04:31:32.860 It's not too symphonic. The fucking guitars just rip. It's a semi-supergroup type of deal. There's guys from Carnal Forge, Scar Symmetry, and I don't remember the other band that's in it. Oh, and the drummer, I think, is from actually Dark Funeral. Wow. So you get some little black metal elements in there, too, tossed in. I just feel like if you want more of a less theatrical, more ripping, kind of behemoth vibe, 04:31:32.980 --> 04:31:36.640 I guess maybe I would throw them in there. Yeah, I just 04:31:36.940 --> 04:31:38.780 I love them and I feel like no one knows really 04:31:39.060 --> 04:31:40.860 anything about them. They were on 04:31:41.000 --> 04:31:42.680 my list. They got bumped 04:31:42.860 --> 04:31:44.420 but they were on my list. 04:31:45.639 --> 04:31:46.600 That's sad. 04:31:47.340 --> 04:31:48.860 Yes, but it happens. 04:31:50.180 --> 04:31:51.180 Really sad, dude. 04:31:52.119 --> 04:31:52.600 Sad. 04:31:53.060 --> 04:31:55.020 That's good. Listen to them. 04:31:56.220 --> 04:31:56.660 Wait, what? 04:31:57.260 --> 04:31:58.940 Oh, yeah. I said Will needs 04:31:58.940 --> 04:32:00.620 to listen to them. Yeah, he does. 04:32:01.400 --> 04:32:31.100 But now we move on to Markisan. Yes. Anything Justin says, I say yes. Whatever he asks me, I say yes. As one does. My God. Can you put on your gimp suit right now? Oh my God. You have no idea how much I love Justin. I've been getting an idea. In that way, yes. Oh my. All right. Yeah. Wilson for this one for sure. Number three. 04:32:31.380 --> 04:33:00.580 for me is Fagus Inter on Silent Future Records. They play a dark, atmospheric black metal with this eerie, hypnotic sound, venomous shrieks, and it just evokes a real emotional response in me. So the way the band arranges songs and layers them is just really mesmerizing and beautiful, even though it's a very dark black metal record. So there's a lot of great black metal bands out there. 04:33:00.640 --> 04:33:30.500 But I think the sound that Vegas creates somehow resonates with me in a different level. I think it's the way that they spent a lot of time crafting this record and like I said, layering it. And I think that shows in it. And it was my album of the month. I don't remember which month that was. March. It was probably the month that came out. I don't remember when it came out. That's a good point. I need to be logical about it. It was March. Hey, Marcus, do you know how you say Vegas in Spanish? Vegas. Las Vegas. 04:33:31.500 --> 04:34:00.600 Yeah. I love this record. I play it a lot. Literally maybe the funniest thing you've ever said on this podcast. Yes. It's not what she said. Some kind of desert humor over there. But yeah. So that's my number three. Love it. Can't wait to see what else they do. All right, Matt. My number three, I think has been mentioned once. Kettle decapitation, pterocyte. Or twine. Or a lot, which is great. I was about to say, is there is something 04:34:00.619 --> 04:34:30.480 I can play Matt. Matt can secretly message me your picks and I can just say one of them. We can make some up together. Yeah, let me do that. I will say that in the most snuggie field. Do you have a liquid snuggie with you right now? Yes, yes, I do. I'm telling you, Matt, we're on to something with this liquid snuggie. My name is Matt Stewart. I'm going to put, I'm going to woo you to sleep. You don't need him to send this. 04:34:30.641 --> 04:34:35.881 just make some shit up real quick oh that's true my next album my number two album is willie 04:34:36.980 --> 04:34:41.881 fistegash wait i thought we're doing number three still number three i want to talk about cattle 04:34:42.000 --> 04:34:48.381 decapitation yeah everybody's already talked about it i as i've talked like i i some of the older 04:34:48.619 --> 04:34:52.539 cattle decapitation more than the newer stuff but i hate saying that because i still think the new stuff 04:34:52.641 --> 04:34:57.779 is really amazing i still think this album is amazing to me cattle decapitation is this entity that 04:34:57.939 --> 04:35:27.180 Just their whole vibe, their sound, their feel to me is I just want all of it. And so they really can do no wrong. Again, watching them open their set when they're in town and it's like the beginning of the Jurassic Park theme music. And Travis just comes out and I'm like, this is amazing. Of course, that was like their whole theme was Life Will Find A Way. But they played in it literally felt like about five minutes. It was just, it was good. It was great. But yeah, number three, had a decapitation. 04:35:27.619 --> 04:35:28.061 Terrasite. 04:35:30.100 --> 04:35:33.160 Even if it was five minutes, they still must have managed to get about 60 riffs in them. 04:35:34.180 --> 04:35:35.680 At least if you go back to Anthropocene. 04:35:35.961 --> 04:35:36.721 That's true. 04:35:37.840 --> 04:35:38.020 John. 04:35:39.000 --> 04:35:39.320 All right. 04:35:39.600 --> 04:35:42.619 My number three, continuing in my volleyball. 04:35:43.939 --> 04:35:44.881 I like to collect them. 04:35:45.480 --> 04:35:46.180 They're from Norway. 04:35:46.500 --> 04:35:47.221 They're a nuclear blast. 04:35:48.199 --> 04:35:49.340 Their name is Enslaved. 04:35:50.738 --> 04:35:52.000 Heimdall, Progressive Black Metal. 04:35:52.141 --> 04:35:52.520 Oh, wait. 04:35:53.561 --> 04:35:54.680 We all know who enslaved us. 04:35:55.480 --> 04:36:25.020 Not much to say other than they're really consistent, especially when they're proggy, which I like because I'm the prog guy. And the song Forest Dweller is just killer. And I was supposed to see them when they came through town, but I had to cancel at the last minute and not go. So bummed about that, but I had more pressing matters to deal with. I'm really surprised by that one, John, because I remember you saying that I think it's going to take a really exceptional records to topple and slave from the number one on my list. 04:36:25.039 --> 04:36:54.461 So I'm curious. But I also said the door was open. Of course, the door is always open, but now I'm really curious to see. I apologize because I don't remember which song it is, but somebody besides me has got to be getting off of the beginning of one of the songs on the record is a Total Rain song vibe by Led Zeppelin. It's got a piano and almost the exact same guitar riff coming in. I'll figure out which one it is. Yeah, let us know because I want to go back and listen and hear that. Yeah, that's crazy. 04:36:55.039 --> 04:37:24.939 Yeah. All right. Will. My number three as voiced by Matt. Hello. My number three is enforced. War remains. Nice. In Richmond, motherfucking Virginia. Four times on. Nice. On Century Media Records. If you don't like this album, I think you should go fuck yourself. I would say that. All right. Give me about two minutes. We'll be right back. Yeah. 04:37:25.061 --> 04:37:54.900 Yeah. Yeah. Actually, it was on my list. I like how Will's trying to be Matt and then just reverted to Will. Yeah. Fuck you. There he is. It's just Matt doing Will being Will doing Matt. Nothing makes sense anymore, John. The one thing that makes sense. What's interesting about Enforced is I tried to get them to play the Atlas, not the Atlas, the Adjoice show, the Adjoice show that I book every year. And they're like, yeah, we want to do it. And then like, oh, we just got, 04:37:55.039 --> 04:37:57.260 offered a tour the same day. 04:37:57.420 --> 04:37:58.061 The start of the same day. 04:37:58.779 --> 04:38:01.561 And so Adroit is going to have a mid-year. 04:38:02.820 --> 04:38:03.320 Mid-year? 04:38:03.881 --> 04:38:05.420 That's a crazy concept. 04:38:05.900 --> 04:38:07.721 They're going to have a mid-year dawn of the dark day. 04:38:08.680 --> 04:38:10.061 In September, which is not mid-year? 04:38:11.039 --> 04:38:12.160 Mid-year for them. 04:38:12.260 --> 04:38:13.500 Three quarters year. 04:38:13.980 --> 04:38:14.279 What? 04:38:14.539 --> 04:38:15.721 Mid-year for them. 04:38:15.801 --> 04:38:16.580 So March. 04:38:17.080 --> 04:38:20.279 It's not mid-year unless it's now or July. 04:38:20.699 --> 04:38:22.240 The half-year anniversary. 04:38:22.600 --> 04:38:24.279 It's still not half of the year. 04:38:25.580 --> 04:38:53.381 It would be a fall celebration. I don't know what you're talking about. When brew metal will does division, there are no remainders. When the guy tells me to book his show, I try to get enforced again. And they're like, yes, shit. So I'm trying to get inner armor and or horrendous and or I've never, 04:38:53.721 --> 04:39:23.699 I've never booked the same band twice yet. I've never double booked a band yet. But this is a year. It'd be nice to see horrendous when it's not 13 degrees out. It'd be nice to see Under Armour ever. I want Alex to be able to feel his fingers while he's pumping. Oh my God, he came all this stage. I can't feel anything. That's my pick. Enforce. Go. Jay. Best way to get on my list and the best way to get high on my list is to show me a good time. And this is a punchy. They just say, let's get high and show me 04:39:23.740 --> 04:39:25.420 a good time. Let's get high. 04:39:25.881 --> 04:39:26.779 You want to get high? 04:39:27.721 --> 04:39:28.939 I like cocaine. 04:39:29.699 --> 04:39:31.020 That's the glory home motto. 04:39:31.779 --> 04:39:33.061 Seriously, a lot of cocaine. 04:39:34.359 --> 04:39:37.300 This is just a great record, and it came out of nowhere for me, 04:39:37.500 --> 04:39:40.240 and I think it's going to latch on to a couple other people, 04:39:40.260 --> 04:39:44.340 and I know it has the world at large, but it's not a complex record. 04:39:44.380 --> 04:39:48.600 It's not complicated, but that doesn't have to be to come off as kick-ass as this one does. 04:39:49.140 --> 04:39:50.420 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. 04:39:50.780 --> 04:39:51.200 Oh, yeah. 04:39:53.060 --> 04:40:21.480 This fucking record is so fun. I just love it. And I, there's just so many kick-ass grooves and riffs in it. And it's also manages somehow to be a concept record about global warming. It's just great. I love it. I got a list of this record. It's so good. You know, like, Will's going to like it too if he hasn't listened to it yet. I think you and Will especially are going to like this record. I don't know. The name just annoys me. It's just tongue-in-cheek. The name is a joke and that makes it even better. 04:40:21.580 --> 04:40:49.160 There was a guy tonight at the show at Atlas who his whole backpatch was the king lizard wizard or whatever. It's good, man. I'm telling you, it's a lot of fun. So totally belongs where I put it. It's going to stay high with me all year. It's not going to change your life, but you can have a good time listening to it. Super fun. I like cocaine. Seriously. All right. I'll listen to it. Just one line. All right. I'll listen to it. That was like a threat. 04:40:52.860 --> 04:41:21.540 My number three surprisingly has been mentioned once from Peaceville Records from the country of Norway. Doddheim's God Black Medium Current. There it is. I knew that was coming. Yes. Of course it was. Come on. It's fucking crazy. The right kind of weirdo. The right kind of weirdo. It's good. I like it. 04:41:21.560 --> 04:41:51.540 I like it. Yeah. All right. Let's go back to Justin for number two. We got two more to go. We can do this under seven hours. Once the software gets a hold of this. I thought we'd be done earlier, but no, we waited for Will. Oh, really? That wasn't that long. No. Hey, we got to do seven hours in Wildin bitch. Can we finish already? I'll go as long as it needs to go. Yeah. So my number 04:41:51.580 --> 04:42:19.100 Two has been mentioned before, but was far too low for them. They should have had it higher, but whatever. It's fine. The band is God Disease, and the album is Apocalyptic Doom. They're from Finland. Label is Gruesome Records. Came out March 10th. Yeah, this is my Death Doom pick so far this year. 04:42:21.580 --> 04:42:22.920 It's a nice pocket for me where 04:42:24.100 --> 04:42:25.100 there's not too much 04:42:25.580 --> 04:42:27.220 doom where it starts to meander 04:42:27.520 --> 04:42:29.440 and get a little distracted 04:42:29.880 --> 04:42:31.580 because it's being a little too 04:42:31.680 --> 04:42:33.600 Yeah, exactly. This just has the right 04:42:33.780 --> 04:42:35.320 amount. I really love it 04:42:35.620 --> 04:42:36.820 and actually it's now 04:42:37.020 --> 04:42:38.860 it's funny listening back to it now 04:42:39.280 --> 04:42:41.380 it also now is attached to 04:42:41.380 --> 04:42:42.860 a good memory because I remember 04:42:43.300 --> 04:42:44.780 we listened to it 04:42:45.280 --> 04:42:47.680 on the ride back from 04:42:48.282 --> 04:42:49.798 Decibel one day 04:42:49.800 --> 04:43:19.760 in Will's car. Will threw it on. Yeah. I feel like... I know Marcus, I'm in Georgia. I think we're in the car. Yeah, I remember that. I think Jeff and Steph were in there too. Yeah. And we were all grooving out to it. And I'm like, this is cool. But either way, it's a really fucking good Death Doom record. This is the type of Death Doom that I very much enjoy. Check out... Was it King Lizard? It was God. No, it was God Disease was the band. And if you're going to check out his song, I would say check out Feudal Effort to Breed. 04:43:19.820 --> 04:43:49.500 That's one of my go-to tracks on there. Hey, Matt, that was on my list, right? Yes, sure was. Thank you. And it was too low. It's a great record. I toyed with it being on my list. It's just a little too straightforward for me. I would have liked a little bit of more color in it, but it is fucking good for what it is. It's too straight. I want more color in it. It's too fucking basic for me. 04:43:49.820 --> 04:44:17.460 Bill is officially an old man now because he has to say this. Hey, Matt, did I like that? I know. He doesn't even know his own fucking list. No, I know. I have God disease. Oh, man. All right. Mark us on number two. Oh, my turn. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, this is probably my favorite find of the year, and it's Sarcoptes' Prayers to Oblivion on Transempting Obscurity Records. 04:44:19.820 --> 04:44:49.720 I had unfortunately never heard when it dropped. So I came to them late. But I'm glad that I did because this is a phenomenal, monstrous introduction to the band. This album is a war cry of black metal, but it's also a lot more than that. It's very ambitious. It absolutely crushes with mammoth, I would say thrashy riffs, really ultra skilled demonic drumming, probably my favorite drumming on any album. 04:44:49.820 --> 04:44:53.080 this year, and awesome howled vocals. 04:44:53.660 --> 04:45:03.160 But it also incorporates these haunting orchestral key parts, and it delivers some of the best sinister breakdowns I've heard this year. 04:45:04.000 --> 04:45:12.560 So it's a sophisticated attack, but it still has that primal energy to it, and it never really stops ripping your skull apart. 04:45:13.520 --> 04:45:15.100 And John mentioned this a little bit earlier. 04:45:15.220 --> 04:45:45.140 One of the things I dig about this record is that John, me, Matt, we listened to it in the hotel room, along with the other record that John mentioned at the Decibel Fest. It was the second day of the Decibel Fest. We left early, we went to the room, drank beers, and we threw this thing on Will's sexy little speaker. Before that, we had some good-ass tacos, and it was a good time. I liked that. I think I only watched one band that second day of the Decibel Fest. It was really about just hanging out. 04:45:45.200 --> 04:45:48.320 with everybody and friends and just having a good time and 04:45:49.060 --> 04:45:53.960 it's just a cool moment for me because I don't listen to records with friends much anymore 04:45:54.260 --> 04:45:57.160 in college when I really started getting into metal 04:45:58.210 --> 04:46:01.340 I was into hardcore before that but I really started getting into metal in college 04:46:02.340 --> 04:46:08.120 my buddies and I we'd drink beers we'd hang out in the suite and we would spin records 04:46:08.960 --> 04:46:11.278 most of the nights and just talk about them and hang out 04:46:11.280 --> 04:46:40.900 So it was really nice to be able to do that with John and Matt again. And I threw this thing on and they dug it. And that was cool that I could share something with them that I hadn't really heard before. But I just think this is it's number two on my list. So I think it's just phenomenal. I just it's not really anything quite like it yet this year where it like merges all these different genres into one. So yeah, so Coptes, I think they're just they've got a bright future. And this album is really it was almost number one. 04:46:41.300 --> 04:47:08.860 But I couldn't put it there because I have another album that just I don't know if it's going to be toppled. So there you go. All right, Matt. Matt's number two pick will be played by William. Matt's number two pick. Majesties. Vast reaches unclaimed. This is a blackened death. Like sarcophagus of sarcophagus. 04:47:12.478 --> 04:47:41.260 and just ecstasy at the same time. Release March 3rd, 2023. This is just pure bliss. Pure blackened death bliss. I just got to say, Matt, you sound sexy as hell. Matt, you take it over. That's great. I knew this would be on Matt's list and I forgot because I had it on my list a little bit earlier and I was like, where are Matt's going to be? And I forgot about it. And now here it is. Number two. I like it at number two. But again, like there's between 04:47:41.300 --> 04:48:11.240 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, all the way down to 10. There are days where they just all change up. Anything would work. But I really, like Mark Solomon was saying, from that first single that came out, I just was like head over heels. I think all I could say was the word gush because I didn't have any other words to say. And I still feel that way. It's still a very solid album. I think we talk about, and I use the term like worship, like there was a band, I can't think of their name, but they were Total Carcass Worship. And while I thought they sounded good, I just have a hard time attaching myself to something that sounds so close to something. 04:48:11.300 --> 04:48:41.180 something that I love and I would prefer to just... There was a Japanese band, I think. Yeah, exactly. Colony, I think, or Leper Colony, maybe, or something. No, but... No. But they're on my year-end list or mid-year list, or I don't know. I mentioned them at some point because, yes, it's the first band that I've ever seen that was Carcass Worshine. Totally. Yeah. Totally. Deadpan. Yeah, like almost note for note at times. 04:48:41.300 --> 04:49:10.840 It was almost scary. The thing with Vagicies is I feel like you can, for sure with Tanner, you can hear a Besequia coming through in this. It's subtle. And unfortunately, I don't. I know Carl's an anti-verse. The other two guys are in anti-verse and in ex-storm. And I know in ex-storm a little bit better, but I wasn't hearing that as much coming through. But it just, the sound was just so warm and inviting. And I just, I literally could not stop listening to it. So that is why it's my number two. Since that was Will as Matt, can I just add a Matt fact? 04:49:11.280 --> 04:49:41.180 The most important thing to know, which is his tears cure cancer. And that's why it's such a shame that he's never. Okay. I'm so confused. Jane needs a beer, clearly. Yeah. I just want to say I definitely agree with Matt said the thing with this album is that I love that sound back in the day. And I feel like Majesties does it as good, if not better. And that doesn't happen that. 04:49:41.280 --> 04:50:11.240 where you have this nostalgia for the sound, you love those albums, you spin them a ton. You don't think you're ever going to really capture that again. We've been talking about Bolt Thrower. Nobody can duplicate that sound. Nobody can get to that level or go beyond. With Majesties, I feel like maybe they've done that. Yeah, they tapped into the feeling, not necessarily just aping the sounds of that time. Yeah. They did. They got the feeling of the sound, the basics of the sound, and then they took it. 04:50:11.480 --> 04:50:40.540 to another level, a more modern level. And it's almost like the next progression of that sound. Clearly it is because it's been so long since it happened. But if it would have happened at the time, like that's what you would have wanted it to be. And that's what I like about it. They didn't just do it and just ape it. They made it their own and maybe even made it a little bit better. Agreed. All right. I think it's Jon's turn. 04:50:40.620 --> 04:50:41.440 It is my turn. 04:50:42.620 --> 04:50:45.280 So my last two picks are definitely going to be Volleyballs. 04:50:45.900 --> 04:50:46.720 And that's quite a right. 04:50:46.780 --> 04:50:47.000 Wilson! 04:50:47.820 --> 04:50:48.020 Yes. 04:50:48.360 --> 04:50:51.540 As a matter of fact, my number two just dropped yesterday. 04:50:52.400 --> 04:50:52.780 What? 04:50:53.200 --> 04:50:55.340 However, I've had the album since last week. 04:50:56.160 --> 04:50:59.220 Because Will-A-Tip rules as a label. 04:50:59.920 --> 04:51:01.740 They set it out real early. 04:51:01.760 --> 04:51:02.680 I got it on Saturday. 04:51:03.700 --> 04:51:05.880 And I've been spinning it nonstop since then. 04:51:06.020 --> 04:51:35.980 I also have been spinning a couple songs from it prior to the day had dropped when I bought the album on Bandcamp. My number two is the Anchor It. It all began with Loneliness. They're a Canadian progressive metal band. This band throws the whole fucking kitchen sink at you when it comes to progressive music. I think Opeth meets Between the Buried and Me meets The Ocean meets Rush all mixed together in one big old pot of 04:51:36.500 --> 04:51:37.420 and it's awesome. 04:51:38.040 --> 04:51:39.420 It's just all over the place, 04:51:39.780 --> 04:51:41.280 but the songs all have structure. 04:51:41.820 --> 04:51:42.080 It's just, 04:51:42.220 --> 04:51:46.640 they find a way to incorporate all those types of influences without 04:51:46.900 --> 04:51:48.100 sounding like any of those bands. 04:51:49.320 --> 04:51:49.720 There's big, 04:51:49.830 --> 04:51:50.320 heavy riffs. 04:51:50.420 --> 04:51:51.200 There's tons of keyboards. 04:51:51.640 --> 04:51:52.380 There's saxes. 04:51:52.500 --> 04:51:53.200 There's flutes. 04:51:53.820 --> 04:51:54.000 Yeah, 04:51:54.140 --> 04:51:54.560 there's flutes. 04:51:55.360 --> 04:51:59.220 I don't fucking care because Jethro Tull had flutes and they're about 04:51:59.330 --> 04:52:01.160 as metal as you can get for a prog band. 04:52:01.270 --> 04:52:02.340 It's one time at band camp, 04:52:02.600 --> 04:52:03.980 I stuck a flute in my, 04:52:05.060 --> 04:52:05.820 but we, 04:52:05.940 --> 04:52:34.360 We've all been to that band camp. The musicianship's awesome. There's a lot of depth and complexity to the songs, but there's not a lot of meandering and the excesses that sometimes plague progressive metal. Tons of textures and levels and layers. Just fucking awesome. Will-a-Tip. I usually associate Will-a-Tip with more Death-y stuff. I know. Sometimes I think of the tip of Will. Oh, yeah. Death-y. I think about the tip of Will all the time. 04:52:41.242 --> 04:52:44.960 I'm pretty sure this will be my June album of the month. 04:52:46.350 --> 04:52:49.520 So don't worry, John, if you hang out with Will long enough, sooner or later, you're going to get the show. 04:52:49.700 --> 04:52:54.220 It's number two. If it's not your June album of the month, what the fuck is he going to replace that? 04:52:54.420 --> 04:52:56.520 Because I don't know if George is going to get this done tomorrow. 04:52:56.680 --> 04:52:59.240 And then people are like, what? That's his album of the month. They haven't announced it yet. 04:53:00.282 --> 04:53:02.040 I'm just turning into a Muppet there. That was funny. 04:53:03.320 --> 04:53:32.340 I have no clue what my album of the month of January is. I haven't even listened to it. You better figure it out because it's already June 24th. And it was cool. You put it up on the New Music Friday in the Anchor Red. They responded, which was cool. And I need to listen to that one. I haven't listened to it. It just came out. Yeah. But like I said, Willitip is really good about sending their stuff out early. Nice. I always appreciate that. So it's cool. I dig it. It's right in my wheelhouse. And I could have easily taken my number one had it come out, say, a month ago. 04:53:32.580 --> 04:54:02.060 You should have sent us. So you said it was in your wheelhouse? It was in my wheelhouse, yeah. Ow! Your wheelhouse? Yeah. Let's move on to Will then. That house is now a big old cavern. Look at him. I was like, what? I'm going to go real quick because I'm expiring fast. There's only two more. You can do it. I know. Trust me, we want to finish two, Will. Perk up! Street tombs, reclusive decay. There you go. 04:54:04.762 --> 04:54:32.540 I think we know some people who may be in street tubes. Galen. This is an amazing record. Black and Thrash. Perfection. All right. Jago. There are those bands that show up on people's lists and stuff. I don't know. You just never get around to it or you don't touch it close enough or whatever. Then suddenly you do and you're like, okay, I totally get it. It's only been mentioned once. I wondered if it would be mentioned 04:54:32.920 --> 04:55:02.460 more, because I like it so much, but I guess it doesn't matter either way. It might be surprise you a little bit. Thy Catafelk, Allfold. Nice. It's such a good fucking record. There are so many interesting, deep, heavy, kick-ass moments on this record. Two of us. I love it. It's not just a weird instrumentation and stuff. Not weird, but there's a little flutesy stuff in there and stuff. But it's underneath this really well-written riff monster of a record. Clearly, I need to hear this. 04:55:04.782 --> 04:55:32.340 So Jay, do you enjoy the moments that get very Eastern European with the kind of keyboards and the folky stuff? And it just, I start to laugh and then he just beats you over the head with a huge riff right after that. And then he blows your face off. And it could almost come off as like weird. It works. Let's just put it that way. That's the best way I can say it. And you can really get emotionally involved in the flicker. And it's got some soaring highs on it where you just like, oh, fuck. So yeah. 04:55:32.560 --> 04:56:02.500 I'm a convert for sure to this band. You'll probably think the last album a lot too. I know. And I will go back and explore for sure. Nice. So my number two, I don't know why nobody's mentioned it. It's an independent album from, I think it's like Minnesota. I don't know. Yeah. Here it comes. Oak Pantheon, the absence. Nice. Holy shit. 04:56:02.580 --> 04:56:31.460 How many is that now? Enough. It's enough. I'm surprised it's not George's number one, actually. It was in contention. That's at least six. Yeah. I think it's six, yeah. Justin has crappy, clean singing. Oh, God. You didn't even make it past the first two minutes of the album to hear the harsh vocals. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think this is definitely going to be high on our list. Oh, yeah. Nice. All right. 04:56:32.560 --> 04:57:01.540 that just the other day. And I was like, oh, this is awesome. This music is awesome. And like, oh, and then. Yeah. Wait, shitty. Matt, can you do Will again? Yeah. Do him again. He's fucking cranky. Jesus. Yeah. All right. Here we are. There we go. Now it's getting serious. It's so serious. It's number one. No, John. Now it's getting serious. Justin, what do you got? All right. So my number one. 04:57:02.580 --> 04:57:32.500 - Soccer is a death metal band. - What? - That is not- - Really? Are you serious? - That is not- - Are you sure? - Yeah, that has not been mentioned yet. The band is Nothingness. The album is Superliminal. There you go. Minnesota, Everlasting Spew Records came out January 20th. Yeah, this just kind of hits all the sweet spots for me. It's got- they pull from sound, 04:57:32.780 --> 04:58:02.400 from everyone so that it doesn't necessarily sound like anyone. They are cool with going into doom territory, grind territory, blackened territory. They kind of like, I feel like that's also why I wore my half shirt because I feel like they fall into that category for me of just like that newer blend of extreme metal that has a lot of the sounds that you love, but it feels fresh. And yeah, I, 04:58:02.580 --> 04:58:32.540 It came out in January and it's pretty much stuck with me the entire time. Temple of Broken Swords is a great track if you want to check them out. Has some a little bit more of their Death Doom spices in that particular track. And yeah, it's definitely my number one. Awesome. That's really cool that it came out in January and it's nothing's to throw it in. It's all challenges by the wayside. I like that. Yeah. All right, Markisan, what's your 04:58:32.560 --> 04:59:02.420 Number One. Yeah, my number one. Listen, every once in a while, there's an album that comes along that makes me feel like a motherfucking sorcerer inside. And it's Funerals, Let the Earth Be Silent. I've never heard anything like this band in metal. They play a chilling, ritualistic doom with a hypnotic shoegaze and an ethereal drone mixed in. They're a band I've actually listened to, 04:59:02.580 --> 04:59:04.340 for a long time. 04:59:05.100 --> 04:59:06.900 But up until this record, they weren't metal. 04:59:07.120 --> 04:59:10.980 They added a heavy guitar sound and they fucking broke bad for doom. 04:59:11.970 --> 04:59:14.240 And that just doesn't happen very often. 04:59:14.250 --> 04:59:18.360 We usually see bands get less heavy over time, not more heavy. 04:59:19.440 --> 04:59:25.400 But I'm really happy that they did embrace the dark side because the atmosphere that funerals create, 04:59:25.430 --> 04:59:28.760 some Let the Earth Be Silent, just really speaks to something inside me. 04:59:29.420 --> 04:59:59.040 It's like a manifestation of all the dark, mysterious corners of my brain. And I felt a connection to this band since they started playing music. And now that they're a metal band, I feel the spell and the sorcery of their song craft even more. Nice. Yeah, it was not a doubt for me. It was really interesting to see a band that I've really enjoyed move into metal, which is my preferred form of music. And it's okay. This is everything I've ever loved. One. 05:00:01.138 --> 05:00:28.340 Awesome. Matty? My numero uno. I would say that this band, including this release, their last three releases have been my number one. We're in the number one position. And in official capacity, that's something like a mid-year. That's also a band from Norway. Not to be confused with the band Enslaved. My number one is Enslaved. And the album is Heimdall. Heimdall. Heimdall. 05:00:30.260 --> 05:00:59.380 So yeah, I think for me, just the progression of their sound has been so organic, and they really are creeping into more of that. And Jen, you mentioned it a bit like I love Aranci Pazuzu because I love psychedelic elements. And I feel like those psychedelic, not their psychedelic elements, but they're just like psychedelic elements that are weaving into their progressive sound, kind of like fuzzies, warm and fuzzies, but also just have the contrast is so good, like with their clean vocals. And then you just have, I can't think of his name, but just his, yeah, just his 05:00:59.420 --> 05:01:02.000 I just love that sound. 05:01:02.640 --> 05:01:04.360 Yeah, like a Snuggie Dahlia. 05:01:04.860 --> 05:01:05.000 Exactly. 05:01:05.180 --> 05:01:09.600 Both you and John made comments that prompt me to say something, 05:01:09.820 --> 05:01:11.820 which I felt already, but I wonder if you guys agree, 05:01:12.180 --> 05:01:14.640 that the record this most reminds me of is Vertebrae. 05:01:15.660 --> 05:01:15.880 Yes. 05:01:17.000 --> 05:01:19.240 They've gone a little bit more towards that psyche thing, 05:01:19.340 --> 05:01:20.960 which there was a lot more of that on Vertebrae. 05:01:21.500 --> 05:01:23.120 And that was my first Enslaved album, 05:01:23.260 --> 05:01:26.060 so I always hold a special place with that one. 05:01:26.120 --> 05:01:27.720 It's its own thing, too, don't get me wrong. 05:01:28.060 --> 05:01:28.300 Exactly. 05:01:28.660 --> 05:01:28.780 Yeah. 05:01:29.260 --> 05:01:58.800 But yeah, I was literally driving. I had dropped my kid off for theater this morning and I was driving home because I was trying to like, God, I got to listen to all this stuff again. So it's fresh in my head and listening to it. Like, oh, this reminds me of Vertebrae. Yeah, totally. I know we say this all the time, but these guys have made so many good records at this point. It's just stupid. It's just one of the most consistent careers in metal. That's absolutely dumb. I want a shitty album. I think it's going to be our number one for me here for sure. No shitty albums. Yeah, that's the crazy thing about it. 05:01:58.840 --> 05:02:28.360 All those years, 30 years, no shitty albums. Even the ones I'm not big on are still really good albums. Still better than most pedal albums, right? It's crazy. Well, John, what you got? All right, my number one, I'll do it fast. It's my April album of the month. Just for some reason, this album's sticking with me big time. I'm just enjoying it for the obvious reasons I'll say here in a second. And that is Stormhaven, Blindsight off of M&O Music. They're from France. 05:02:30.180 --> 05:02:58.540 It's their fourth album. It's progressive metal with some melodic death, not much, but it scratches the opeth, kind of circa Blackwater Park Deliverance itch a little with a lot of atmospheric keyboard synth work in there, but none of that cheesy shit. Cheesy shit. None of that cheesy shit. Killer Riffs, the playing's great. They added some more clean singing, so Will, you can keep on driving by. But there's some just massive riffs. 05:02:58.580 --> 05:03:28.560 If you're a fan of that era of OPEV, they're not doing that anymore. This band is not a copy of the band. They've got their own thing. Some of their stuff is blackened a little bit. Not much, but just a little. It just hits the sweet spot for me. Whether it stays at number one is debatable, but it's definitely going to still list for me. It's going to list high. Nice. Good stock. Will, what you got? My number one, very quickly, Obituary, Dying of Everything. I love Obituary. I didn't really 05:03:28.600 --> 05:03:32.420 I just put it at number one because 05:03:32.800 --> 05:03:34.360 it's obituary. Because it's obituary. 05:03:35.120 --> 05:03:36.820 Because it's obituary. That's it. 05:03:37.820 --> 05:03:38.260 There you go. 05:03:39.800 --> 05:03:42.260 My number one, you could guess, because I haven't heard it, 05:03:42.680 --> 05:03:44.580 I haven't said it yet, but I don't expect you to remember 05:03:44.780 --> 05:03:46.660 everything I've said and not said, but I think 05:03:46.720 --> 05:03:48.600 it's just as good as the last one. I know 05:03:49.282 --> 05:03:50.700 Markisan your points were well 05:03:50.840 --> 05:03:52.580 taken. That's not a spist pumping, 05:03:52.800 --> 05:03:54.780 but that's okay. It's got, it still has the same 05:03:55.100 --> 05:03:56.820 level of emotion for me 05:03:57.020 --> 05:03:58.440 and how well they write, blah, blah, blah. 05:03:59.280 --> 05:04:00.580 I can love these guys. 05:04:00.780 --> 05:04:00.880 Yeah. 05:04:01.760 --> 05:04:04.460 Power and Might, I think it's the perfect follow-up to the last record. 05:04:04.840 --> 05:04:09.280 And they've added a lot of elements, but they're still just the phrasing. 05:04:09.380 --> 05:04:10.740 The singer uses the weirdest phrasing. 05:04:10.820 --> 05:04:11.560 I love his voice. 05:04:12.100 --> 05:04:13.120 All their songs are catchy. 05:04:13.280 --> 05:04:16.320 They all have something that sticks in my head like an earworm. 05:04:17.080 --> 05:04:24.520 And to me, this is the equivalent of, as mentioned, under a different guy's peace of mind coming out after a member of the beast. 05:04:24.720 --> 05:04:25.880 So I can't wait to be a slave. 05:04:26.400 --> 05:04:55.840 I literally think these guys are working at that level of quality. And so fucking love Megatown store. Was prepared to be put, let down by this record and was not. So. Nice. It had a good showing because it's been on three lists. Three lists, yeah. Yeah. But it's pretty low, which I totally get why people may not like it as much as me, but. I jade it. It's going to be hard for it to, for anything to knock it off. That's how much I like it. Nice. Yeah. So you've been saying that. I don't think there's anything to knock it off. 05:04:56.400 --> 05:05:26.200 You still got six months to go. You never know, Jay, but that's cool. And like I said, I'm going to revisit it some more because sometimes they put out that album that's after that first one that you just really love and you're not into it as much, but you have to re-listen to it and understand what they're trying to accomplish with the second album, what they're trying to do with it a little bit more that's different from the first album. And sometimes that takes time for me. I don't know. I'll say it's one of my favorite bands to come along in the last 10 years. 05:05:26.400 --> 05:05:55.760 Easy. Like that. I think it goes out of fucking good. Damn. Listen, it was number one on your year end when that first album came out, and now there's number one on your mid-year. That doesn't get much better. Doesn't get much better. My number one. Any fucking guesses what that is? Stormhaven. And Slavid? And Slavid. Heimdall. There we go. There it is. That's it. All right. Good night. That's all I need to know. I love you guys. 05:05:56.400 --> 05:06:25.620 Wow, he really, he's just out. He's totally out. Yeah. He literally came in. He left to go to a concert and set it up. Called us from his car, got in and almost passed out at the end. He was on for a total of about an hour and it was long. But at least he was here. We had his arms behind his head. I'm like, you look like you're getting like the most boring blowjob I've ever seen in my life. And see, he left early and he missed that. I think it's pretty clear. 05:06:26.440 --> 05:06:56.380 rule the day here. Oh, yes. Yeah. Absolutely. So often do. That was, yeah. I think this is my third enslaved number one in a row. It was four higher on a lot of our lists. That's crazy. Four higher, yeah. But I mean, my third in a row. Yeah. So. I love enslaved, but they're very, I connect with certain records and not other records. I'm not quite as consistent with people. I love the last one made my year end, but this one for some reason just didn't connect 05:06:56.400 --> 05:07:26.160 with me. I think maybe something with the production choices or something just didn't let it kind of latch on to me like the last one did. But I love certain records from them that I just, you know, love. Absolutely. Totally, dude. Yeah. That's all right, man. Yeah, so that's going to be pretty high up there. What are some of the ones we heard pretty high up? Pantheon. Pantheon's going to be up there. Fires in the Distance. Fires in the Distance will have a good showing. Cattle Decapitation will be pretty high. Oh, Cattle Decapitation will probably be number two. 05:07:26.400 --> 05:07:56.380 I think Gorod got a pretty decent showing surprisingly yeah I didn't expect that sermon too surprisingly void ceremony obituary is going to be higher than you're expecting yeah yeah hey let's not forget that clean singing from LA passion horde oh yeah it's gonna it's gonna be up there I meant that I honestly majesties was on my list and fell off so that's interesting that you guys said it's so high so I need to bring more attention the one thing I find the one thing I find interesting at least for me 05:07:56.380 --> 05:08:25.240 up to this point is that there's a couple EPs out there that are like, I wish that we can't. I wish I would count EPs because I feel like I would be like, these would be really high up there. Hyperdontia and like probably the best progressive death record for me, release for me, I think this year, fucking Lunar Chamber. Lunar Chamber is awesome. Awesome stuff. I feel stupid about what was Will's EP that bandwagon like. All Father. 05:08:25.340 --> 05:08:54.880 I honestly probably should have put that on EP or not. I love those guys. I have it on my EPs. It's a top EP for me, but yeah, it's a little short of being a full album. By the way, where are they at? Does that mean they're making a new one? I don't think so. They take a while to do their albums, so I think this is it. I do think there's some game changers coming out in the second half of the year. It's already been mentioned, but I think there's some more fucked up stuff going to come up and screw some lists up. Yeah, that new Earn record, I'm really looking forward to. 05:08:54.920 --> 05:09:24.880 Yeah, the songs are pretty good. There's some band called Cannibal Corpse coming out. I don't know. Blue Doll Snored's got an album. I think they just mentioned them. Our lists are going to be completely different at the end of the year. It's going to be really interesting to see what hangs on and what gets dropped. Yeah, like Outer Heaven, Uwata's coming out with one too. Oh, I forgot. Celestial Sanctuary's got an album. Fenn's got an album. Oh, speaking of good modern mellow death bands, that Astral Born is coming out with a new album. 05:09:24.920 --> 05:09:54.880 Yeah, I love Astro Ball. Their last one was on my top 25. Yeah, it was on mine too, yeah. That's good. That's really good. Godthroom. Oh yeah, Godthroom, because Decimal's putting out the LP. Not to be the uncle guy in the room, but Judas Priest album was in the can. Yeah. Richie Fulton, this is Rob, sounds like amazing on it. We all liked Firepower, man. I love Firepower. That's my favorite one in years. It's my favorite one too. It's probably, it's my favorite Rob return record without question. Oh, it's all the way back. 05:09:56.218 --> 05:10:24.420 It's gonna be interesting because I actually struggled with this one because I feel like there's a lot of really great records in the first half of the year. It's a lot of good stuff and it's got a room. It's gonna have to you're gonna have to make room somehow on your list. Yeah, I'm still searching. I'm still searching for my like I said, my black metal proper type of record because I don't I feel like I usually have at least two or three and I don't have any right now and same with sludgy stuff too. Yeah. 05:10:25.798 --> 05:10:54.900 The Black Braid, I have high hopes for that. I think it was number one on Matt's list, the first album. It didn't make my list. I felt like they could do a little bit more. The songs that have come out so far on the second album are way more epic. I have really high hopes for the new album. It's more what I would want from Black Metal. We'll see. Based on excitement for tracks heard off, I thought Black Braid was in my top five, so I'm totally 05:10:57.378 --> 05:11:24.900 I expect this new horrendous record to be a fucking monster dude that advanced track was fucked up there's the second one out Jay okay I'll go look yeah I think when I saw them live a few months ago they played a new one it was pretty sick yeah cool I expect horrendous to to be so good that it's probably going to be a contender for like top five status for a lot of us yeah because we just love that band there's just there's so good just based on what I've heard too yeah and I think this is 05:11:24.920 --> 05:11:54.780 That's going to be a big jump forward for them. Let's put it that way. That's what I hear in those advanced trips. And I wasn't as big a fan of the last album as I was the one before it. I just didn't think it had as many hooks. No, it wasn't as good. So we'll see what they can do with this one if they could make a merging of both of those records. Makes them good. It would be high on my list if they do that. And then let's all just look forward to the thing we don't even know is about to exist from some band we never heard of that's going to blow us all the way. Yep. Yeah. 05:11:54.940 --> 05:12:24.320 You never know, right, Jay? Yeah. Always something coming down the pike. Yeah, we had a lot of Wilsons, I think. Oh, yeah. Throughout this. I'd say there was a lot of repeats, though, too. So, John, you didn't have as many Wilsons as I thought you were going to. You fucked it up when you took Fiketel. That kind of screwed things up. Then Will dropped Solmass. Yeah, those were surprises. I didn't expect you to pull that up. I also got the change to the bottom of the ocean. Yeah, that's where you screwed me again. Jeez. Sorry about that, buddy. I'm so happy. 05:12:28.000 --> 05:12:54.380 That's good. It's really good. All right. We did it. How many hours? 945. So was it six and just about 645. Almost seven hours. Holy shit. I'm done. I can't. We're back. Yeah. Yeah. I'm in a dangerous place right now because I feel like I'm pretty drunk and it's also early for me. Like for me, it's early. So I'm in trouble. 05:12:54.940 --> 05:13:24.020 Stay out of trouble, man. Awesome. I see you, Justin, though. Yeah. And I just want to give a shout out to Matt for doing his and Will's because that was really fun. Thanks for doing that, Matt. Yeah. You don't have to commit now, Justin, but since you kind of already did a test run on mid-year, you might as well come so we can see how you change by the end of the year. So if you feel like coming to the end of the year. Listen, I'm fucking down. You know I'm down. Yeah, for sure. Excellent. 05:13:25.660 --> 05:13:42.980 All right, guys. Thanks for coming. Peace out. Thanks for staying. Have a fun Sunday. Yep. All right, guys. We'll see you next month. We want reports back on Emperor. Yes, I will. Cool. All right, guys. Bye. See you, boys.