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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, metal's my religion, and yeah, it's my dope. Standing in the thunder on stage in the pouring metal rain. What a feeling, baby, the lights are exploding.

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

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And Buke. And Jay. And this is episode 44 of the Metalheads podcast. Today we're going to bring you an interview with the Denver band Pile of Priests. We just got off the phone with those guys and, you know, it was a good time. Those guys were really cool. A lot of fun. Nice guys. Yeah. But before we get into the Pile of Priests interview, there's something I wanted to talk about. I just started reading the Lemmy autobiography, White Line Fever, because, you know, there's no more Lemmy. And I needed some Lemmy. So I remembered,

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that this book existed and Jay said that he liked it. So I started reading it only like a day or two ago. So I'm not actually that far into it yet. But just reading the prologue was enough to hook me because the dude was just one funny son of a bitch. He was smart. He was a funny guy. He actually, I'm pretty sure, I don't remember if there's a ghostwriter in that book, but I think he wrote it by himself, which is rare. There was somebody else credited. I have a feeling it's probably like a lot of things where they just set up a tape recorder and record

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what he says and then transcribe it. So it's like he wrote it, but he spoke it. That would be my guess. I mean, maybe he wrote it. I may be doing him a disservice. But either way, it's entertaining. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it, man. He comes across. Lemmy was a guy who looked like a biker, but had the hippie ideal. You know what I mean? Yeah. And a lot of good drug stories. Yeah, I've already gotten a few of those. And, you know, whenever I read books, I, you know, the people, when they're talking about their history,

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and the growing up and the things that they liked, they always talk about bands and other bands. And I want to go check those bands out because, you know, while metal is my first love, I like all kinds of music, particularly rock music. And so it's always interesting to go and explore the things that inspired the people that inspire you. And for a lot of people that I've read books for, that's pretty easy. I've already known things that they liked or what have you. But Lemmy, my God, he was old as shit.

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And one of the things that reading the book really made me stop and think was how he, early on in the book, he mentions that until he was 10 years old, there was no such thing as rock and roll. The first 10 years of his life, there was no rock music. And I'm like, whoa, that just blows my mind. You know, because there's always been rock music since I've been alive. And so then he starts talking about the stuff that he started listening to when rock music was around. And he was talking about Bill Haley and the Comets.

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And Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, stuff like that. And while I've always been a big fan of, you know, 80s music and 70s music, because that's when I was growing up, and 60s music, because there's just so much fucking awesome music from then, I've never been a fan of 50s music. You know, my dad listens to that sort of thing, and I've just never latched onto that sort of thing. And so yesterday, I was like, all right, Lemmy, you know, this is for you. I'm going to go up on Spotify.

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And I started listening to, you know, Bill Haley to me is Happy Days. The Rock Around the Clock song is the only thing I know. I say the first heavy metal artist, seriously, is Buddy Holly. I was listening to some Buddy Holly, and I'm like, damn! I actually really like Buddy Holly. The heart of the trooper is in Peggy Sue. Peggy Sue, do-go-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. It's like it's got a gallop to it. Yeah. He really did that picking thing. And so I listened to some Bill Haley. Other than, you know,

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I was like okay I can get behind Buddy Holly I like this

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and I also checked out Eddie Cochran you familiar with Eddie Cochran I'm sure Buick isn't I know the name but you'll

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have to tell me what his hits are exactly see you know I've heard the name and I was like well okay

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who's Eddie Cochran and that's what I love about books like this is it sends me down this side path and I was like let's google Eddie Cochran

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and so now I've learned about who Eddie Cochran was and he's the guy that wrote Summertime Blues

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and a slew of other songs, but it's probably his most well-known. But he died when he was 21 years old in a car accident. And I'm like, damn, you know, I mean, to be 21 years old and to like his, you know, name to live on and his music to live on all this time, he did all these songs in such a short period of time. And I really kind of dug the stuff he was doing too. So, you know, it's obviously a far cry from what we normally talk about on the podcast. But I'm enjoying,

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sort of pushing my boundaries a little bit. Because, you know, this is like the beginning of rock and roll right here. This is, without this, there is no heavy metal. It's the whole reason that guys like Lemmy and Ozzy and stuff, they kind of bristle when people call them heavy metal bands. And the reason is because that's, heavy metal didn't exist, also didn't exist. They consider themselves rock and roll bands. They were the harder, faster rock and roll bands. But there was no word heavy metal before these guys. And so it's not that they maybe hate the idea so much. They just, you know what I mean? Like, that's weird.

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for people.

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And I can see that all those guys were born before it didn't necessarily like being called it.

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And I think it's because they remember when it was almost singularly an insult.

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Yeah, I mean, to be born before the invent of rock and roll, to see the beginning of rock and roll, and then to live long enough to see Grindcore.

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I mean, come on.

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That's got to be almost like, you know, just weird to have seen this whole evolution and to see where it's gone.

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Well, I mean, he grew up in a town in Wales with one light, I'm sure. I don't know if you read that in the book yet. Yeah, yeah. They had like one, I don't know what you call it, street light, and that was the place everybody hung out because there was a light. Like moths to the flame. Yeah. Anyway, I just thought it was, you know, it's really interesting, and I wonder if Mark will put those on the playlist. Anyway, moving on, why don't we go ahead and play the interview from Pile of Priest.

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These guys were some good fun, and we hope to have them on again soon. So here you go, interview with Pile of Priests.

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Hello and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast. My name is George. This is Buke. This is Jake. And we are here today with the guys in Pile of Priests. Hello. You guys want to introduce yourselves and tell us what you do in the band? My name is Evan Salvador. I play guitar and I do vocals, most of the composition as well. I'm Evan Knight and I do the drums. I'm Patrick. I play bass and I do some backup vocals as well. Why is the bass player always going last, guys?

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It's because we're both named Evan, so there's just this weird connection. Yeah, it kind of blurs together, you know. Also really dumb. He's also a ginger. Redheaded stepchild. Yeah, so if you could answer fewer of the questions, we'd appreciate that. Enjoy that, too. Just to give our listeners some quick facts, where are you guys at? We are at, let's see, this is Westminster, Colorado, just outside of Denver. This is our jam space. It's also his

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house and it's kind of just our Saturday hangout spot where we listen to music and wax philosophically and do all the weird things that band members do. I don't know. I honestly asked that question with a hidden agenda because I just wanted to point out that you're all probably three stoned out of your minds in Colorado. Straight edge, bro. Actually, just me. Yeah, yeah, just him. Straight edge, bro. There you go. Triple X. Who lives in Colorado?

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Well, they used to dabble, but they had too much fun, and now it's time to slow it down because they're getting old. I know about that. We all have families and lives and careers. I get paranoia problems. That's a real thing. I'm becoming an engineer, so. Yeah, you can't kill people with engines. Is that a choo-choo train engineer? So let me first start out by saying how it came to you guys coming to

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our attention what brought you here to the podcast.

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As you, as our listeners know on every episode, we are a little bit of band camp whores.

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Hell yeah.

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Big time.

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Good place.

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The addiction, you can never chase that dragon enough.

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I can be like fucking Lane Stanley here, the needle's still in my arm, and I'm like, give me more, more band camp.

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Yeah.

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I actually bought your EP just like half an hour ago.

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Just like, oh yeah, I forgot about that.

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Awesome.

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Thank you.

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They're already on the podcast. You don't gotta fucking suck up to them. I know, but I just thought it was topical since I was like, you know, gee, I got 20 minutes to spare. What should I do? Go on Bandcamp. And I was like, oh, Will bought it. I forgot that was up here, so then I grabbed that too. So as a fan of death metal, I saw, first off, was attracted to the name Pilot Priest, which is awesome. I was gonna ask who came up with that and what exactly does it mean, other than that it's awesome. Yeah.

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Yeah, 2009 is when we first started, and we were just thinking of names. I don't know if it was like, at first we were just thinking of, you know, this sounds brutal, you know, it was like zombie assault and then something else, and, you know, it just sounded a little too generic, so, like, why not Pile of Priests? Because, you know, it doesn't roll off the tongue, for one, and then two, we can be the new pop sensation of death metal. Indeed. I like to think so. Well, and then there's the fact that we jammed behind a huge church, so it was pretty blasphemy.

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All right. That too. Yes. At my parents' place. We've got a couple of questions from one of our other Metalheads alumni who couldn't be here today. And he sent in some questions for us to ask. And it now seems like a good time to ask this. He said, I assume you're not a fan of religion based on the band's name, song titles, and lyrics. Did any of you guys grow up religious? We're the best Catholic band around. What are you talking about?

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Well, you know, a pile could be something else. You know, a pile of priests could easily be, you know, like a football game of priests or something. Let's jump to conclusions here. No, this is Will jumping to conclusions. I wouldn't ask this myself. Priests, hemorrhoids. There's all kinds of possibilities. A rugby scrum of priests, you know? Yeah. No, I mean, like, I wasn't really religious in any way. So, yeah, I don't think most of us really were. Neither was I. Yeah, and actually, my dad's a philosopher.

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My mom's a witch. All right. Because Will's follow-up question there was, if you're atheists, do you plan on voting for Bernie Sanders because he's an atheist? I did not know this. Oh, my goodness. I'm just going to go ahead and say I will not discuss any political agendas for any of us on this podcast, so he's not getting that answer. That's fine. I fully agree with that. Okay, well, we can scratch that gay marriage question off. God damn it.

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I was really I was like what does pilot priest think about gay marriage now I'm not gonna fucking know

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damn it yeah you guys think this is a metal podcast but we're here to ask the hard questions

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flip me over so again which uh attracted me to you guys is as a fan of death metal there's a lot of shit on band camp that I've mentioned before in the pod that sucks I'll just call it for what it is uh and you guys came to my attention because it was

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It was an old school death sound that really shined through. But what I like in my death metal is there's a technical element there. And like Evan, your solo work, I think it's the second track, is it? Yes, this Evan. Yes, that Evan. As well as myself. Yes. Amazing. And that's what drew me to you guys. So anybody who's a fan of death metal and more so a fan of the technical aspect, not like technical revocations,

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I would call it old school technical abuse. It's hard stuff to play. There's no question about that. But it's not necessarily math metal. Exactly. And I think to Death and Chuck Schoedner, and he's one of my best influences, there's a lot of technicalities in Death that doesn't make it a techie or a brutal aspect. It just is fucking raw. And that's what I really appreciate, that style. And 1995 is the year. That is a sound.

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And you know, Evan, you also shine through to me too, is that your vocals, a lot of death metal vocals right now, you hear the term, George will say he coined it. I did. You hear a lot of the cookie monster death metal vocals. Yeah, you don't have it. You got that old school like Morbid Angel type of sound, you know? Fuck yeah. Thank you. So the thing with that, like, so he's a guitarist and vocalist at the same time, so he can't do none of this cup in the mic, you know? Yeah.

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It forces him to use the proper technique. Yep. Definitely. Now, have you guys, since you formed a band, were you all three in it from the start? So it's me and Patrick formed in 2009 with our old drummer, Sean Bartholomew. And he left the band in 2011, and then Evan joined early 2012. So he's kind of a newer, even though he's been in the band longer now than Sean was originally, you know, he kind of came to us. And he's in a couple other bands as well. So between,

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You know, I'm not being very busy and us really needing a drummer. He's a guitar player. He's also like everything that you can imagine on the musical realm. Evan, this is Skype. Of course, people won't see this. Who's the cello player I see behind you? Me. Awesome, Evan. Awesome. He can pick up any instrument and just make it his bitch. Nice. We haven't heard Patrick's voice enough yet. I'm only mentioning that because while we're throwing up

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I really think the drums are pretty great on this too, dude. They're on these really tasty little ride things here and there, your ride cymbal and stuff, and just fucking clicked in, dude. Fucking sounds really good. That's it. Wasn't a question. So guys, when you started playing together, was this the style that you guys kind of knew from the outset you wanted to play? We were playing a lot of thrash, more thrash metal at the beginning, like Death Thrash, and then progressively we started becoming more and more Death Metal

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started moving more towards things like edge of sanity, like progressive death metal kind of influence towards it. Edge of sanity. I saw one of you guys wearing that t-shirt in one of your photos. Yeah. And I was like, that's awesome. I like that nothing face shirt too. You know, the Void that I made, not the band nothing face. Oh yeah, not the band nothing face. So for, again, just to remind people, this is the guys from Pilot Priest and their new album Void to Enlightenment. Gentlemen, you guys here,

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How has the last year been? How's 2016 looking for you guys? Any tour plans? I know you guys have a show later today. Yes. Woo! Yeah, no, we have a very, very busy schedule for 2016. Since this is the first CD we've released in, I think, almost, what, five years now? Yeah, about five years now. So we have a couple shows planned for right now. We're actually going to be in a German magazine as of next week.

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going on a tour in April. We're going to be announcing that about probably next week as well. Or now. Or now. Well, this won't post until next week, so that's perfect. What's the magazine? What's the name of the magazine? It's Legacy Magazine. I thought it was some sort of German bondage thing, you know? No, it's like the nickel trader or something like that, too. It's a German thing. We're working our way towards that. I saw you guys recently posted a review on your Facebook page.

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Somebody had written the review, and I read that. And I was a little confused because the reviewer was, for the most part, pretty positive. But he felt that the album was hampered by poor production, which was when I started scratching my head because I was like, this is really good production, particularly for a death metal album. It's got that cool, old-school, 90s sound where you can actually hear what's going on.

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Yeah. Well, that's the thing. We chose to have more of a rougher production just because of that so we can capture that era, but also because of our budget. But I didn't think it was rough. I mean, it's clean. You can hear it. No, it's not like super Slipknot overproduced. Right. Yeah, we didn't want it to be overproduced, and that was kind of the main thing with it, that it was something a little more raw, but clean enough to get the point across. And I think it turned out great.

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I just think a lot of people are looking for this ridiculous, wicked, overproduced sound. And you hear it all too often, and it just gets boring, where everything kind of starts to blend together, sound the same. Yeah, as Buk will attest, I'm more of a doom and black metal guy these days, because so much of the contemporary death metal is just this wall of sound that is kind of boring. And I go back and listen to the older stuff from the 90s, and I'm like, this is good.

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Yeah, like modern death mode, it's just a wall of noise that hits you. You just can't decipher. A lot of white noise in it, yeah. Exactly. Not to say that there aren't any people doing good stuff with this. Of course. But they're few and far between. They're diamonds in the rough as opposed to the majority. Yeah, and then all the modern tempos, a lot of people are trying to shoot for 240 BPM up to 300. So that's where the snare becomes overpowering and all the cymbals mesh together.

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BPM, is that a bitterness units thing? Help me out here, dude. This kind of leads into a good question here. And also, Patrick, I'm sorry I was hitting you with drum questions because George slapped me in the face with a text and said, hey, dude. So Patrick is the bass player. Your drummer's not present? He's right there. He's right there. I thought he had the kick-ass guitar solo. What the fuck? He does that as well. That's what's incredible. He's the multi-purpose tool. Now I get it. Now I get it. This voice is getting complicated. Since we're talking about production,

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and things like that. Like what are some of the bands that you guys love? You know, and I'm sort of assuming that that's some of the kind of production styles you shoot for, but more specifically, what are the bands you guys like now, new and old? You know, I think we all collectively, you know, like the same bands, we all have different influences, you know, that persuade us more so than one other band. Like I said, Death, Edge of Sanity. And I also like, you know, some of the, you know, black metal stuff from the 90s too, like Dissection and their comeback album is ridiculous. That definitely, you know, like,

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the composers themselves weigh in a huge amount to us. For Patrick, he's always looking for the awesome bass players that shine through, especially with Death, Steve DiGiorgio. Sadis, he's also in Sadis as well. Obscura, Cynic, and all those kick-ass bands too. Evan, kind of all over the place. Definitely Meshuggah influenced Voivod. I like that one, the Meshuggah. Oh no!

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They're doing something that I think was definitely innovative for their time.

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And they started something. And now there's all these copycat bands, too.

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So you see a lot of that nowadays as well.

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We like to just kind of mishmash our influences, definitely.

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Sorry, go ahead, George.

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I was going to ask, so those are some of the things you like now.

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Were those things that initially got you into music?

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Or did you start perhaps somewhere a little lighter?

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What got you into music in the first place? Was it Britney Spears? And then you were like, oh, I'm going to move on to something heavier? Because my first, well, actually, my second album was Michael Jackson's Thriller. So I had a long way to go. Well, yeah, definitely when you're younger, it's a lot easier to be sucked into the pop bands. But from an early age, I was listening to Ride the Lightning by Metallica, even OFR by Nitro. So some weird speed metal hair band. Wow, I remember that. S.O.D.

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The Anthrax and Overkill kind of New York area scene. So mostly Thrash for me. Oh, there's a picture. There's a picture of that guy from Nitro, dude. It's just like this wide frame photo that has to be wide frame because his hair takes up like six feet. Glorious perms. You got to look it up. You'll be happy. He was married to Lena Ford for a while. Oh, really? Oh, okay. Yeah. I'm sorry. I know that. Yeah. It's good trivia. Yeah. That's just because Jay's a little jealous that he wasn't married. Who is it?

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I don't know why I know anything about this guy, but he's like this big, what do you call it, real estate. He's big in real estate now. What about you, Evan? I guess my end of the spectrum, I listen to a lot of, you know, like the Black Album, Ride to Lightning, were some of the first cassettes I ever owned. But before that even happened, my dad introduced me to this game called Quake. And there's this badass instrumental soundtrack in the back of that, and that just put me in the right direction. Once I heard that, and I was like in second grade, I even had to tell my friends, I was like,

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Have you heard of heavy metal?

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That's awesome.

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So that was what drew me in the right direction.

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And who was it that did the soundtrack for Quick?

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Because I'm trying to think that it was Nine Inch Nails, believe it or not, did that.

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I think it was Trent Reznor.

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Yeah, Trent Reznor did it, yeah.

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Nine Inch Nails, guys.

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I never knew that.

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I've put thousands of hours into that theme.

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Sorry?

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Oh yeah, so badass.

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I mean, for me, growing up, my parents listened to a lot of Queen.

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I heard Oingo Boingo.

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A lot of 80s, new wave type stuff as a kid.

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And I got into some weird pop punk crap like Bling 182. And then I started getting into heavy metal around my cousins. And then I found Behemoth. And from there, it just went straight uphill for me. How'd you guys... I like to ask this question because a lot of bands are meeting each other on Craigslist and stuff like that. Did you guys all grow up with one another? Or did you guys know each other through a mutual friend? What brought the few three metalheads together?

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Turkish bathhouse.

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All right.

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So the place I started working in 2009, it's not nearly as homosexual as you want it to be.

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Until later on.

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We'll get into that.

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Whatever.

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Anyways, so in 2009, we started, me and Patrick started working with each other.

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His sister was actually my boss, and then he got a job there.

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We just started talking about music and stuff.

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And he's like, oh, what do you listen to?

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I was like, oh, that's weird or something like that. But he's like, yeah, I listen to Slayer and Testament and shit. I was like, no way. And I had my fucking Slayer shirt on. So I lifted my shirt. And he's like, oh, right on. And then we just started talking about it. And he was jamming with this guy, Sean. And then they were like, hey, we should try and figure something out. So we started playing with each other, not in a homosexual way. I was going to jump on that.

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You were a little apprehensive about mentioning what you listen to

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because people always ask me, what do you listen to? And I say metal.

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And then they always say, what do you like, Metallica or Slipknot?

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My favorite band being Opeth.

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So I say that and they look at me like, you know how when a dog hears a high-pitched sound,

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their head goes to a 45, like, eh.

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That's how people look at me when I say real metal bands.

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And the conversation usually quickly dies then.

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Exactly. Or somehow, oh yeah, like Screamo or Five Finger Death Punch. Yeah. Oh, you're like a sevenfold? Yeah. You might as well say, I think they look at you like you just said you're a fan of professional wrestling. You know what I mean? Something like that. That's what I always get, yeah. Oh, so Satan, huh? So I just assume not to talk about it. It's like every person suddenly is your grandmother. Oh, honey. Exactly. What kind of thing is that? Isn't that stuff evil? So when did Evan come into the fold then? Let's see. So we knew him from his other band, Sons of

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And when we started playing live, we played with them a couple times. Super awesome, like occult, black metal, progressive goodness. So he plays guitar for Sons of Sorath. And when it came time, when Sean left the band in October of 2011, right after our EP was released, so like the worst time possible, we started talking with people and trying to figure out something to do. We're trying to figure out, you know, how to keep the leg going and try and get a drummer in as quick as possible. And Evan was like, yeah, you know, I play drums. And I, you know, I think that's a good thing.

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That'd be an awesome fit. So we were even with his kid that he got from his... No, not... He's just a friend, right? That's right. I was going to say your aunt, but no, that's my other drummer. It's all some weird circle jerk. But anyways, yes, so we started playing in his condo, and he even had those little brushes because we couldn't be very loud. Just trying to teach him all the material, getting ready for live shows, and just how committed he was. We knew it was going to work out, and it's been working great.

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ever since. Has it come up where, because you see, I like, again, the old death metal sound, a lot of those bands being three-piece bands. Has Talk Again ever come up? Maybe bring in a fourth, or you guys kind of like what you guys have going now? Yeah, that comes up quite often. We tried for another guitar player. Just trying to get someone on the same level, and you know if they're interested enough, and whether or not they're going to learn the material and retain it is huge. Jay is, I'm sorry, I didn't interrupt you. No, go ahead.

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Jay is the lead singer and guitar player in a band. When you guys audition new members, how many people come in saying, oh yeah, I got chops, I can play? You quickly know right away, you're like, oh, this is bad. Definitely. Before we even let them come in to try out, we just kind of know. One way to know is if they spend a lot of time talking. You know what I mean? They're like, yeah, well, you know what I mean? This will be really fun and interesting.

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in with the little travel amp wrapped around his shoulder, just ready to fucking plug in and melt your face. 19 Fred Squire guitar. Yeah. Big nose. Back in the early mid-90s, me and some friends were trying to audition singers, and we were playing stuff like Metallica. And being the early mid-90s, this guy came in that, I don't even know how he found him, but he came in and he had this big frizzy blonde hair.

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like fro thing and he was all like you guys like stone temple pilots and he's like trying to sing like you know sex type thing or something and we're just like next yeah this isn't gonna work well that's that's that's cool how you guys all came together uh is are there things that you guys are held back from doing uh in a live setting being a three-piece because evan again that solo i mentioned earlier you can't work that in playing live or do you guys not play that well uh

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Yeah, his solo parts, I do not play live. I could take the time and try and decode those. But the second solo... So you know what that means, Evan? The band's success is in your hands. Whenever you guys realize, you're like, hey, I hold the key piece. I know it. Well, I mean, I think we get the point across without the rhythm riffs that I don't play live or some of the solos that aren't in there either. And really, it's only just the two... Actually, he plays three solos. So there's two in the second track, and then there's one in the

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instrumental track as well. But that first solo he lays down on track two was one take. I'm not even kidding you. So whether or not he remembers it, like listening to it enough, sure. But we can still, you know, I think the dynamic when we're a three piece on stage is it's definitely full enough. Like Patrick is a beast of a bass player as well. So that fills in a lot of the rhythm stuff. I don't have to worry about sounding flat when it's just solos. So we kind of compromise altogether. The stuff I'm writing now definitely has more backing riffs and stuff that I'm trying to incorporate.

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and it's a little bit different so if the right rhythm guitar player comes around or you know dual solo guy that would be incredible as well but evan wants to stick on drums and we respect him for it evan what do you prefer this evan yes me yeah well i mean it's all in the context you know because of the style that pile of priest is with this it's a lot more comfortable you know for me to play the style and expand upon it in my own way because then a lot of the stuff i play guitar for you

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I extract a lot of the weird atonal kind of classical era and then a lot of the Yngwie Malmsteen style shredding mixed with ambient black metal stuff. So it's kind of its own dimension compared to the mid-90s death that we're going for with Pile of Priests. So it's kind of a split in my brain of what styles I'm doing. So I kind of can't pick one over the other.

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appreciated the bass tones that comes through. Who influences you in your favorite bass players? Because I can't, to be honest with you, there's no death metal bass players that I can really think of. Do you have a favorite? DeGiorgio. Oh yeah, yeah. Steve DeGiorgio for one. I mean, he was early on playing death metal, he was a huge influence on my outlook on not only how I wanted to play and approach a bass line, but also the kind of tones that he would play as well.

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Beyond that, I mean, Drone Paul Thesseling from Obscura. Isn't that new album a masterpiece? Oh, dude, that new album is so fucking sweet. And beyond that, I mean, Alex Webster, really strong for rhythm and Steve Harris from Iron Maiden. But beyond that, I really delve deeper into other genres for bass playing as well, like Jocko Pistorius for jazz. I like to play a lot of funk and live.

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I do a lot of slap pop.

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So is Les Claypool like your god?

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah, dude.

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Les Claypool is awesome.

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And I've always wanted to incorporate more of like a funky slap pop type rhythm into death metal.

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And I find it just enjoyable.

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I can't remember which song it was now.

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I think it was one of the early ones in the first couple songs on the album.

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It sort of starts off and then it kind of like stops and there's like boom, boom, boom, boom.

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And I was like, oh, it's like Cryptopsy.

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Yes.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yes.

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Yes. Yes. That's a great way to put it, George. That was what it first brought to mind because I think it's the Whisper Supremacy album that one of the songs kind of started. I mean, not like it's the same or anything, but it just kind of reminded me of it. I was like, oh, cool. You know what, guys? It just came to mind. I think this is what a three-piece band allows. It allows each of your individual personalities to shine through more. Oh, yeah. No, because, I mean, Evan Knight, I mean, he'll play multiple different drumming styles. And then, I mean, Evan Salvador, I know.

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Not only is his great singing coming through, but his multiple different views on playing guitar go through. And his song structure is just great. And for me, being able to play a six-string fretless and being able to expand on that and playing a strong rhythm or changing it up or something like that is always fun for me. Because live, I will actually play different bass lines live. Wow.

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Do you like completely different songs? No, no, no. Not like completely different songs. I'll take things like when I was recording and trying to come up with like filler bass lines. And I always wrote like multiple things like, oh, it'd be really tight if I played this here. But instead I chose to do this on the recording. And so I'll change that up live. Right on. Now I have to ask, because you know how you see on some like when bands release live albums, you'll get like a live, a couple guitar solo tracks.

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Well, Metallica, they're throwing like a Rob bass solo. What do you think of a bass solo? Does a bass solo do anything for it? Because to me, I'm like, basses are cool, but I don't think they fit a solo. Cliff Burton is frowning upon you. I know, I know. I mean, so, I mean, on Incantations of Old, there is a bass solo on there that I do. And I mean, I think a bass solo within an actual recorded song is great, but playing it live, like when it's just a bass solo.

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It's just the bass itself, kind of like jamming in between a track or something like that. Yeah, it's kind of hit and miss. It kind of depends on the mood, kind of depends on what you want to do. But live, we'll fuck around with it. Well, in a live situation, I think everybody, I can speak for Buke at least, and probably George, a bass solo is known as time to go get a beer. Also the drum solos, oh my god. And so the bass solo he's talking about in incantations, so if you notice the way the dynamics shift, it replicates like a jazz tree.

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So the drum beat gets quieter and then the guitar rift comes into the background. So there's another play on our jazz influence. Now when you guys play live, you incorporate songs from your EP Unholy Death on set. I ask because if you guys ever play live and if you don't play Burn, I'm fucking charging the stage right now. You know what? Our friend Mitch would love you for saying that because he's always asking us to play Burn and we're like, dude, we just want to play a new material.

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You never play it? We never play Burn anymore. You guys know what happened? The one time you guys play that show, your friend is not going to be there. I know. Not too long ago, him and his buddy even had these white shirts they wrote on it with Sharpie, like, play Burn, and we still didn't play Burn. No, it's a great track. Yeah, you guys say you don't play much of the EP. Is that because you guys almost kind of not ashamed of it is the right word? Is it almost kind of like you're looking forward in a sense? Right.

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Right, we're definitely not sick of the material by any means, but not playing out of state and in different. Usually we're just playing in Denver or within 10 miles, any surrounding area. So usually those fans have heard all that old stuff just so much. So we always want to try and play the newer stuff that if they haven't been to our show in a while, we want to show them what we're about now, less thrashy, a little more death metal. Evan, I mean no disrespect with this, but the growth, I think, from the

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the EP to where you guys are at now is tenfold. Absolutely. I would agree with you. Yeah, where you guys don't sound like an upstart band on the EP, but you could hear the growth and the skill improving to where the more the solid sound shines through. So I don't definitely, I would see why you guys wouldn't want to play those. Exactly. Well, you know, and it took definitely four years to write eight tracks. And yeah, I'm very picky. I throw away riffs left and right.

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But usually we still play at least one of the old songs during a show. So, you know, I'll probably say it's usually Ancient Curse or the last song Unholy Death. But we usually throw in one of those for shows. You guys ever play Burn? I'm telling you, you fucking film that and put it up on YouTube. And you say Buke. Here it is, Buke. Oh, you got it. I mentioned before we turned on the recording. What you guys play and take the stage to a pretty cool sample. What is that that you guys are taking? It sounds wicked. Are you talking about before Unholy Death? Yes.

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That is, it's right during the exorcist where he's given the Lord's Prayer and she's like just writhing in the bed like, you know, she's spitting on him and such. And then the last, you know, she spits on him. And then right before he finishes, you're like, your mother sucks cocks in hell. It just sounds so wicked. It's like, yes. You know, speaking of the exorcist, I was in the grocery store the other day and I heard tubular bells, you know, which is the theme from the, I'm like in the grocery store and I'm like, do they know what this is?

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Picking out bananas, you know, that is kind of weird. Like they were playing the X-Files or something like that. Those are rotting. Oh, guys. The speaking about playing live, how is the Denver, Colorado scene for death metal man? Well, you shouldn't ask me about that one. No, I mean, right now in Denver, like doom and black metal is much bigger than when it comes to death metal.

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is that when it comes to death metal, there's a lot more brutal death metal in that aspect. I wouldn't say there's a whole lot of melodic or progressive type death metal. There's Veil of Nath and then there's also now Blood Incantation. They're really tight as well. But honestly, beyond that, shows can be really fun here. It just depends on what day of the week, but there's always shows going on. Sometimes it can be hard to get a good crowd because everyone's split between so many shows.

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Are you guys able to get a bill of other like bands? It's tough. Yeah, it can be tough. Because again, going back to Jay playing in his band, Jay's mentioned some of the bands that he's played with. And it's like, man, it's just like a mini Vaken over here with this. Yeah. Well, I mean, like, honestly, with with Denver, it's there's a lot of really talented creative, creative musicians out here. So I mean, it's not that it's hard to find other talented bands, but it's hard to find like minded.

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I've got another question from Will that sort of relates to this. He was asking about the Denver scene as well and he was also curious whether there were other metal scenes in Colorado. Is Denver really the only place for metal in Colorado? Yeah, Colorado Springs has a great following and Fort Collins especially as well. There's some great venues up there. Allegiant, who's signed to Metal Blade Records, they're from Fort Collins originally.

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They live. Most of them live here in Denver now. But Glenwood Springs up in the mountains as you're going up through I-70, that is actually surprisingly a pretty fun place to play. I don't know if you guys have ever even thought about this before, but as you can see here, I'm a big Caps fan, hockey fan. And you always hear about teams when they go up to that high elevation. It's hard for them because they're not used to playing at that altitude and stuff. Have you guys thought that maybe you're able to

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play longer or not get as winded because you're so used to playing in altitude where if you guys were to come here, you know, maybe you could play. It's a stupid question. No, it's not. I think it's a great question, especially for the singer. I got some science on that. Oh, shit. So it's like, so we're practicing up here. And I mean, it, you know, it's still like we still, you know, max out at a certain level of capacity for playing. But once we come down to like the C level states, we'll definitely have more oxygen in our blood and our brain. So we'll definitely,

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You'd probably be able to have longer endurance

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and stuff like that.

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But I think the altitude affects our minds

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as far as everybody being into the slow, droney, doom stuff.

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You know what?

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Now, Evan, you just gave me a perfect example

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to tell my wife why I disappoint her in bed sometimes.

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It's the altitude.

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It's the altitude, babe.

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Babe, it's the altitude.

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It's the altitude.

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Let's go to Florida.

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You can also drink more.

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There's that.

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We play Nebraska surprisingly a lot. There's a great scene in Nebraska all throughout. You know, Scotts Bluff. You go down to North Platte in Podunk, Columbus. I shouldn't use that word. We love those guys out there. Omaha as well. No, it's great in Nebraska. And we've played Kansas a lot. So we kind of played around the surrounding states. We always go back to Nebraska. We have, you know, good friends out there too. And, you know, especially some of those places, you know, especially in the Bible Belt, you'll get a lot of those fans that are really hardcore into their, you know,

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and they don't get a lot of good shows. We played this one tiny little town called Hastings and it was this tiny bar. The place was packed. We played like three songs and got paid like a hundred bucks. It was like, okay, cool. What a crowd. I'm serious. Sometimes in Denver, it's just like, I don't know. Everybody's kind of got... I feel like people in Denver don't want to have as good of a time as they could be. Like, well, I got to also look cool while I'm watching these bands. Last episode, we interviewed Therese, a grind band from Seattle.

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Yeah, I saw them play not too long ago. They kick ass. Yeah, they kick ass. And we didn't get a chance to talk to them after the show, but the show was held here in Frederick, Maryland at a little shithole fucking venue. And the guy who runs the sound, we mentioned it last episode, is that old guy where in his head, he, you know, him and his Marlboro Reds right on the sound. Yeah, you know, he has this long gray hair. He's fucking, he thinks he's the shit, but it sounded horrible. Do you guys,

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I mean, no disrespect, but playing in the small venues, have you gone into those venues and you know right away, oh, the sound sucks? And is that deflating when that happens, guys? Definitely. There's one place in particular, which I will not name, but everybody knows how bad it is and no one goes there, but they try so hard. Yeah. But either way, the sound is always shit. No one ever goes. Yeah, like Black Fast came through that same venue last weekend and I wanted to go see them because they're one of my favorite bands right now, but I couldn't

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I pull myself together to go see them again because it's not enjoyable. Do you guys like beer? If I could drink beer, I would love beer. Beer! There's a brewery out here called Black Sky Brewery. I was just going to ask you about that. I used to be a cook there. We had our CD release show there and they made a pile of priest beer for us. Awesome. Those guys are awesome. They make beers for local bands. They really support

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the local scene in a lot of ways. Will, the guy that I'm asking these questions for, he's a brewer currently at Fairwinds Brewing in Virginia. He's our resident beer god. He brews beers for local bands. He wanted me to ask you about Black Sky Brewing and also True Brewing? Yeah, True Brewery is another great local metal brewery. They don't serve food or anything in the place.

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But yeah, no, they support a lot of local metal scene as well. They try to help put on some shows. Yeah. Was your beer called Pile of Pilsner or something like that? It was the Scotchfather Ale. All right. Here's another thing about the beers. We have True and Black Sky, which are metal scene friendly. But the thing is, you go up to areas like Longmont, north of Denver, and you have Left Hand Brewery. You have Oscar Blues. So there's all these hipster style.

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breweries that actually really probably make the best beer in the country.

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And you get to have pot too. What the fuck?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now we have all these growers, and then we have 300-plus micro brews throughout the entire state.

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So I think that's a record for the world. But yeah, there's some good stuff out here.

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That's awesome.

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If I lived there, I'd be fucking huge.

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Jeez.

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Dude, hey, if you guys ever come out to Colorado, hit us up, man. We'll meet you at Black Sky, get a great pizza.

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I tell you, that's the one thing I love about the podcast. We've made so many great friends. I would love to see you guys live and meet you guys and hang out with you guys. With this tour, you guys teased. George will edit this out. No, you don't have to. If you guys can maybe hint at it, will you be traveling far? Is it going to be like a west coast, middle of the country? Yeah, it's going to be all west coast. We would love to head out east.

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It's just east is so far from Colorado. Hey, come on out. I'm on the west coast. We'll be glad to have you. Yeah. But sometime later on, maybe later this year or maybe next year, we would love to head out east. Let's get you guys at Maryland Death Fest. Get to the Death Fest. Yes. Please. We would love to be on that. You guys ever thought about making it out here for Death Fest? Have you ever looked at lineups before and said, I need to be at that? Oh, absolutely. Without, you know.

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Hesitation for sure whether or not I want to just go to the show or if we can play the show somehow and since we're getting a little bit more you know I guess professional with the way that we approach the band and getting shows and such we have you know more of a legit press kit now so we think that you know if the time is right we could try and get on a bill like that what happened this round was we only had about two weeks that we could use so we figured it would just be too long to go around towards the East Coast and we had we already had most of the connections in the West

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So I mean, I'll handle a lot of the

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like marketing type promotion stuff. So we managed to get a hold of a PR company based in Portugal called Against PR. And they loved us. And I think that's actually how you guys found out about it. It is. Yep. And, you know, dude, Katya from them, they've been awesome. They've been helping us get a lot more reviews and get more exposure. And she's going to help us promote like the tour as well online. But beyond that, like for marketing and all the merchandise and everything, we try to find the best contacts.

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Make friends with everyone. And beyond that, just keep pushing. Because every band, no matter what genre you are, you should have a great press kit, a great PR company to work with, and a product to sell. It's like a motivational speech all of a sudden. I'm loving this. Make friends with everybody. Be friendly. Love everybody. Had any label interest? We've looked at labels.

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so we can tour more. But so far, we are just independent. Yeah, we're definitely interested. The thing is, you know, we don't want to get on something that's too small and isn't going to really help us out. And then again, you know, a lot of those bigger labels, too, they'll screw you over. And we don't want to get into that. I mean, we just want to be able to play with, you know, bigger bands. And I think, you know, kind of like an intermediate sort of deal. As long as, you know, we read the fine print and everything, I think you'd find the right place. Guys, with with I'll ask the other Evan.

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You know,

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I do have a job that could, especially now, bloom into a career. I could just go into the IT right now and just quit everything. But something like this, it would probably have a lot to do with what the label has to offer. We'd really have to go over the contract. We'd probably need a lawyer at that point. Definitely. The hard thing with that is, guys, is that it's just not one person. Three of you guys would have to go in on where you guys are in your lives and stuff like that. I can't even imagine.

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I look at all these bands that have seen some success on Bandcamp with selling a lot of copies and something. And I wonder if they went into it expecting, well, hey, look, we released it on our own. Look at this success we've seen. But now what the hell do we do with it now? Yeah, you need somebody that can capitalize on it. But then, you know. But then again, you know, you just can't. I hate to say, you know, we all know what the music industry is now. You all just can't say, hey, work, fuck off, you know. Fuck you, fuck you. You're cool. I'm out.

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Yeah, it's not the 70s or the 80s anymore. No. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And that's rough. And a lot of guests we've had on the podcast, tours and stuff, come from them having a couple weeks worth of leave saved up from work. Like, you know, we interviewed Matt Barlow, you know, of Iced Earth fame. And Matt Barlow, you know, he's a cop now. He's able to take his band Ashes of Aries and do little mini four or five ten date tours when he has leave. Yeah, that's, I mean, I'm on

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PTO for our tour, and that's all the PTO I get for this year. Wow. That says a lot about that. Yeah, and that says a lot, because if you guys have wives, girlfriends and stuff, you won't be spending those days off with the family. Yep, and I'll be sick at work, miserable, because I can't stay open now. When you guys would be touring, would you be driving around in a van, seeing the world, or seeing the country? Yes, and more awesomeness from Denver. From Black Sky, we've met so many awesome people.

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People who can brew beer. I've met this awesome chick who does screen printing. She made patches for us. She can make embroidered hats and everything. And this guy, Sam Panthers, he owns his own car. Sam Panthers? Dude, that's my fucking name from now on. That cannot be his real name. I'm a big video game. I was going to claim it first. Give me that. Fuck you. Fuck you. I'm Sam Panthers. And all my video games now, I'm going to use that. I'm Sam Panthers.

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That's a porno name, dude. It might be made up. I don't know. Anyways, he's got his own repair shop. He also does tour rentals for trailers and vans. And he's got this van set up for us. It's got like four or five rows, I think. We're going to be able to sleep in the van. And it comes with a trailer, too. So he's hooking us up with that. He goes by the satanic mechanic. So yeah, he's an awesome guy. And he's helping us out big time with that. Is this going to be your first road trip as a band?

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So you have done the van thing?

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We have, yes. And before he was in the van, Sean was still the drummer.

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Right. And before the van. We actually had a van with our old drummer.

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And we went on a road trip in 2010 to California. We actually played the Whiskey a Go-Go

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and opened up for Immolation Invader. So that was ridiculously awesome.

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and then came back around and played in New Mexico. So that was kind of our first little taste, but now we're actually getting a legit leg of a tour on. Just, you know, check the tires. Fucking keep the speed down. Because every couple months, you hear these tragic stories of these bands either, you know, fell asleep, blew a tire, you know, the van flipped over, you know, 37 times. It seems to be more recent now, too. I'm just hearing about it. I don't know, but yeah. Luckily, everybody most times makes it out okay, but then you always hear, oh, the gear is trashed.

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You know, just watch yourself. Getting stolen. Yeah, that's the big one, too. You always hear about the asshole stealing band shit. Whole van's worth of equipment driving down the backside. It'll be easier since we'll be all sleeping in the car. Oh, there you go. Well, I mean, if they break in, we'll have to fight them, I suppose. We'll see. I'll bring my numchucks. The fact that you pronounce it numchucks makes me think you're not too familiar with how to use those.

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They make you go numb, right? Yeah, you got it. That's good. I mean, like I fucking know, but... When they're on tour, they leave a pile of priests in their wake. Well, you know, the whole time, George, we're sitting here, I'm trying to think of... You remember when Twisted Sister went out as Bent Brother? I'm trying to think of a word for pile as nuns, so you guys can do a side thing called the something of nuns, but I just can't come up with it, so I'm going to keep thinking. One of the guys who interviewed us not too long ago, he... What did he say?

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said mounds of ministers. Oh, that's good. I got one with nuns. From the Nile came nuns. There you go, dude. Also, altar boys. We can work on some with the altar boys. With the altar boys, indeed. Again, we're talking to guys from Pilot Priest, Void 2 Enlightenment. It's on Bandcamp now. You guys also have a Facebook page. Anywhere else where you can direct people to check out your guys' shit? Yeah, so right before we released the CD, we put it up on CD Baby,

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We were able to get it on Apple Music, Apple Streaming, Google Play, Spotify. We also got it on a bunch of other streaming and downloading services internationally as well. So it's basically available wherever you want it. And if you guys wouldn't have done that on your own through CD Baby, some Russian hacker would have put you guys on the Pirate Bay. The funny thing is after we started releasing it more and using a PR company and stuff, it did get sent to a couple,

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Russian review sites. And then after that, we started noticing it on like 20 different torrent sites. Those Russians, man. Just Google that shit. It's on every Russian torrent site, I guarantee you. I can't remember the band who it was. But remember George and Jay, they came on, they're like, we knew we made it when it was Russian torrent sites. It was perihelion. Yeah. Then we knew we had made it. I wanted to ask you about your logo and your cover artwork. Who did those?

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The logo itself was done by our good friend Andrew Sars. He plays in Scepter of Elgos currently. And the album artwork, that was done by Sam Nelson, a wonderful artist, great guy to work with. He lives in Salt Lake City right now. It's like a suburb. Yeah, somewhere in the pits of hell in Utah. Right. But yeah, he's a great guy. He's also doing our tour artwork for our flyer. Yeah, Stigma is his page. But yeah, great guy to work with.

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band listening to this right now, if you guys want great artwork, go to him.

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Yeah, Sam Nelson has done artwork for just about any handful of Denver bands. I can name them off right now, but there's too many. He's kind of like the go-to guy for artwork down here in Denver, and rightfully so. It's incredible stuff. Yeah, definitely. He worked with us. It's kind of hard to go in between messages like, no, I'm thinking more colors or a little bit less of this or whatever, but he did something that was totally portrayal.

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what we were going for. I mean, obviously, the image, it looks like you're coming out of a cave and then you see the sun and the mountains. You're getting out of the void to be enlightened. Nice. I have to ask you guys, with YouTube popularity, will we see a music video from you guys? Possibly. Just please don't do a lyric video. Yeah, those are pretty lame. I agree. The videos that I have up on YouTube, I just kind of, you know. Yeah, I saw you guys smashing a bottle of dollar bills. Yes.

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That was fun. No, there's no plans for a music video right now. Yeah, like Patrick said, we're really busy this year. So we got the tour coming up. Hopefully in May, we're going to be recording another EP. And then after that, we have a couple things in the summer plan, possibly another tour. And then, you know, something to kind of support the EP as well, maybe in the end of the year. I'm going to ask it because if you can see my short or my huge vinyl collection, all three of us are vinyl guys. First off, do you guys

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We are not vinyl collectors. I am a CD collector. That's just my medium. I used to work at a local records shop called Angelo's. I swear every shift I'd pick up a new CD. I've beefed up my collection indeed. There are people who love the vinyl. We were thinking about it too, but it's pretty pricey to print. Especially for us right now, there's just other merchandise items that we'd rather have, like more t-shirts.

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We want to have enough CDs. A lot of people, especially in Denver, they go for the cassettes. And it just drives me nuts. Because where am I going to play this thing? Fuck that, dude. Don't fucking take that bait. That's bullshit. That's times a thousand. It's like a nice little thing to have. Is there any way you guys could put this out on a 78 record? Come on. Just a single? Or reel-to-reel, actually. I don't understand.

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EP is reel-to-reel. Yeah, good man. I don't understand the whole cassette. I understand the vinyl thing because nine times out of ten, you know, you get a nice download code, but I don't understand the cassette thing. I've got piles and piles of them here that haven't been played in 20 years. And you probably hate that dusty pile. I do. I've been meaning, I mean, I don't know why I held on to them, but I'm a pack rat, I guess. But I would never, ever listen to any of these again unless I absolutely had to. You know how some guys come home and, like,

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take out their anger. They smack around

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something.

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They drink beer.

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George comes home and just slaps the cassette deck.

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Fuck you.

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You need to have an intervention for your

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collection.

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These people that like cassettes obviously have not dealt

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with the agony of

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I remember when Exodus Pleasures

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of the Flesh came out. I bought it on

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cassette and I

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took it home and it immediately got eaten

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by my tape player.

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And to the point where I had to take the whole thing apart and put the cassette back together inside like a Max L case because it was just completely fucked.

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And, you know, when you're in high school and don't have any money, that's, you know, you're just like, no!

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Like the Darth Vader, like, you know.

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Right.

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I don't miss that at all.

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I don't get that at all.

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It's because they smoke too much hash.

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Yeah, there you go.

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They forgot why you don't use those anymore.

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Yeah, they do.

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Well, they'll be reminded soon enough if they try.

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You know what?

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I'm really not enjoying this.

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Right?

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Like, why did we decide to do that?

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What the fuck?

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And I also wanted to mention, too, your guys' band camp, the album is only six bucks.

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Guys, people, you spend more money on, you know, coffees or shit each day.

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Buy this album for these guys.

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You guys have any Twitter handles, anything like that, where other people can follow you guys?

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We're on Twitter, also.

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I think we're starting up on Instagram.

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We're definitely going to get that going for tour to keep people posted. We're going to be posting a bunch of videos and keeping everybody updated that way. Facebook is usually our first place to go, especially since all our friends are already there. They can see it. They can share it. So we got to get, you know, more diverse into Twitter and kind of go that route. But we're definitely going to try and get on every social media site that we can, but not MySpace. What is it, MySpace? No idea. So why don't we play a song from Void to Enlightenment?

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The first song we want to play is called Deranged Youth Secession. Can you tell us about that one? That one is the song that I wrote about school shootings and just kind of how somebody's, their past and maybe their parents could weigh into how they come to do such violent acts of selfishness and how our society plays into that as well. And it's our longest song from the album. It's almost nine minutes long.

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And I think it's probably the opus in my opinion. There's just so much going on. And I think as far as technicalities too, that was definitely one of the more technical songs. And trying to execute playing it and singing it at the same time was a chore for me. I write these riffs and I'm like, now I have to sing to this. I'm an idiot. But yeah, it's one of my favorite tracks from the album and it definitely pushes through as such. All right. This is Pile of Priests from Void to Enlightenment, Deranged Youth Secession.

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Yeah.

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Reopted to be alive

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Or maybe not to places you thought were safe now

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If I have a plan, what's all you have to resonate?

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The learning years, intentions of a psychopath

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Will stop flooding to the news for a minute

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I'm rejected, the pain is reflected

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Revolence neglected

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All ill

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The devil's

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You've found such a lot

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ДИНАМИЧНАЯ МУЗЫКА

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The fear and anger should don't persuade me

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This comforts and curts and nests

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It's just what they wanted to the left suit for school

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God does not care

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God is not there

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An energy society

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Who are you in the right?

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ДИНАМИЧНАЯ МУЗЫКА

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All right, that was the first part of our interview with Pile of Priests, and that was their song Deranged Youth Secession. Stick around to the end of the show, and we will play you another song from Pile of Priests.

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Why don't we get into some news?

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So it's been announced that Metallica are the ambassadors for Record Store Day 2016.

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Wasn't last year Dave Grohl, I think?

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Oh, was he? I don't know.

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I know he was in the past.

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I just don't know if it was last year or if I'm...

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Sure.

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I don't know exactly what that means. Does that mean we're going to see some

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exclusive Metallica vinyl? It's an honorific title only.

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I think we've received Metallica every year on Record Store Day.

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I remember we had that Lords of Summer or whatever it's called.

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Last year was the cassette, the No Life Till Leather cassette last year.

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Yeah, the one that was gone in a second.

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Gone in a second.

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I had read in the news article I read that they were sort of instrumental in its rise, the record store era. Maybe they've just always supported it, I don't know, but hey, we'll see what it means. I think our second news story is probably not too related, but it might be a little bit. Yeah, they're also reissuing Kill Em All and Ride the Lightning in April on vinyl, and unfortunately I've already got them on vinyl, so I don't know that I'm going to pick them up again. Well, these are also very pricey box sets, George, that come with.

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All kinds of extra shit. I mean, they may well do just a single version, too, of just the album, but you might go look at it. I mean, it's like they both come with like a live show and like demos that were done at the time and just a shitload of stuff comes in this box. It's huge. A pair of large used underwear. I think there's like a couple hundred bucks, so you might get some underwear in it. You never know. Yeah, Metallica are the kings of overpriced box sets. Yep, well, they got fans that'll do it. Yep, yep. Not me.

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So, you know, I was watching the Grammys recently. I wasn't really watching. I was sitting there insulting them while my wife yelled at me for insulting them because she likes to watch them. And I was surprised towards the end of the show that they did a tribute to Lemmy, which was very surprising given how the Grammys completely ignore heavy metal despite the token, you know, metal performance Grammys that they give, like, in a back alley somewhere.

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But they

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The Hollywood Vampires

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Came out and did a tribute for Lemmy

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And that was like Alice Cooper singing

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And Joe Perry from Aerosmith

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And Johnny Depp

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And Duff McKagan from Guns N' Roses

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And some other people that I didn't know who they were

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But there was a giant picture

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It's that picture of Lemmy where he's got his

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Like he's pointing and he's kind of looking like

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It's like sort of the Lemmy Fonz move

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And you know he's like

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But they had like a banner of that up behind the stage. And I was glad because I'm sure, you know, every time they panned to the audience, I was like, these people have no clue who he is. Yeah, of course. What did they do? What songs did they do? Well, they did Ace of Spades at some point. They started with something, I think it was one of their own songs because they put out an album. Oh, okay. All right. And then they went on and did Ace of Spades. I didn't see it. And I'm sure it's available everywhere. I should go look and take a look at it. Yeah, I'm sure it's up on YouTube.

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I mean they did use the the Hollywood vampires was a real thing like back in the day where it was a bunch of guys who got together and basically got drunk in the 70s and they probably pushed into the 80s and Alice Cooper was an actual member of that group and I think Lemmy probably was at some point and they called themselves that and they used to just be it was like a weird little social club or something and they all just went to the rainbow and got drunk basically yeah I mean that's I think not even basically that's all they did yeah and in case you care Ghost won best metal performance

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But it's like one of those things with the Grammy

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I mean none of us probably takes the Grammy seriously

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I'm willing to bet

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So there's that

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But then secondarily they always get to the party late

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If they deserved a Grammy it was for that first fucking record

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But of course they're not going to hear about some independent band

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You know what I mean?

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Right

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Yeah so

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So speaking of gothic themed bands

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This is a band that

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This next item is about a band that Buke told me about the other day

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Do you know that this band is a super group?

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Is it?

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Yep

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It's a super group you said Buke?

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Let George tell the story and I will mention some of the bands the guys are from. The band is called Them, as in King Diamond's Them, and they're releasing an album soon called Sweet Hollow. It's going to be coming out in the spring. Right now, you can get a three-song sampler up on Bandcamp. Called Fear Them. Fear Them. And you told me about this. I was actually at the gym at the time. I pulled it right up on Bandcamp, and I was like, holy shit! There are two things that immediately sprung to mind. First of all,

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King Diamond's gonna be knocking on your door going hey what the fuck this is my music this is King Diamond like stamped out yeah like there's a band called Attic that I have talked about in the past and they sound very King Diamond-esque but not this much this is really like they hit his high notes and his low notes just like perfect I mentioned that this was a all-star group you have Troy Knorr from Cold Steel on vocals trying to see other

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The guys that step out. Guitarist is Marcus Johansson from Forearm. And the Washington Capitals. Yes. Drums is Kevin Talley from Suffocation. Is that true? He plays for the Caps? No, it's just there's a guy named Marcus Johansson on the Caps. Weird things have happened. Kevin Talley, he's ex-decrepit birth, dying fetus, misery index, 6 feet under, and Mike LaPond on bass of Symphony X. That's quite a pedigree there.

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Yeah. Very wide-ranging styles. Exactly. Very wide-ranged group. And it's cool to... Definitely, you can tell that they're probably fans of King Diamond. And again, this is King Diamond. If you would not have been told what this is, you could think, hey, this is King material I haven't heard. Yeah. Some record I've never heard before. Yeah. The second item that I said that I thought of when I heard it was, damn, this is awesome. Because, you know, sure, it sounds like King Diamond, but it sounds really good. I love the guitar tone.

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these songs.

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This song's really good, dude.

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It's well-produced.

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Yeah, nobody plays like this anymore, you know?

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It's all either death metal, black metal, doom metal.

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Nobody plays this just, like, really good, like, just metal, you know?

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That it's all got to go into some sort of subgenre or whatever.

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But I just love, you know, guitar playing like this.

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The lead singer wears makeup where it looks like he has, like, a burned inverted cross going across, like, the side of his face.

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Nice. Kind of like Two-Face. And apparently they're going to be touring with Halloween. Yeah. Oh, good for them. Yep. Which should be interesting, you know, the heaven and hell. All right. Click on that link I just sent you. Yeah, I'm doing that right now. I don't know how to get there. Oh, yeah, dude, that's fucking cool. And that is so King Diamond, even without, you know, the, I mean, the hat and everything. Isn't that cool? Yeah. It's wicked, man. Oh, yeah. So it's been long overdue, but Deep Purple are finally getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And as is so often the case with bands that have splintered over the years,

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you have to wonder who's going to show up for this thing. And surprisingly to me, Deep Purple said that they are unwilling to play with Richie Blackmore. I kind of thought it would be the other way around. I think it's just because there's just so much acrimony there now, dude. But still, I thought it was all on Richie's end. I thought that, you know. No, you know what it is? I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you, George. We've come full circle and this is the same thing happened with Pink Floyd, unrelated as they may be. And what I mean is Roger Waters for years was a prick. And they all got to hating him so much.

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and now Roger Waters finally many many many years later just in the last few years has been like oh you know I miss the guys it'd be nice to get together with them and I know I was kind of a jerk and they're like no never again buddy and I honestly think that's where they are with with him I'm I mean he he like threatened to kill Ian Gillen a couple of times and things like that so I just he's not quick to forgive you know it's not yeah but it's too bad it's too bad because it's he is a defining member of that band to be sure you know yeah it's almost as much as or more than Gillen if you ask me

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I mean, Richie Blackmore was Deep Purple in a big way. So yeah, it's too bad. It's too bad that that shit happens. But hey, man, Richie is famous for Burning Bridges, and apparently he can't rebuild this one. Apparently. Volbeat is apparently finishing mixing a new album that at this time has no release date. But I'm definitely kind of looking forward to that. I really liked their last one. Did you like them, Buick? I still don't really know these guys for whatever reason. No, I liked it a lot. Okay. They're pretty commercial, you know, but they're pretty awesome, too. You know, I mean,

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I hear that exact, almost exact review from a lot of people. That's pretty much what people say about them. Both of those things. I dig the guy's voice. I was joking. You don't like him? No, I can't stand them. Poo poo on you. I liked it. I can't stand them. All right then, moving on. What about these guys? Gojira has also finished mixing their new album. We've been waiting for years for this album. Yeah, and I believe it's coming soon. Like March, April, May. Something like that. I heard some pretty,

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exciting things about it and when they were interviewing the joseph i think is his name or joe or

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whatever and he was basically saying that generally they've always you know written a bunch of

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songs and they went in there and they thought well we can make this work or whatever but he said this

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time we would get something and if it didn't seem interesting we threw it away you know so i think this is

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one of those things where a band is suddenly in a hyper focus and it sounds to me like this is gonna be

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kind of a special record let's hope so let's hope so have you guys heard the new amana marth song

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first kill from their new concept album yes sir i have i like it i personally have

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I haven't. You haven't heard it? No, I have not heard it. I am a big fan of them, so I want the whole package all at once. You're giving it the Star Wars treatment. Exactly. Going dark on them on a marth. Yep. I don't want a little tease and then I can't get anything for a while. Yeah. I've been playing it a lot and it's pretty badass. Andy Sneap is producing again and the production is brilliant and the video is kind of interesting too. Oh, I didn't watch the video, but I will. Yeah. It's not a lyric video. It's a real video.

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I mean, it's par for the course for them. There's no huge surprises in it, but it's good. It's a good song. Yeah, it's just more awesome amount of money. So we've got a whole slew of albums coming out in the next couple of months. Esan's new album, Arctis. Unfortunately, it was supposed to come out in March, but has now been pushed back to April 8th, so we have to wait a little bit longer for that one. I was really surprised and overjoyed to hear that Shamash,

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has a new album coming out called Triangle on April 29th. If you recall, their last album, Contradiction, was high up on my list in 2014, I believe it was. It was a really good album, so I'm really hoping that this one is even better than the last one. It was one of the best records of that year, and I'm a huge fan of these guys. I follow them on Facebook, so I would see when they were doing updates and recording, but I have to be honest, I didn't know about this release date until you put it on the script. So I'm super,

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psyched about this. This would be one of my most anticipated releases right now. And judging by some of the photos, George, it's going to be cool because there was all these pictures of them recording in a monastery using weird old instruments. It sounds like it's just going to be a real thing. Yeah, that's awesome. And the fact that I just found out about it and now it's only out in two months, that's even better. When you hear about one of your favorite bands has a new album out and it's like, it'll be out in nine months. And you're like, all right, start waiting.

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I agree. When I read this and the date, I was like, fuck, this is great, dude. Good metal news. Yeah, so many bands are surprising me with stuff. In fact, we've got a couple more of here that are actually quite surprising. Next up is Vector, and they're releasing their new album, Terminal Redux, on May 6th. I don't know if you've heard these guys, Jay, but they're pretty badass. You know, like sci-fi thrash. I have not. It's Vector with a K, V-E-K-T-O-R. Make sure to check out their

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First Two Albums, Black Future and Outer Isolation. Cool, dude. All right, good. Yeah, no, I don't know them at all. Next up is another one that's coming out of left field and surprising me and I'm super excited about is the new Grand Magus album called Sword Songs, and that's coming out on May 13th. Their last album, Triumph and Power, was, well, the song, the title song, was one of my favorite songs of that year. So hopefully they got some more good stuff in store for us. Yeah, their records are great. They're one of those bands that you can't

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you can just kind of count on you know they're nothing super fancy or anything like that just this big riffy not quite stoner rock but you know just big riffy band just pounding your you know your your your fist in the air fist pumping kind of music it's just like yeah i haven't listened to these guys george since you had me check out hammer over north so i may i may dive i know i remember one time we went to the store and you bought like four of their records of soundgarden or a couple so i should probably dive back into them yeah check out check out iron will they

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I mean, they have a lot of great records, but Iron Will is one of my favorites. Yeah. There was one album, I can't even remember which one it is now, it was the one before Triumph and Power. The Hunt? The Hunt. I kind of like ragged on them for that one. Yeah, you did. But I got over it. I like it now. Yeah, they go, they are not afraid to kind of take a couple left and right turns here and there, so to speak. I mean, within a pretty small, you know, it's not a wide highway they're taking these turns down, it still always sounds like them, but yeah, man, these are, I like Grand Magnus, actually.

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I'm excited about this record. That'll be cool. Glad to hear it's coming out. Yeah. And then this next one totally threw me. I was like, what? Death Angel is getting ready to release The Evil Divide on May 27th. I have no doubt that that will be exquisite thrash metal. Yeah. Yeah. I did kind of know this was coming just because I've been following them a little bit and I hear when they were mixing it and shit like that. But yeah, good for them, dude. When you say following them, you mean like stalking them, right? Essentially, yes. Since they are from the Bay Area. Since they are, yeah. Since they are.

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And as far as releases, we've got one more. Candlemas has set June as the time period when they're going to release their new EP, Death Thy Lover. So I guess we'll finally get to hear this new singer. Yeah, and a medium-grade excitement from me on this one. I'm hopeful, but when you start getting into three and four singers, things get a little rough when you're getting on your third singer. So I'm sure the music will be great and everything, but I already kind of got emotionally attached to two different voices.

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voices in this band. But I'll hold a hope. It might kick our asses all over the place. Never can tell. Never can tell. And it is Candlemas after all. Exactly. So we're always complaining about we don't have big metal festivals in the United States. We've got Maryland Death Fest and I know there's the New England Hardcore and Metal Festival. And well, that's still really just about it because this new Chicago Open Air Festival, as far as I'm concerned, is a giant piece of shit. I don't know. You said the lineup was shitty. So who's

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I didn't even look. Okay, well, let me give you some of the names. On Friday, Romstein. I'll just run down the list. Like, Romstein, Chevelle, Ministry of Mice and Men. I am getting bored. Yeah, get going. Meshuggah, Devil Wears Prada, In This Moment, Trivium, Hollywood Undead, Hatebreed. Yeah, there's a few good ones. Like, Saturday, Disturbed, Korn, Breaking Benjamin, Gojira, Helmet, Death Heaven. Yeah, it's like they've got Gojira, which is good.

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They've got Carcass and Deaf Heaven. They've got... Personally, I'm okay with Ministry. They got Killswitch Engage, Corroso of Conformity. That was the other one, COC. This is a weird bill. Yeah, it's just not... And my most hated band, Babymetal. Yeah, Babymetal. It's like Rock on the Range. I know people that... I've been to Rock on the Range just because some friends of mine were playing there and I went along. It's kind of like Rock on the Range. It's all these commercial

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commercial hard rock acts. It's not really a metal show. No thanks. Carcass is like swimming in a sea of commercial bullshit here. I don't understand what that's all about. No. Why would you go? Why would you put yourself through a day of that just to see Carcass? You're a ministry fan, guys. I am. Medium. They were big when I was working in a record store back in the 90s. We certainly played them a lot at the record store. I like some of it. I, in all honesty, don't own any of their records.

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9's my favorite. That's the Mike Scotcha one that's just fucking brilliant guitar work all over it. Filth Pig was pretty good. It's Al Jorgensen. Boy, he looks fucking weird now. He's a rough looking dude, yeah. Yeah, he does. In fact, our next story happens to be about Al's new band. So let me sort of preface that. When Mike Scotcha died, like days after finishing recording the last Ministry album, Al Jorgensen just was like, you know, I can't do this anymore. There will be no more Ministry albums. And so Al,

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has started up another project called surgical meth machine and they just released a lyric video for the song tragic alert and if you like ministry you'll like this uh you know it's pretty fast and heavy sort of like the last uh the last ministry album uh to be honest i had to go back and double check and make sure this wasn't like a final project for mike scotcha because the fucking guitar work was just super fast and precise just like his playing but uh so there you have it you know al's new project he's getting up

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He's got to be maybe even his 60s. Yeah, and I read his book

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sometime last year and

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damn is he lucky to be alive. Oh, yeah big time. I mean, he was

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one crazy son of a bitch. Yeah, Al's done some drugs. Yeah, he's no he's done them all

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There's none left. Al did them all. Al's done the drugs. Yeah, but all right one last item here and

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I'm sure Bukes gonna tap out on this one

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but

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I got about halfway through it before I said, you know, my fascination with baby metal is over. Can I go on record saying I have never, ever liked a single fucking thing that these bands have ever done? I don't see what the allure is to them. Fuck it. I don't like them per se. I found them a curiosity, just like a car wreck. Right. You know, it's just, you know, you look at it and you're just trying to understand what's going on.

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going on here. But I'm over it. I'm ready to move on. I love that that is your take on it, too. I mean, I never even looked close enough to really know the difference, but I love that your take was, oh, okay, that joke has ruined his course. Pretty much, you know. And we discussed that in the past when the album first came out. We were like, you know, is this going to have staying power or not? And we were all sort of in agreement, I think, that it was just like, no, this is, you know, it's a novelty. It was a novelty kind of thing. And, you know, that novelty is a novelty.

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going to wear off. And for me, it has. Because I'm just like, whatever. That's just... It's not good. It's not good. All right, let's do new releases. I'm super excited about this first one because, well, it's awesome, frankly. This is the new Anthrax For All Kings. Buke and I, I think, are both behind the ball on this one, George. We haven't listened to it yet, especially since I saw Buke ask you,

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I'll be downloading today and listening to. I did listen to samples. Sounds great. I'm hoping for the best. And I know you're impressed with it. And again, George and I have spoken many times about our love for worship music. You know what? Just include me in that book because that was one of those records that blew me away that year. So I have high hopes for this. I really hope you guys like it. The only song I don't really care for is the one they're playing now, Breathing Lightning. And even that, I'm like, I'll take that over just another.

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Bieber any day.

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Well, I looked at the, what I did do, and now it's in the box, I'll have the whole thing, but I went and I listened to the samples on iTunes.

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But then I looked at one of the reviews, and the iTunes featured review is a rave.

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The one that they kind of just put, not like by a fuser.

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Yeah.

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And they were just like, this is just a love note to heavy metal, you know?

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It is.

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It's really good.

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You know, it's a little different, but not too different.

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It still has some of that like worship music feel to it.

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Good for them, dude.

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It's good for them to be this far along in their career and making basically their best records at this point. Yeah, I really like the track Monster at the end. The one they've been playing a lot, Evil Twin, is really good. And there's another one called Defend Avenge. Fucking brutal. Not brutal, just fucking awesome. Cool. And so check that out. There's also the new Anvil album, Anvil is Anvil. It will have the word Anvil. It'll have the word Anvil on the cover three times. Three times. Anvil is the word, and the word shall be three times.

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Times, Anvil, Anvil, Anvil. And you do that, and then they show up at your house and they play heavy metal music.

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The name of the movie was actually kind of funny. It was something like, it had the word Anvil in it twice. It was like the... Anvil, the story of Anvil. Yeah, Anvil, the story of Anvil. That's what it was.

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Yeah. But, you know, if you like Anvil, it's more of the same. I like Anvil, so I am well pleased with what I received. And I'd like to point out that I, as we mentioned in the last episode, I backed the album and got a couple

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cool things from it. But what was really cool is when they finally sent the link to download the album, they included a flak link. I was like, yes! Oh, dude, that's cool. Yeah, not a lot of people do that, so thank you, Anvil. What label are they on, George? Are they on a label? I don't know. You looking it up? Anvil's on Steam Hammer. Ah, yes. Yeah, so that's good for them. Good for them that they, that's good. You know, they got somebody behind them who can actually pay for their record, so. Yep, and their fans paid for their record. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But anyway, so next up we have Destroyer 666 and their new album Wildfire. I got it. I think we're all pretty probably excited about that one. I know Buke has been talking about them lately. I listened to it all the way through last night. It's like Black Thrash. Yeah, but they go a couple of different directions this time. There's a little more traditional stuff in there too. Even one song in particular is just almost like a traditional style heavy metal song without being really an obviously thrash song. This is a really good record. I'm really enjoying it. I've only been through

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I was intrigued enough to keep spinning it. I like them anyway, but yeah, this one's going to get rolling with me. Got a cool cover, too. And we'll be seeing them at Maryland Death Fest this year. Which is one of the reasons I was moved. I wouldn't always think of these guys right away, but I moved to get it right away, because it's like, I'm going to be seeing them, and I better get that new record right away. So, yeah, you guys are both going to like it. I think of them mildly in that goat whore category, you know? Yeah, that makes sense. A little bit more old school, catchy and stuff, but still modern enough to get by. I actually will just go

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I recommend this record. Well, all right then. You heard it first from Jay. You heard it first here. Jay's stamp of approval has been activated. Next up, the new Entombed AD album, Dead Dawn, is also out. You been listening to that at all, Buke? I have. It's more of my death and roll, baby. I'm liking Entombed still. Ain't nothing more to say. If you like Entombed, if you like that kind of death roll that they do, you know what you're getting into here. Hell yeah.

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that term? Because that's the perfect way to describe them. That was the first time I heard it was when Wolverine Blues came out. They called it Death and Roll. That is the perfect fucking genre for them. Yep. I just came up with it right now. What are you doing? And I came up with Cookie Monster vocals. I really did. We're going to be rich. That was when Scream Bloody Gore came out. I was like, he sounds like Cookie Monster. Oh, you did? Really? Is that true? It is true. I probably didn't coin it, but I came up with it before I heard anybody else say it. It's still mine, damn it.

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Still mine.

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This next one, we don't know how to say, George, so go ahead and try.

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Yeah, this is the Finnish band Oransi Pazuzu and their new album, Varatalia?

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I don't know if, I think you pronounced it correctly because that's the way I read it too.

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The first word I don't know, but the second word is the name of the demon in The Exorcist.

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Ah, Pazuzu?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And this is sort of a, they're built as psychedelic black metal.

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I honestly don't get a lot of psychedelic out of it. I mean, I guess maybe they do some like long meandering kind of. Yeah, it's not. It's more ISIS-y droney type stuff. Yeah, I haven't heard the new album yet. I like the last album, so I'm looking forward to getting my hand. Yeah? Yeah, it's okay. I haven't heard the first one, so I don't know what it's like, but it's kind of, well, it's almost exactly what I said. It's like a black metal ISIS-y droney thing, and it's not like a super speed album by any strange sense. Right. It sounded okay. I have to, I didn't give it.

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Okay.

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Next up, Voivod is releasing their post-society EP.

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And we've already talked about that one, so I'm not going to go into that anymore.

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But it's definitely cool.

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If you like Voivod, check it out.

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Next up is a band I haven't heard from in a while.

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I think they've been deactivated for some time, probably like 10 years.

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It's a band called Beseech.

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And they have a new album coming out, My Darkness, Darkness.

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This is an album for Buke and his current thing.

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Unless your kind of prog thing has died a little bit, Buke.

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This is a John album, for sure. Yeah, this is one that I don't know. I haven't heard anything from the new album yet. I've got a bunch of their old albums. And at the time, it was kind of cool. This was like, you know, harsh vocals with clean female vocals kind of stuff. And I tried to actually listen to some from their Soul's Highway album earlier today. And I was like, oof, I remember why I don't listen to this stuff anymore. So I was like, well, there's way too many female vocals on here for me.

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Not that I have anything with female vocals, but

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this style, I'm just kind of over.

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Me too. Not really my cup of tea.

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Not to crap on it or anything.

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I'd like to hear what this new album sounds like

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to see if they've changed anything up at all.

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But we'll see.

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Pretty sure I heard it on Spotify.

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I went and looked. I checked everything on the script today

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and I did hear some of that one and I think it was Spotify

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is where I heard it.

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Alright. I haven't heard this next one yet either,

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but I am looking forward to it.

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It's the new Church of Misery and Then There Were None.

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These guys are some interesting doom metal. All their songs tend to be about serial killers, like specific serial killers. I've never heard them before, but I always see this, like Kingdom Scum album in our fucking local record store. Every time I go. Yeah, I've got it on vinyl. Even though you could say this about all doom, it's the kind of doom that is pure Sabbath worship of that specifically, like, volume four era. This is like what happens when a death metal band writes doom, because

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It's like the subject matter is all very death metal, but the music is doom. Yeah, it's total Sabbath-y, retro, you know, we're using old amps kind of stuff. Yeah. Next, second to last one, we've got the new Mortis album, The Great Deceiver. I listened to, Metal Hammer was streaming this, and I listened to this yesterday, and it's all right, you know, if you like, like, late 90s industrial metal kind of stuff. It's par for the course for him. Yeah, it's more of the same.

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I'm not really there anymore, so I can't really get excited about it, but it's not bad. But somebody out there listening is going to be excited. Yep. Yeah. Especially since I think it's been a while. I'm trying to remember when the last one came out. It's been good six years, as much as six years. It's been a while. Maybe, maybe even more. And the last one, I still haven't heard this yet either, but I do have their previous EP. This is the new Oceans of Slumber and Winter. I know they got a new singer on that last EP. Don't recall her name.

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But it was a really cool EP, and I'm looking forward to hearing this one. All right, let's get into our top three. This time I came up with the probably not so brilliant idea to list our top three albums we like to listen to on vinyl.

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It's just hard in its way. You guys probably had as much trouble as I did. It is hard because the more I thought about it, there's albums that I want to love on vinyl. There's albums that have spent a lot of money to try and get on vinyl. Rainbow Rising being one. I wanted that album the day I started collecting vinyl records. I got it. I don't know if it was a bad press or just how it was back then. It's horrible.

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Is it an original one in other words? It is. Oh, it is. Yeah. There was a nice reissue of that, by the way, just so you know. A nice $20. Yeah, I think you've mentioned that before. I probably should just get that. Just fucking get it, yeah. One thing I thought of was that you're sort of limited by your collection at this point. Yeah. You know, as to what, you know, because if you don't have it on vinyl, then how would you know if you like to play it on vinyl? So, yeah, I was like, oh, that won't be so bad. But then, you know, I went through my discogs looking to go, okay, what do I have?

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like to listen to.

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And so it was,

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it was tougher than I expected.

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So there's a couple obvious ones for me.

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I went for the easy wins that I know I'd like to listen to.

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So perfect.

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Well,

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I'm going to crank it out then.

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I'll start out with my number three,

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which is a high on fire record.

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Death is this communion.

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And I,

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I have high on fire digitally on vinyl,

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probably most of them.

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And for some reason I do put this one on vinyl more than any of the other high

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on fire records.

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It's a real punchy.

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This,

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this is the one that opens with fairy whip,

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which is such a great song. And it's just got a great cover. It's just a good vinyl experience. So, I and Fire's Death is This Communion. Cool. Buke, what do you got for number three? This is a band that you and I were turned on to a couple years ago. It's an old 70s type of sound. This is a band, The Dagger. Ah. They sound that 70s again, Deep Purple, a throwback sound. This is a self-titled album. And it just kind of goes back to that time when records were originally being

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And it just shines through. Not super, super heavy by any means. But it sounds great. And while I have it here, I have to go on record. Allison Chains Unplugged is still my favorite vinyl. But it's not metal, so I'm not going to include it on my list. Now I want to go listen to the Dagger one. I've got that on vinyl too. So good. My number three is Nightfall by Candlemas. Oh, dude. That's one of my earliest vinyl purchases. And to this day, I just think that it just sounds like

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So I think, and I don't know, I can't predict what you're going to have, but doom is a pretty important, vinyl is pretty important to doom. So I'd be surprised if we don't have at least one kind of doomy record. So Candlemas is a great choice. What's your number two? Yeah, it comes back to me. My number two is one that I first heard on LP. I did not have it for many years, and I got it.

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I got the reissues when they came out and it's Led Zeppelin 1. I just it does my childhood mind good to put that record on on vinyl and listen to it I sit there I hold the cover in my hands when I'm doing it those remasters that came out a little while back were insanely well done so I've got just this scratch free completely smooth non-hissy Led Zeppelin 1 love to put it on I got those reissues as well and I have to agree now I want to go listen to that too yeah they're nice man they're nice they're super nice you know and it was and they did them all exactly like they were when they came out of the

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out. So you got all the weird little packaging shit and stuff, which was great because I wasn't buying records when the Zeppelin Records came out because I was a little bit too young. So it was fun to get it. It was like what it must have felt like to buy, you know, Houses of the Holy for the first time, you know. Yeah. Dick, what's your number two? I'm doing Double Duty because it's number two. So Double Deuces. They're very similar bands. Opef, Ghost Reveries. Sounds amazing on vinyl. And what I used to, I used this one on vinyl to actually show off,

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my nice speakers that I have. Between the buried and me, the Parallax 2. That's another good one. In fact, I showed off my speakers to you with that one. You certainly did, buddy. That's right. Hey, Buk, I noticed, to kind of sidetrack you for a minute, that you got your Deliverance and Damnation in the mail the other day, or maybe you bought it in a store. Is there anything fun in that package? What is it like when you open it? Plain Jane. I thought it was not even a gatefold. It's just you open it.

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Like a folder almost in a sense. Okay. And just three records in there. Deliverance, in a sense, is longer songs. Those make up three records. Or sorry, two. And Damnation's one by itself. Inside the box, are they merely in a slipcover? Just a slipcover. Okay. All right. And it's really nice, though. Remastered mixes by Steve Wilson. So it sounds... You know, you can tell where different levels were tweaked and raised. Yeah.

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So it's cool. While we're on that topic really quick, what do you guys think? We've talked about this, but I'm not talking about when they remaster to kick out members of the group and stuff like that. Oh, you mean like Ozzy? Exactly. What do you guys think when they go back and they let somebody else remaster an album? It depends. I mean, it wouldn't make sense if Zeppelin did it because Jimmy Page was the guy who mastered shit in the first place and mixed it and stuff. And in some cases, it's guys, they're letting people do it and they let somebody else do it in the first place. You know what I mean? So it's probably okay.

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I guess it depends on the person and the vision and I've never heard a remaster that's so or a remix more importantly that so thoroughly changed the record you know what I mean within reason there's a couple and one that comes to mind is there's a whole new vocal line on the remix of Melissa on the song Melissa from Merciful Fate and it kind of ruins the song for me there's this one thing at the end where he doesn't sing and suddenly there's this voice there and that was like a weird fucking choice because see the interesting thing about this Jay Steve Wilson

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He engineered and produced this. In the first place. In the first place. Is it that technology

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is going at such a rapid pace and that there's more digital mixing and stuff to go with? I don't know. What do you think, George? Yeah. That's a real good, I don't know if it's. Like all technology, it's always constantly changing. And so, you know, it's likely that there's better technology than there was even just a few years ago. But then there's also the fact that no artist is ever happy

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with what they put out and you can always go back and tweak it more. Or maybe he goes back and listens to it. He always gets that one part. He knows what's coming. And he's like, damn it! I'm going to fix that one part. I'm going to fix it! That package is specifically vinyl, correct? Yes, it is. And I will say this, that a lot of bands fuck up. You know this all too well. I take the back. There is a CD. But the interesting thing about this, Jay, both albums were recorded at the same time. Oh, I remember it well.

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Yeah, but I, well, the thing that I was going to say was just like your Wolfhammer CD, rather vinyl that you fucking hate. Oh, is that Wolfhammer? Is that the name of that band? No, Vol, you just got it a little while ago. Oh, I'm thinking about my, let me, oh, the Woven War. Woven War, thank you. And so I will say this, if you don't master an album and all that shit for vinyl, that makes a difference. And so that's another thing is maybe they wanted another crack at that. I don't know. Hard to say. Did you, but you say you, you, you've had a slightly different experience.

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with these vinyls. You hear some different things. Yeah, I do. I was hearing, I listened to it last night with Drunk Matt from the podcast. And you can hear the backing vocal tracks in some parts. The bass is tuned up and down. I just listened to Damnation last night so I could really pick out parts and it sounds a lot clearer. I think that's the one key thing I've always liked about Opeth. Their recordings are always

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I've got knocked out of the fucking park. And I credit Stephen Wilson with that. Oh, hands down, buddy. So that's what made me proud of that question to you guys, is with his recordings from our end, it always sounds amazing. Why did they go back and do this again? Because you're never satisfied. True, true. Okay. My number two is Fate's Warning, Awaken the Guardian. Oh, cool. It's just one of my all-time favorite metal albums, and I've, I don't know, I just, I love putting it

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on and just relaxing and checking out this album. When, George, is that show? September. And is that the album they're playing? I forget. Yep. September. Wow, you got a little ways to wait, yeah. Yep, it's okay. I got Death Fest to hold me over. My number one is an album that I mentioned the very first time I was ever on the pod. And Buke said to me, oh, Jay, if you put that on in vinyl, you'll shake your house. And he was absolutely right. And I loved it when he was listening to this record on vinyl. And it's Paul Bearer, Foundations of Birds.

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So big, heavy, shaky. Yep, yep, yep. That's a great one. That's my last comment on that. What you got? My number one album I like to listen on vinyl. I paid a pretty penny for this bad boy. Ahab the Giant. Oh, fuck yeah. I was going to put that in there and I opted not to. It's... Oh, man, is it perfect? It is. That's a good fucking way to put it. Listen to it digitally does not do it justice. When you hear this clean,

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The recording is perfect. This is what vinyl is all about. Hell yeah. Great choice. And then when I'm not listening to vinyl, I put in my Steely Dan Asia record, but that's for a different podcast. Sure. My number one is, no surprise, you'll probably roll your eyes, but this is the album that actually reignited my interest in vinyl. This is Woods of Epre 5, Grey Skies and Electric Light.

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When David Gold passed, I immediately lost my mind and just started getting anything and everything that I could get my hands on Woods of V-Prey. And that included picking up Woods 5 and Woods 4 as well on vinyl, even though at the time I didn't even have a working turntable. But it inspired me to go out and buy a new turntable to fix the one that I had broken. And so I went out and bought a new turntable so that I could listen to this. And it was just like, you know, the clouds opened up and I was like, vinyl.

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is good.

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And so it was all downhill from there.

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Yeah.

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Now you're screwed.

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Yeah.

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Thank God they don't make it out of some explosive material or something,

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dude,

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because your house would literally be like,

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you know,

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some sort of fucking zone where they couldn't fly airplanes over it or something.

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You know what I mean?

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Just like vinyl records emitted radiation.

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George's house in the neighborhood would be like Chernobyl.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well,

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why don't we move on to what we're listening to?

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My list is pretty short.

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I did, just as noted, get the Destroyer 666 record.

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And it's very clear to me I'll be listening to that quite a bit over the next couple of weeks for sure. As I mentioned to George a while back, I've been listening to Hyricks again. I'm enjoying them. A couple other things that are kind of stuff spinning in from the old school that I like. But the record that I'm most obsessed with for this year so far, just put a review up on the webpage, Facebook page, the webpage, is the Riding Christ Rituals album. I'm loving this fucking record, dude. Me too. It's one of those ones that I'm kind of spinning it back, back to back.

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I was listening to it at work the other day. I listened to it three times in a row. Wow. It's fucking great. Are you going to go back and listen to some of the other ones? Yep. Well, I downloaded them all already. Okay. Yeah, and you were right, George. I have to give you props. Triarchy of the Lost Lovers is my favorite one of the old stuff. Yeah, it's awesome. I want to go back and explore Dead Poem and Sleep of Angels a little bit more because those were sort of a drastic change in sound from Triarchy.

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them a lot of love when they came out.

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But I've listened.

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I'm going to do the whole catalog.

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I'm sorry.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah.

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And I started listening to Dead Poem again the other day.

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And I was like, so good.

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What the fuck was I thinking?

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Yeah.

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Good stuff.

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Really.

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And they're just doing something that's a little unique to me.

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And I want to leave it at that.

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You can go read the review if you're interested to see what I'm talking about.

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Or even better go listen to it.

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So that's definitely my favorite record of the year right now.

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That's my number one right now.

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Right on.

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What's the list to be?

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I'm going to pull a George this week. You fuckers get ready to hear what I'm listening to, boys. Okie dokie. I am listening to, I've gone back and was trying to listen to some albums from 2015 I may have missed. A band by the name of Trial and their album Vessel. Not to be confused with Trials, that other band. Yep. Different band. Trial and their album Vessels. Again from last year, Lord Fist. Oh yeah.

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Green, I always laugh. I mean, it's just such a porno name, dude. Green, Eileen, or Eileen, or however you say it. It's like a speed metal album by Defaced called Forging the Sanctuary. Another one, the band Striker and Stand in the Fire. That's thrash too, right? Yes, it is. And it was kind of talked about last year too. A lot of people liked that. And a couple band camp finds.

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The Band Carnival of Flesh and the album Stories from a Fallen World. It's a symphonic black metal album from last year. Nice. Check that out. Awesome album art. Out recent, in fact I think it may have came out a day or two ago, the power metal band Wisdom and their album Rise of the Wise. I saw that but I haven't listened to it yet. Pretty awesome stuff. And the band that I am kicking myself in the fucking teeth.

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for not listening to enough of. Never listening to them in the past, even though they've been around. You can hear me getting worked up about hating myself right now. Ex Mortis. I thought you already liked them. I had, but they just fell off. You know what I'm saying? Fell off. Yeah, you never really did the whole thing. Now, when George gave us the album Ride Fourth, I have gone back hardcore and listening to these guys again. Awesome. I've spun that a few times myself, Duke.

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It's a really cool record. Man, it's a really fucking awesome record. And I will get to it in vinyl, but I'll just mention it again right here, because why not? Aborted Termination Redo, their EP. Good stuff. Yep. All right. And again, one more time, the Obscura album is still pretty fucking amazing. Oh, good. I'm glad you did it. Oh, and I forgot to mention that last episode. Talking about Shake Your House fucking bass and guitar bands, the new Conan, Revengeance, is awesome. Yeah.

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That's good too.

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Okay, here we go.

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Oh my god.

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If you thought the last one was long, well, I've got even more.

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I'm going to make a theme for you, George.

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I'm going to make a theme for what is George listening to.

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It's going to be in the style of sleep.

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Yes, it'll be like Dope Smoker.

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It's really slow and long.

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For like an hour.

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It'll be the music bed whenever you start talking.

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Come, my children, and sit around the fire.

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I will tell you tales of what I've been listening to to put you to sleep tonight. You know, there's two camps. There's people out there listening right now who are like, fuck them, George. Give them your list. Yeah, well, I've gotten a couple of messages from people, and I appreciate it that they're like, yeah, man, we like these lists, so I'm going to keep doing them. Whatever I come across, you're going to hear about it. And if you have a problem with it, do your own podcast. Yeah, goddammit, it's my podcast. I didn't say what I want, fuckers. You save a lot of people a lot of time, and I'm not fucking with you on that.

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I'm not joking, dude. Going through GarageBand and every other source can be wildly entertaining, but it can also be mind-numbing. You are the filter saving a bunch of people a bunch of fucking time. Yeah. And like I said, I can't stop. 20 minutes before we did the Pile of Priests interview, everything was set up and I'm just sitting here going, okay, what do I do for the next 20 minutes? I go on Bandcamp and buy two more albums. Your obsessive dysfunction is to the benefit of our listeners.

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Yeah. All right. First album. I bitched about them on the last episode because they did not release their album on Bandcamp when they said they were going to. This is the self-titled All Hail the Yeti. I broke down and finally got it so that I could get the flack files for it. It's a cool album. It's dangerously, perilously close to being metal core. It's close. It's close, but I like it. So, you know, whatever. It is what it is. It's a good album.

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I love the name. Yeah, it's a cool name. And like Jay, I think it was Jay was saying, we need to get them on tour with Troglodyte. The Yetis versus the Troglodyte, the Bigfoots. Next up is a band called Audrey Fall and their album Mittau. They're an instrumental metal band from Latvia. This actually came out in 2014. Yep, got it here on Spotify. I just noticed that they're actually not together anymore, unfortunately, but it's cool instrumental stuff. So check that out. You can get it on Bandcamp or like you just said on Spotify.

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Next up we have a band. It's a French doom band. This is their second album. I'm going to butcher everything about them. Their name is Barabas. B-A-R-A-B-B-A-S. He's a bad guy from the Bible. Oh, okay. Stop being too smart, Jay. Is it Barabas? No, I think that's the way I've heard it. Barabas? He might have been one of the guys hanging on the cross next to Jesus, but I'm going to have to look that up. The album is in French.

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I have no fucking idea how to pronounce that. Is there a question mark on the end of it like that? Nope. But I found them on Bandcamp and I just thought it was like a, it's a Doom album, but it's, you know, it's not run of the mill. Anything that I hear that's like Doom and is not the same as every other Doom album kind of holds my attention. And they did, so I bought it. The vocals are all in French, unfortunately, but it's kind of, they're a lot of clean, atmospheric

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So it's just kind of ethereal. Next up is the band Sirith Gorgor and their sixth album, Visions of Exalted Lucifer. These guys are from Netherlands. It's black metal. And what initially caught my attention about these guys is their album art looks in a similar style of Bluthaus Nord, right? Bluthaus Nord? No, the reds, you went different. The reds, you know what that looks like? The reds and the

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The White's? Shemesh. I was going to say that too. They also have that like, I think of it as the Bluthaus Nord from like the trilogy albums that he did. Yeah, but remember the Shemesh is that red and gold and white. Yes, no, that is also a perfectly good comparison. All right, I just want to kind of validate my wisdom, as Buke says. I don't know, Buke's probably never said that, but in any case, Emperor Abbas was the guy that Pontius Pilate let go when he said, we're going to let somebody go today. Who will

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What will it be? And then Jesus ended up on the cross. So Barabbas is the guy who was down at the diner going, whew, that was close. Dodged a bullet. Tough day. Yeah. Alrighty. Next up is a band called Dry as Dust. And that's all one word. The album is called The End. They're a Finnish power trio doing like 60s and 70s influenced hard rock. It's got a slight witchcraft vibe to it, but it's kind of not. It's just kind of cool, kind of trippy.

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Hard Rock. Not really like Stoner. So I don't know. But you know, check it out. It's on Bandcamp. It's pay what you want, if I believe. At the most, it's a couple bucks, I think. Next up, these guys are awesome. I can't believe I hadn't heard of these guys before. They're called Earthen. And I actually picked up three releases from them on Bandcamp. But the two I'm going to talk about is the EP, which is their latest, called With Twelve I Ride. And then the full-length album before that,

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The Fate That Binds Us All. These guys are a U.S. folkish metal band. And I heard about them on the Woods of Epre tribute album, Heart of Gold, which I'm going to go ahead and mention is also something I picked up this week. And they do a cover of one of the Woods of Epre songs on there. And I was like, wow, these guys are really cool. The singer sounds kind of a lot like, so much so that I had to look it up, like Don Svanu of every other band you've ever heard of.

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Dan Suano of Ben Suano. Yeah. He's got the same Nightingale, Witherscape kind of vocals. What is his band name again? Earthen. E-A-R-T-H-E-N. And it's really cool. It's also, I believe, pay what you want for each of these. And here's the clincher where I'd get you guys. I believe it's the EP with 12 I Ride.

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The last song is a cover of I Am A Viking. Oh, no shit. Oh, dude. Think of I Am A Viking with Svanna singing. What's the name of the EP, George? It's With 12 I Ride. You know what? I just learned something valuable, and that's that it never occurred to me to check and see if there was a Bandcamp amp. I'm a fucking idiot. I just downloaded it. You can't buy on it, though. No. But it still helps me search for George's stuff, especially. George, is that 12 spelled out? Yes. Yeah, I got it right here.

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Yeah, it's all really good stuff, so I highly recommend all of those. The first album, which I didn't write the name down for, but it's the one that's not these two, is a little more black metal. There's harsh vocals and stuff, but everything else after that is all clean, really good stuff. All right, this next one is one that I would also like to impress upon everyone listening to check out. I mentioned this band's last album on a previous episode. This is Hands of Despair, and their new

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You've heard of people talk about death doom before and that usually is like it's doom metal with harsh vocals. It's slow but they're like yeah this is more of a death metal with a touch of doom. It's pretty fast a lot of the time and it's harsh vocals and this guy's harsh vocals blow my mind. I think they are just amazing. He's got such control over his it's just it's awesome. He's got this really cool like cement mixer gravelly voice but it's which is still

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Like completely intelligible

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You know, it's a new singer on this album

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And I was kind of bummed by that

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But only until I heard him

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This is a really good album

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So check these guys out on Bandcamp

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I'm going to skip over the next one

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It's the Heart of Gold, a tribute to Woods of Epre

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Okay, I'm not going to skip over it

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But I'll tell you a little bit more

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It's just a bunch of bands paying tribute

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To David Gold from Woods of Epre

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Some notable ones on there

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Earthen, the one I just mentioned

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November's Doom has a track on there

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And both Joel Violet and Ray, obviously from Woods of Epre and their own various projects, they do a version of the track Silver, and it is just beautiful. Moving on, there's a band that I'm, I don't know how to say it, they're a French Viking black metal band. It's called Himenbjorg, and their album Weird, with a Y, W-Y-R-D.

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kind of cool black metal. Next up is the band Hyperion and their album Serifical Euphony. I'm glad you mentioned this. I, this is an early contender for album of the year right now. It's amazing. It is amazing. Yeah. You thinking question mark, Jay? Well, hit me with it again because I mean, no, I just, I loved all those words. I was just like, it was like listening to a different language. Say the name of the band again, George. Hyperion and the album is Serifical.

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Seraphical Euphony. Is it on Bandcamp? On Spotify? Get it. Okay. These guys are Melodic Black Death from Sweden. Some really cool guitar work. Yeah, I'm glad you like that. It's really good. Next up, a UK black metal band by the name of The Infernal Sea and their new album, The Great Mortality. This was just, again, it was just some black metal that hooked me. I really like the album artwork. It's sort of a theme

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I don't know if it's a concept album but it's a themed album

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around the period when the Black Death hit Europe. Next up is The Moth Gatherer and their album The Earth is the Sky.

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This is a Swedish post-metal sludge band. Really great production. Good stuff. Next up is an Italian doom metal band called Modus Tenebre and their album Death Rising. This is another doom metal album maybe because it's Italian. Italians do doom metal really well I think.

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It's just got a kind of a different sound to it. And that always, you know, makes me bite when I hear something a little different. Next up is a band called Oaken and their album King Beast. This is an experimental hardcore band from Budapest, Hungary. It's loud, it's heavy, it's noisy. It's interesting. This next one is one that Buke told me about on the last episode and I think maybe he heard from John. This is Perihelion Ship and A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring. Yes.

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It's a Finnish extreme progressive metal album. What do you think? It fucking blew me away. Isn't it amazing? I love this album. It's amazing. They've got some curious album artwork, but wow. I never would have guessed the music based on the album cover. It's amazing. Really good stuff. Next up, coming to us from Brazil, is Son of a Witch and their album Thrones in the Sky. This is total Sabbath worship from South America. It's cool. I got this.

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They also got their self-titled EP as well. Next one is an interesting one. This is Temple of Gnosis. That's G-N-O-S-I-S. And their album De Secretis Naturi Alchemica. It's a Serbian death doom band. There's a lot of really cool atmospheric instrumental work. Seriously deep vocals that I'm thinking they really have to be affected because they're just so deep.

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and like clean. This was part of my last snow shoveling listening experience. And it's not a real busy album. There's a lot of just atmospheric stuff between all the heavy parts, but it's a very interesting listen. Next one's for Buke. This is a German power metal band called Thornbridge and their album What Will Prevail. You heard these guys? I have not. It's pretty cool. To me, there's a little bit of like maybe some Rhapsody in there.

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I'm hearing German power metal maybe Aventasia a little bit maybe you know I find that when it's power metal and I like it it tends to be German I don't know but give it a listen see what you think next one uh every once in a while I pick something up that I I kind of question myself because it maybe seems a little commercial not in the commercial sense of millions of people will like it but just it's it's more produced it's it's a little more like

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This one, to me, sounds like a combination of Avatar and Faith No More. This is the band Toothgrinder and their album Nocturnal Masquerade. And I don't know what else to say about that. It's probably very common sounding, but it engaged me. The production's really good, and it's interesting. You just have to listen to it, I guess. Next one is another one, Via Buke.

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Oh man, I'm fucking loving this is rare. You're going to love this too because this is Trench Rot and Necronomic Warfare. Yes. I listened to this and yes, you're right. This is pretty damn good. It's older than I thought. I didn't realize it was like 2014 or 2013 or something like that. It's a little older, but it's definitely cool. And again, from the Crypt Sermon guys. Yeah, yeah, that's wild. Okay, next up. This is another side project band. This is

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A combining of two of the guys from Brutal Truth and two of the guys from Napalm Death. This is Venomous Concept and their third album, Kick Me Silly VC3. That would be Kevin Sharp and Dan Lilker from Brutal Truth and Shane and Danny from Napalm Death. Dan Lilker also from Nuclear Assault and... Anthrax at one point. Yeah, for like a minute. Yeah. Yeah, this is like Grindcore, but it's like good Grindcore. If you know what I mean by that, it's good Grindcore.

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It's pretty cool. Next up, another band from the Netherlands. This is a Black Thrash Crust band called Villainy. And their second album, Villainy 2, Dim. They really caught my ear when I listened to some samples on Bandcamp and the production was really good. I was like, wow. I just expected, when I'm just going through listening to things and playing a few seconds from every band, you hear a lot of bad production. And when you hear something that maybe you didn't expect to stand out, all of a sudden you're like, whoa, sounds really good.

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Good. Caught my ear and went back and listened to more and it's pretty cool. You can get it on Bandcamp. Look for it there. Another one that surprised me. I've been seeing this album around and I've completely ignored it based on the album cover because it looks like really bad cheesy power metal. It's got like squiggly fonts and some sort of like painted artwork that it just looks bad. But somehow maybe in a magazine I read that they were actually a Death Doom band. I was like hmm. And so I listened to them and I was

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I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the band When Nothing Remains and their new album In Memoriam is actually quite good. Don't judge this album by the cover. And then there's the two that I picked up today. I picked up the Pile of Priests Unholy Death EP and another Death Doom band called Pendulous and their album A Palpable Sense of Love and Loss. I only listened to the barest bit of that one. It was one of the ones I was just like, oh, sounds cool. I'll buy it. And I bought it right before we started recording.

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I want to note that I've also spent a lot of time listening to a lot of punk music this past couple of weeks. I've been trying to sort of cleanse my palate because I've been listening to so much extreme metal that I'm kind of getting burned out, as you can tell by my long list. Not that burned out, I guess. But I've just been trying to listen to a lot of other things to help me, you know, just cleanse the palate a little bit so that I can listen to more stuff. And at first I was listening to a bunch of Rat and Dokken and stuff like that.

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But then I moved on to some punk music, and I've been listening to a lot of Ramones, Bad Religion, Germs, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag. And then after talking to Jay about Hyrax, I started listening to DRI, because they're playing together. Yeah, yeah. And moving into the crossover stuff. In fact, I was listening to DRI's Crossover, and Poor of a Kind, one of my favorites from them. Those are both good records. And then I also, from there, I had to move on to Corrosion of Conformity's Animo.

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album because that's also a great crossover album and there we are exhale you should have a contest

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with yourself to see if you can read your whole list without blinking i don't think i could do that i mean

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you could do it 15 minutes i'd go blind yeah well you're not going to do it with that attitude

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that's true oh fine i'll see what i can do next time all right well let's move on to our classic albums

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I went a little, uh, classic Rocky this time. I think it's more of a hard rock band, but this was a record that I loved as a kid. Triumph Allied Forces. Oh yeah. A great record from start to finish. Yeah. It's like the, uh, the rush, uh, clone band. Basically there's some hard rock songs on there. There's kind of a poppy hit. I wouldn't call it a

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a poppy hit, but I call it an FM radio hit. The song called Magic Power, which is all about the love of music. The song Allied Forces is this fucking killer fucking tune. It's a great record, and Rick Emmett's a really good guitar player. Definitely if you want to stick your hand in some sort of maybe, what is it, mid-80s FM radio hard rock, Triumph Allied Forces is a great place to go. Yeah, it's a great album. What's your classic, Duke? Sticking with my current flavor like it's been for the past couple weeks now, which is Thrash. This is the

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album from 1990. I think it's their third album. Forbidden. Twisted into Form. I love that album. I saw them on that tour. They opened for Death Angel on the Act 3 tour. Saw them in Detroit. It was a great show. I think I saw those guys when I went to see King Diamond. They were just there. They live here. Yeah, they're Bay Area. I'm pretty sure I saw them all. They were all wearing Forbidden t-shirts. It was them. Just pretty cool American thrash. Good stuff.

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Like Chalice of Blood? Isn't that on there? No. Oh, wait. Which one? Wait. Twisted into Form? I think that's it. Chalice of Blood's off of Forbidden Evil. Ah, right. Okay. So it was the previous one that I saw them on. Sorry. That's right. That's the second album. My bad. Yours, George? Mine is one that I actually mentioned, I think, on the last episode, but I've been listening to it a lot more. It should have been in my forthcoming what I purchased, but it's not on vinyl. So, but I wanted to get

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I wanted to get the high quality version so I went and bought the CD last week and this is Ludacrist and Immaculate Deception. This album came out in 1986. They're a New York band. They were on Combat Core. They're one of those crossover hardcore bands from the New York hardcore scene and the singer, the singer at least, I'm not sure about the rest of them, went on to do Scatterbrain which is I think what I mentioned as a classic a couple weeks ago and it's just, it's really good, you know, if you like

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the fast, punky, thrashy music from the mid-80s. You can't go wrong with this one. Classic tracks like Fire at the Firehouse. Most people are dicks. Blown into the Arms of Christ is a good one. Green Eggs and Ham. They cover Last Train to Clarksville. It's not anything like the original. So yeah, it's pretty cool. You know, Ben, I meant to mention this to you, George, recently because we had a very brief conversation about punk. And a band that I remember that I really liked,

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back in the 80s was The Accused. Did you ever listen to them? Yeah, the Martha Splatterhead stuff. Yeah, it was good. It was good stuff. And there's some sense of humor in there, too. So it's good stuff for punky punks. Yeah, somebody else brought that up. At least I think it was somebody else. I was wondering if it was Trevor might have brought them up. That would be up his alley, I think. Yeah. Hey, Trevor. Hey, Trevor. All right. Vinyl purchases.

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Nice short list for me this week, but both very satisfying gets. I got two albums this week since the last pod, and that's it. I got the Rod in Christ record, and it's like this limited edition, and it plays in 45 speed for whatever reason. I don't know. It's two discs. It's a normal 12-inch record. Nice package, though, that came with that. I was really excited to find it in the store because it was right when I was like, this record fucking kills. Sorry to interrupt. I've got a couple like that.

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at 45 speed. It is. And the Auvitarium, Girl in the Raven Mask. It's 45. Yeah, I neglected to notice that and I put it on at 30. And I was like, damn, this is heavier than I remember. Yeah, that Wild Throne EP is in 45 too. And I put it on once and I was like, what the fuck is this? Yeah, and then she started singing and I was like, she sounds like a dude. I was like, okay, there's got to be something wrong with the speed here. Do we have any concept? Is there some sort of audio?

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That's what the Metallica album says. It says, mastered at 45 speed for better quality.

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Okay. Well, I'll let you know about that. I haven't even put that album on yet, because I've been listening to the digital copy. Secondly, I found a copy of Pig Destroyer's Terrifier, which really sent my heart through the roof. I was like, what the fuck? Because on Discogs, this thing is always expensive. And lo and behold, I came to find out it was a reissue through Relapse, which is fine, and I couldn't care less. I don't need the original issue.

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But it's nice to know that they just reissued some of the back catalog pig destroyer stuff because they're real expensive on Discogs. I couldn't be happier to have a copy of Terrifier now on vinyl. Nice. And that's it. All right. Buke, what do you got? First, I'm going to start by saying those of you with iPhones, I don't know if it's available on Android devices. If you've used the app MilkCrate, that's what I personally use. I've been beta testing the official Discogs app. It's just like MilkCrate. It's almost like they're copycats or the

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developed by the same studio. But to sum up a long story, the official Discogs app will be available on the 29th. So by the time you hear this, you should be able to go download it. I can't believe that there wasn't one until now. I know. That's crazy. It's crazy. But two purchases. You know I got the Opeth Deliverance Damnation and Aborted Termination Redux. Excellent. I didn't think I was going to have much and then a few things showed up that, you know, you order stuff and you forget about them and then you get them.

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they show up and it's a happy surprise. Oh yeah. Well the first one wasn't a surprise and that was the the new Anthrax for All Kings that showed up on Friday so yesterday and I gotta say I was really impressed with the packaging. It comes on a plastic slip case that it's like all dark except for one spot in the center sort of like a spotlight and so you can see the cover through it and I was like wow this is not the album cover I was expecting and then I was like oh it's a slip case and you you pull it off and it has the full album cover but when you put this on

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It has the band logo and the album title, whereas the album itself does not. Nice touch. And yeah, it's pretty slick looking. And then it's like a gatefold and it's like a blue-ish, white-ish vinyl. Is it? Yes. So it's pretty sweet. Then I got three Death Spell Omega albums. The last three. So if you know what those are, you can figure that out because my butchering them is probably not going to help you any. Pericletus was the last one, the most recent one. Before that,

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is Fas Ite Maledicti in Ignum Aeternum. And then the one before that is C Monumentum Requires Circumspice. That's probably not how that's pronounced. But yeah, some crazy black metal craziness there. I also got Utre's Ghost Chance album, which is a really good underrated album from last year that you should check out if you have not heard it. Really good black metal.

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And then I also got Stellar Master Elite 3. Yay! Eternalism, the psychospherical chapter. Did it come with any... No. I don't want to say promotional material. Propaganda. Indoctrination type thing. No. Nothing like that. Okay. No. Good. You're still safe with them. Yep. And then two more that showed up this morning for surprising. I got Iced Earth's Horror Show. Nice. And Iced Earth's Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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I just saw that in the store the other day and that's a nice little looking gatefold package. I'm assuming it looks pretty nice inside. I haven't opened it yet. I just got it. You know you guys knew about that I remember because Buke ordered you know what's the Spawn one? Dark Saga. Yeah I know I remember you ordered that straight off the bat. Was there just like a mass release of Ice Earth Vinyl again? They did like a few reissues you know last year and then I'm not sure when this came out I just stumbled across it. There's also the first album they did but I didn't.

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I didn't like that so I didn't bother getting that one. Well something because I saw something

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this wicked in the store something wicked this way comes which means to me that is one of the ones that just came out and I also saw a big stack of like the dark saga and a couple other ones so yeah that's cool dude. They I don't I only have two iced earth on vinyl that's the the two concept records. Yeah we were lucky enough. Buk and I were lucky enough when we saw ashes of airs last time that we got Matt Barlow to sign ours. I got him to sign dark saga and burnt offerings.

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and Ashes of Aries. Nice, dude. All right. Let's do our deep tracks. Deep tracks. God, I feel like I did this one once. And if I did, that's life. I feel like that about mine, too. Yeah, okay. This one is off of the saxon record, The Power and the Glory. And there's a song on there that I think was actually a single. So that doesn't make it seem like a deep track, but I don't think anybody liked it. I think I'm under the impression I'm the only guy in the world who likes this song, but it's called Nightmare. It's like the second song in the record and the third song. And it's just this really good, weird, it's almost got like a vibe of like, you can't stop.

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rock and roll about it. Like the Ozzy song, it's like a sad, somehow weird, tear-drinking heavy metal song, but at the same time being a real heavy record or song. Don't know how to explain it except it's just a song I've always loved. Right on. You guys mentioned this album earlier, funny, but off of Marching Out by Inve. Cyples of Hell. Nope. Ah, shoot. On the Run Again. Oh, fuck yeah. Dude, that thing shows off Jeff Scott's vocals. Yeah. Big time. I wish he had kind of gotten

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into some other stuff after the fact. I know he did some other things, but he was a good singer. And that's a great record. Dude, that album, oh man, it's amazing. I have to tell you, I was watching a rerun of that metal show last night, just out of sheer boredom. And Yngwie was the musician that sits up in the stands, George, and plays, you know? Yeah, yeah. And he's always, you know, I mean, you could say what you want about the guy. He's kind of a jerk off in any number of things or whatever. But there was this one passage in particular when they went to a commercial that I rewound and watched four fucking times.

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because it was like it's just he just like put in like six tricks that are difficult to do on the guitar and it would be quick time changes the way he did it was in i he's an amazing guitar player he's he's crazy he's nuts yeah there's something wrong with it i think he's a fucking you know prodigy like this whole other level of thing and it's not always even interesting to listen to but you cannot deny how well that man plays that's why he's got a driveway full of ferraris that's exactly right what's your deep track georgie mine uh i tend to

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Stream of Consciousness with these things. All that punk music I was listening to last week, one of them I was listening to was the Dead Kennedys. And the singer for the Dead Kennedys is Jello Biafra. And Jello Biafra contributed to this song, which is Biotech is Godzilla from Sepultura's Chaos AD album. I just freaking love this song. So there you go. It's deep, and it's a classic.

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It is, yeah. Is it because biotech is like, is that like a really bad thing in Brazil or something? And I know he was, I mean, was that a real company? I don't know. I mean, I think theoretically he's just talking about, I know there's a line like strip mining the Amazon and stuff like that. Corporate irresponsibility. Corporate irresponsibility, I believe, is the theme of the song, yeah. Yeah. I always kind of wondered ever since that song came out, but I actually had learned that he was involved in that song when I saw Max Cavaliero interviewed on that metal show, strangely. I didn't realize he'd been involved in it.

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But that's cool. I see him around here every once in a while. He lives here, too. Every once in a while he'll show up at a show or something. Nice. Yeah, he's kind of a pudgy old-looking guy now. Yeah, he's still awesome, though. He was a pudgy old-looking guy when he was young. Yeah, we saw him at barbecue, not last year, but the year before, when he was doing the eulogy for Dave Brockie. Yeah. All right, well, this brings us to the end of the episode. We're going to give you another song from Pile of Priests here in a moment. But before we get into that, make sure to check us out on our

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New SoundCloud page. Check us out on YouTube. Check us out on Facebook. Check us out on Twitter. I am Disciple of Metal. I'm at OpefFan. At CatatonicJ. We're on Instagram. We're on Stitcher. And of course, you can always find us at WeAreMetalHeads.com. All right, let's get into our last little bit with Pile of Priests. Then we'll play you a song and we will see you next time. Evan, I have to ask, did you just shave your beard? Within the last,

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Like two weeks, yeah. Because I'm looking through all your pictures and press photos and stuff like that. I'm like, who's this castaway here? Man, that's pretty epic. Yeah, dude. Well, I've actually rose to a higher position at my job that's closer to the corporate side of things. But I still can keep my long hair. I'm never getting rid of that. I just want to say, you are my favorite member of the band because you're wearing, I've seen one of your shirts, a rap

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Rhapsody Power of the Dragon Flame shirt. I fucking love that album. See, and I went through a pretty big power metal phase, and so Gamma Ray's cool, Halloween's cool, and a lot of those bands with the happy-go-lucky riffs, but Rhapsody is the one that I think transcends all those bands. And you're wearing an Opest shirt and another one? I'll give you my phone number. We can talk. Yeah, let's hang out. Let's hang out, bro. So we're getting ready to play another song from

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Pile of Priests, Void to Enlightenment. I was hoping you could tell me about this one as well. Yes, sir. This is the song Templars of Sodomy. And before you get into it, I have to append this with the question, what exactly does a Templar of Sodomy do? Does this involve Turkish bathhouses? It could, a long, long time ago. It's just about the Templars and how corrupt they were.

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But they would do anything and everything else in between to go behind their backs.

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They're also brilliant bastards, you know, setting up like the first like kind of parcel system as well.

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But a lot of times they would go through and rape and pillage and take money.

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And, you know, they were even said to be doing a head worship.

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So like some kind of like demonic type shit where they were not Christians.

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They yeah, they they did a lot.

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And I think they're great guys.

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So that kind of plays into that. The name was just, you know, brutal. And I thought that was cool because it would offend somebody. Doing it in the butts brutal. Yeah. What's brutal and offensive? Sure. That's kind of what we were going for. And that's the only song on the album that I use the seven string guitar with as well. All right. Okay. Here it is. Templars of Sodomy.

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ДИНАМИЧНАЯ МУЗЫКА

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The night's warm, the slothin' sun, the game's souls are bound. On a timeless quest for the chosen one, the illusion's souls are bound.

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The gate of faith, the most divine.

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In a sound of hate, to consummate the deeds of God.

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All the rent, and the wilderness is great.

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The men who stole the weight in gold, still learn, say Shabbat.

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Strength of life, the world takes pride.

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We don't believe the Christ you see, the Templars are solid, but I must stay the same blood, we know the cause of hell

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The light of the world commuses me, a leveling panosomy, I throw I wear the mark of shame, the only words I see in the room.

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Lift our efforts, light our ambitions

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We'll create them callous with pride

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No consequence of the death

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Don't lose our love, it's just a disguise

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I don't know what you're saying.

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We'll be long to prepare for the old veteran stage, from us to try!

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Klasi şey,

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Udruğun bir tanrıvin

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Ravuz tên de şey bilet

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Radyal durun gazağın

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