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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.

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My name is George. This is Buke. I was just pretending to be that kid. Oh my god. I'm gonna fucking kill you, Jay. This is Will. This is John. And we are joined today by our special guest, Joel Violetta of Thrasenblatt. How you doing, Joel? How's it going, guys? Welcome, sir. The joke that Jay just made is referring to the tense past 15, 20 minutes or so.

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that we're having some technical difficulties getting started. Fuck you, Jay. It was good, though. It was really good. I actually mouthed the words for you, too, George. I really wanted you to panic. Every once in a while, I'm just going to freeze. Yeah, well, we're laying the blame for all of this on Putin. He wasn't content to fuck with our election. Now he's trying to stop our podcast. He sent his shitty-ass Russian weather over here and delayed us, and then they hacked our system.

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systems and made them go haywire so nothing would work. So fuck you, Putin! So how may God of Steel Panther is my number one? Yeah, John thinks he's hacked our lists and changed them all around. So anyway, welcome to our Metal Heads podcast holiday party and year-end spectacular. Yay! Yes! We will be counting down our top 25 albums for the year of 2016.

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us and he's going to contribute to that list some as well.

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Yeah, I'll sit around for a bit and then I'll throw, I think I'll jump in when it's top 10.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, it's all right.

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But we'll just let you sit in the peanut gallery and just you can comment or mock any of our choices that's needed.

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Because they're not black metal enough.

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Or folk metal enough.

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Or folk maritime metal enough.

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Or 70s frog enough.

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Yep, exactly.

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All right.

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So yeah, we're not going to do any of the regular segments today. We got a lot of shit to cover. So we're going to jump into our lists. And then depending on what time's left, we're going to give you some honorable mentions and maybe some disappointments for the year. I got two big, huge disappointments. I'm staring at one of them right now. All right. So this is how it's going to work.

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for him to be in there. Then we'll go to John, and then Will, and then Jay, and then Buke, and then me, and so forth from 25 down to 1. You know the drills. So starting us off at 25. That would be... What? This is crazy. Okay. All right then. Well, anyway. No, it's just crazy because I know our lists... If something doesn't make our list,

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It doesn't mean it's bad. There's a lot of good metal this year. I was just going to start off by saying there's so many bands. I couldn't include because I just have enough space. I got at least 15 honorable mentions. It has nothing to do with the releases whatsoever. There's so many good albums out this year. Yeah, and these are all our personal opinions of something. We all know we like different styles more than others. And John and I were talking about this on the way up, is that sometimes you have to judge an album maybe two different ways.

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One is, you know it's a technically phenomenal record, but it just may not be your wheelhouse. Or it could be like, you know what? Fuck everyone. He's got shitty reviews, but I love this album. So it's sort of like two different ways to sort of think about our lists. Or in the case of the Shamash record, people lie and say they like it. And it's shit. Or if a member from a band strong arms you by coming on your podcast into including it on your list.

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So it does make it kind of hard. So with that said, nothing is bad unless we mention it later on in Disappointments, but John, everything is awesome. Yes. All right. So my first selection, number 25, is going to be one of those albums we just talked about that I just, for some reason, I like it. I just can't get into it enough. I'm probably the only person in the world who's included at this point in the list. And it's going to be Vector, Terminal Rebox. This is insane. How are we doing this already?

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I like the album.

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I like the one of my disappointments.

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But man, I just, after like 40 minutes, I'm like, fuck.

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And that was just the first song.

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This is a thrash?

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Yeah.

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But this is a thrash band doing.

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And this is a band that's on everyone's top 10.

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Everything online I'm seeing.

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Not mine.

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Well, obviously not mine either.

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But I like it.

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It's exhausting for me.

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It's a fun album.

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But I could have easily swapped it out with the other 14 honorable mentions I have.

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What I feel so strongly about is how many thrash bands... Thrash bands are doing thrash. They're not doing this. No, it's a very good album. I do like it. It's very original. Extremely. I couldn't just put it up any higher. It's exhausting. I agree with John. It's exhausting. But I do like it. I throw it on every so often just to give it a spin and then after 40 minutes I'm like, I gotta go do something. You can't make a spin. So you've never heard anything beyond song one? No, I have. I just never listened to the whole thing in order. That got started at song six.

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I will say

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why I love these year-end episodes,

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I love the discussions after some of us mentioned the album.

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I asked you, you know, at the

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Opeth,

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so not at the Opeth show,

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I asked you a couple weeks ago

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when we went to a concert,

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the Wolfhammer show,

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I said, you know, Opeth,

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their albums are long,

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their songs are long,

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you don't get bored with them.

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And you brought up a good point

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that kind of stuck with me.

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This is just

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10, 11, 12 minutes of

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they're thrashy.

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There's not a lot of...

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Well, it's an onslaught.

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It doesn't stop.

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It doesn't knock from the album. It's just that's not in my wheelhouse right now. Yeah. There you go. Like Joel, man, I sometimes got to go back to the 70s and enjoy that stuff. Tales from Topographic. It's Tales from Topographic Oceans at like 75 RPMs. Yeah, don't get me started on that album, Jay. Yeah, I'm sorry. That'll get added to the list with Steel Panther and Alec Baldwin. Matt Damon.

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All right, well, what's your 25? My number 25 from Canberra, Australia. Got a little Slayer worship going on. Hellbringer, Awaken the Abyss. Yes. Specifically Slayer. Man, the first one? Jesus. The first one? The first cricket. God damn it. The first of many. The many crickets. I'm going to get a lot of crickets today. My whole list is a cricket. I really like this album. I mean, it is very Slayer-esque to the point that they literally rip off riffs.

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How they're not getting sued, I'm not sure. I mean, it's a damn good album, but it probably would have been higher on my list if it wasn't such a copycat. And I know I'm being hypocritical because I love Gruesome, but they admit it. We're a tribute band to death. Not a cover band, but a tribute band. These guys just seem like maybe they're a tribute band. Maybe I haven't looked into it enough. But you know, it's almost in the same vein as Gruesome. What?

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Go back to your phone. I was looking up deeper. That's literally what I just fucking said. I was looking up how to pronounce a band's name and I spaced out. I'm an idiot. One beer in. I haven't even. I'm sorry. Anyway. No, we're off to a great start. Jay, you're number 25. Get the crickets ready, please. No, George knows that this was going to be on my list and I didn't know he was going to be here, but Ross and Blonde. Bottom of the barrel. Bottom of the barrel. Jeez.

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So basically,

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you just changed your list and threw it on there.

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And you couldn't justify moving up to late 10.

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Sorry,

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witchery,

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you're out.

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And I apologize,

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Joel,

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that's not a little higher,

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but it took me a while to connect with your record.

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But once I did,

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I really started to see what other people were seeing in it.

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Apparently,

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apparently didn't connect enough.

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Yeah.

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Where's the easiest,

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where's the easiest spot to slide this in,

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you know?

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Do a little top album 2016.

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Yeah.

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It's never on any list.

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So 25, that's pretty good.

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Craig said something about it, didn't they?

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Oh, did they?

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Yeah, yes.

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Yes, I did.

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I don't remember if that was the list, but they had some really nice quotes about it.

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Yeah, George at Craig, he's a great fellow.

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He's been supporting Thrasenblatt since, jeez, I don't know when.

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So people named George are very liking Thrasenblatt, I guess.

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Yes.

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I have an uncle named George who also likes Thrasenblatt, so that's three Georges.

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What's your target audience? People named George. I saw Curious George spinning it, too. That would be sweet, the man in the yellow hat sitting there rocking out. All right, the Buke. So you know any Buke list that's going to hit you with some technical death metal? There's going to be a couple of them, but I'm going to start it right here from the start. I don't even know how to pronounce this band's name correctly, but I'm going to try it like I have with numerous bands and albums on my list. Buke. Alligeon. Alligeon. Alligeon. Alligeon. Alligeon. Thank you very much.

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It's just so raw and definitely not my style, but a lot of people like it. It's good. I like it. A lot of people in George like it. It's the most diverse record in their catalog. I'm just joking. No, it's not. But it is good. I make fun of certain bands that go with this old school black metal sound where it's very over-reverbed and

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Sounds like it was recorded in 1993. And I'm like, man, even Dark Throne doesn't fucking sound like that anymore. Their album is raw, but it's clear and well-recorded. I'm more of a fan of Fenris' everyday, too. I kind of like that guy. I follow him on Facebook, and he makes interesting posts. He's funny. So before we get to number 24, as always, we drink on these mid-year and end-year episodes. I do want to mention one thing. George, Buk, John, and I are all actually in the

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We are all together drinking together

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And our compadres Joel and Jay are on Skype

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They're also drinking too

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John, will you tell us what we're drinking?

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We are drinking from Ithaca Beer Company

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For those of you who don't know, I believe it's in New York

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Pacific Gravity

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And it is an

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Imperial IPA

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It's got a lot of citrus to it

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New England style

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And it was just something to get us started

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and I thought we might kind of...

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We already have low beer warning lights.

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Yeah.

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Jay, you got anything out there?

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Too early?

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It's like 10 o'clock in the morning.

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That grapefruit juice or something.

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It's too early plus we're packing my house.

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I'm moving on Monday.

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So as soon as I get off here, I'm throwing shit in boxes.

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So that'll have to wait for tonight.

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But I'll field work, John.

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Be later.

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Nice.

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What about you, Joel?

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You got anything yet?

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Well, funny you should ask.

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I've got a local Fredericton brew here.

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It's maybe 11's Espresso Stout.

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It's not just for breakfast, but a great afternoon pick-me-up, too. Nice. Unpasteurized. Made by hand in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Nice. It's delicious. You need to send us a care package of some of this stuff. You keep talking about these local beers. You know what the problem is? That whole wall that the Canadians are building to keep us out. The whole customs issue, it's illegal to ship beer. I'm sorry. It's the whole customs thing. Look, the can's going to get thrown over. It's going to drop. You're going to open it. It's going to explode. The only thing you do,

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by sending beer internationally is just make custom officials really drunk. Yeah. Oh, well. Yeah. I'll meet you at the border. Yes. Just lob it over. Yeah. All right. Now we are on to 24. All right. So we've had a lot of guests on this year and a lot of albums that I've liked. And this is my first one. This is Unearthed Elf into the Catacomb Abyss. Woohoo! Strong one. Take that, Will. Yep. Just something about the album.

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I like that it's got a fun vibe but he's very serious about the playing. There's a lot of good riffs and it's just I enjoy listening to the album. His voice is definitely booming. And I like that it's a heavier direction than his other stuff that he does. The Arctic Sleep stuff. Yeah. Or Astrosleep as I'm wrong to say. Sorry Keith. I thought I was wrong for a second. No. That's a Tiamat album and Astrosleep and so that's how I fucked that up.

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Sorry, Keith. All right, Will. My number 24, Wayfair, Old Souls from Colorado, the Melodic Black and Death. And you're going to see two themes going on on my list. I'll just leave it at that. But I dig this out. I like it. All right. That's all you're going to say about that. That's all I got to say about that. There it is. All right, Jay. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who's going to have this because when I suggested it to everybody, it was met with a resound.

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sound of digital crickets. Nobody answered, but Glenn Hughes put out a really good heavy solo record this year called Resonate. I retract that cricket. Jay, the only reason I didn't listen to it is you sent us a YouTube clip and I checked Spotify and it wasn't on there. It's right up your alley, dude. I'm sure I probably would have loved it because I loved an album of his from late 90s, early 2000s. I absolutely loved it. Yeah, if he's on it, I give it a pass automatically. It's his most metal solo record, I would say.

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What the hell is going on with Will's face? I'm trying to scrape my tongue with my teeth. It's like that first time it happens, you know? What did he do? The beer that we got, the Pacific Gravity that John brought, he brought in a Crowler. So I poured the beer, so I poured everyone's beer and then mine was last. So it's a New England style IPA. A lot of yeast, a lot of hops in that. It all settled to the bottom, so I got all the

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It's like a cat over here cleaning himself. As long as his leg doesn't go for his head later. All right. Morning lights going on. Yep. We'll fill up after 24 here. Listen to the sound. Good man. I think 2016 was an interesting year. We've seen trends come and go. That's how metal is. Things become popular.

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I've been really happy because mid to late 2016, the traditional metal really started coming back. Eternal Champion, Summerlands, and this band, Spellcaster, which I think released the best album. Then your album Night Hides the World. That's a great album. My only problem with Eternal Champion and Summerlands in them is the recording seems a little too raw.

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It's a little muffled for my taste. What was that early Metal Blade band? Starts with a C. I wonder if he recorded that way on purpose. He may be just because it does have a feel of pulling out an old album from the 80s. Thank you all. Seraq Ungol or something like that is the band I'm thinking about for Metal Blade. I can't think of it. What was that, Jay? Say it again. It was early Metal Blade bands.

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The Artist looks like a Dungeons and Dragons. I don't care. It starts with a C. Something. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Those albums have that type of sound to it, Jay. The Summerlings and it kind of has that raw sound to it. George, can I get a little golf clap for pulling that title? Yeah, that was really good. You're going to whistle out of me for sure. I don't know if anybody heard it. I saw your eyebrows go up. But The Spellcaster has a more clean 2016 higher production.

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quality, which I like a lot in there. But that's not saying those other bands are bad at all. This classic traditional guitar-driven metal is awesome. Yeah. I'm all for it. I'm loving it right now. That is the new. High Spirits is another good one. Yes. That's actually a really good one, too. And it's cool. You know, the cool thing is that these are younger American bands, you know, coming out and playing this stuff. It's cool. It's funny you mention High Spirits because when I was out in – because that's one of the things I was doing.

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I had no idea what it was. Checked it out, downloaded it. When I was out in California for the Marine Corps, I was driving around Joshua Street National Park. I'm like, I need some driving around music. I put on High Spirits. That is catchy as hell. That's how all these bands are. I forget that Flying High or whatever the second song. I was playing that for my kids the other day. I almost felt weird because I almost felt like it was a Christian motivational album. Everything was so super positive and happy. I was like, what am I doing?

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I felt guilty listening to this.

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What's the same dude from Donbringer and Pharaoh?

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But that's how this spellcaster is.

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What is his name?

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I forget.

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He recorded his record where we recorded ours.

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That last Donbringer record was recorded down here.

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And I feel bad because I thought I had that album.

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And it turns out.

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Which album?

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The new Donbringer.

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It's like XX.

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Yeah.

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And I don't think I've actually listened to it.

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So that's unfortunate because, you know.

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because of today at all. But this kind of stokes that power metal flame for me. It makes you feel good, just like Will was explaining. You put it on, you feel great, and it's really cool stuff. But it also makes you feel older because if people are kind of, if the new thing is to bring that back now, all of a sudden we moved on 10 years here. So it's like, that's the new retro. Yeah. But it's cool. It's welcome, our most welcome phase. Indeed. Joel, have you had a chance to check out any of this traditional

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coming back? Didn't even know it was happening. Hasn't hit Canada yet. Yeah, it hasn't hit Canada yet. Must not, no. They're pretty strict at customs when you come to customs. Even mailing stuff. This is too derivative, sir. You can't bring this through. Give me some names. I want to check this stuff out over the holidays. We'll be posting all these lists so you can just pick and choose as you'd like. My number 24 is Lotus Thief and

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Grammarly. Nice.

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Glowiest.

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Nice.

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Had you mentioned this before?

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Yeah.

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It's like a female-fronted Doom band.

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Is it full frontal?

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Maybe.

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They're hard to describe.

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It's not like traditional Doom.

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It's more of a...

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I just call them a metal band because they're doing a lot of different things, but there's

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a Doomer side.

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It is.

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Yeah, it's a Doom-ish.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Back to John for 23.

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John, what are we drinking? Oh, yeah. Oh, it's your beer, but I'll say it. It is Atlas Brewing. Brew Works. Brew Works. Jesus. Let me tell a story. Jesus Christ. This episode is a disaster. The second we started recording. We're just trying to include everyone here. It's the Ponzi IPA, which we've had many a time together. Yes, yes, yes. I think I sent some out to Jay. Yes. You did, and I had some at Death Fest as well. That's right. We may have had a few of those at Death Fest. Jay and I definitely had a couple.

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as we were walking through the streets trying to find the nearest

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gentleman's club.

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We had them all at Death Fest.

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Yes.

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All right, so my turn.

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This is out from Jay's hood on his area.

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And maybe he has them on his list.

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I don't know if anyone else does.

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But Hammer's a Misfortune.

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Hammer's a Misfortune.

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Dead Revolution.

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Yes, you'll be hearing that one again.

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Pregnant pause, then crickets.

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I think this will be your style.

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Why?

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I don't know.

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It wasn't progressive enough?

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Yeah.

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It just seems a little too plain for you.

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They're pretty much a progressive metal band.

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I think so, too.

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Yeah.

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In that they are very poetic.

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In that sense.

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Okay.

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I listen to everything.

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I just don't listen to prom.

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I got you.

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In case anyone didn't know that.

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It just seems a little too simple for you.

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I liked it.

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Yeah.

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And again, these comments.

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Sample is.

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Sample does.

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We all love messing around with one another.

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None of this is disrespect. You can laugh if you want. You can laugh if you want to. I have one in my pocket. From last year, you laughing at me with my glory hammer pick. I'm definitely laughing. I'm definitely owed a good laugh at your expense for something. You can laugh at me anytime you want. I got it all, baby. Okay, Will. My number 23, and there better be no fucking crickets. Kill them up beforehand. Wilderness King, Mystical Future,

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From South Africa? He's looking for the correct. Thank you. Again, melodic, blackened, sworded, death, all the way from South Africa. And I noticed that on my list I have somebody from almost every continent. Wow. Which is kind of cool. So I just nailed Africa. I have a feeling this would have been. If Babymetal's on your list, I'm quitting the pod. Come on.

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Have it, have it, have it. Number one. Is Kitty from Antarctica by chance? If I put Guar on there, they're literally from Antarctica by way of Richmond, Virginia. I have a feeling this would have been way higher on my list had I had more time with it. Yeah. But they were guests on the show. Never heard of them before. But man, they put up one hell of a record. They were really nice guys too. That was a good interview this year. Yeah. All right, Jay.

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This one's a little bit middle of the road, but I really feel like they put out a good record this year with the slight caveat that, as Will noted to me privately at some point, the lyrics on it are pretty hit and miss. Testament, the Brotherhood of the Snake. Oh, yeah. That was my problem with it, Jay. Some of the lyrics are actually really good, and some of them are just stupid. Yeah, like the Ted Nugent ones he ripped off? And the Pot one. There's this one about legalizing potting. Yeah, and then there's the one Blackjack, which is a great song.

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It's a song, but it's all about... Stakes are high and so am I. Oh, wait, I'm not Ted Nugent. Yeah. But the music was great, but it had stupid fucking lyrics. Yeah. There's a song in there called The Pale King that has killer lyrics and it's like one of my favorite songs of the year. That is a good song. It's a little hit and miss, but I hope they make more records in this vein. It's probably their thrashiest record. Bukki. Founded about a month ago, a month and a half ago, a classic old school death metal sound, Nucleus Sentient. Oh, yeah. I thought that was going to be higher.

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I just didn't have enough time with it. I didn't feel, but it's an awesome album. And Buk, you sent that to me, and that was on my list for a little while, and I just, like you said, I didn't have enough time with it. Yep. Well, I had plenty of time with my number 23. They were guests on the pod earlier this year. Pile of Priests and Void to Enlightenment. Wasn't that last year? No, that was this year. Yeah, was that this year? I forgot. It was earlier this year. That's a big disservice then. Wait, wait, wait, wait. That was a 2016 release? Yes, it was.

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Are you sure? It must have been January or February or something. Almost positive. Check that. If they were 2016, that absolutely would have made my list. This could be a fumble. We're going to New York for the review. Encyclopedia of Metalum. 2015. Oh, George! Man! December 31st. December 12th. Oh, fuck, man!

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Epic fail.

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Epic fail.

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Womp womp.

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Can somebody play this sound like press your luck whenever you draw?

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Womp womp womp.

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So right now George is like, my number 23.

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From Canada, throw some water.

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No whammy, no whammy, no whammy.

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I'm going to go.

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I'm going to take a page from Will and I'm going to throw Wilderness King in there then.

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Oh, dude, we got the same number 23.

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Twinsies.

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Sorry guys, I thought you were this year. I'm actually glad that was a mistake because if that was actually 2016, I did not include that on my list. It would have been a crime against humanity. I swear I looked that up. You looked up your ass. I talked to Patrick, the bass player, the other day, and he's been down south doing some work but hopes to reunite with the guys soon and get some new music coming. Excellent. They're from Colorado, right? Yep, they're from Colorado.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Evan is an active poster. Yes, he is. And active musically in lots of different ways. I love that Joel just had to go leave and take a break, and he puts a beer can there in front of his face. Like one of those webcams. We'll be back in five minutes. Yeah. All right, let's move on to John. What was your favorite record from last year, John? That's good, Jake. Man. Well,

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Well, now this is all completely pointless because our guest is gone now. Oh, let me go. I'll go then. No, no, that's all right. That's okay. Walk away. If he didn't hear it, did it happen? You know, can I just say, I think 2015, while we're waiting here, I think 2015 was a kind of slower music year. 2016 was just nonstop music.

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Music-wise. I think also on the pod, speaking for myself, I think we took our pod to a different level and we met a lot of great guests this year. A lot of great music came our way, so I look forward to 2017 when it holds for us two guys. It's going to be... He's back. He can stop vamping. Alright, my number 22. Definitely one of my favorite guests since I've been doing this with you guys. From Canada, Thross and Blot.

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And yes, that's a legitimate pick. I actually had them there. I like the album a lot. And like Jay, it took me just a little while to get into it. And once I did, I've been spinning it a lot. Oh, looky there, George. Hold that up, Joel. Man, Joel, if things are going bad in your life or you need to pick me up, man, what a great way to feel good about yourself. Come on this podcast. You make a couple of lists. We'll blow smoke up your ass for three hours. Yeah, that'd be great.

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And just know, Joel, that if I did pick a 2015 album, I wouldn't have been just throwing yours in there. It was actually on my list. Our fearless leader. Brainless leader. All right, well. All right, my number 22, Troglodyte, Anthropological Curiosities and Archaeological Relics.

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This is literally fist pumping Bigfoot death metal from Kansas City, Missouri. I'm wearing the shirt for right now. I'm telling you what, this death metal, it's classic like Cannibal Corpse sound, but it has a groove to it. Yeah, it's literally like head banging, fist pumping. There's a groove to it. It's cool. It makes me too messy. Anytime there's a Squatch involved, it's a good thing, right? Yeah. Squatch. Jay? Brown metal. I'll be the only one with this. I believe it was a late release.

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You can only get it on Bandcamp. Sort of Electric Wizard meets Graves at Sea. It's a band called Black Tomb. It's a self-titled record that came out this year. That description I just gave it, I couldn't do any better than that. And it's really well produced. They got this really cool imagery. You might check out their Bandcamp page. But they made a really strong record. So, Black Tomb. I'm going to write that down. There it is. Yeah, that's not a disrespectful cricket. All right, Puke.

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I love these guys. I don't like a lot of black metal, as we know, so I quickly get to this Winterfelleth, The Dark Hereafter. Cool. Just sticking in the vein of what they do. Atmospheric black metal. Like Joel talking about nature and the pretty lands and stuff. We're in the forest. Woo-hoo! We're in the forest. We take leaves and put them under glass and hang them on our walls. All right.

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What are those leaves behind you, Joel? We were talking about when you couldn't hear us. Yeah, you couldn't hear us when you walked up. We had like 20 minutes of jokes about Canada and leaves. So are those like the biggest leaves you've picked? Are those? Wow, those are massive. You guys can't see, but over Joel's shoulders, he has two pressed under glass, huge, massive leaves. Tree leaves. Yes. Not tea leaves. Yeah, they're big leaf maple leaves. They're from the West Coast, so I didn't actually pick them myself.

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Oh, okay. Somebody mailed them to him. I like that even better. You're going to see this, dude. Well, in the vein of your music, that's perfect. Yeah. My number 22, I can't pronounce the album title, but the band is Aronsi Pazuzu. Really? Really. Have a few try and pronounce it. Aronsi Pazuzu in the album title.

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I don't even know how to pronounce it. I tried. I think it's

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Varatalia. I don't think you pronounce the J. Yeah, you probably don't. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You always pronounce the J. Remember when we were there a couple weeks ago? You pronounce it Will. Remember when you guys had to try and give this a listen? My wife was giving me a lot of grief the other day. She's like, you know all these people,

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their first name begins with J. You know J. And you know John. And you know Joel. And... Jackass. No, there's more. There's more. I just can't think of who they are. But I was like, you're right. I know a lot of people. Josh. Josh. My friend Josh. Jeremy. Jacob. Jingleheimer Schmidt. Yeah, him too. So, all right. 21. That's the first dig at TR, by the way. Booyah. Yeah. He beat on this band. He called them Clowns, their name.

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You're the clown. It's on a list already. That's your first clowning. All right. 21. 21. From Sweden. Sorry. Not death metal, though. Witherscape, the Northern Sanctuary. That's a great album. Yes. My man. Yes. I thought people were going to forget about it. I like it. It's good. A new podcast rule is whenever we say from Sweden, let's follow it with sorry. Yeah. I like that. From Sweden. Sorry.

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All right, my number 21, Dehumanize Beyond the Mind from New York, old school Florida death metal at its finest. He looks at me like I just shot his dog. I'm going to fucking kill you. Give me that sound effect machine. No, it's mine. It's my toy. This is literally something like plucked right out of old monstrosity.

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All the stuff that came out of Tampa, Florida in the 1990s fits right in. It's great. Sweet. All right, mine is with thanks to Will, and I'm just looking at the liner notes now and realizing these guys recorded in Oakland, so I guess maybe that's where they're from. But I really like this record, and I wouldn't have found it without Will. You can't see anything. Oh, okay. The Eerie self-titled record. On vinyl, no less. The band is Eerie. Yeah, I found it in a record store here. I didn't even have to order it.

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So I guess that's probably why I found it here. Probably. It's good. It's good. There's this epic, they have this just epic sound to them that I really like. And the singer reminds me a little bit of the guy from Yob. Though they're not styled like that. I need to listen to that more. I've heard it, but I just haven't had time to dig my teeth into it. I'll be looking forward to more from these guys. And it's totally deserving of the spot it has on my list. Right on. Buke.

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Tech Death Metal. And you probably know the guy's name, Hans Grossman from Obscura, Alkaloid. He released an album this year, Hans Grossman, The Crips of Sleep. And it's essentially Alkaloid. Everybody in Alkaloid is in this band. It's just his solo album. It's awesome. Right in the vein of Obscura, Alkaloid. His drumming is second to none. Indeed. So good stuff. And that one was introduced to me recently.

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by Pat of Pilot Priest. So thank you for that one. Right on. My number 21 is a recent guest of the podcast, and I just double-checked that it is from this year. Utkiaru and the Plight of Wanderers. It's a good one. Dude, that... I delved into the album a little bit more after they were on. Yeah. That's a good album. It is. You gotta really kind of give it a couple listens to let it, you know, sink in.

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But it is really good. It surprised me. I mean, that was... I was just... I was listening to it at the gym one day and I was like, yes, is that right? And then, like, the next time I listened to it, I was like, what the hell? Can you press the... At the gym. At the gym. You snuck it off at the gym. You keep saying it every episode. Like, you're fooling us or something. There's pictures of you online. You're not fooling the listeners either. At the gym. Hey, I'm just treading water here, okay? It'd be worse.

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They have a really affordable soda machine there. They've got these quarter sodas. It's a soda fountain. Buy you a drink once, all you can drink, right? What is kind of funny is a couple times a month when I go in there, they have pizza and shit. I'm like, what is this? I picked a good day to come in. I'm assuming it's a free buffet. I don't know. Conveniently. It's a gym or Ponderosa.

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Dude, Golden Corral is not a gym. Going through the trunk. Couldn't figure out why the gym had that big chocolate fountain when I walked in. All right, Canadian translation, what is Golden Corral? It's just a buffet place. It's one of those buffets where senior citizens all, you know, my grandmother, God bless her soul, swore by it. You know, they have buffet food at, you know, very poor quality.

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It's either you've been driving all night or you're high as hell.

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And you're stopping in.

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That's about it, yeah.

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We had something called Ponderosa that was like that.

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Yeah, Ponderosa you mean?

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Sizzler.

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Yeah, we do.

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All right, on to number 20.

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All right.

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Jay hitting them with the jokes now.

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I fucking love it.

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I'm crying.

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Soda machine.

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Yeah, you're going to have to start working on that beer machine in a second.

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Yeah, we are.

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All right.

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So one from my mid-year list that, like Vector, took a plunge.

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But it's still a pretty good album.

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And that's In Morning, Afterglow.

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Dude, I love that album.

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I do too.

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I just...

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I love this album.

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Okay.

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It's good.

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It's just, you know, I didn't listen to it enough in the second half of the year.

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This is one I didn't expect to take a plunge from you, but...

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It did.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Oh, that's me.

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Sorry.

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Number 20, Slabdragger, Rise of the Dawn Crusher.

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Doom!

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Boom Metal from London, England. Check it out. It's good. I have heard of them. I've mentioned them before on the podcast. It was on my mid-year list. I think I remember that Joel was a fan of my 20-whatever-this-is. What is this? 20. And if he is, maybe he can help me pronounce the title. It's the new Moonsorrow record. Ah, yeah. Jumaltenika. Yeah, pretty much. I think it's just a...

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The J is a Y sound. Okay, cool. But I see I can't. My name is J, so I always have to pronounce J as hard. You're yay. It's 50-50 for me. Sometimes I say the Y, sometimes I just go with the J. No spoilers, but I'm wondering if it'll be on your list. I like them. This is a really kind of trancy, cool record. It kind of goes to some neat places. There's nothing new here for them, but I thought they made a really solid record. Yeah, it might have been a little bit of foreshadowing.

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is what's going to happen. I wonder. Cool. I'm going to try to do everything. I want my whole list to relate to Joel in some way, shape, or form. Any leaves involved? Leaves or glass? We'll get there. No leaves were harmed in recording this album. Yeah. So you guys had freezing rain there today? Yeah. Is that the issue? Yeah. Just looking outside now, and it's pretty much almost whiteout snow. It's pretty fantastic. Is it snowing currently? Can you take the webcam and turn it out?

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outside so we could see what we're looking at well you wouldn't be able to really see oh um yeah just through the window but uh yeah it's kind of it's blowing sideways and it's snowing thick enough that you can't really see across the street so that's nice joel we would love to have that right now over the ice trust me yeah our our beltway here we had the a couple of fatals tractor trailers were flipping and blowing up oh yeah we just get we get really bad ice there's a huge difference so like

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Like, obviously, if you look at the Washington, D.C. area, Baltimore area, we're kind of like right on that cusp where you're sort of in the south, but you're kind of on the north, and you sort of get the mix of the snow and the ice and everything between the two. And the difference is, like, if you're up in New Hampshire, Maine, New Brunswick, like, they know how to deal with this. Like, this is like, this happens every day. We know what to do. People know how to drive in it. They buy the appropriate cars. Down here in the D.C. area, they're idiots, all right?

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They don't know how to prepare for it. People don't know how to drive in it. So it just creates mass chaos. They will cancel the federal government and schools on the threat of snow sometimes. And it doesn't even snow. Yeah, but you have to admit, Virginia was Maryland today with our preparedness. We had nothing. George, you actually said that to me. You're like, really? Usually it's the other way around. Yeah, here. All right, whose turn is it? It's mine. We just got to fill up on brew.

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We switch to Old Ox Brewery, and this is their Black Ox. It's the Rye Porter. Joel is sporting something new, too. Oh, man, Joel is drinking winter warmer. Who's that by? It's by Picaroons. It's the second Fredericton beer of the day. Picaroons. That's the one from the Oak Ash and Thorn songs. I know that. It is. It's also a beer that he had when we had him on the podcast. Or you talked about him, at least.

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Yep. Yeah. So they are kind of the, I guess, the pioneers in the New Brunswick microbrewery scene. They started about 10 years ago. And since then, I think we have about, I don't know, 15 microbreweries that have popped up. Probably more since then. That's crazy. Maybe I'll make a Thrasenblatt beer. Thrasenbeer. It definitely happened before the podcast. We'll get a beer. That's for sure. It's a throw bait out there. Yep. Joel just emailed,

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And I will say that the old ox brewery, Black Ox, it's a rye pour that we're drinking, and the head brewer is the great doctor. Dr. Lang. Dr. Lang. Dr. Lang. All right, my number 20 testament. I did. You didn't do yours? I did not. Do mine. I thought you did. Well, mine's testament, Brotherhood of the Snake. Now do yours. Man. I'll just edit it out and do it again. George is just a good one. Dude, that was released last year. No, it wasn't. You can say that in a couple of weeks. It was released in 2017.

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Talk about albums that fell a couple spots. I thought it's bad, but just that I found some other stuff for listening to things more. Zrine, Unorthata, or Theta. Dude, that's a good one. It's an amazing one. And now for the second time, my number 20, Testament, Brotherhood of the Snake. Moving on. All right, number 19. Actually, I don't mean to interrupt. I think other than Thrasymalot, it's our first twice mentioned title, I think. For Testament? Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Interesting. I could have swore there was another one. I could have. Anyway. Wilderness King. Wilderness King. Yeah, yeah. We are a fucking mess. Just wait until we're done. Yeah. Really slobbering all of this. I made sure all my number one, two, one through five are just easy to pronounce names and albums. Abba. Number one. Abba. Kitty. Kitty. Oh, oh, oh, wait. Ah! I've got the one.

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All right. Am I moving on? Yes. All right. Number 19. I've been digging on the whole psychedelic black metal scene this year for some reason. And it's a band I just got into recently from Greece. Hail Spirit Noir. Mayhem and Blue. Nice. Is that Noir like N-O-I-R? Noir. Noir. Yeah. I just like to say Noir. Noir. Gives it more of a kind of a Nordic feel. Yeah. I'm covering those kind of people on their feet. And they're from Greece. Yeah.

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And it's... At first, I thought it was just too psychedelic, but the more you delve into it, there's definitely the black metal flair there, and there's some heavy guitar playing, and it's cool. Cool. All right, my number 19. This almost did not make my list only for one reason, is I was going back and forth between, is this an EP or an LP? And I actually went back, and I looked, and the band considered this an LP, therefore it went right back on my list. All Father.

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Bless the Earth with Fire from the United Kingdom. Hey, Tom. Hey, Tom. That would be one of my honorable mentions, too. That almost made my list. Yeah, it was on my list, and I was like, is this an EP? And then it was on the EP list for a while, and then I looked it up, and they said there's an LP. It's like, what, six songs? It's like six, yeah. Yeah, it's like five songs or six songs, and it just passes the 30-minute mark, I think. Oh, yeah, it's borderline. Yeah, borderline. But they call it an LP, so.

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There you go. All father. Bless the earth with fire. Fire. Fire. Fire. Nice. Okay, that takes us to Jay. To who? To you. Oh, shit. This is probably going to be on a lot of lists. Doesn't require a lot of commentary. Eson Arctis. Nice. Wow. What number are we doing? 19. 19. 19 right now. Yeah, geez. You don't like that one, Buke, do you? Geez. We'll talk about that later, maybe. You got 18 better albums.

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I don't think Buke liked that one. He didn't mention it at all to me ever. He's mad I put it so low without question. It's okay. Way to go, Jay. I'm going to sit over here now. All right. So, Buke, what do you got? So, we talk about different continents and stuff. This one was, I don't know how I found this a couple months back, but from Melbourne, Australia, Bellacore. Nice. Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

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That's a good one. Yeah.

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Kind of a mellow death.

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I think that might have been on both.

00:46:25.740 --> 00:46:27.860
A little bit heavier, but this is a great album.

00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:28.380
Yeah.

00:46:28.550 --> 00:46:29.100
And a little bit of a departure from it.

00:46:29.100 --> 00:46:30.120
I feel like that might have been on Galen.

00:46:30.120 --> 00:46:30.540
It is.

00:46:30.890 --> 00:46:31.200
It is.

00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:33.920
Did Galen and Chris maybe mention that one mid-year?

00:46:33.990 --> 00:46:35.060
That might be where you heard about it.

00:46:35.340 --> 00:46:35.460
Yep.

00:46:35.930 --> 00:46:36.300
Great album.

00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:39.460
I know you were talking about it earlier, George, that we should listen to it.

00:46:39.500 --> 00:46:40.540
And I just didn't get around to it.

00:46:40.540 --> 00:46:41.720
And y'all just ignored me, so I was like, what else?

00:46:41.740 --> 00:46:42.660
That we ignored you.

00:46:43.200 --> 00:46:43.800
Okay, maybe we did.

00:46:44.040 --> 00:46:44.100
Yeah.

00:46:44.340 --> 00:46:45.940
But I listened to it a lot.

00:46:46.170 --> 00:46:48.460
Yeah, this is one of the ones I found after the mid-year episode.

00:46:49.120 --> 00:46:49.480
Same here.

00:46:51.500 --> 00:47:19.720
So that's it. Okay. My number 19. I'm not quoting from the movie Excalibur when I say this. Annal Nathrak, the whole of the law. Can you finish the phrase? You know what? You definitely can't go into this one. If you go into this one, how we are right now, happy, having fun, it ain't going to work. But if you go into this one like George was at the start of this pod trying to get it to work, you're going to fucking end up, you know, yes.

00:47:20.120 --> 00:47:49.980
You're going to end up putting your hole through a wall like the fucking Kool-Aid guy. Yeah. Okay. What flavor would that be? Would that be a glory hole? That would be black death flavor. That's a big ass glory hole. George, you will be bursting through a wall. So this is an angry album. It's an awesome album. But these guys hit you with, you know, it's so brutal and then they just throw in this totally massive clean chorus. But not for long. You're just like, what?

00:47:50.100 --> 00:48:19.420
What's the Excalibur reference? The name Annal Nathrock is something that... It's the spell of making. Yeah, from Merlin. Man, Jay is just... Wikipedia works, huh, Jay? No, actually, I think I pointed that out to George once upon a time. I've seen the movie like... That's actually Jay's nickname. There's more to it. It's like Annal Nathrock. His nickname is anal necrosis. It's the thing Merlin teaches. What's her name?

00:48:20.120 --> 00:48:50.080
I thought once I misquoted it as saying it was from Willow, which it wasn't. Willow, that's for you, dude. Yes, remember that? That's when the whole Willow meme was going. Willow! Screw you guys. There's a Willow meme? I'll send you it now, Joel. You want to see this. George, what was the story about you and Willow, George? He got his first accident. Yeah, it wasn't your first accident or something going to see Willow. Yeah, no, it was my first ticket. Yeah, George's first ticket was

00:48:50.120 --> 00:49:19.640
Young, happy George. I was driving me and a friend and my little brother, and I was 16 years old, and I made an illegal left turn, and I got pulled over leaving Willow. But we're going to see Willow. George was so amped up from Willow, it was like, Willow! He nailed the gas, you know? George was driving like a madman to go see Willow. Well, the cop had to drive behind me for like two miles on like a 25 mile an hour road because I wasn't paying any attention to him behind me.

00:49:20.100 --> 00:49:22.160
So basically false church

00:49:24.619 --> 00:49:26.660
All right, John, 18

00:49:27.180 --> 00:49:27.660
All right

00:49:28.900 --> 00:49:31.380
Other than Joel, one of my favorite guests on this year

00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:35.280
And it's going to be our third entry for this band already

00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:35.860
This is impressive

00:49:36.200 --> 00:49:37.860
All the way from South Africa

00:49:38.700 --> 00:49:40.320
Wilderness King, Mystical Future

00:49:40.640 --> 00:49:41.240
Nice

00:49:42.660 --> 00:49:43.960
That's a good one

00:49:44.180 --> 00:49:45.460
I agree with that

00:49:45.780 --> 00:49:46.799
I endorse that

00:49:49.820 --> 00:49:50.700
Now you do.

00:49:53.700 --> 00:49:55.660
You're going to be Johnny on the spot with those sound effects, man.

00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:57.820
I know. I'm a little delayed.

00:49:58.540 --> 00:50:00.100
Going to need a toilet soon for that.

00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:09.160
All right. My number 18, again, from Denver, Colorado. There's a theme here. Chemist. Hunted.

00:50:10.580 --> 00:50:16.580
And, you know, I have to say that it took me a while, took me a while to get into this band.

00:50:16.640 --> 00:50:45.760
And there's a lot of parallels between them and Paul Bearer, but somehow Paul Bearer just makes it work a little bit better, in my opinion. But I can still see the musicianship and everything. This is one of those albums that I know that I like it, I don't love it, but I recognize this is a good album. And I like it more when they do the death metal vocals than the clean vocals, but yeah, it's good. I'm digging it. I call him, and I'm not trying to be too hard on it, but I call him the poor man's Paul Bearer.

00:50:46.640 --> 00:50:48.820
To me, they're more polished than Paul.

00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:50.660
They are so much more polished.

00:50:50.780 --> 00:50:56.620
And the growth from their first album to this in just, what, 16 months or something is crazy.

00:50:56.640 --> 00:50:58.920
I can't tell if you were shaking your head because you hate these guys.

00:50:58.940 --> 00:50:59.540
We'll talk later.

00:50:59.720 --> 00:51:01.000
We'll talk later about it.

00:51:01.100 --> 00:51:01.280
All right.

00:51:01.420 --> 00:51:02.800
You guys will cuddle over this one probably.

00:51:04.620 --> 00:51:04.800
Okay.

00:51:05.160 --> 00:51:05.360
Maybe.

00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:05.980
I'm on notice.

00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:06.800
Thanks for the threat.

00:51:07.520 --> 00:51:07.660
Jay?

00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:10.280
I think that means you're going to hear it again is the point.

00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:10.440
Yeah.

00:51:11.620 --> 00:51:11.980
Oh, it's me.

00:51:13.080 --> 00:51:16.540
This wasn't on my mid-year, and I kind of spent some more time with it late in the year.

00:51:16.580 --> 00:51:46.320
and it really should have been. So I'm correcting that now. A bath. Or a bath. I'm surprised it's that high as in numerically high on your list. It's actually a really solid record. It's really the sort of spiritual follow-up to All Shall Fall, I would say. I think that's reasonable. It's a little more polished than that. But it's a good record. He made a good record. It's definitely a good record, Jay. I think George and I were saying the other day, it's just nothing.

00:51:47.960 --> 00:52:16.440
Super special from what he's done the past couple albums. It's not bad. It's not bad at all. It's good. I think we've heard it the past couple times. He's playing in your fair town tonight, I believe. Really? I think that was last night. Oh, it was last night. Yeah, they played in Baltimore last night with children about him. You weren't there? Oh, I was. Ex Mortis. Ex Mortis. Yeah. Because I was having a daddy-daughter night last night. Thank you very much. Okay.

00:52:17.540 --> 00:52:46.560
So you should have took her to Abbott. You know, I'm wondering. You also, as a dad, I'll talk to my, you know, non-childbearing men over here. Sterile. Yeah. When's the proper time to take a child to their first concert? Because my daughter's two and a half. That's a little young. Yeah. I've been thinking about this a lot lately because, weirdly enough, my son just turned three and he seems more interested now. Because Will's children are

00:52:46.600 --> 00:53:16.560
Or the inspiration and how he is as dad, he's my inspiration. I remember Will sent me a recommendation for a first Star Wars book for my daughter. He sends me pictures of his children throwing the horns, rocking Slayers shirts. I mean, raise them right. We have this new thing in our house. Literally, we get home. I get home from work. I pick them up. We come home. And they have this little plastic guitar. I mean, it doesn't have strings. It has nothing on it. It's just like this weird place. I think it's actually like a

00:53:16.580 --> 00:53:19.120
a sippy cup kind of thing that's shaped like a guitar.

00:53:19.980 --> 00:53:27.400
And we have this blow-up microphone that goes with the blow-up doll, but that stays in the closet.

00:53:28.080 --> 00:53:29.660
And that was a joke.

00:53:31.380 --> 00:53:37.880
But we literally just put on metal, and we have this air guitar karaoke event for like an hour.

00:53:38.100 --> 00:53:38.500
That's awesome.

00:53:39.140 --> 00:53:39.540
That's awesome.

00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:41.260
The kids love Black Sabbath.

00:53:41.470 --> 00:53:45.120
My son, he's three years old, and he's like, Black Sabbath.

00:53:45.170 --> 00:53:46.000
He wants to hear Black Sabbath.

00:53:46.100 --> 00:54:16.000
He likes Fairies Wear Boots. They like the whole Paranoid album because that's pretty much the one I play for them. But yeah, I mean, we just jam out. We jam the metal all the time. My kids, I don't think they know other music exists. But taking them to a show, you're about to say. Yeah, so what I was going to say is my three-year-old son, William, he keeps asking because he wants to go. But they don't know what it entails. They don't know, like, hey, this is going to be really loud and it's going to be dark and there's not going to be any toys. There's not going to be any kids. They don't understand that.

00:54:16.120 --> 00:54:46.080
They just know that, hey, occasionally, like once a month, daddy goes out at night. And I would say my daughter is almost six. And I would sort of consider taking her on two conditions. One, obviously, you have to have earplugs. Two is you have to be prepared to leave at a moment's notice because there's a good chance that they're going to be like, yeah, like it sounded really cool in theory. And then when you get there, they're like, I don't

00:54:46.120 --> 00:54:46.580
I like this.

00:54:47.180 --> 00:54:48.240
The blow up happens.

00:54:48.240 --> 00:54:51.100
Yeah, I mean, they listen to music in the car that's kind of loud.

00:54:51.290 --> 00:54:52.460
And at home sometimes it's kind of loud.

00:54:52.770 --> 00:54:54.040
But it's nothing like a concert.

00:54:55.219 --> 00:54:56.740
And they've been to the metal nights.

00:54:56.860 --> 00:54:57.980
They've been around.

00:54:58.720 --> 00:55:00.040
They see John quite a bit.

00:55:00.090 --> 00:55:01.220
They know Big John.

00:55:04.500 --> 00:55:06.440
And they've been around metal their whole lives.

00:55:06.570 --> 00:55:10.520
But I feel like if you actually went to a concert, it would be like one or two songs.

00:55:10.610 --> 00:55:11.860
And then they'd be like, I want to go home.

00:55:11.860 --> 00:55:12.380
Or I want a snack.

00:55:12.590 --> 00:55:13.640
Or I have to go potty.

00:55:13.780 --> 00:55:14.980
So it's like, just be prepared.

00:55:15.020 --> 00:55:17.380
is too violent.

00:55:17.620 --> 00:55:17.860
Yeah.

00:55:17.860 --> 00:55:19.040
The t-shirts are too expensive.

00:55:19.820 --> 00:55:22.240
Come on, you've been crowd surfing the whole time.

00:55:23.080 --> 00:55:27.660
Not to speak for Will, but when you have children, you want to do everything you can with them.

00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:29.940
And people are like, Buke, I love hockey.

00:55:30.080 --> 00:55:31.960
They're like, have you taken her into a Caps game yet?

00:55:32.560 --> 00:55:40.140
No, because I'm not going to pay $100 for her to be a squirmy worm and us have to leave five minutes into the first period.

00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:40.580
Yeah, yeah.

00:55:42.680 --> 00:56:12.500
If it was like a local Frederick Metal show, some band, or hey, here we are, we're seeing the band, like our friends in Yesterday Saints. No disrespect to them, but if they were playing, I could take Brianna there. Right. If we have to pull out and leave. Yeah, because you've seen them a bunch, you know them, they wouldn't be insulted, like, hey, I tried. Yeah. But when John and I were at the Op-ez show, I was seeing, I saw a couple who had a kid in one of those like baby carriers. Well, that's different. Over their shoulders. That's different because they're so young,

00:56:12.700 --> 00:56:41.580
They don't have a choice. Oh, yeah. She has a choice. And it's smart to bring them when they haven't fully developed their eardrums and all that. That's also smart, too. George and I saw that at Prague Power. And, you know, I would never hit a woman. But I was like, what are you doing? Yeah. And I realized it was somebody with the band, but still out there with the kid. And it's like, what are you doing? Bringing the children around Prague music? Yeah. What are you trying to set them up for later in life? Yeah. Jeez.

00:56:42.700 --> 00:57:12.480
Did you do your 18? The whole time we were talking about this, George was like, shut the fuck up and get off your list. So this is going to be my first actual mention of a guest band on my list. They fell a little bit because just because the stuff I found afterwards or listened to more just hooked me. But I love this. I think it's going to be high up on John's Perihelion Ship, a rare thunderstorm in spring. The only reason it fell down is because after mid-year,

00:57:12.680 --> 00:57:42.620
I just didn't listen to it as much. More fun guests we had. I enjoyed talking about those guys. Great guests. Great, great, great guys. And they speak Bukes language. Yes. These guys corrected me. Remember, they stuck up for me and said, no, Bukes says things correct. He's not an idiot. In particular, it was Monotone Fields. It's not mutually. Remember Monotone Fields? In Finland, it's said that way. So there you go. But I don't think this band has enough recognition yet.

00:57:42.700 --> 00:58:12.440
Around the Interwebs. Yeah, definitely. If you have not heard that, check it out. So I feel it will be on my partner, John. I think it will be higher up on his list. So I could have dropped off. Who knows? My number 18, I'm hopping on the wheel train. Chemist hunted. Wow, very nice. And it was my original choice this time. Wait, that's two we have? Was this after I mentioned it to you to really check out George? Yes.

00:58:12.720 --> 00:58:42.640
Your swords are all night, huh? You had already listened to it? I had, yeah, of course. I bought it as soon as it came out. What number are we at again? 18. Starting 17 now. Soon, Joel, soon it will be your time. I'm almost there. If I pass out, just yell. We'll call the local authorities. We're going to take a quick bathroom break. Take a quick break. Alright, we're back from a break now and we've got a new drink to talk about.

00:58:43.640 --> 00:58:44.040
Yes.

00:58:44.940 --> 00:58:49.660
This is from a California brewery that I like a lot. Firestone Walker.

00:58:50.700 --> 00:58:57.800
This is the 2016 version of the Velvet Merkin, which is a big old bourbon barrel aged Imperial Stout.

00:58:58.640 --> 00:59:00.520
I swear it's got like coconut in it.

00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:03.240
It smells coconutty.

00:59:04.120 --> 00:59:05.680
There's a joke in there. Do you know what a Merkin is?

00:59:06.240 --> 00:59:08.980
Oh, I know what it is, Jay, but go ahead and tell everyone.

00:59:10.220 --> 00:59:11.160
No, let's hear you said.

00:59:12.080 --> 00:59:41.940
No, you say it. You say it first. It's like a toupee for your... For your real hero. Yeah. Yeah. Which I cannot believe exists. You know what I mean? Yeah, like why would you need that? For the movies. Yeah. And the movies that well... You have to admit though, Will, the velvet would feel nice. Like a glove. In this particular instance. All right. I believe we are on 17 now. Yeah, 17. So, John. All right. Cue your cricket.

00:59:42.080 --> 01:00:11.380
I don't really care, but I had this on my mid-year. It's a band called Spotlight's Titles. It's a kind of a doom-gazy, shoe-gazy, whatever you want to call it. It's a good one. I can't crook at that because I like it. Yeah. It's good. Is it black gaze? That's what I like. No, no, it's white gaze. You're a fucking person. I am not. Jeez. You know, no one else thought of it but you. That was Will, wasn't it? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, Will.

01:00:12.080 --> 01:00:41.800
The problem here. Do you like fish sticks? Do you like fish sticks in your mouth? Or like Kanye? One of the greatest South Park episodes ever. All right, Will. You know what? I think that I'm going to actually be able to weigh in starting now. Wow! I've got a top ten. Hey, it doesn't make a difference, Joel, if it was recorded in the last 20 years. Yeah, apparently. Apparently you can just jump in. Say whatever you want. So I've got a top ten. But I also now have seven albums.

01:00:42.960 --> 01:01:12.020
by bands that I like who I did not know made albums this year. Let's do it. All right. All right. We'll start. I'll go 17, 16, all the way to 11 of these ones. I did not know that Abbott had an album this year. Yeah. That's been mentioned here. I even got the Abbott ski mask that's got the white and the black, so it looks like you're Abbott. You know what George looks like?

01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:42.040
I'm Fat Abbott. No. He looks like Fat Albert. No. Hey, hey, hey, it's Fat Abbott. What's that Quentin Tarantino movie? The Hateful Eight? No. The one. Pulp Fiction? Pulp Fiction. The Mute. Oh, the Gimp. The Gimp. Bring out the Gimp. Sleep. Go wake him up. George is the heavy metal Gimp. Okay. All right. So Joel, 17, Abbott. He got into the humor of his own

01:01:42.120 --> 01:02:11.260
this year, which I like. I'm going to send you guys some. This was the best t-shirt they were selling at the show. It's going to come up on the screen there. And it said Abath Road on it. I think he's known for a little while because I went to see them in Montreal and a buddy of mine and I got the VIP pass. So you get to go backstage and meet them and get an autograph. There are probably about 100 people standing in line just after the show. And everybody was like being really causing a huge ruckus.

01:02:12.080 --> 01:02:41.280
People were painted like Abbott. And everyone was doing like, bleh, bleh. And the whole fucking place was noisy and no one could get everybody kind of corralled. And Abbott stands up and he just goes, shut the fuck up. Everybody just silent. That's awesome. All right. Now, John, number 17. No, Will. Will. Will, sorry. My number 17. I'm a little behind. I'm sorry. Yeah, you're looking totally at 2015.

01:02:45.060 --> 01:03:11.560
Where's the sound effect, man? Oh. Thank you. My number 17, Helgamite, Hypnagogia, all the way from Riley slash Luray, Virginia. I don't even know how to describe this band because they're totally irreverent to any kind of style, including the fact that they use a saxophone, but it's fucking good. Hypnagogia. Yeah, hypnagogia. Saxophone. Yeah.

01:03:12.080 --> 01:03:41.840
Cool. All right. Jay? It's just going to be on a million list this year, but it really deserves to be. Cobalt, slow forever. Mm-hmm. Okay. That's the best you can do, huh? Yep. That's the perfect spot for it. I'm going to disappoint you at Buke with all of my low numbers. That's cool. No, that's a perfect spot for you. In fact, it should be lower. No. I don't understand why. Next year, somewhere around June, Buke's going to be like, dude, I get it!

01:03:45.660 --> 01:04:11.920
All right, Puke. This album I just found recently, and this is a band that had kind of been off my radar for years, but this is Dark Tranquility and Atoma. Classic, sorry, classic melodic death metal. These guys returned pretty good fashion with this album. Remember that time we saw them? I think it was with, I think it was The Sentenced. It may have been, yeah. In Flames Show, and we left, and,

01:04:12.080 --> 01:04:42.020
The Singer was outside on his phone. Yeah. And we're just like, dude, that's a singer for Dr. Trenk Realty. There he is. Sweet. But yeah, it's a great album. Great return to form. Cool. I haven't heard it. But I did know it was out. My number 17 is Nucleus by Witchcraft. I was trying to fool Buke there by saying Nucleus. That's why I sucked off. He's like, what? Really? We've got a... You're like, old school death metal? Really? Really? Really? That almost feels like revenge on me.

01:04:42.080 --> 01:05:11.420
since I feel like that should have been a lot higher, but that's fine. Touché, sir. Touché. But I'm glad it's on your list, though. I'm very glad it's on your list. Yeah. Okay, that takes us back to Joel. Oh, all right. So another album that I did not know existed in 2016 was the New Testament album. Yeah. Looking forward to that. Brotherhood of the Snake, yeah. It's on your list. I haven't heard it, but it's on my list. Yeah, this is counting down top seven albums that I can't wait to listen to in 2016.

01:05:13.700 --> 01:05:42.000
That should be a... Oh, actually, that should come later, because I have a whole list of things I'm looking forward to for 2017. And then George can make his list for what he's looking forward to in 2016. Yep. Will's just trying to take the focus off Kitty. What? Meow. Meow. All right, John. At some point,

01:05:42.080 --> 01:06:09.620
The listeners will know what kitty means. That's Will's new nickname. Last name, Cat. With a K. All right, my number 16 from Australia, Bellacore Vessels. You're my man. Yeah. Nice. Yes. You guys need to have a fifth mic right in the middle. Do we hear the catch for that?

01:06:12.080 --> 01:06:41.800
The Tears, Glass Clinking. There we go. Yes. 16. Utkiaru, The Plate of Wanderers. Nice. Milwaukee and Minneapolis, Melodic Black Metal. There's a lot of Melodic Black and Death Metal on my list this year. And again, kind of like Wilderness King, if I had a little bit more time, it could have been higher. That was a good album. Yeah. It was down lower for me just because of how new it was to me.

01:06:44.059 --> 01:06:45.300
All right, Jay.

01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:50.760
A little controversy around these guys this year.

01:06:51.319 --> 01:06:51.680
Controversy.

01:06:52.500 --> 01:06:56.080
Might have pulled them off some people's list altogether, but I still think it's a great record.

01:06:56.300 --> 01:06:57.660
Destroyer 666 Wildfire.

01:06:58.100 --> 01:06:58.520
Oh, yeah.

01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.380
Wasn't there like a Phil Ensalmo moment for them?

01:07:03.140 --> 01:07:04.040
There was a little bit of that, yeah.

01:07:04.110 --> 01:07:08.740
But I purposely held it at arm's length because I didn't want to have to be like,

01:07:09.560 --> 01:07:10.800
Oh, they're the worst people in the world.

01:07:10.850 --> 01:07:11.800
I shouldn't be listening to them.

01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:39.660
Yeah, Jay, I thought this was going to fall off your list completely because I didn't hear you mention it much after mid-year. Oh, it went on a lot this year. I listened to a lot this year. But just like you, a lot of cool new stuff came in and gave it a run for its money. So they were at a European festival and they sort of said some really dumb stuff on stage. Is that kind of what happened? I thought it was America. I don't know. What did he say? I don't remember, Will. I honestly didn't look at it that close.

01:07:41.900 --> 01:08:10.840
Crap, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think he got it. Yeah. So, you know, I won't be looking forward to the next record. But it did nothing to ruin what is a pretty majestic record by them this year. Yeah. Okay. Puke. My number 16. This one's catchy as hell, and I think it may be on my friend Will's list. I know what it is. Can I say it? What? Sentinac? That's right. Yes.

01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:41.859
Scentinex, really? Did you see my list? No, because you... Well, no, I can't see your list. Scentinex, yes. Doomsday Rituals. This one is fucking catchy. Great return by these guys. I'm pleased by that. Yeah, that is... Catchy. That is like some serious fist-pumping, head-banging death metal from Sweden. We saw that. I am playing this... Yeah, Death Fest, yeah. I'm playing this last night as I'm playing hockey. At the corner of my eye, my wife was sitting there coloring or something. She's actually tapping her

01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:43.940
along with this.

01:08:44.460 --> 01:08:47.319
This album is a catchy album.

01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:51.720
On a rare occasion that I can actually play metal in the car with my wife's in there.

01:08:51.819 --> 01:08:53.339
It usually lasts about five minutes.

01:08:53.779 --> 01:08:56.460
But there's occasion where I see her tapping her foot or tapping her hand.

01:08:56.460 --> 01:08:58.339
I look back and I'm like, oh, yeah, okay.

01:09:00.080 --> 01:09:04.440
But these guys have always been more of the slower style, old school sound.

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It's real catchy stuff.

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So didn't these guys have a short absence for a while too?

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Yeah, they were for a while.

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I never even heard of them until Death Fest and they blew me away at Death Fest. They were one of the ones for me. Yep. Yeah. Cool. All right. My number 16, Moon Sorrow and whatever it was Joel said. Yeah, that one. That one. Yep. Yep. Okay. Okay. Moving on. Joel. So another album that I did not know existed that I'm looking forward to listening to.

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is Dark Thrones' Arctic Thunder. Oh, yeah. You're welcome. Yeah, thank you, George. I think that's going to be a fun one. Yeah, it's good. It's good. All right. Not like you're busy recording an album or something, Joel. Jeez. No, it's true. I mean, I get to walk to work to listen to music, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. How long of a walk to work do you have? Honestly?

01:10:11.000 --> 01:10:11.040
Yeah.

01:10:11.880 --> 01:10:13.080
No, no, no. I'm lying.

01:10:13.580 --> 01:10:14.580
Okay, I'll lie and tell you.

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You listen to the news for a minute.

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Oh, hey, this one.

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It's a walk through two forests.

01:10:20.080 --> 01:10:20.380
Oh, nice.

01:10:21.100 --> 01:10:22.260
Yeah, several marshlands.

01:10:22.810 --> 01:10:23.860
No, it's a minute and a half.

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Minute and a half walk to work.

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I have to, is your listening habits that we hear on the podcast, you know, we're big headphone guys.

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You know, John and I, Grotto guys, love their headphones.

01:10:34.220 --> 01:10:37.020
Are you an earbud, you know, iPhone earbud guy?

01:10:37.170 --> 01:10:38.860
Do you have this pair of headphones you listen to?

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So I've got my studio monitors that are my number one to listen to.

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I bet those things sound amazing.

01:10:45.820 --> 01:10:46.980
Oh, I love them.

01:10:47.530 --> 01:10:55.840
But in terms of what I listen to on a day-to-day, at the office, I have a pair of Sennheiser big cans that I love.

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That's what I got.

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Yeah, they just kind of, for whatever reason, they just get uncomfortable after a while.

01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:01.320
Yep, exactly.

01:11:03.740 --> 01:11:07.140
Sennheiser, nice Sennheiser earbuds that the noise isolation was.

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Yeah.

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But those first 10-20 minutes, you're like, man, these sound great. An hour later, you're like, my ears kind of hurt. Yeah. Yeah. And so the noise, the sound isolation ones, they changed my life. Because I've got some co-workers who, I mean, they're great people. But they talk on 11. They're turned up to 11 at all times. Are they named Buke also? I was nerding out on Joel the other day. He was telling me how he was,

01:11:37.920 --> 01:12:06.960
He was walking through the city. And so I was like, Grey Skies and Electric Light? And he comes back with Old Fries and Bud Light? And I just thought that was really cool. And I realized that nobody but me probably gets where I'm going with that. But I thought it was fucking funny. Well, I assume that was the end of the conversation too, since Joel apparently only walks for a minute and a half. Yeah, it's tough to get the whole album. I'm going to play that down as my excuse.

01:12:07.920 --> 01:12:37.840
If you want to write a minute and a half, 90-second long album, I will listen to it. So you can listen to Nails. Nails is your number one. You've had like a thousand playthroughs of it. It only took you six trips to work. Yeah, so I just want to say, if anybody, this episode will hopefully be out before Christmas, if you want to get like a mid-100, $50, $100, $30 pair of headphones, that's a great entry point, Grotto headphones. John and I can speak of them. They're amazing.

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This won't be a more Christmas, but just saying. Great, great pair of headphones. Send me the model number, will you? Yep. I will. All right, John. Speaking of sending things, so this does exist to you. It does exist. It does exist. Remember how many emails or text messages? Look how.

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Hold it up. Hold it up. Hold it up. It's a special limited edition of one copy, so don't get excited. George is going to have to go hide that in the forest and bury it under some leaves like an old issue of Playboy that the neighborhood boys passed around. It's so beautiful. My plan was to mail it to you guys and then just let you know how much the shipping costs. Yeah. But then I didn't have your addresses, so if you don't mind. I was going to say, I was waiting.

01:13:37.920 --> 01:14:07.380
I just figured you weren't ready for that yet but we'll send you that. Yeah, that's a key part of the process. You'll need that. Yeah. Just write George on it and send it out. Well, when we PayPal you, when we send you PayPal, it'll have the address in there. Right. Yes. But that's fine. I can send it to you. I got the digital download. I don't have a record player. I'll save you some money. He was sharing this article that was in the news the other day and so it was about the Irish.

01:14:07.940 --> 01:14:37.720
Post Service. And someone, so the envelope had a stamp up here. And then on the other side, it was just a description. It's like, oh, you know your one, the girl that lives, she's got about four chickens, three dogs. And I think she lives, her mom's the one that's from Galway. And I think she's married to the one whose father's from, and it was a description like that. And it made it to the girl. Man. Wow. All right, John? All right. The Godfathers of Black Gays, G.

01:14:37.760 --> 01:15:06.160
E-A-Z-E for Will. Alsace Kodama. He got your Japan in, too, so nicely done. That's nice. They're from France, but that's cool, too. Oh, I'm sorry. No, but the album is Japanese-inspired. It's a multi-continental release. Thingy. Yeah, exactly. That's the technical term. And it's a nice return to form.

01:15:07.780 --> 01:15:37.740
I think it's not as much of a return to form, but I still like it, though. What does Neutrino know? He doesn't even know that the old man's child, born of the flickering, has already been released on vinyl. See, there you go. You're schooling everybody. Joel was like, what is it? They released a five-vinyl box set called 666 History of the Plague, and I bought

01:15:37.780 --> 01:16:07.740
Bought that and it had all five albums on vinyl. Shut up. And earlier today, Neutrino texted and said, hey, here's this link. It was for the first album, Born of the Flickering. And I was like, I already got it. And he's like, dude, this is the first time it's on vinyl. I'm like, no, I beg to differ and I sent him the link. And he was like, fuck! Okay, he didn't say fuck, but I'm dramatizing for comedic effect. Two things. Who's Neutrino? He is... Yeah, that doesn't make a difference who he is. Yeah, we wouldn't expect

01:16:07.760 --> 01:16:37.380
I'll correct you to know who he is. No. He's a friend of ours in the band Inferra Brew out of the Boston area. And he went to a death festival. Yeah. Okay. Cool. And he's going to Vaken with us. Only that the bass player in his band plays bass in Trap Them also, if you know who they are. Let's check them out. Number 18. Number 18. Cool. But the second thing, are they,

01:16:37.740 --> 01:17:07.400
Are they done? Are they putting out a new record? As far as I know, because he's doing the Dimu thing. Right. Yeah, I don't know. You would think, I mean, it's been a while since Dimu. You'd think he would have put one out. That's some pretty incredible riffing. Yeah, it's good stuff. It's kind of like when Sammy Hagar joined Van Halen. You're like, aw. Because Sammy Hagar was awesome on his own, a la Old Man's Child. And then, you know, anyway. Wow, you brought up a Sammy Hagar reference. I'm happy.

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I love Sammy Hagar, man. Screw David Lee Roth. Way better singer than a dollar. Anywho. And you know, can I go on a quick side note? Owner of a Lonely Heart, George. Yeah, man. Owner of a Lonely Heart. You know what I was listening to yesterday, John? Roundabout? Whatever. How is that even in the same ballpark in this guy's mind? That was a joke, dude. Oh. I thought you were serious. No, it was a joke. Oh, I said it because I know it drives Yes fans.

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I thought you were serious with that. Love will find a way. I call it own up to that stinky fart. Oh, okay. I do like the song, but I'm not saying it's the best song. No, because before I started diving into music yesterday, I put on Roundabout, and I'm like, there's no way that George came into. That was just broken fun at John. I think Owner of Lonely Heart is sort of the prog rock version of give me fuel, give me fuel.

01:18:10.060 --> 01:18:35.380
That is so true. Ooh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Instead, John Anderson's like, ooh, yeah. But his little harp and everything. Oh, man. So here we go. Where are we? We're just having fun. We're at my number 15. We're on Jay's 15. No, Wills.

01:18:37.740 --> 01:19:07.440
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Hurry up. Um, I had the perfect segue from what John said to what I said, and then we went on some tangent. I fucked it up. Yeah. It was some tangent. Sorry. I had a burrito earlier. Burritos. Um, so speaking of Japan and transcontinental bands and this and that. Also. Yeah. Kodama.

01:19:07.740 --> 01:19:37.220
I keep doing that. So if there was some like crazy Japanese guy who recruited like three European American North American guys and said, hey, I have an idea. Let's go kidnap John Lee Hooker. Put a fucking gun to his head and make him play music. He's dead. But then we're going to say, oh, by the way, play on this guitar on these fuzz amps. And all you're going to do is sing about serial killers. You would have.

01:19:37.240 --> 01:20:06.940
I know who it is. Church of Misery. And their new album, and then there were none. Holy crap. It's like serial killer blues on Fuzz Amps. It's awesome. Those guys are cool. That's all I got to say about that. It's a good album. Here, where is it? I applaud you, sir. Okay, Jay. He looks confused. I'm sure, but I really like this record. It's kind of somewhere between Hellhammer,

01:20:07.060 --> 01:20:35.340
and Celtic Frost. With a little more talent than Hellhammer. Joel's trying to sneak out. Doesn't get with the beer. Every time Joel leaves on Skype, he puts a beer in front of where his face is going to be. Maybe they won't notice I'm gone. Told you it's one of those live cams. We'll be back in five minutes. Sorry, Jay. Sorry. Occult Burial Hideous Obscure. Oh, yeah. Cool.

01:20:37.680 --> 01:21:06.220
I'm the only one. It was Occult Nation. The Facebook page really turned me on to some cool bands this year, and that was one of them. Yeah, that's a good band. I forgot about that one. All right. Butch? You know, not that it's bad, but this album, I think, kind of lost some of their metal sound. Wait, you're about to put a band on your list. You said, not that it's bad. No, it's not bad. It's amazing. We waited years for this.

01:21:07.060 --> 01:21:36.780
It's a little too accessible. I don't know what it is. To where sometimes people who aren't metalheads would maybe get into it and they could... I know what it is. Gojira Magma. Oh, I didn't know what it was. I think it kind of lost some of their metal edge on this album from earlier Gojira. But it's still high enough to beat. Yeah, but it's still an amazing album. Oh, yeah, it is. It's still a great album. I was just saying it's not higher because I think it's not as metal as some of their earlier offerings.

01:21:37.040 --> 01:21:38.360
I thought you were going to say Black

01:21:38.360 --> 01:21:38.640
I thought you were going to say Black

01:21:38.900 --> 01:21:39.720
from Mars series

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no it's definitely not

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and that's what I was trying to say

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in our first listen

01:21:43.020 --> 01:21:43.820
it definitely hooks you

01:21:44.380 --> 01:21:45.720
like a lot of their stuff does

01:21:45.880 --> 01:21:47.180
I like those whammy pedal riffs

01:21:47.300 --> 01:21:48.360
oh it's awesome

01:21:49.900 --> 01:21:52.140
but that's just why it's at 15 on my list

01:21:52.560 --> 01:21:53.980
you know numerous lists have them

01:21:54.020 --> 01:21:56.140
at number one or easily top three

01:21:56.620 --> 01:21:58.020
I haven't seen them on

01:21:58.240 --> 01:21:59.420
I haven't looked at that many lists

01:21:59.520 --> 01:22:00.320
but I haven't seen that many

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they're on a couple

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who they Metal Hammer I think

01:22:03.300 --> 01:22:04.040
they're number one aren't they

01:22:04.400 --> 01:22:04.520
yeah

01:22:05.440 --> 01:22:07.020
the Rolling Stone had them I think

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three or five.

01:22:08.900 --> 01:22:10.000
I'm not saying it's anything.

01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:11.380
Don't get me started on that list, though.

01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:15.260
No, what's weird is I suddenly started getting Rolling Stone magazine in the mail.

01:22:15.300 --> 01:22:16.220
I get them all the time, too.

01:22:16.340 --> 01:22:22.840
And I even called them, and they say, like, you know those things when you purchase things online or stuff like that, and you opt in?

01:22:22.840 --> 01:22:23.860
And it's attached to it, yeah.

01:22:24.160 --> 01:22:24.820
You don't realize it.

01:22:24.960 --> 01:22:25.020
Yeah.

01:22:25.560 --> 01:22:26.180
That's what happens.

01:22:26.680 --> 01:22:30.260
It must have been, because I get them all the time, and typically I throw them in the trash.

01:22:30.440 --> 01:22:33.800
I'm not saying I'm a fancy man with a lot of money, but I do pretty well for myself.

01:22:34.800 --> 01:23:03.160
Forbes magazine started showing up at my house. Fancy man. I'm the last guy who's going to be reading Forbes. You can read it. Somebody made up a stick there. Let me tell you something, Buk. You'll probably get better music, insight, and Forbes than Will and Rolling Stone. Exactly. Raise your glasses and get ready to drink. I don't have any beer left. Winter Thrice, Borknogger. Yes! Borknogger! So maybe after we get a beer soon, then. Yeah.

01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:33.840
This album, as you're drinking, man, I love this darn album. It's one of those ones that after mid-year, I listen to way more. Yeah. It's good. It's awesome. All right. Do we need to refill that? Do you guys need to take a break to Borknogger each other? Just a quick refill. I want to go put the rest of this. Have you listened to this one? Me? Yes, Jay. Oh, yeah. I think it was on my mid-year list. Yeah, I'm such a beautiful.

01:23:34.800 --> 01:24:04.760
I listen to it yeah winter thrice no so number five on my I just I'm aware that it exists you know what makes this album is the clean vocals from what's his name is it is vortex I see it's vortex he sings on your arms on here too yeah really got everyone has an incredible voice yes I got into it because I was so

01:24:04.780 --> 01:24:34.760
So high on that last amorphous record. Track three, whatever it is. Whatever track three is, fucking sold it for me on this album. Yeah. All right, we are back from another quick break. What are we drinking, fellas? This is from Three Notch Brewing, Brewery, whatever, in Virginia. It's called Minuteman. It's another New England style IPA. They're down in Charlottesville. Have brewer Dave Work is a friend of mine and is

01:24:34.800 --> 01:24:36.220
a metalhead.

01:24:36.420 --> 01:24:36.640
Yes.

01:24:37.940 --> 01:24:39.920
And they make nice beers all around, I think.

01:24:40.040 --> 01:24:40.180
Oh, yeah.

01:24:40.340 --> 01:24:41.000
I like most of their stuff.

01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:45.520
Last time I was down in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

01:24:47.040 --> 01:24:47.800
Well, actually, it wasn't the last time.

01:24:47.860 --> 01:24:48.320
It was last year.

01:24:48.460 --> 01:24:48.860
Harrisonburg?

01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:49.200
Nice.

01:24:49.700 --> 01:24:50.020
Harrisonburg.

01:24:51.040 --> 01:24:51.360
Harrisonburg?

01:24:51.500 --> 01:24:51.920
Others there.

01:24:52.460 --> 01:24:52.920
Oh, Virginia.

01:24:53.100 --> 01:24:53.540
Okay, sorry.

01:24:54.260 --> 01:24:56.700
I got my American States next up there.

01:24:56.940 --> 01:25:03.280
And we go to a pizza place there, and they have some of the local beers, and they have

01:25:03.300 --> 01:25:33.260
Three Notched and Brothers and some other stuff. I like Brothers. And I was in there and I was wearing an Emperor shirt. And the chef there gave me a free dessert. The waitress brought over and she's like, the chef said he likes your shirt. I was like, no! Free dessert? That's what he tells us. And I was like, sorry, sir, I can't have this. I have to go to the gym. Apparently... So he got two desserts. Apparently you've been

01:25:33.320 --> 01:26:03.260
I've been running in the middle heights for the last 40 years. See what I put up with, Joel. No bad shame in here. Will, I was impressed earlier on when you mentioned the progression. You're like, oh, Massachusetts and New Hampshire and Maine and New Brunswick. You fucking know where New Brunswick is. Yeah, it's in Jersey. Isn't it New Jersey? It's in Jersey, man. Oh, man. The look on people's faces when I went to school just up in southern New

01:26:03.300 --> 01:26:33.000
New York State by Northern New Jersey. We're in a University of New Brunswick shirt. Oh, the look on people's faces. Yeah, that's why you're thin. You see, George over here says it's metal for his size. Wait, wait. There you go. That's all I got to say about that. There we go. All right, where are we? We are on number 14, aren't we? Yes, we are. It's me, number 14. No, it's Joel. Is it Joel? Oh, yeah, because he hasn't listened to this album yet. All right, this is my fourth to last.

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I guess fourth best album. Fourth looking forward to most album that I haven't listened to this year. Crack up every time. And now on the Throck. You're not quoting the Excalibur movie are you? Yep. I just think they're great. Yeah. Their album Vanitas was incredible. I love that album. That's my favorite one. I think the album after that kind of missed the step. The one between that one and the new one was not as good for me. Yeah.

01:27:03.280 --> 01:27:31.240
Well, that's good to know. You kind of jumped on that grenade for me. I appreciate that. Yeah, no, I would skip straight to the whole of the law. These guys are awesome live, too. Yeah, we saw them at Death Fest this year, too. Pretty much everybody's at Death Fest, except us this year. Except, yeah, true. Now that it's not what it was. I even saw an article talking about how, oh, yeah, Death Fest is good and all, and unfortunately it won't be quite as good next year, but it'll still be pretty good, but yeah, it's not going to be as good.

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And I was like, yep. Let's have a moment of silence for Death Fest. Let's pour one out for our Death Fest homies. All right. Okay, now, John. All right. This has been mentioned already once. Won't say much about it. Lotus Thief. Grammarie. Nice. Yep. Put that as your number three to check out, Joel. Lotus Thief? Lotus Thief. Joel's list is very fluid. Will, what you got? What number are we on? 15.

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14. My number 14. Destroyer 666, Wildfire. And I have to say, this may have been higher on the list, but I do remember the controversy. I'm sort of like, I'm tainted. I know this album came out before all that, but it's sort of like, but it's still really good. I don't know. So I punished them by dropping it down my list. Any Inquisitions on here? Because it's the same boat. No. Okay. What do they do?

01:28:32.600 --> 01:28:59.960
They have like Nazi tattoos and stuff. They're playing it down now, but they used to be very, what do you call it? Racist? No, the National Socialist Black Metal. Ah, interesting. Yeah. So, I don't listen to them anymore. Yeah, we got no time for fucking racist stupid shit. Ain't got no time for Nazis, motherfucker. Nope. Too many good bands we can listen to that don't have that problem. Exactly.

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I was like I'm not even going to ask him about that. Yep. Because that's not his problem. It's not his problem. Yeah. Here's one that I know we can all agree on 100% across the board. Everybody thought this was as good as I did. Anthrax for all kings. Wait. Hit that. Hit it multiple times. No. Are you serious? Joel, don't even write this down. Throw your pencil away. Don't write this down. I'm just going to skip ahead of

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I didn't write down over it. And also let it be known that that means that I think me and George are everybody. Yeah, I'm just going to throw my lot in with Jay because my number 14 is also Anthrax. So go ahead and do your whatever it is, Buke. Whatever it is that's better than Anthrax, which isn't much. This was my number three at the mid-year. And it's an amazing album. Another guest of the pod.

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It fell simply because after mid-years, so much more music hit me. It just didn't give them the time that I should have, but I listened to it again this morning, and it's still amazing. Hyperion. Spherical Euphony. Hell yeah. Awesome stuff. Good stuff. Awesome stuff. Black metal, but not, you know, not... Kind of symphonic. Yeah, I was going to say symphonic black metal.

01:30:32.620 --> 01:30:33.100
at times.

01:30:33.930 --> 01:30:34.820
Not like commercial.

01:30:35.240 --> 01:30:35.420
Yeah.

01:30:35.540 --> 01:30:38.780
Not Demu or not the other extreme.

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Not your Dark Throne.

01:30:40.160 --> 01:30:40.220
Yeah.

01:30:40.330 --> 01:30:40.780
Black Metal.

01:30:41.080 --> 01:30:44.460
I'm really picturing that record on the shelf with a sticker that says Black Metal

01:30:44.720 --> 01:30:47.240
Um and dot dot dot Buke from Metalhead's podcast.

01:30:50.200 --> 01:30:52.900
Again, Guest of the Pod, great album.

01:30:53.400 --> 01:30:53.500
Yeah.

01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:53.900
Yeah.

01:30:55.260 --> 01:30:55.500
All right.

01:30:55.660 --> 01:30:58.400
If you get those stickers made, Buke, Black Metal Um.

01:30:59.260 --> 01:31:00.320
I would put the one.

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And then I'm going to come up.

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I'm going to come along and write a little Y on there. Black metal yum. That brings us back to you, Joel, with your number 13, the record you most wished you had heard this year. The Omnium Gathering album. I didn't actually listen to it yet. It's okay. Buke has. Yes. It's a good Buke. It's more the same.

01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:33.740
You're not good enough to make my list, but it's good.

01:31:34.280 --> 01:31:40.920
Yeah, so it seems like when they do a new album, there's usually one or two songs, and I'm just like, ooh, that is pretty nifty what they're doing there.

01:31:41.980 --> 01:31:43.040
Sift through to get to it.

01:31:43.640 --> 01:31:43.960
What's that?

01:31:44.540 --> 01:31:45.900
Got to sift through to get to it, huh?

01:31:46.190 --> 01:31:47.180
Yeah, it feels like that.

01:31:47.710 --> 01:31:54.040
I know that they have a couple albums in their earlier stuff where every song just blows you away with a new riff.

01:31:54.280 --> 01:31:55.480
But it's good.

01:31:55.660 --> 01:31:57.180
There's still some good stuff going.

01:31:57.320 --> 01:31:59.580
I'll listen to it, and I'll comment in 2017.

01:31:59.900 --> 01:32:00.980
Maybe we can do a follow-up.

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You know the news like

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this is a special update with Joel

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Justin albums from 2016 are good

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My number 13

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It's probably going to be on a lot of lists

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Eson, Arctis

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Number

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We're going to the bathroom right now

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Number 13

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Number 13

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Lucky number

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All right. 13 out of thousands of albums. Thousands. Yep. Will? Mine is not Arctis, so sorry to disappoint you. Testament, Brotherhood of the Snake. Moving up. Yeah, and I struggled with this one because I think the sum is better than its parts. It's still definitely Testament, and I give them a lot of respect for just still putting out

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Good Albums, year after year after year. And there's a lot of the other sort of big four that is not to be mentioned. I like the new Metallica. You know what I think this is? This is dark roots, but with bad lyrics. Yeah. This is the legacy with an updated production and bad lyrics. Yeah, there's a lot of great songs. There's more great songs than bad songs, but there's a few on there. You're just like,

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What the hell are you guys thinking? Musically it works. There's no dead space on it musically. Anyway. Jay? In and out fast on this one since I know I'm the only one who has it or probably even knows it. Can't sound the fact ready. A band I discovered a couple years ago. Big Business. A record called Command Your Weather. This has made some lists, Jay. Yeah, I saw that couple. It's the guys from Melvin's. And it's good.

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It's just a bass player and a drummer. And the bass player sings as well. It's heavy stuff, man. And catchy heavy stuff. I saw them live and I think they're better live than they are on vinyl slash digital slash tape CD. Did you see them with Mastodime? No, it was with, I forget who it was with. It may have been Red Fang. They were with Red Fang. Who also puts on a phenomenal show. Whose new album is not that good. They're right.

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Okay.

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My number 13.

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I'm probably going to go on a limb here and say I'm probably going to be the only one with this Austrian band on their list.

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It's a black metal post band.

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Harry Carey for the Sky.

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Number three, Trauma.

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That is a great album.

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I struggled with that one.

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That is an honorable mention for me, sir.

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It is a very good album.

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Thank you.

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Man, that's a very good album.

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Is your issue the same as mine?

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It's just after a while you're like, wow, I'm through four songs. It's a long listen. It is, but it's really good. I even saw it on at least one other list. I just love how dynamic it is and the different sounds that it hits. You need to carve some time out. This is my first dipping my toe into them. How do you spell that, Duke? H-A-R-A-K-I-R-I for the sky. Harakiri, as in like...

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It's another reference to Japan, Jason. You should be good. As in like flotsam and jetsam. No place for disgrace. Yes. Yeah. All right. We are what, 13 is it? Now we're on 12. Yeah, 13 for you. And then we're going to 12. Unearthed Elf into the Catacomb Abyss. Take that, Will. You take that. Why do you keep saying that? I don't have a middle finger button.

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I just have to find some. Oh, you got to. Yeah. Don't worry. Cannibal Corpse did not release an album this year. Thank God. All right. Joel, number 12. All right. Album that I can't wait to listen to. This is awesome. Catatonia did an album in 2016. Uh-huh. Yep. Yeah. Fall of Hearts, I believe it was called. Yeah. I'm looking at my list and I can't read it on there because it's not on there. But... All right. Maybe. No.

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Is that another grenade that you jumped on for me? No, it's not. No, I don't think so. It's worth listening to, and it just didn't make it. If you're not on the middle podcast, it's worth listening to. Dan from Nine Circles rated that really high. He's a big fan of theirs, and he liked it. Yeah, Catatonia has always been a big favorite of mine. There you go. All right, John. Bring out the band of crickets, because he's next to

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I'm sure everybody's like yeah whatever

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but this is a band that wasn't even in the pool

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for selection then I listened to them

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and they moved up into my maybes

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and then they kept moving up and moving up

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it's by far the least metal of my bands

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but they're still pretty damn heavy

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it's a jazz fusion instrumental band

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from Germany

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sorry preemptive crickets

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they're called the crickets from

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no I know Buick listened to this

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and he said he thought it was a fun record

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It's a band called Counter World Experience Pulsar. If you want to venture into the kind of fusion, jazz, metal, influence stuff. These guys. Counter World Experience Pulsar? The album's called Pulsar. The band is called Counter World Experience. I remember that one now. I wanted to hear that. Their guitarist is a monster, but they've got a bunch of guests on there. The guy from Obscura, the drummer, is on there on one song. Steve DiGiorgio is on there. Whatever you say his last name. He's on there. He's on there.

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It's good. George, you just started making a Joel list. You were like, yeah, I wanted to hear that. It wasn't on Bandcamp, so I couldn't hear it. I can only listen to things on Bandcamp. I would have enjoyed listening to that. All right, Will. All right, my number 12, Inter-Armor, Paradise Gals from Richmond, motherfucking Virginia. A very contested album on this podcast. You beat me to it, George. Harley. Half in, half out. Just a tip. Just a tip.

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Numerous lists. It was very high up, but here in the pod, it was... Split. Yeah, very split. I think a lot of us were saying the vocals were the problem. The vocals are the problem. I got past it a little bit, and I was really questioning whether it would make my list or not, but it didn't. But it could have. This was one for me. The more I listened to it, actually, the more I liked it. Yeah, same with me. Jay? I'm with you, Will. Though, not right now.

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I was into riding Christ rituals. I did make your list. Still made my list. I thought it was a little higher on your list. Should have been on more lists this year, I think. It's kind of a weird, cool experiment they did this year, and it's real catchy, too, I think. I loved it. Loved it. Is that your second band from Grease? No, I had a band from Grease. Oh, you did? I did. Grease. What was the one from Grease? Hell Spirit Noir. Noir. Noir. I say Noir. Okay, Buke.

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No, a scene from Live in Color hit me. You know, Men on Film? It just came to mind. Number 12, we talk about bands kind of going out of their comfort zone, really breaking the mold. This album easily could have been way higher up. I don't know. I think it landed at number 12 because the vocals, I think, could have been maybe moved up, mixed a little bit better.

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I think that's a fair comment. This is a death metal band doing very... It's kind of old school. It's cool. Old school, but riffs and their dragging out in the 10-minute songs. It's cool. But the vocal mix, I think, could be a little bit better. That's why I held it back and put it at number 12. I agree with that. I agree with that assessment. All right. Number 12. Thy Catafalque Meta.

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I cricket myself. I love it when you do that. At least you own it. I do. It's a good album. I don't think enough people know it. I think the Ukiaru guys were into that one though. I'm not alone. I saw this funny comic strip a while back and it was some cricket up standing up in front of people telling jokes. It was standing up in front of other crickets. He told a joke and then it was just all crickets. That's how they laugh or whatever. Self-opposed crickets. That's what he just did.

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It's interesting stuff. It's Thy Catafalque. It's T-H-Y-C-A-T-A-F-A-L-Q-U-E. Whoa. W-X-Y-N-Z. I'm all in here. It's nicely done. I had a fucking weird album title. That's great. No, Joel, you do have a weird album. It's the safe one it is. No, no, no.

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Jay is fucking knocking them up and knocking them down today. Exactly. The album title is Meta. M-E-T-A. You know, Joel, now that it's a couple months post-release, Joel, do you take a step back and like, maybe I should have made a little easier band name or album title. Nah. I should have? Yes. It's got to be the first question in every interview you've ever done. So tell me about that.

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It could be like Thrasht and Blast Woods or something. But I do like the story behind the Thrasht and Blast. I like that. Thrasht and Blast! Issue number one is Google-ability. When you Google something like, I don't know, Testament, all you do is Google Testament, what are you going to get? On the other hand, if you can't spell the word you're trying to Google, you'll then get Testament.

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If you Google thrash and blast, does it come up? And Google's like, did you mean take out your trash? So you can get thrash and blast by, hold on. By buke spelling. Hold on, I'm just going to verify this for sure. So as a monkey bashing on the keyboard, you can end up by thrash and blast. So that's how you found the buke?

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R-W-A-S-N-B-L. You can get Thrasenblatt. Nice. They got the last two letters. That's awesome. To answer your question, I'll be about if I want a less complicated band name or album title. If you can come up with a way to describe Thrasenblatt in fewer syllables and letters. And have good SEO searchability. I'm not the guy to help you there. I like what you're doing.

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I'm like, hey, random name. I hit the random name generator like ten times. Yeah, that name sounds good. No, mostly just to answer your question. I just wanted something that kind of had an interesting kind of, it kind of hit all the imagery we wanted. And for the album, same sort of thing, I guess. I mean, as someone who grew up listening to Balsaga with, you know, unpronounceable albums,

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album title.

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Hey, Jay or Joel, you guys being in bands, were you in any embarrassing band names growing up?

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Looking back on it, you're like, oh god, that hurts being in that.

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Yeah, Trevor had a good one.

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Admitting I was in that band.

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I was in one called The Dialtones.

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Oh god, that is horrible.

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Pretty bad. I'm not even that thrilled about ours now. I didn't come up with it.

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It's a little too punk for me. My first one was called Dark Harvest. And you know what? I've actually seen that there's now a band that uses that name. Is that right? Yeah. And the R in it was a sickle? The R is a sickle, yeah. Oh, God. I never would have thought of that. Hey, I was like 14. Joe, were you in any embarrassing band names? Really? I didn't really have any band names.

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who were doing the same type of music as me. And so I was just mostly writing a bunch of music myself. Did you have friends growing up, Joel? Yeah, man. The bears and the badgers. Okay. I had a few badgers I was friends with. A few foxes in the forest behind my house. Yeah. Nice, friendly. The little people. Yep. You guys have kangaroos up there, right? Yeah. Yeah, kangaroos. They play well. In the summertime.

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Okay, where are we? We are at number 11. Coming into the top 10 soon. Yep, coming into the top 10. We're at number 11 or number 2, what you're looking forward to listening to next year. I think it's number 1. Oh yeah, number 1. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The album I'm looking forward most to listening to next year that happened this year is the new Sui Dacra album. Yeah. Sorry, I'm eating. Georgine over here.

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I'm just training over here come on

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Training

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Yeah, no this new

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Suodaka is good. Oh good. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent

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I'm not familiar with them

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Dude, we talked to them at a show

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Really? Oh those guys

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Yeah, those German guys

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Yeah, I remember now

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I bought a shirt from them. Yeah, yeah

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Yes, they've got an equally kind of

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Cryptic band name

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don't they? Sudakari I thought their name was. Sudakra. Sudakra was their name or something like that. Yeah. Sud is South in German. Aufdeutsch. Okay then. I thought it was the main dude's name backwards. Isn't his name Arcadius? S-U-D is South in German. Sud. I do not know. I think his name is Arcadius and it's literally just Arcadius backwards. That's the main name. Nice. Oh man what's Thrasenblatt backwards?

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walks in forest.

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Talibin

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Oh, wait. Okay, I just didn't hear it. I have seen that somewhere. I got confused with Votsam. And also Votsam and Jetsam. You know, the... I'm just kidding. Sorry. That was... Those crickets never get old. Or the drum rolls. Yeah. All right, Will. Willem. My number 11. Wow, that was cool because the rest of you were moving, but he looked like he froze somehow.

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I was totally fucking confused by what was going on. My number 11. All the way from Germany. Old school Florida death metal sounding. Revellin flesh. Emissary of all plagues. Wow. This came up late. Never even heard of these guys before but holy crap that is a good old school Florida death metal album. Yeah I've heard them before. Yeah. I'm writing it down. And you love them. Write that down. Write that down. I think I reviewed one another album. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Will do. Will. Do. Jay. John mentioned it. Local Boys, Local Heroes. Probably not really. I think only people who know them don't live here. But it really is a good record. Hammers of Misfortune. All right. What the hell is the name of that record? Dead Revolution. Dead Revolution. Sorry, I was trying to find the band that my friend Will had mentioned. But mine was already mentioned earlier. Witherscape, the Northern Sanctuary.

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Yeah. Really? Who mentioned that? That would be me. You did? That would be my buddy John. Number 21 for me. That's weird. Where was I? Sitting right there. I guess. Jesus. Too much beer. I don't know. All right. John's like insulted. He's like, what the fuck? You don't even listen to what I'm saying now? No, not insulted, folks. I'm just empty again. Yeah, we're just empty again. All right, let me do mine. And then get a refill. You know what? We're going to take a quick break.

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After his.

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Because then we're gonna start when the shit gets real.

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Yes, the fucking shit gets real.

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Yeah, Joel this shit gets real.

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You might not like me after this and I don't give a shit.

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Top ten is brutal.

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Hey Joel these are actually bands here.

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These are actually albums you've heard this year.

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So be prepared.

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We're gonna fucking unleash on you.

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Yeah, we're good.

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It's fucking coming for you.

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Alright, but before that.

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If this was a thing, albums that I've listened to this year, I would have a fucking great talk. Hello Cleveland, we're coming! Albums that are from this year that I've listened to? Oh yeah, fair enough, yeah. Smaller than this, but still good. Alright, well let me just slide this in here real quick, my number 11. It's funny you want to slide in real quick and are drinking Minuteman right now. Does he look like a two-minute man? Do you see what I have to put up with?

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I'll just try to do everything I can to annoy the shit out of George so he can't say his number 11. Say it quick. Cult of Luna, Julie Christmas, Mariner. Oh, good, good. Wasn't it higher up on your list at the mid-year? It wasn't even on my list mid-year. It was on yours. It was on yours. Yeah, it was on yours. Fuck yeah. George, what was that album title? The album title is Mariner and Cult of Luna featuring Julie Christmas is the band. I thought I heard you say Christmas.

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Yeah, it's not a Christmas album, no. No. Okay. All right, quick break for refills. We are back, and we have a new drink before we get into the top ten. What do we got? We're going to do a twofer here coming up. Left Hand Brewing Company out in Colorado. They have two Big Four metal-themed tribute beers. The first one we got is Wake Up Dead Imperial Stout.

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Which is a reference to what? Buke? Megadeth. Megadeth. Megadeth. Peace tells you who's buying Wake Up Dead. You die. Which is awesome because the whole point of the song is it's a song about going out, getting really, really drunk at night, waking up with the most wicked fucking hangover ever. And somebody who's occupying your house, i.e. your wife or girlfriend, is really not happy with you. Yeah. You're trying to sneak in nice and quiet.

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I know none of us can relate to that. I love it. Yeah, that's one of their best songs played live. I love when the crowd sings along with that song. And this happens to be in the Brutal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers. So check it out. You know, it's funny. Every time Will comes by, he brings this thing. It's literally like he's going door to door with the Bible. He carries the thing with him everywhere. Mine is in his brand new, you know, perfect shape.

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His looks like he's a Latter-day Saints, you know, and he's going door-to-door preaching the word. He's like, have you heard the good word? The yeast has risen. Mine's a coffee table book that has barely been touched. Oh, no, this is serious Bible work here. Cheers, brothers. Cheers. Let's get some audibles. You guys are all awesome. And to you guys as well.

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What do you got, Joel? Have an innocent gun over there? You probably do. Oh, yeah. From England. I love the green label. Spiced rum aged porter. Wait, spiced rum? The spiced rum aged porter. Can I see the label? I have not seen that one. I've only seen the green and the purple here. I've seen it, but I haven't tried it yet. You've got to be part of the Commonwealth, I think, to get that. I've never seen that one. You've got to be under the Queen to get that privilege. That's good stuff. I like it. It's delicious. It's delicious. Especially when I'm having some dark beers. That's one of my favorites to throw in there. This is green.

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Jay's still rocking the coffee. Jay's probably having some, what's like the grass that they, some lemon wheat grass. Yeah, some lemon grass or something that he's probably fucking drinking. Hippie juice. Yeah. One of his other friends with a pink fucking gas mask during their protest. Like, hey man, have you tried your, have you tried the lemon grass? All right. We are about to enter.

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The Top 10.

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10.

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Fucking octagon.

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10 albums enter.

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Fucking duking it out.

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10 albums leave.

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10 albums leave.

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Yeah.

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No, actually.

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60 albums leave.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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No, 60 albums enter.

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10 albums leave.

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All right.

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Joel, your number 10 album from 2016.

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Now officially welcome to the pod now.

01:54:08.780 --> 01:54:09.060
Hey.

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Great to see you.

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Great to see you on with you guys.

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How's everyone doing today?

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Good?

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Excellent.

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We're smurfy.

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Yeah.

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So, my number 10 of the albums that I did actually listen to in 2016 is Derek Dr. and Quility's Atoma. Nice. I like when I say these things, Joe. You can help me out a little bit next time, please. He's feeling validated. I didn't want to give away my hand. I had a few of them to give away. You guys had 25. See, that's the hard thing about doing the lisp. You know, do you want to say too much? Do you want to say a little, you know? Exactly. You got your validation just now. Okay, I did.

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And I had to wait for it. Yep. Yep. Yep. All right. John, number 10. All right. Number 10. One of Joel's countrymen here. Maybe not his best album, but it's definitely a good album. Devin Townsend project, Transcendence. No, you say Vector is too long. Ah. Vector is thrashed and too long. Devin Townsend's jazz hands and too long. No, not just jazz hands and prog nipples. And his mother's leathery lips.

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This is almost two hours of music. What was it again, George? It's better to be a fucking nerd than a fucking pussy? Yeah. That's what he said when we saw him at Prog Power in September. He is the ultimate showman in metal right now. He really is. He won me over so hard when we saw him. You got hard when you won me what? Just about. Just about. Well, that and maybe the other singer kind of won you over too. Oh, yeah. That was the other half of the match.

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Fullmast, but only half for devil. That was the other inch. That was the tip. Meanwhile, back at the podcast. My number 10, and I think Jay will like this a lot, witchery in his infernal majesty's service. 100% sweet and blackened thrash. Sounds a lot like

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Like Early Slayer, in fact, they have a song on there called Nosferatu, and it's literally just riffs. What the fuck was that? Can I say that again? It's literally just riffs off Rain and Blood. The song opens with a riff from piece by piece, and then somewhere halfway through, busting the post-mortem. Check it out. Check it out. The song Nosferatu. Actually managing to rip them off somehow. It's super catchy. Yeah, it's good.

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them and Hellbringer were kind of like my two sort of like Slayer worship albums that I really like because I love Slayer. But Hellbringer kind of just worshipped a little too much where Witchery's were like, we admire them from afar, kind of. Yeah, Witchery has their own thing going without question. My number 10, and let me just say, my whole list, there's nothing on here I wouldn't have put on here, but my number 10 are all super confident, love these records, they deserve to be in the top 10.

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And with that stated, this one, to John, more than anybody else, Aranci Pazuzu. Take that, T.R. Farahatachachopashala. Put that on your list, T.R. Put that on your list and fucking smoke it, T.R. Or you and your flip phone. Try and text something back, T.R. Hey, T.R. 1996 called. They want their phone back. Yep. Who's T.R. and why do they have a flip phone?

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Thank you.

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He's T.R.

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You're asking from the other angle.

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He is John's longtime metal concert buddy.

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And our recently concert buddy.

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Yeah, T.R.'s a good guy.

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We give him a little hard time about his phone.

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And he was just beating on me on the R&C Pazuzu name.

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So I told George, I said, I'll tell you if it's going to be on some lists.

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He's going to hear about it.

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Take that.

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That's two.

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Maybe a third's coming your way, brother.

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Since we're talking about flip phones, every once in a while, I'll switch to a flip phone for like a month. It's the best thing. Why? Canadian government gives it to them. It's a phone, and I can text people. I know I'm fucking Facebook and Gmail and all these things dinging at me every 10 seconds. Puke messaging me again. Yeah, I know. That's why I'm like... Joel, another way to go would just be to not have a phone. I know. It'd be nice, wouldn't it? Okay, Joel, I must be the only one who got it. I must be the only one who got it.

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I do not remember when Joel was on last time. We talked about being with the earth and all that shit from the album. Is that why they'll not remember that? Yeah, yeah. You know what? And that's so Joel to get in touch with the earth every once in a while. He gets out the old flip phone. Somebody's walking to work through the two forests. For one and a half minutes. If you need to reach Joel, you can message him. You can message him on

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AIME. I'm sure he'll check it in the morning. Hey, I use AIME for work. If you can properly describe me on the front of an envelope, it'll probably get up to me anyway. No, that dude that sings all the sea shanties. I don't know. He likes big leafs. All right. Buke? Are we at Buke? Buke's number 10. Everybody, raise your glasses. Borknogger. Borknogger. Winter Thrice.

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This is awesome. It is good. It's awesome. It's a great album. It's already been talked about before, so it's a great album. All right. My number 10, Hyperion Seraphical Euphony. My man, George. Good choice. Blah, blah, blah. What's up, Doc? Was that high mid-year for you? I think it was. It was definitely on my mid-year. We only did 11 at mid-year.

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Did we? I thought it was 15 or something. Nope, 11. Let's go to 11. Right. Okay, then. Back to Joel for number 9. Number 9. Number 9. So, I've got a metal number 9 and I've got a non-metal number 9. Okay. So, my non-metal number 9, it could have been one that I think I was on in the mid-year, wasn't I? Was that when I was chatting with you guys? Let's just say yes. Nobody checks facts on this.

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2016, 2015, whatever. Neofolk band from Luxembourg, I think. Anyway, they have an album called Coriolan, and it's some pretty great, dark, kind of neofolky kind of, yeah, it's very, very interesting stuff. I really like that album. What was the band name? It's called Rome. Okay, I missed it. Yeah, the album's called Coriolan, C-O-R-I-O-L-A-N. Are you sure you weren't on another podcast?

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None of us even remember that. I want to check it out. If I didn't mention it, then great. News for you guys then. Yeah, so that one's very good. It's very somber and kind of dark. It's good to me. And yeah, my number nine medal is going to be Amanomarth's Yomsviking. Oh, right on. Yes. I'm looking for the right button here. What'll it be? Is there a... Oh, that's good. Is there like a blood cutting through

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Like a sword cutting through flesh? I need to add some more. I've got two more open spots here. They seem to make the same album. That was my problem with it, Joel. But it keeps getting better. But yeah, and it's the same thing that I want from them every time. It's like a new season of Vikings. With Odin on our side, the peak. And then it's just... My goodness. We're on the same level, bud. Yeah, my friend. There we go, buddy. What an album that is. With Joel on your side.

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And you know what? We did our top three Amon albums years back, and that wasn't even on George's list. You know what? What's weird is that one took me five or six listens to get into. But then once it was there, it was unshakable. Unshakable. I agree with that now. It's awesome. All right. Number nine, John. It's been mentioned already before. And my selection of this in the top ten is based solely on Therese.

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live performance, which was fucking incredible. I know what this is. You should. You were there. Yeah. Gojira. Gojira. Yeah. They are so fucking intense live. And I really like the album, but it made the album even better seeing them perform it. Yeah, you guys were, you know, I think the podcast speaks for itself and you guys, you know, shared your thoughts afterwards. It was, yeah, they were a lot of fun. And I think George said it was, what stood out is how much it blew you away seeing them do the sound.

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that they have on the album live.

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Yeah.

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They do all that stuff.

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I had the good fortune to see them on the Death record,

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whatever that was.

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The one after Mars to Sirius.

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And they were,

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I was one of the most intense,

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they're an amazing band.

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I've seen them.

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Amazing.

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Yeah,

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I've seen them for the last three tours,

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the last three album tours.

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I've never seen them.

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And just.

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Really?

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You've never seen them?

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Never.

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It's about an hour and 45 minutes of just intense playing,

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and they don't let up at all the whole time.

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Do they stop and talk to the crowd at all?

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He does.

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He talks more than he has.

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He has before because they're now headlining. Yeah. But I think they speak better English now too. Well, he's him and his brother basically half American, you know, because they have ties. They have ties to the US, but I think with their mother, they're French. That's the side that they get their musical talent from the American side. The other side is all cheese and wine and shit. Yeah. Bitching and like rolling over and saying, okay, we give up. They came up with the name when they were in France. So. Hmm. Gojira. But, you know,

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I think it's probably all, and not speaking for everybody here, but I think it will probably be on everyone's list. I agree. It's definitely more accessible for their stuff. I think that when John compiles the statistics and does his group, I bet that's our number one. Probably. But I will say, when they played the cell live off the new album, fuck. Place just was insane. Yeah. But you hit on what I mentioned when I was trying to describe it. This album is a little more accessible than previously. Yeah, absolutely. And they purposely said that. They said they wanted to not dumb it down, but kind of

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Strip It Down a little bit. But do you think with the absence that they had, this is the album that they had to come back with? No, I mean, they've been just getting bigger and bigger every hour. The interview that I read, they basically said that there was a lot on some of the previous albums that not all the band members really liked and that some of the record labels were sort of pushing them to, which I kind of find surprising that any band would compromise their sound. Yeah. Happens more than you think. Oh, I know. I'm realizing this. Especially a band of their level, too. Because I remember going into this year when we talked about,

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Mostly Anticipated. I think they're probably everybody's number one. It had to be. They said this is the first album in a couple albums where every band member is extremely happy with the way everything came out. Yeah, it seems like everything's good with everyone right now in the band. And I like it's the same four guys since day one, which is cool. Yeah, it is really cool. You'll see that a lot. Unlike this podcast where it's growing and growing and growing. We don't lose people, we just add more.

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It just keeps growing and growing every time. It's like our size. Even I'm growing now. Holy shit. Okay. Will. Yeah. Number nine. So the best way to describe this band is progressive black and melodic death doom from Sweden in morning after glow. Nice. And this was actually just this morning higher on my list.

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And there was a couple insurgents that came by and decided, you know what? We're going to beat this one out. But with that said, I know I'm going to hear a lot of shit from these two guys. I'm pointing at John and Buke. This reminds me a lot of Opeth. A little bit, yeah. It does. Not a little bit. A lot of Opeth. It does. It reminds me, in some parts it does. I guess if they were a little more clean vocals, more so. But I will piggyback with you. It's also my number one. My number nine. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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It's also my number nine. It is. My number nine is also in morning, so I will say it now. Okay. The one thing I will say is that they don't do the clean vocals that much on this album. It's like a couple songs, and it's for short periods of time. But the clean vocals, in my opinion, don't actually work very well on this album. And that's why it kind of dropped when I started listening to it. A little bit more, headphones on, concentrating. I think that's the problem with the biggest complaint is the recording of the album. Production is...

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The quality is bad. It's not as good. I have to speak on that. I gave you guys a bunch of shit at the mid-year episode saying, no, this album sounds great. It sounds great. It sounds great. It fell to number nine because in more listens. It gets a little muddled here and there. It is in parts. Yeah, that was my- That's why I had to- You guys knew at the mid-year, I was so high as a kite on this album. This is my number two of mid-year. Yeah, it was. I think it was my number one maybe or my number two. It's like six for me. Yeah, it's still a really- I still like it a lot. It's a great album, but I gave you guys crap. I fought you.

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You know, it sounds great. I will concede and say that, you know, in parts, it is a little money. So if this was a convincing Buke episode, you would be convinced. I would. So it's also my number nine. All right. So skip me, Jay, number nine. High five, buddy. Fail. That was thoroughly executed. I'll let Graves' wrist. You'd be better off whipping them out.

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We were holding hands, not high-fiving. Okay, Jake, number nine. I think I was the only one who really adopted this band this year, but to me it's one of the single heaviest records this year. And by way of degrees of separation, sort of related to the podcast, but it's really a great record, Trap Them, Crown Pharaoh. All right, that's cool. No problem there. I wish I had the chance to see them the way we did. I hope they come around. Seeing them live is a fucking experience.

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The energy that they hit the stage with is unmatched. I'm telling you. This is the guy who was like broken ankles. For drawing a blank on the lead singer's name. Ryan? Ryan, maybe. Bloodied up the place. But his, he broke his feet overseas. Playing live, by the way. Yeah. He broke them jumping off the stage. And when I saw them up in Baltimore, again, Galen, thank you for the opportunity to let me hang out with you for a couple hours. It was a lot of fun.

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But with two broken feet, he wears knee pads like he's a home improvement guy. And he has a little mic stand like we have here. Mic stand lasted maybe two songs. And he is crawling all over the fucking stage like he's Gollum. And he was losing his mind. It was amazing. Wow. And I would say this, we haven't done our honorable mentions,

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I just want to get it out there. I forgot to include this on my top 25. Not because it's bad. Just a simple oversight. This easily would have made my top 25. Great choice, Jay. That brings us to you, George. No, yes. My number nine wasn't morning. Yes, you skipped. I'm climbing on John's back on this one with Gojira. Isn't that funny how this works out? I want to see how that looks.

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All right, well, it's sort of like... Picture how we know people try and keep the rhinos alive. You know? Who's he insulting with that one, you or me? All you need to remember are the sisters. If you know what I'm talking about there. If you don't know who the sisters are, you shouldn't be joking about that stuff. Shawshank Redemption, anybody? Yeah. Wow, no one's...

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I've seen Shawshank Redemption? I've seen it. I don't know what you're talking about. It's on TV constantly. There's like a Shawshank Redemption channel. You don't stop in for five and then catch it again in two weeks? Nah, I don't watch movies on TV. Alright. Number eight. Joel. Alright. My number eight. I've got a thing for the sort of Anglo black metal that's happening these days. The sort of atmospheric British black metal. So Winterfell

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The Dark Hereafter is my number 8. Man, Duke is happy. Man, look at that. It's like I got a friend. That's a great album. Finally. Joe, did you listen to their, are you a fan of their earlier works? Oh yes. Oh yes. Yeah, the Eternity of Triumph is a big favorite of mine. Yep. I have a clear vinyl of this coming right now whenever it gets here. Sweet. Alright. Yeah, so them and Moden's Throne.

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of what they've got going on.

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And yeah, a little foreshadowing.

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There's another band later on in my list, I think.

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Okay.

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Let's see what happens.

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Hold on a second.

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Listen to this.

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Is this our last beer?

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Do we have more after this?

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Dude, we got plenty.

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Don't worry.

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Is that fucking Stone Cold right there?

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Fucking Stone Cold.

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Throw this man a beer.

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He's fucking on the top rope.

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It's fucking down in beers.

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There's double barrel opening the beers there.

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It's prog rock time here.

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Do you know which Camel song ends with that? I bet Ackerfeldt knows. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm like the last planet Earth person who knows Camel. I mean, I know them, but I just don't know enough. I think it's a Super Twister on their Mirage album. And I always feel so... Go ahead, I'm sorry. Oh, it just ends with a big can of beer. And then the pour. I just always feel so inadequate not knowing Camel. No, I just... I don't know how I know.

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I just really enjoy their first four albums.

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I'm gonna need to spend more time with them.

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The first four albums are delicious.

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After that, I think the keyboard player left after the fourth album.

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I think they had one of those dynamics where they're kind of competing and keeping each other and sort of check the lead chorus and the keyboard player.

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So after that dynamic left, I think it kind of got away from that trademark kind of sound they had going on the first four albums.

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All right. All right. All right. My number eight. This is by far the most intense album on my list this year. And I needed a good fill of old Leviathan Macedon and some old Blackwater Park from Opeth. Voice of the Void. Ancients. Ancients with two eyes. Yeah. My two eyes are ancient. Yeah. Wait. So Ancients is the band.

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Yes. I actually listened to this a lot, and it was in consideration. I didn't have enough time with it. It's a lot of work. I know I heard this band from you, and I wanted you to like me. So I made it my number one. No, it's not on my list. But no, I need more time with it. Well, what is number eight on your list? Nice. Give yourself an applause, Joe.

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Man, we think we've been doing this pod for a while now. I gotta tell you, I used to play a lot of PC golf all the time, Tiger Woods. Oh, Lynx? Yes. And every time, like on the 15th. He just chipped in from the fridge. Thank you. That's totally what it sounds like. I absolutely love playing that game. Little bird whistling in the background. Number eight on my list is nothing seems to fade away like fades a black from

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Oh, beers are on the list. Left-hand, yeah. Left-hand Brewing Company. That's what we're drinking. Oh, I thought you were doing your... No, man. It's the fucking porn you got. He went one way, and then he went the other way. I go both ways, bitches. Jeez. Team player. We're drinking Fade the Black by Left-hand Brewing Company. Which number? They're a tribute beer. Number one. It's just always number one. The foreign export stout, which wins a medal every year. Well, it's only number one for the last couple years now. They did up to four, though. Yes.

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No, they've done a whole bunch, yes, but it just seems like the last couple years. It's just always been. Agree. So the Fade the Black beer, which is a foreign export stout, which wins a medal almost every year at the Great American Beer Fest or World Beer Cup or whatever fucking festivals out there, this beer wins again and again. And there's several different versions of this one. And number one version is the foreign export stout version,

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One wins. The number seven, the Go Fuck Yourself George beer. Is there really a beer called that? How many different versions of that? Number six is Go Fuck Yourself Georgie. Number five, I hope you're still fucking yourself. Now choke yourself.

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Anyway, my number eight album, Jrein, Anorthada from Reykjavik, Iceland, a melodic blackened death metal. There's a lot of melodic blackened death metal on my list this year. Holy shit. This was one of my insurgents that just decided to go from down on my list to

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probably after a couple more spins could have been top five easily this is a great album the first time i've

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really given it time i listened to it when you mentioned it yes a little bit then today in the car and i was

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like this is actually yeah we listened to it on the way up that was on purpose i know i figured it was on your list if you were playing it come on yeah yeah so i assume crips sermon's on your list too actually crips sermon's not on my list that was last year it was last year i hope it's not it's on my list that's on it's on george's list

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All right, Jay. Everybody listens to what they listen to, but I honestly thought this one would catch on with people a little bit more. That was probably the most obvious statement you ever said in your life. Here comes a shitty one. For my money, Jurassic Park was a very popular movie. But at least my buddy Will got on board. It really is a quality album.

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Oh, dude, it's so good. I'm just messing with you. Just messing with you. I'm about to jump over his table and gouge out your eyes and, Skul, fuck you! Ow! Yeah. You know, there's sometimes in a man's life when he has to face those before him. Baby metal.

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Stand up for what he believes. And today, I was surprised when that person joined the Metal Hedge podcast when Joel of Thrasenblatt joined. So number eight on my list. God, I feel so bad putting it in here. Thrasenblatt Metathonia. I will say it is at number eight because I am a huge fan of this and I'm not going to sit here

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That is by far your best sound effect, by the way. I'm not going to sit here and blow smoke up. Yes, right there. There's a vinyl. Just to put it out there, over the past year, I think Joel has become a lot of our friends. So I'm not putting it on here because he's my friend, but this really is a good album. Amen.

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Like I said to Joel, I think this album, some points I think it's hampered, Joel. I think your vocal mix could have been a little stronger in some points. Maybe you may have done it that way. But no, but you know what I mean? I have no problem just speaking my mind. Mike Cutt. But... You know, actually, I'll say this just to back to back view, because I think we've all sort of apologized for putting this on our list. But the truth is, is when we noticed Joel was here, the chances were much more likely that we would take it out.

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off the list.

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Just displayed him.

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These are all legit.

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This is all legit.

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Yeah.

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The Catatonic Society made no one's list because Jay was here.

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Well, we made no record for what it's worth.

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But we all know George is including things from last year.

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So that's something.

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Jay, you can still be number one this year.

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I do say you're still a chance.

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I do believe I gave it an honorable mention and said that because you were part of the podcast, I couldn't put it on my list.

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Let me just say that we've got one. I promise it's going to come out 2017 now that you're into the edge of your seats, but I have a prediction that some people might consider it for their list. It's super strong. Nice. So you got a new vocalist? Oh, that's good. Dude, I just got to stop you right here. I got to have a little rant. Not a rant, but first of all, I like everything that I've heard that Jay's done with Catatonic Society vocalized, so go fuck yourself. Dude, I just don't bust those balls.

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But Jay sent me, anyway, some tracks from a previous band that was a different style of music. And Jay can actually sing-sing. Like, not just scream-sing. I don't want to hear clean vocals, so if you can do that, I don't give a shit. I was impressed. Kudos, Jay. Let's get back to the Thrassem Blod. You're all going to be surprised. Let's get back to the Thrassem Blod praising. One other thing I want to mention. It's not going to be on this episode because this isn't a real

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Typical episode. But Jay has also, with his band Catatonic Society, recorded us some new segment clips that we will be debuting at the beginning of the next year. Some are really cool, too. And they are really cool. My favorite is still Convincing Butte. It's really fucking hard! That's right. That is by far my favorite. We need to do another one of those. In particular, and maybe I'll throw it on the end of this one as a preview, but he did a show

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That's really fucking awesome. Can you do a show opener? Because I'd really like to change that one. We'll get to it at some point. All right. Can we get back to the Thrasenblatt worship? So, like I was trying to say, full disclosure, Joel and I have maintained a friendship and talk and stuff, but that's not why he's on my list. This album is a journey. It hits so many different places, so many different sounds. Each...

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Hey, Joel, can you open the next album with this? You've got to. Each track hits different little points that I like. My only complaint with it is the vocal mix. Sometimes I think it becomes a little muddied with the music underneath, but I love it. Well, thanks, Peter. That's my number eight. I appreciate it. I know it's a journey, so I really appreciate it.

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when people are able to put enough spins in to really connect with it. Yep, I've listened to it a lot, buddy. So that's my album. All right. My number eight is a podcast favorite. Some friends of ours that we had earlier this year. This would be Perihelion Ship and A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring. Nice. And Joel, if you haven't heard that, which I'm betting you haven't, definitely check that out. I'm just writing it down right now. They're from Finland. They talk like buke.

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70s prog in there, Joel. Very much so. Yeah, I think you'd like it. Some Mellotrons. Yes, they actually use a Mellotron on the album. That's cool. Nice. Is that the big organ? Yeah, the big, yeah. He's got a few things he's using. Got a few tricks up his sleeve. He's got a big organ. Very nice group of guys, too. Yes, very cool. Great group of guys. And they kept up with us pace for pace drink-wise. Yeah. Well, I don't know if they kept up with them. One of them dropped off a little bit. Yeah.

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He literally just disappeared. The wine hit a little hard. But we love him. Yes, we do. Because they're probably listening. All right. We are back to Joel for number seven. So, Buke mentioned an album to me earlier this year, which we've mentioned a couple times, and this is not what I'm going to talk about here. That's good. I like that.

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I love this.

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I'm listening to it.

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It's kind of like an intro for a song on a Cirrus XM.

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Now there's something completely different.

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Man,

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this guy has some radio chops on him here.

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So,

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uh,

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yeah,

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a little Canadian love here for the one,

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the only Devin Townsend.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yep.

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Transcendence.

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Yes.

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This is great to hear that.

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This album brings me to mind of my favorite album of Paisa, which is, well, Terria. Ziltoid the Amnistian. Yes. That's cool. I like that, too. Have you seen the live in England video thing of that? There's a live in England video? Of that whole record? No, Jay. It's actually one of the records. One of the two Ziltoids. Excuse me. Excuse me. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, actually, yeah. Actually, Jolie's got two DVDs from London. Two different tours. Oh, man. You got to get on it. Yeah. Yeah.

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But the one Jay's talking about, half of the show is all Ziltoid. That's going to be great. It's like at Royal Albert Hall or something. Yeah, that one. And then the other one is the Retinal Circus at the Roundhouse, which is just, again, if you ever see them live, it's just a shit show on stage. It's just 18,000 things going on during the show. And for both of them, I believe Annika Van Geersbergen from The Gathering, or formerly of The Gathering, now of Vio.

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Vio. She's at both shows. She performs with them. I think when you say that, you have to go, Vio. Vio. So that's an album I'm definitely waiting for. We'll save that for later. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Me? Yes. All right. Let's go to Finland for our friends. Perihelium Ship. Nice. A rare thunderstorm in spring. I think we've already talked about this enough. Again, this album is strong.

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The Force is strong with this one. Speaking of which, has anyone seen Rogue One yet? I have not even seen the trailer. I have not seen the image. I have not seen anything of it. My love for Star Wars is so strong, I would love to go into it completely in the dark. So I shouldn't say what I should say? You know what? You go fuck yourself. You know why? I haven't seen it. I know you haven't seen it. You know why you haven't seen it? Because we actually taught... No, we actually... George and I were conspiring to either see...

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The group of us to see Rogue One either together. Don't blame me. You could have went the other night. So we were going to see it together. The four of us. The four horsemen. You can't. You can't. No, the four of us. You can't go. I know. I got home. The four horsemen, John. The three horsemen and John who has to go home. Three horsemen

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Which one of you guys is which horseman do you think? I'm the horseman with the big one. Let's see, we got what? War, famine, pestilence, and disease? No, war, famine, and pestilence. What's the other one? I'm the dopey one in the back. Death is the other one. I'm war. I'm blitzer. I'm the one with mange in the back. I'm death. No, if you want to know the truth,

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She wants me to take her and I promised I would. I know. I know the story. That's why we couldn't go. Yeah, so you want to get any problems or take it up with her next time? Yeah, I will. I'm gonna go beat the shit out of her. No, she'll beat you up. She will. I know she will. You'll look at her like, ah. No, my God. Get back here, you little fucker. My number seven. Yeah, let's go. Holy crap. That's kind of evil. We don't need no stinking bases. Here's a band from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Who actually inspired Conan to write music? Slowmatics. Future Echoes Returns. Check these guys out. They inspired Conan the band or Conan the guy? I'm just curious. Conan the band, which was inspired by Conan the guy. Which was inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah. And his big Schwarzenegger. Get it together. From the great state of California.

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here the other night called Arno Core and they all just dress up as Arnold Schwarzenegger. They're a metal band. Did you know Austrian Death Machine? Yeah, Austrian Death Machine. There's guys from As I Lay Dying. Yeah. But they're in jail now. They all do that. Yeah. But their new hit album, It's Not a Tumor. Well, this was hashtag Arno Core, so maybe that's what the band's real name is. I don't know. But yeah, Slowmatics, Future Echo Returns. Check them out. It is.

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Slow and low and heavy. All right. And there's literally, it's two guys with guitars and a drummer. There's no bass. And it, it, it don't mess it. Now like pig destroyer, pig destroyer. Now how's the bass? Well, early on. Yeah, no, it's, it's, it is. This, it sounds like slightly like Conan, but better. Right. Which I will say Conan completely dropped off my list after hearing this. It's that good. Jay.

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It's definitely making some lists out there

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and the internet deserves to be on them.

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It really is one of the better Doom records come out a long time.

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Graves that Sea, The Curse That Is.

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You were pretty high on this since it first came out, Jay.

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And I have done nothing but enjoy it more.

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It's actually moved up since mid-year.

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I believe I had it lower than that mid-year.

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I highly recommend it, man.

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John's complaint about it was that it was one of those ones that's a little long,

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but for whatever reason, it's right in my wheelhouse,

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so it doesn't feel too long at all.

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I enjoy every minute of it.

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That's my only issue with it.

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It's just, again, another 80-minute album. And that's what knocked Vector out for me. But for this one, it's more palatable for me somehow. In fact, very palatable. I really, really liked it a lot. It sounds great. You can listen to Doom for 80 minutes, but listening to Thrash for 80 minutes, it's a little hard. Yeah, you get worn out. It's exhausting. I love Thrash. All right, Buke. I love these top 10. This is when it really gets super fun. Probably my most prog album on my list. Textures.

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Phenotype. Okay then. Very proggy at times. Can I just pause you, Buke? Yeah. So Buke and I have been, I just texted him a question. He sent me a link about one of the albums on Spotify. I said, we don't have Spotify in Canada. So Buke, so well, so I said, Google it. Google Spotify Canada Buke. So we did. And he sent me the link for something like, you know, because of ad revenues,

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is going to Canada. So I sent Puke the question. Here's the point of it all. I sent Puke the question. Is it subsidized by the government? And Puke took that question seriously and said, I don't know. Starboy. Yeah. But I'll probably bomb myself here. I don't know where this suggestion came to me from. Maybe I found it randomly on the internet. Maybe John, maybe I mentioned something. But this is a pretty proggy album. Heavy at times. I remember we talked about this a while ago, I think. Yeah.

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Cool. Cool. My number seven is Hail Spirit Noir. Yes! Mayhem in Blue. Yes! Was that even on your mid-year? No. I don't know if it was out in mid-year. Fuck yeah. Maybe it was. Wow. It's a cool album. Yeah, it is. It's a really cool album. All right, Joel. Number six. Before I do my number six, the next beer on tap today is the Picaroons Timberhog, a traditional style. Oh, look at that fucking label, man.

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That is sweet. Timber hog. Oh man, that's awesome. Man, we gotta go to Canada. I know. As a hunter, that label was awesome. Is that your friend you commute with through the forest? Him and him walk and talk about music every day. It's a big giant boar. For 90 seconds. So you're like, yeah, it was not bad. I'll see you tomorrow. Actually, can I just point out too that all Joel's have been like the economy size bottle. I mean, every one of these has been a big one. Well, what the hell do you think we're doing back here?

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They've got a wide range of English style ales and this is their stout. So this classic dry stout is the basic background of this aromatic ebony elixir. But deviations may occur from batch to batch as we improvisationally wander through variations on the theme. Nice. I did get one that tasted like banana and it was great. I have to say a little observation I just made just now is that you hear the whole

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about Canada Canadians saying "oot" and "boot" but you'll say "stoot"

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"Stoot"

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Yeah so we've got, there are a few different spots so in Canada, you know, if you look at Canada as a map

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if, uh, okay this is the west coast for you guys, this is the east coast

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so right here in Ontario they say, they do the "oots"

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so, you know, "oot" and "boot" but over in the east coast we do more "oat"

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"oat"

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"oats"

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"like a boat"

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"what are you talking about?"

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Yes. No, we do all the things that people say we do. Can you try your heart to say stout? Stout. Yes! Well, the last time I was on here, I did a bit of a New York accent and Jay gave me the gears for it. Yeah. Let's hear it. What's that? Do it again. What do you want me to say? Nothing. You know, but I like the fact that I gave you the gears. Yeah. I wish Jay would give me the gears.

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Hey, stop giving me the gears, man. So I mentioned earlier, this is going to be my second sort of atmospheric Anglo black metal record. This band called Wode, W-O-D-E. They've got a self-titled album this year, and that is pretty great stuff. It's got definitely the Anglo atmospheric stuff, but it has a bit of a little taste of the kind of dissection Somber Lane era.

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That's such a great album. Pretty good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's good. That was one of my albums I mentioned on the pod earlier. All right. John, number six. Album that moved up for my mid-year, but it's moved up for this list. Colta Luna, Jilly Christmas, Mariner. That was like in your top ten. That was like nine, eight. Yeah. So it moved up a little bit. Yeah. Well, my number six, again, from Denver, Colorado, a theme.

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I know a lot of Denver a lot of Sweden I guess vodka and Coors Light make great music uh blood incantation star spawn they're picking up traction here yep they are all right Jay another one that I think Will was the only one no no no you got into this record a little bit at least a little bit earlier in the year um

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And it maintained its high quality for me throughout the year. I also see it as sort of a weird spiritual cousin to the Witchery album, Breedhammer or Violator. I totally, totally forgot about it. Easily could have been in my top ten, Jake. If people were still buying records in any regularity, I would be mad if this one didn't sell a bunch of copies. I just spoke to somebody about that album the other day and how amazing it was. I had to order the CD for it because I couldn't get it anywhere digitally.

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I mean iTunes maybe but I don't buy iTunes. That easily could have been in my top 10. Jay that's an awesome album. How did I get that then George? I wonder why because I have it on there. I don't know but I have the vinyl too. Spotify? It must have been something like that. I don't know it's on my iPod. It's not on Bandcamp. It's on Spotify. Okay. All right. So that was Jay so Buke. You guys are all crazy in saying it's too long it drags on vector terminal.

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Redux. Well, then in the spirit of brevity, we'll move on then. Yep. There. My number six is Sub Rosa, For This We Fought, The Battle of Ages. Nice. I know this got a lot of praise. I did not like it myself. I didn't even think it was metal. I wanted to for George's sake, but I just couldn't do it. Da Vinci Code themed band? Could be.

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I don't know. Let's just go with yes. You didn't think that was metal? Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. I listened to it. Didn't Slayer do a tour with them? That would be weird. Yeah, that would be very weird. The band's called Sub Rosa? Yeah, Sub Rosa. It just means under the rose. Yeah, real slow to me. I know, but the female singer did not sound metal enough.

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from Windhand. And you have, who was I just listening to the other day? It was amazing. I tried. I was like, what? There's a lot of press. This is neither here nor there. Yeah, it's made a lot of lists. I couldn't really connect to it either. Didn't do anything for me. It's been well thought. It doesn't mean it's not good. This is one of those albums that's probably technically fantastic and perfect. Not your cup of tea. Yeah, not my cup of tea. Because it's not metal. Excuse me, guys. I'm going home. That's good.

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This coming from the guy who picked Clutch as his number one last year. Hey, Clutch is more fucking metal than Sub-Rosa. Yeah. On a dark, cold night in hell. Somewhere. What was George's? What? That was George's six. My six, yeah. So Joel's number five. Top five. All right. Whoa. Get serious. Slubs are coming off. Top five. Is there, you guys have like a sound bite to like throw in like, top five.

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So, Buke mentioned an album to me early this year. And this is not it again? And this absolutely is not the album. So, Joel, we're done. Are you going to have top five Buke albums that I did not pick for my list?

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So this album that I'm going to do for my number five is the Alsest Baby Metal combo. No, just kidding. Alsest Kodama. Yes. Yes. I don't know if I'm going to get into it. They're from Japan. I'm going to tell everybody now. Funny fact about that band. Yeah, I thought that Baby Metal wrote the album. Is that how that worked? They're not the metal in Japan. No, they're just the backing vault.

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Yeah, that's great. John. Are we doing it? We're doing it. I'm going to Denver, Colorado. Blood Incantation. Wow. Yeah, buddy. John getting all death on us. I'm going to do my own sound effects. Yeah. Suck. I'm fixing something here. I just putted in from 13 feet there on 17. Thank you. All right. My number five.

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And bear with me as I try and pronounce this one. Because one of the last episodes took me like six times to do it. Soliloquium. Soliloquium. An empty frame. This is pure death doom from Stockholm, Sweden. I bought this after you mentioned it. Oh, it is fucking good. I have a lot of Denver and a lot of Sweden on my list, I've noticed. There you do. It's a Sasquatch. You know what the Finns would think of that. Yeah. Yeah.

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They just tell gay jokes. Yeah. I think that it's soliloquium. So it's like soliloquium. So it's like soliloquium. And it's yellow. Yeah. That's great. So you just have to say soliloquium really fast, which is easy. It's a totally normal American word. And then um. Like black metal. Yeah. Soliloquium. Hey, Joel, I love you as a friend, but if you go total black metal, I would disembowel knowing you, just to let you know. You would do what?

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I would disembowel you. No. I'd write you off. Disembowel? I'd write you off. He would disembowel you. All right. Well, I'll take that into consideration for the next album. My next album, Baby Metal! My next album, Buke Who? You know? The next two are Kitty and Gloryhammer. Yeah, exactly. Okay. In the scenario that I did,

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A Pure Black Metal Album.

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I wouldn't have named it Buke.

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What would you do?

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I would have to listen to it because it shares my namesake, but I don't like Pure Black Metal.

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And what if song one was Bree, song two is Sexy Blue Eyes, song three is Bukkake, song four is George Van Love, song five is...

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That's pretty much like Buke Worship.

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No, they should all be unpronounceable words.

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And whatever you do, do you speak French, by the way? Can you just sing the whole thing in French? He'll never listen to it. Yeah. I'll sing the whole thing in French. Yeah. If it's a different language. Oui, oui, Bucquet. Actually, one of my top four is in French. So maybe Bucquet, you can just tune out for that. Yeah. We are at J now, I think. Yep. This was not only controversial on this podcast, but it was really controversial out there.

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the world. And a lot of people got pissed off when they opened up for Carcass and were like, what is this lame-ass band doing opening for Carcass? You're all wrong. Huh? Def haven't opened for them. Inter-Armor. Paradise Gallows. This record connected with me, man. I loved it. I think it was a great record. Desert all the praise it got this year. Allowing for your vocal complaint, which to me, I don't feel that at all. In fact, with vocals are one of the things I really like about it. The guy sings in like five voices on it throughout the course of the record.

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Anyway, there you go. All right. That's all I have to say about that. What album was it? Oh, yeah. Time for the gloves to come off, boys. My number one has fallen. Wait, what? Yep, my number one has fallen to number five. Babymetal? Wait, you just literally did a change on the fly? No. Nope. Number one from the mid-year. From mid-year. Obscura. Oh. Arcosis. Number five.

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So Mark is now down one. Yep. He's down one already. You are, buddy. But this is an amazing, amazing album. If you love Tech Death as much as I do, you can sit back and... I don't. Okay, well, you can sit back. You can sit back and be blown away by, you know, they're playing on this album. It's awesome. That's cool. Nice. My number five. One of my new favorites.

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Transcendence, Devin Townsend. Yes! Heyo! Canada's taking over this podcast tonight. Would this have been on your list if you had not gone to Prague Power? No. Interesting. He's that good live. I know he is. Yeah, he's that good live. He really is. And I was like, okay, I have to have everything he's ever touched. I mean, I was already a strapping young lad fan. So you went John's ass. Because you and I saw him live, and it was a loud

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A lot of fun. Oh, yeah. The first show that John and I spent together was Gojira and Devin Townsend. What's the deal with this dude? I said, that's just the show, my friend. That's all it is. He's just out there. He is weird. It's probably a Canadian thing, and I don't understand. No, the funny thing is he's clean and sober now, and he's gone even further with it. He's just full of ideas on a constant basis. So, yes, Devin Townsend is going to rule the top ten. Oh, he's just full of ideas.

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Yes.

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Leathery lips.

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Yes.

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Prog nipples.

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All right, Joel, number four.

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Number four.

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All right.

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Well, this is my title that's in French.

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So the band name's in French and the album name is in French.

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I know exactly what it is.

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Oh, really?

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Yep.

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Oh, okay.

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All right.

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Well, so I'll say it in English for you first and then I'll say it in French.

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So it's from my neighbors to the west in Quebec. So it's Fortress, themes for the rebellion, but Fortress, Temps for the Rebellion. Great, great black metal album. That is good. Really stoked to have this three hours away. So yeah, pretty good stuff. It's not the one I was thinking of. What were you thinking? I was thinking of the Chasm death metal style one.

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That's not French. Are they from Canada? I'll think of a name later. Okay. We'll come back to you on that one. All right. John. John, number four. Insanium, Winter's Gate. Nice. That's my number four. Insanium has an um song. Yeah, it's one song. 40 minutes. That lasts 40 minutes.

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That means that you have a top 18 now, Joel. Yeah. All right. Yeah. With just killer fucking riffs all over the place. My number four. Obey the Riffs, Low and Low, Borracho, Atacama. Knew that was coming. Holy fucking. Never would have thought that would happen. Dude. Have you heard this album? Actually, truth be told, I have not yet. Yeah. Holy fucking shit. It is.

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I'm a huge fan of their Splitting Sky, which was their last album with the lead singer Noah, who moved to Indonesia. And the lead guitarist and now lead singer Steve Fisher has stepped up. Holy crap. I mean, he's always been phenomenal, but just this is riffs for days. And there's actually a song in there that's an instrumental called Descent, which is one of the most beautiful pieces of fucking music I've ever heard in my life. And I just saw them Thursday night.

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They played a late show for the album release party at the Slash Run in northwest DC. Wasn't very crowded, but man, did they put on a good show. Holy shit. I can't say enough good things about Boracho. Atacama. We love these guys. I still need to check them out. Check them the fuck. Check this album out. You will not be disappointed. No. Seriously, go do it now. Just quit. Take a break. We're going to take a quick break.

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and we're gonna go do that. We do need more beer. We do. Let's finish. We'll finish the round. Yeah, yeah. Because then we'll fucking crank out some serious beer. Jay. Where are we, number four? Y'all. Jesus Christ. Who are you, Buk? I'm not listening. He's not even drinking. He's drinking coffee. You're not even fucking drinking. You're probably drinking grapefruit juice from V8. Are you on like a second podcast where you're gonna say, Your wife is taking your order right now. Oh, wait, wait, wait. But you. Oh, Rick.

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This podcast has to long last enough for you to put that big burrito. Just right in your mouth. In the side of your cheek. And your cheek bulges out just from the side a little bit. And you open your mouth really wide. And then after you chew, you just have this look of ecstasy on your O face. All right, moving on. Sounds like Will's done this before. Will and I have a little Snapchat thing going. My number four.

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is a band that Colt Nation turned me on to this year and it blew my mind. It's a great record, Black Fucking Cancer. You were high on it, Jay. I thought this could have been your number one. It could have been, but some other things done happen to me in that course of time. I easily thought it could have been your number one. So that means Keveler Tech has to be number two or three. No, Keveler Tech, I'm telling you it's just number one. No, he said it dropped off. We'll see. I'll be honest with you. Okay, all right, Buke, number four. Okay, my friends.

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You gotta get naked for this? No. I was gonna get some air for this one. Oh. Is it? Is it? Sometimes bands change a little bit. Okay? Bands need a little room to grow. Like Celtic Frost and Cold Lake? Not that much. Okay. Okay. If you say what you're about to say, I'm gonna jump over this fucking table and beat the fucking shit out of you. Sometimes bands take a couple albums to get to. I'm just getting ready. Sometimes bands

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need a couple albums to get the juices flowing, okay? Before they get the sound that they have now perfected. Remember in the 70s, late 70s, mid-70s, early 80s? Nah, as a kid then. When bands like Rainbow and Dio were putting out metal, it was pretty heavy, right? Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty heavy. There's a band out of Sweden that I like a lot. Oh, Jesus. Opeth. Sorceress. My number four, baby.

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It's not metal. Do the clap hands. I thought you were going to say Metallica. It is metal. I applaud this. It's not metal, but I applaud it. If you guys are not saying it's metal, it is metal. It's more metal than it has been. Would you guys say that Dio or Rainbow is not metal? It was metal at the time. Doesn't make a difference. Actually, I got to tell you, Buk, that was a really good point. Yeah, no, it is.

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I think The Sorceress is like the coolest song they've had out in a long time. The first five or six tracks off this album for the sound that they have now are very heavy. Dude, I'm just so happy. I thought you were literally going to say Metallica. I don't give a shit. You could have said fucking Kitty at this point. And I would have been happy. And one thing I'd like to mention about the album is that there's this sort of, there's this thing you can tell when something has the metal sound.

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No matter what medium it's in. Most times it has heavy guitars. But if it has acoustic guitars or whatever it is, you can tell when it has the sort of metal sound. And this Opeth album has that. There's other things that have a similar sort of instrumentation to this Opeth album, but that doesn't sound like metal. That's not metal, yeah. Joel, I'm going to drive that. When we get to my number two record to come to be enough. I think it took a couple albums for them to

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really nailed down their sound that they have but the heaviness prog that they have and for the fact that Catatonia and some other bands can make other lists but people would shun OPEF is crazy to me. Oh it's complete bullshit. That would be hypocrisy yes. It would. Keep this going for a second George. Because I'm seeing like 40 Watts Sun make end of year metal lists. I couldn't agree more.

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I didn't include them just because I didn't feel that they were metal for me. And I'm just as big a fan. That's the only reason. 40 Watts Sun or Opeth? Opeth. But John and I are the biggest Opeth fans in the world. But I've said that from the start. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Did you guys just hear that? What? I haven't denied that from anybody. What's it? Opeth is just, yeah, she just fucking blew up. I didn't hear what he said. Opeth is not on his list. But I've said that from the very beginning. I told you. You did. You said it's not going to be on the list. It's probably not going to be on it because it's just, it's on my,

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Year End For All Music, it's not on my metal list. Okay. For me, it has to be on my... Number one, it is by far my most played album. Number two, it is Opeth finally perfecting the sound that they are, I think, going to go forward with. I'll agree with that. And more so, what solidified this on my list for me was seeing them live. When you see these songs played live...

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Way heavier. Exactly. It is very heavy. It's like the Gojira album. Same thing. It's much better live than an album. Yes. When you see these live, you're like, wow, this is it. And you hear the solos that they still have and everything else. There's heavy undertones underneath it. So when people put Catatonia, the 40 Watt Suns, all these other things on their albums, and they leave this off because they think Opeth isn't. And yes, this is not the still life Opeth.

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But Opeth, they're at now. Oh, they're the Metallica of their period right now. No matter what they do now, they're going to give them shit. Whereas you're right, Catatonia gets, and I love Catatonia, they get away with murder now. Opeth was not on my list, honestly. And I worked on this list for weeks. They were not on this list till this morning. Because I had listened to this so much, and I tried to find a way to sum it up.

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I was sent a review from Chris Voss, who works over at Nine Circles, from somebody, and they described that. That doesn't make a difference when things came out. Again, like I mentioned, Rainbow, D-O, Deep Purple. You would not say those aren't metal. Doesn't make a difference when they came out. They're metal. You know, what's interesting about Opeth is they have the...

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they have a history and people are judging them in that history which clouds the judgment which means that if this album was a standalone album that came out people like this is a fucking really great Prague ish metal ish album but and this is the same thing and I mean it's not the same thing with Metallica's I think Metallica's just putting out very generic blind music I would agree and I would say that I would say the Opeth album is way better than Metallica's album yeah they're

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doing a real thing.

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Yeah.

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And the other thing, so you have that.

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You have a history, and you're always comparing to history.

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Yep.

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And so with my feeling with Opeth is, sorry, George is like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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I agree.

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Opeth is a much better album than the new Metallic album, and I know it's going to be George's number one.

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So just move on.

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I will say this, but you understand what I'm saying, John.

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In terms of Opeth though, it's interesting you mentioned the band's judging on their history. So that's what I love so much about them is that they definitely are sort of where their last album was. They're going to move a little bit from there. And it's what they find interesting. And it's always something different that they're doing, which I really like. At least to contrast that to the Amon Amarth kind of thing where it's the same thing. You know what you're going to get. Joel?

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Don't lose the metal, Joel. Don't lose the metal. Don't evolve. Don't evolve, Joel. Don't evolve. No, I'm just kidding. Do whatever you want. But the thing is, though, guys, for us, for it to be metal and to make a list, does it have to have growling vocals? No, of course not. That's what I'm saying. I'm telling you, wait until we get to my number two, first and foremost, which is a huge argument that it's not even remotely metal, but also Damnation is a metal record.

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to chase number two.

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Yeah.

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So where are we now?

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George is number four.

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George is number four.

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It's been so long, I don't remember what it is.

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Let's see.

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Ah, yes.

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Flash God Apocalypse, King.

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Oh, that was way up there.

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That was one of the ones that fell off my list.

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Flash God Apocalypse had an album this year?

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Yeah.

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That's your number 19 right there.

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And it's a really good one.

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It's really good.

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But that fell off my album totally.

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It fell off mine too, yeah.

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Skiya, guys.

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It's number four.

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It was on my mid-year, but I dropped it just because there was so much other stuff I wanted to represent. I think it went up for you. I don't think it was that high. It was number two or three before. Oh, it was higher. Yeah, it was. Okay. Number three, but before we get to it, John, you said you brought me something back to solve. Well, yeah, at Prog Power we were drinking this and you made a comment that George doesn't drink stouts. So I brought this for you so you could try it then.

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This is, and let's not lose the name here, Wicked Weed, Dark Age, Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, and it is good. Damn good. Wicked Weed is my new brewery that we're getting a lot of in Virginia now. I went to Total Wine in Leesburg, and they did not have it. It's hit or miss. I think they get shipments in, you know, whatever, once a month, and then it goes pretty quick.

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from all different vendors is that everyone's getting something different. So it's kind of a... Man, the bourbon is strong. Strong, the bourbon is... Bringing the party home. Who just did the Yoda voice? I think there were several people doing it at once. Will started it. Mike came in on harmony. Perfect Yoda. Yeah, mine is so bad that I sound like Chewbacca trying to do it. Will does a Yoda.

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Euer um dos.

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No, it's good. The joke still got there. So this album actually has a bit of a story. I was just walking to work one day in my 90 seconds. With your friend the warthog in the woods. In the woods. I was commuting. Yeah, I was commuting. And halfway through, it just occurred to me, I wonder... I wonder if Buk sent me a message today bothering me. No, it's I wonder if Izan has an album this year. And I was like, you know what, if Buk would have told me if Izan had an album this year.

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So anyway, I got back home after work and I checked it out. Great album from Izan, Arctis, my number three for the year. I was just really disappointed that Buke didn't text me 10 times and mention it to me. He didn't because he's hot for this one, man. Oh, man, I am. Thanks for the recommend, Buke. You're welcome, my friend. Great, great album. I love what Izan does with his stuff. He takes what you expect an instrument to do and then he twists

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It's just a round,

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Probably my favorite atmospheric black metal band of the year. It's a good album. Alright, Will. My number three. Butte mentioned it earlier. Sentinex Doomsday Ritual. 100% pure Swedish death metal. Yeah, buddy. This thing is just fucking catchy. If you are not banging your head and pumping your fists in the air after listening to like three riffs in the opening song, then you are just not a fucking metal head. Take your metal head card away.

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Yep. This is one of those albums. If you're not a metalhead, you might as well be dead. I can name that reference, everybody. Piledriver. I can name that reference in three notes. If you're not a metalhead. All right, Jay, go. There it is. There it is. Finally came in. Dropped to three, huh?

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That's because I fell in love with somebody this year and that's who we're going to talk about. Oh, shucks. Oh, God. George is crushing. I've got a metal crush. Oh, he has a crush. Something's coming. Okay, gentlemen, I love tech death metal. I've said it numerous times. What? Yep. Crazy, I know. Since when? In my opinion, the best guitarist in metal, Dave Davidson, Revocation, Great is Our Sin.

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I love it. And only number two. Number three. Three. You know what is hard for me on that one, Buke, is the fretless bass. I don't like that very much. Or maybe that was the Obscura record. That was the Obscura, I think. And it just dominates it, that fretless bass on the album. Just, oh, God, gets on my nerves. Yeah, but Dave's playing on this album is, man, second to none. Oh, he's an amazing guitar player. All right. My number three, I think I'm going to have to go with Joel on this one.

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Arctis.

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All right.

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There's some weird shit going on. I hope that's actually in the recording.

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Fucking elves.

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That's weird, man.

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Say it again just in case.

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Buk, have you mentioned Isan yet?

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I haven't.

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Okay.

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Just curious.

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I'm thinking we see who might be winning the podcast top ten.

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That's very popular.

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Usually whatever the podcast top three is, not anything I mentioned.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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So back to Joel for two, right? All right. Yes. Well, number two is, yeah, we've already mentioned today. I mean, a nice little discussion about it, but... Sorceress. It's Sorceress. Oh my God! Hot damn! So what's interesting about Opeth is that you mentioned that they've perfected a sound with this, and they definitely have. And what I find really interesting is that they've already done this.

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They've perfected a sound with My Arms, Your Her, Still Life. And they stayed there for a couple of albums and did two of the most sublime fucking pieces of music and then moved on. And I'm really interested to see what they do. They might stay here for a couple of albums for more sublime fucking music perfection. And I'm curious to see what they'll do after this because I know they will move on. I have a guess. I think they're going to start doing Willie Nelson covers or something.

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I would say world domination Joel. Maybe so. I will say this when you guys went to see them in the sword this year I wanted to say the best name for that would have been used to be Metal Tour. Dude you have no idea. The thing is it was more the sword than anything. The sword was just man. Yeah because Opeth still plays a lot of their stuff live. Yeah exactly. Opeth still played old school Opeth played like Opeth, sound like Opeth.

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I think the one or two songs they played from older albums, they played them like they were some Texas fucking... What's that place from the Blues Brothers where they go to play? Remember? And they get all the beer bottles thrown at them? They're behind the chicken wire. I just feel like that's going to be there doing his little shimmy. He was shimmying on stage. I was thinking about it too, when they turn their feet like they're doing country line dance shit. Oh, did they really? Wow. Oh, yeah. It was not a single

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The only person that I know who have seen that

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sword show on this last

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I remember Will was

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Will was standing next to me with Dr.

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Lang and he's like

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Buke what is this

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They were way better

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At the DC Browl Fest

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Yeah yeah

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And John brings up a great point

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Just a couple months earlier at the DC Browl

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5th anniversary show

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The sword was headlining

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Headlined yeah

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And great show

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I think it was just before their new album came out. Probably. But they sounded like the sword. I mean, there was a mosh pit. I was in the mosh pit. I got fucking my ass handed to me in the mosh pit. But there was a mosh pit at the sword show. That did not happen when they played with Opeth. They've moved on. Yeah, they have. John, number two. My number two.

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We've got to change. There's a new number one coming this year. Number two. Aranzi Pizzizzio. See, I told you someone was going to be different. I'll tell you, I still love it. I literally changed this at midnight last night. Man, that's huge. I'm curious. I'm by curious. It's just because the other band's on top of them. That's all it is. How wrong Mark was. Yep.

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Is he 0 for 3 now? He is. Yep. Wait, what was Mark's prediction? He thought mine was going to be revocation. And that everybody else would stay the same. Everyone would stay the same. No, he said I would not stay the same. No, he said Will wouldn't stay the same. Maybe you might. Yeah, he said maybe I would change. Wow. He's missing the point. Yeah. Take that, TR. They're in the top two. Wow. Okay. Will, number two. My number two. Corsera Magnum. Yes.

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Yeah, I will definitely say that this is not my favorite Gojira album, but holy shit, it's still a really great album. It still sounds like Gojira. They did get a lot more clean vocals, but musically, this is a great fucking album. It's amazing.

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That's all I got to say. I'm not going to say anything more about that. Yeah, we've talked about it. That's all you have to say about that. Jay? Jacef? All right. So this comes along the lines of it doesn't have to really be metal to be metal. And what I mean is you can still do something haunting and dark. I would call to mind damnation. But also if it's associated with a metal band, I'm kind of going off on great length here. But Pelander Time, totally acoustic record.

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Super Dark.

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Do you know about this, John?

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It's a great album.

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John's a big fan of this album.

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I actually listened to it.

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I was like, this is not metal.

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It is that good.

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And that's all I want to say because there's more to come.

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None of you fuckers ever say another fucking word about Clutch not being metal.

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I didn't take it.

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But I'll make up for it.

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Hey, Jay, can you spell that, please?

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The band name?

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P.

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P-E-L-A-N-D-E-R.

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I don't know what.

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The name of the album is Time. And George, don't tell me any details about that, because if they don't know, they won't be able to guess mine. So let's move on to your number two, Buke. And yes, and by the way, I love this record that much. It was almost number one. That's the one. It's all acoustic, dude. Gentlemen, this wasn't even on my list. It was not even on my radar. I had not listened to any of his solo work before this. Ishan Arthas. Fucking this album.

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Blew my fucking mind. I remember we finished the mid-year episode and I forget who told me about it. Maybe it was Corey or Dan from the Nine Circles guys and you guys had it on your list. I went and I checked it out and my god guys I like that we have at least three different pronunciations of his name on here today. Yeah perfect.

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I was like, wow, look at him, watch him go. But,

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disassembled, mass darkness, my heart is of the north, south winds, all those ones. We got even a little Euro synthesizer going on there in the, what, fourth song, I think, or whatever. It's just, from his guitar playing, to his solo work, to singing, to the backup. I think, actually, the late

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singer from Leprous is backing up. He actually sings on one of the songs towards the end of the album, I think. Can't wait for Jay and I to see him this summer. I've seen him solo. He's unreal. You guys are going to have a blast seeing him. Just, I kick myself that I did not know of this when it came out because it's easy to would have been. E-Song's great. Yeah. And I have gone back since listening to other stuff like other albums, other songs. Yeah.

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His first three albums are great. And it's making a lot of lists. I mean, this is one that's just like across many, many lists. He might win the pod. He probably will. He might win. I think it's a shooing. It has to be. I think so. It's what, four now? My number two, which is not on nearly enough lists, and I'm pissed about it, but I'm not really pissed. Cobalt, Slow Forever. All right. Here we are at number one.

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One. Joel. Oh my goodness. I'm going to breathe in again. Pressure's on. Stop. Stop. Cheers. Yeah. Yep. Cheers to the number one. Cheers, gents. This is it. So this album for me, definitely my number one of the year. As soon as I listen to it, once through, pretty much certain of it. It's one of those albums that's

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It's raw, it's harsh, it has delicious folk melodies, and the whole thing is pretty seamless. Does it start with a W? And delicious. No, actually it doesn't. Was that on your list earlier? It might have. There was one with a W. Let me ask my question again. Does it start with an M? It might. Metallica!

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Yeah, it was just really great to see that they did it again. I don't know how, because they've got some of my favorite records. And they did it again with Moon Soros' Umalt and Ica. Yes! Me and you and George all had that. That's going to be up on the list high. Excellent. We threw something at number one. Sumo Finlandia or whatever it is.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what I'm talking about.

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The guys in Finland are going, George, just shut up.

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All right.

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John, number one.

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I know I'll be the only one with this on my list.

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I don't give a flying fuck.

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Fate's warning.

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Theory's a flight.

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You said that after you first listened to it.

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Told you it might.

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Yep.

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You said it might be.

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I'm not surprised by that.

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It's a combination of their early 90s, some of the technical stuff they did in the 80s with their current sound. And I like it. And that's all I need to say about it. You love it. It rocks. With an X. All right. Will, pressure's on. I'm pretty sure everyone knows what my number one is. Kenny. Puke. Do you want to?

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I'm going to surprise some people with this one. Can I get it? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Metallica hardwired to self-destruct. No, that's not it. That is not it. I can't even fool people. I was looking for the deaf heaven. Fucking throw shit on the ground. You would have had to have not been so angry about it earlier. The whole wrestling buke earlier kind of gave it away.

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Hey, Will. Yes, sir. Oh, do it slow. Do it slow. Oh, man. Do it slow. Put a little further back in your mouth. Hey, Jay, is that from our place? I'm not going to lie to you. This is just Taco Bell. What? We're moving, so everything's convenient. Hey, Jay, you got to do what you got to do, man. You got to do what you got to do. You got to do what you got to do. So as everyone is waiting on pins and needles,

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for what is the very obvious number one album. Buke is... I'm not really... I don't know which number one is. I would have said Bracho would have been it. Bracho easily could have. It literally was just released a couple days ago. I had an advanced copy. I was going to say, you've been high on it for a while. Oh my god. Listen to it. Anyway, I know we're running low on time. My number one...

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So as Buk is pouring

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Trying to pour beer over the laptop

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That could end us all

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Yes

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Buk is pouring Latuta Moon from Unibrew

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Which is the Megadeth beer

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My number one album is

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Eerie

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Holy fucking shit

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More Supernatural Monsters too on the cover

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Oh my god

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What's weird is they call themselves like black metal

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If you listen to it

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It's like a black metal rhythm guitar

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which is just pure buzz saws. But then everything on top of it, the lead guitar, the vocals, everything is like doom, 70s, psychedelic. Somehow this shit works. It captured me. And I've listened to this album so many times. My kids listen to this album. You know what upsets me? You were so high on this at the mid-year. I maybe listened to it once. No, it was not on my mid-year because it didn't come out. But you mentioned this before.

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I mentioned it on the podcast several times. And you were very high on it. And that just for whatever reason, it just... I forgot to listen to it. Listen to it. I'm kicking myself in the ass now. It's not on Bandcamp either. I had to get it on Spotify. That's right. Listen to it. It's on Spotify. What's that? The band's name again. Eerie. Eerie. Eerie. R-I-E. Eerie. And the... It's a self-titled album. They're out of California. Probably fucking hippies from Berkeley or something like that. Probably.

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Oh, wait. I'm probably pink gas masks that they bought at Home Depot. They can't actually afford real gas masks because they're such fucking hippies. I'm surprised In the Woods didn't make any lists. We're not done yet. Oh, really? Well, John's done, so I know it's not on his. Come on. But anyway, check it out, Erie. Everybody should check. I like In the Woods, but it's been done better. Everybody should check out Everyone's Number One. If you're that passionate about it, check it out.

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Well said, sir. Yes, I would say our number ones easily, if there's something you start at, you know each of our individual tastes, start at our number ones if you haven't heard them yet. Certainly. All right, Jay. All right, this is related to my second one, my number two, because it's the lead singer from that band, or that lead singer from this band did that record. His name is Magnus Pellender, and he's my favorite guy in metal right now. There's just no way around it.

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And while I kind of just gave this a listen early in the year and was like eh, I've connected with it later, listened to it obsessively, and now these guys are one of my favorite bands. Even though I had some of their older records. Witchcraft, Nucleus. No better record than that this year. God, it was good. I'm still listening to it right now. Except the Eerie record and the Fates Warning record. But the Eerie is great, by the way. I do love that. Even John can keep the Fates Warning.

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I saw that burrito go in your mouth. All right. Buke. Number one. I wish I had like a trumpet, you know. I have a bunch of these saved on my Spotify. Why I didn't listen to them, I guess we'll never know. Okay, there comes a time when we have to get to our number ones. And it was mentioned earlier. You said they're not, maybe they're not as strong.

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I beg to differ. Colorado, baby. I heard this one fucking recently. And from the first time I listened to it, I was absolutely blown away. Chemist, hunted. Right from track one into track two, three, it is absolutely perfection. It is, it's everything.

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Production, playing, lyrics, everything just hits on this. George, you going for the clean sweep here? Making Mark look like... Like an asshat? No. I guess... I think this was my one at number... at mid-year, but... Yes, it was. Wild guess, everybody. Yeah, well, it's going to be number one. No way, no clean sweep. The title track from the new...

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I didn't. You fucking didn't, George. Dude, I told you I did it. Yes. Of course he did it. George wins that guitar. Yeah. No, when I asked Joel to come on, I asked him without thinking about what my number one was. Oh, please. No, I did. And then after he said it, I was like, oh, you're not going to be uncomfortable about the fact that my number one is your album. And he was like, yeah, that's all right. I got preparation age. I'm cool.

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So, yeah.

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That is now the Thras and Blot sound.

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So, can you explain, for those people who are not familiar, why is this your number one?

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Oh, come on, don't put us through that.

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Do you have another half an hour?

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Did you remember the last time?

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Yeah, we still got all our honorable mentions of disappointments.

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I am totally joking.

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I'll keep it brief.

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There's nothing quite like it.

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I mean, sure there's other black metal albums.

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Are you crying? No. Like a tear? There's no crying in a top 25 list. There's no crying in baseball. Is there something in your eye, George? His nipples are leaking, though. No, it's just... I'm not going to say too much because I don't want to embarrass Joel, but it is a great album. It's an album that's... I enjoy things that are not like everything else, and this is certainly not an album that is like everything else.

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But not only that, it makes me work a little. It makes me think a little. It's just, to me, it's just a cut above everything else. In all honesty, before we built this friendship with Joel, and he came on a couple times, you had said... I was already a fanatical fan. You had already said, if this album came out and it was anything like The Last Throssenblot or better, we'd either hands down be your number one. Yeah. I will give you that credit, George.

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I think your fandom, your obsessive stalking fandom. I do not. You have not seen me looking in your window, have you? I haven't. Have you received nude selfies yet? It wasn't like, do I know you from somewhere? But George is the number one bidder on every item you put up on eBay. I'm not like that. I am obsessive to the point of reason. Okay.

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It's excessive to the point of making sense. Have you mailed him a letter sealed in lipstick yet? No. That may be for Christmas. You ruined my Christmas present. George, go ahead. Sorry, Joel. You're getting an e-card. No. You know. That's pretty much it. Sorry, Joel. We just love busting George's balls. I mean, your album is amazing. It is. I appreciate it. It is probably

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the aggregate of statistical computing is going to be in the top five. It's going to be up there. Yeah, it's going to be way up there. It's going to be up there. I think that's going to be true, by the way, across the internet. I mean, we're not the only ones talking about it, you know. Appreciate that. That's great, guys. Well, A, I appreciate the kind words, but B, I also appreciate that you're busting George's balls about it. Yes. Before we had to. Yeah. No, it's just, I mean, even if, like, you know, one person has this album as their number one for the year, which,

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I guess it does. George, fantastic. It's just like, I can't even fathom. When I write an album, it's just like, hey, this is stuff that I like. And if it hits someone that people are able to connect with it that much, that just really makes it worth it. Yeah. And I've spread my disease to other people. I introduced you to my friend Josh, one of my longtime friends back from Michigan. And he just lost his mind over this album. And then he in turn created

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another disciple and a friend of his.

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And this guy, this friend of Josh's, isn't even a metal guy.

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But he's a musician.

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And he played him this album.

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And he was just like, he literally lost his mind over it.

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So you should take pride in that.

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I have a buddy in Texas who listens to the show, but was a friend long before that.

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And I'm pretty sure it's going to be his number one this year.

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We're going to have people send our lists in like we usually do. He loves it, actually. Jay, I don't want to point out the obvious. I know you've got headphones on and stuff in your face with fucking burritos, but I don't know if you've noticed that your wife just walked out the door with two dudes. Two Middle Eastern dudes, no less. Yeah. Because we're moving out. Wait, wait. Can you do that again? Put it in your mouth and out of your mouth, in your mouth, and out of your mouth.

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That's the Metal Hits Podcast crew, top 25. Plus Joel. Plus Joel. Hey. Of Thrasenblatt. Joel, honorary member. It has been an honor. If you have a time, we're going to do some of our honorable mentions and maybe some of our disappointments for the year. If you've got time, stick around. If not, I know you have things to do. I've got like three minutes. Okay, you want to list your honorable mentions if you have any or any disappointments maybe for the year. So my biggest disappointment of the year was

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that I didn't listen to as many albums as I could have this year. Most of the disappointment with myself. But you have a lot of albums to look forward to next year that are on your list. Your 2017 list is going to be awesome. What I'll do right now is say, I don't know, February? Once you guys start getting some pretty great January 2017, sorry, once you get some great 2017 albums, fucking fire me an email. Yeah, we're going to school you this year. We're going to be like, hey, Joel. Yeah, yeah.

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We'll come back on the episode and be like, guys. 2016 was awesome. We're going to have Jay. He's going to create another jingle for the show and it's going to be called Schooling Joel. Schooling Joel. He doesn't have time. He makes us do the work. Come on back, dude. We'll hook you up. I will educate you guys on everything about Camel, Uriah Heep. Joel, I'm coming prepared with Camel.

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What else do I got going? I got some local beers. Yeah, what about that? Everything that I listened to in 2016, I know a lot about that. So yeah, it'll be a fair trade, I think, for you guys. Right on. I think it will be. Come on, man. We'll trade off. Guess where all bid adieu to Joel here. Thank you for coming on. It was a blast as always.

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Thank you for taking part in my little secret mystery guest to keep these guys in the dark with. That was fun. That's great. I really appreciate you guys having me on. It was a blast as always. I've got two full pages of albums now that I can listen to in 2017 and not be up to date on 2017. So now 2017 can pass you by. We just need to fucking bombard him with emails now. Was that your flip phone you just held up there?

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It's called a book. We do it a little bit larger. Wait, did you use a book and a pen? What? Yeah. That's how we... That's an Nokia right there. It's like a journal. All right. It's been an absolute pleasure. Have a great holidays. Thank you, Joel. Sincerely, thank you from all of us. And I hope you're well preheated for your next event. Preheated for the night. I'm ready to go. Excellent. Appreciate it, gents. You guys are all just fantastic.

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Fantastic. Have a great rest of your night. You too. Take care. We'll talk to you later. All right. Happy holidays, guys. Bye. Same. Bye. So we got one more beer. Let's roll through our honorable mentions and because I want to try this trooper. Honorable mentions, disappointments. John. All right. I'll go quick. I got a bunch, but I'll do it fast. And for the record. Wait, wait. Are we doing honorable mentions first? Yeah, honorable mentions first. I'm going to forget a bunch. Yeah, we all will. Yeah.

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I can't keep up with everything. Anyway, real quick. The only album that dropped off my list from the mid-year, Abyss, I Am The Wolf, which is instrumental from France. It's good. It just fell off. An album that we got from our buddy up in Canada. I'm drawing a blank. Greg, Joel. No, no. Greg, thank you. I'm sorry. I do that. I apologize, Greg. He was beating on me yesterday about my top 25. He gave us an abstract illusion. Oh, yeah. Illuminate the Path. Oh, yeah. That was a really good one. It's a really good album.

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So I liked it. Anyway, Borknogger, Winter Thrice, Cobalt, Slow Forever, a band I'm surprised nobody mentioned yet, Eight Bells. Landless. It's good. I like it. It's not bad. I considered putting that on my list, and I gave it another listen, and... It's okay. It's good. It's good. It just wasn't, you know, on par. Yeah. That's me pouring very well. We're all pouring the Iron Maiden.

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Trooper, Red and the Black Stout right now. Or Porter right now. Which, if you're wondering what that's like, wearemetalheads.com. We all wrote up a great Brewheads column on it. So, well, I just want to say, as a friend of yours, not to say it, you've done an amazing job this year taking your column and just running with it. I'm trying, dude. I'm way behind. We did a little bit. George looks at the numbers on the back end, and every time you do one, they're through the roof. He's got it. Thank you.

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He's got one more we did just at my place. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, John and I did the, uh, the, this one that we're drinking sort of five minutes ago, the Toot the Moon. We're going to do the, um, we still have the Opeth beer to do. And I'm waiting. Yeah, absolutely. Wanted to let it in for over a year, so. And then we're, um, can I have this bottle too? Uh, the Hopped in Half by Three Floyds, John Tardy, lead singer,

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From Obituary. We've been trying to get that for a while. He has promised to get back to me on the segment. So we'll see. Cool. If you like beer and you want to hear an expert thoughts, wearemetalheads.com. Will has done an amazing job. Thank you, sir. Brewheads. Yeah, and he's at Brew Metal Will on Twitter. Thank you. Are you still going? No, no. You're still going.

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All right, I'll just finish up real quick so you guys can do yours. Eternal Champion, Armor of Iron, In the Woods Pure, we mentioned that, Neurosis, Fires Within Fires, Obsidian Kingdom, Here With No Summer, Ocean's a Slumber Winter, she's an amazing singer. Amazing, if you haven't heard him. Sobrosa, For This We Fought the Battle of Ages. Oh, there it is. Summerlands, Trees of Eternity, Hours of Nightingale, Ut Kiaro, The Plight of Wondrous, I do like that album.

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Oh, that's a good album. And this is not technically a full-length, but I'll take anything from these guys they can get. Watchtower, Concept of Math, book one. I'm still needing to listen to that based on your. Yes, if you know anything about technical thrash prog from the 80s. I remember them. Watchtower was hands above everybody. And then they just stopped playing. Two albums that were considered godlike almost. So, go. All right.

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All right, so I have two different lists. I have a short Best EPs of the Year because these are literally like albums that were fucking phenomenal, but they were technically EPs, and I talked about this with the old All Father EP. And then I have Honorable Mentions, and I only have six. Best EPs of the Year, number five, DRI. But wait, there's more.

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This is literally just like DRI was back in the late 80s, early 90s. Holy shit. Just return the form out of the blue. Suit and do a guy in the fashion places and the poorly racist. Number four, Coagula, Vile Sacrament. Fucking good. The next one, Doom Metal at its Finest, Goia, Doomed Planet.

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Beans.

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Isn't that the one you got on a bank?

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Their whole collection?

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Yeah.

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Goya.

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It was super cheap.

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Never heard of them before.

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And then bought the whole thing.

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These guys are fucking good.

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Number two.

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And I debated long and hard whether to put this on my main list.

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But in the end, I decided it was an EP.

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Phobocosm.

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Bringer of Drought.

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Phobo.

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That's a really good one. Yeah. And then my number one EP of the year would be no surprise, Gruesome, Dimensions of Horror. That's good. Holy shit. 2017, new album. Yeah. Oh, really? That would be high on my list. So my honorable mentions are, and every single one of these could have been on my list and just for various reasons didn't make the list,

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Tendencies, World Gone Mad. This is an album that literally brought them back to the late 80s, early 90s. It is Return to Form. I loved it. The next one, Entombed AD, Dead Dawn. This, again, is kind of a return to form, kind of like back in the clandestine days of Entombed. It's great. The next one, number four, Scorched, Echoes of Dismemberment. This is

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It's like an old school death metal band with a slight twist and it's all like horror movie themed. It's almost like they just made the soundtrack to a horror movie. Complete with weird 80s synthesizers like, hey, Jason or Freddy Krueger, somebody's sneaking up on you. Fucking great. What was that, Will? Who was it? Scorched. Scorched. Okay. You might also want to check out Goblin Rebirth. Goblin what? That's a good album, Jay. That's a really good album. It's funny. I'm leaning

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My ear close to the microphone. These are not in any particular world, but number three, Slaves BC, All is Dust and I Am Nothing. Fucking Pittsburgh, hardcore crust, awesomeness. Love these guys. Number two, Horse Burner, Dead Seas, Barren Soil. It's a great doom metal album. And my number one honorable mention, Brain Tentacles.

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Brain Testicles.

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Brain Testicles.

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Wait to see if somebody put them up.

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Yeah.

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No, this is, it's completely avant-garde and probably the only reason they didn't

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make my main list because I really, really enjoy listening to this album because

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it's so different, but it's so catchy.

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It's so great.

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It's not, it's metal, but not quite metal.

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It's the drummer Dave Whitty from Municipal Waste, Dead Cross.

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He's in Brain Tackles now.

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It's a three-piece.

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A guy who plays a saxophone, another guy who plays guitar, and it's like, it's catchy.

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I mean, it's something you just chill out, listen to, and I liked it. I'm done. Jay. Okay, I'll keep it brief. Honorable mentions, Gruesome, Gojira, you all will note that I was probably the only one on my list. The Flesh God Apocalypse record, Winter Horde, and then, honestly, more importantly than all those, the Death and Metallica reissues. In particular, Metallica, big deluxe box reissues.

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are just super cool.

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True.

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There was something else this year that I was really disappointed in, and I can't remember what the hell it was.

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We haven't done this yet.

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This will be the last time that I mentioned this album in a negative.

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I'm just going to stop talking about this record because we're at the end of the year.

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God, I hated the Shamash record.

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And I'm mad at people who say they like it because I don't believe them.

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It was so bad.

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It was so bad.

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What a fall from their last one, which was just brilliant.

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Yeah.

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That covers it. All right. Unremantions, troglodyte, anthropological curiosities, and unearthed archaeological relics. Nails fell off my list. You will never be one of us. Ancients, voice of the void. You will never be on our list. That's good. Ancients, voice of the void. Ghoul, dungeon bastards, pretty fun old school sound. Withered, grief relic. It's heavy, but it's...

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Pretty enjoyable listen Twilight Force Heroes of Mighty Magic grand worship the Kraken pure in the woods just sounds like old school woods I thought my band name in the woods yeah okay in the woods I was predicting your number one was a twilight force based on based on glory Henry last year a fix a six six six six six six like asphyxiation yes

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Exactly. Incoming Death, Serpentine, Dominion, they're self-titled, and Testament. All right. I've got a pretty decent-sized list of honorable mentions, most of which have been mentioned already, so I'm going to go through this really quickly. The Abbath album, Black Fucking Cancer. Wait, wait, this is the second size of it. Is it literally Black Fucking Cancer? Yes. Okay, all right. That's the actual name of the band, yeah. Okay. Black Hole Generator,

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A Requiem for Terra, mentioned last episode. Blood Incantation, Starspawn. This one has not been mentioned. Boss Colloid, Herb Your Enthusiasm. Very good album. Also one I'm surprised to not see, Crowbar, The Serpent Only Lies. That was a big contender. Yeah. Dark Funeral, Where Shadows Forever Reign, Graves at Sea, The Curse That Is, Harakari for the Sky, Trauma.

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Head of the Demon and their new album, Satanus, Trismegistos, In the Woods Pure, Inter Arma, Paradise Gallows. Another one that didn't get mentioned, Mantar, Ode to the Flame. Another one I was surprised didn't make it, Sumac and What One Becomes, Vector, Terminal Redux, Wayfarer, Old Souls, and Witherscape, The Northern Sanctuary. And I'm just going to throw it in there too, because Jay mentioned,

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already. The one disappointment that I can think of for the year is the Shamash album. Boo! Oh, I didn't mention my disappointment. John, Disappointments? Yeah, definitely Catatonia because I was hoping they wouldn't do it again. Same album for the last three albums. My big disappointment, not to anyone's surprise, Metallica. But it's almost weird because I shouldn't be disappointed because that's what I expected. Be disappointed!

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I had some high hopes with Death Magnetic because there was a lot of songs on Death Magnetic. It's like, yeah, okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The songwriting is just terrible if he has me. It's, it's, it's, well, it's because it didn't even make your list. It didn't make your honorable mention, George. Shut the fuck up. It should have been on my honorable mention. Shut up. Yeah, sure. Now he's saying that now. It's because a certain person lost his phone with all his riffs that James Hetfield dismissed within one second after that was said. Yeah.

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Yeah, that was harsh. Was that brutal or what? He ripped him a new asshole with that. Anyway, the Metallica album fucking sucked big floppy donkey dick to me. Jay, disappointment? No, Metallica. I mean, Shamash was mine, but Metallica, I'm glad you brought it up. But I'm long since, I mean, not like, I probably brought it like Will does. I don't even know if I'm disappointed. It's just, they, the reason we talk about it every year and we talk about them like this is, look at,

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the bands that have continued on, like Iron Maiden and I'm trying to think of another one. But somebody who's just still consistently doing good, that kind of stuff. But you all hated on Iron Maiden last year when I was big on them. Not one of you put Iron Maiden on your list. Because the last one sucked. I disagree. I disagree. Well, you were wrong. Yeah, but he just used it as an example. You're okay, fair enough. Bad example. But Metallica became a whole different thing, and they had every right to become that whole different thing, but I just

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I don't like it. I don't want to say. I just don't. You know what? Our guest on the last pod said something great about them. They said it's a hard rock record. Yeah. I think it was Buka said it's a country band trying to play a hard rock record. Lyric-wise, yeah. Perfect. My disappointments, number one, Anthrax. I freaking loved worship music. You know what? That should have been on my list, too. I loved worship music. In this one, I was hiding.

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Another same thing. With Metallica, I think the songwriting, the lyrics were horrible in this new one. It just doesn't flow well. Every song of worship music was just fist pumping, you're hooked. This one didn't flow right for me. The Testament was actually a disappointment too. I think each album for me since... Formation? The first one. No, not Formation. Actually, no, after Formation. Dark Roots. Dark Roots.

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been a step down. Dark Roots is the last album. No. Dark Roots was the album before that. This is a disappointment. Dark Roots. This is definitely the three contracts start with formation. But this is better than the last album. My biggest disappointment, the new Superjoint Ritual album is horrible. Truth. Wait, so it's just Superjoint? Yeah, Superjoint. Yeah, it is. Thank you, Will. I have to say I liked it for a few minutes and then I gave up on it too. The songwriting, the lyrics are

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horrible.

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Most of the songs, they say the same lyrics over and over and over and over again.

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It's

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It's

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It's monotony.

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Yeah.

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As a big fan of them, I was very disappointed in this.

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So

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That's my number one disappointment of the year.

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All right.

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And Metallica, after coming off of Death Magnetic,

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I'm not happy with what they released, so

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All right.

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Well,

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Do we have anything else before we go?

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I have something to say.

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You killed our baby today?

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What are you looking for the next year?

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I don't even know.

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I mean, I know Will mentioned a few.

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I have something I'm looking forward to.

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Macedon.

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I didn't even know there was one.

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Troll Fest.

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I'm looking forward to Troll Fest for sure.

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I love those guys.

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New record's coming out.

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It's finished.

03:43:22.080 --> 03:43:24.440
I really haven't thought about 2017 yet.

03:43:25.040 --> 03:43:26.360
It's just the one in 2015.

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That's why.

03:43:27.120 --> 03:43:27.340
Yeah.

03:43:28.760 --> 03:43:32.100
Just so focused on this year and apparently last year.

03:43:32.160 --> 03:43:33.720
I'm looking forward to the new Vior.

03:43:34.640 --> 03:43:36.240
Yeah, that's a good one, too.

03:43:36.310 --> 03:43:37.080
I'm definitely looking forward to it.

03:43:38.600 --> 03:43:41.940
And I know Will's going to say it, so I'm going to steal his thunder and say the new creator.

03:43:42.030 --> 03:43:42.740
I'm looking forward to that.

03:43:42.870 --> 03:43:43.760
Oh, fuck, yeah.

03:43:44.080 --> 03:43:46.220
Oh, actually, I brought the new FlexiDisc.

03:43:46.400 --> 03:43:48.360
There's a FlexiDisc that came out with Decibel Magazine.

03:43:48.720 --> 03:43:48.880
Yeah.

03:43:49.580 --> 03:43:51.560
That's a song only available on FlexiDisc.

03:43:51.980 --> 03:43:52.500
You need to go upstairs.

03:43:52.730 --> 03:43:53.320
We need to play it.

03:43:53.600 --> 03:43:53.800
Okay.

03:43:54.080 --> 03:43:55.620
No one's looking forward to the new Paul Bearer?

03:43:55.680 --> 03:43:56.420
There's also, George, there's also a couple.

03:43:56.420 --> 03:43:56.460
Oh, yeah.

03:43:56.660 --> 03:43:57.480
No Paul Bearer here?

03:43:57.480 --> 03:43:58.200
You didn't get to me yet.

03:43:58.360 --> 03:43:59.700
Oh, the new Mono Lord.

03:44:00.080 --> 03:44:00.160
Yeah.

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Also.

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Oh, yeah. What was that, Jay? You can listen to a couple of the creator songs online now. They have a video for one of the songs, and then they released another song, too. Yeah. Okay. It's good, too. I mean, it's good. It's like the last one. I'm looking forward to Paul Bearer, the new album Heartless, New Overkill, the new Clutch, New Creator, New Obituary, which apparently is a self-titled obituary. Paradise Lost is coming out with a new one. Sleep. Nice. Hark, and my buddy Kevin Ems, who's a brewer up

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in Canada.

03:44:33.340 --> 03:44:33.700
Canada.

03:44:35.220 --> 03:44:35.820
His band,

03:44:35.910 --> 03:44:36.880
the Howard Catharsis,

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is a drummer.

03:44:38.260 --> 03:44:39.000
They're coming out a new one.

03:44:39.090 --> 03:44:39.980
It was supposed to be out this year.

03:44:40.780 --> 03:44:42.160
I forgot about Sleep.

03:44:42.340 --> 03:44:42.700
It didn't come out.

03:44:42.800 --> 03:44:43.240
That's pretty cool.

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Yeah.

03:44:44.560 --> 03:44:44.920
Excellent.

03:44:45.220 --> 03:44:45.440
Jay,

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you can go see Sleep on the

03:44:47.280 --> 03:44:47.960
Dust Bowl Magazine

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Metal and Beer Fest in Philadelphia.

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I'll be brewing a beer

03:44:52.480 --> 03:44:53.260
for the festival.

03:44:53.899 --> 03:44:55.300
Even though you'll have already been here

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a couple weeks before.

03:44:56.460 --> 03:44:56.660
I do.

03:44:56.920 --> 03:44:57.460
I will, yeah.

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I'm going to be there like just a few weeks before that. Quitter. Fucking get off your ass. Come on, man. Come on. But to be fair, sleep plays here every so often. Not that that's the point, I realize. I mean, it would be fun to have a little fellowship, I think is the word that they say in the churches. The fellowship of the beer. Yeah. I'll be the spirit. All right. Wrap up another year of the Metal Heads pod. Yeah. Screw you, 2016. What done with you? I just want to say this.

03:45:27.600 --> 03:45:57.060
Gentlemen, Will, John, J, George. This is another year where we've become closer. I look forward to talking to you guys, recording a new pod all the time. I think next year is when we probably will do the group orgy thing. I love all you guys. I really do. This is the highlight of whenever we can record this. Thanks for bringing me along on this year. I appreciate it.

03:45:57.960 --> 03:46:27.020
It's just the bars raised more and more. I think so. Yeah. I have a lot of fun every time. And I like hanging out in general. And you guys are all my really good friends now. Thank you. Yay. Screw you, TR. No, thank you. We like TR. TR is fun. TR is the only one I know that just steps in and acts like he's been doing this for like 15 years. When I was listening to the prop hour, he came in like, oh yeah, I've done this for 20 years now. Let me tell you what I think about this. Yeah.

03:46:27.560 --> 03:46:43.240
Yeah, we liked you. Yeah, we do. All right. Well, if there's nothing else, we are going to leave you. We will rejoin you in January, hopefully. And we're going to leave you with Jay's new outro music, I think. Enjoy.

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I said the show's over. Seriously, George, George, just turn it off. Turn it off. That's the end of the show. I don't know. People aren't even listening. They are listening, apparently. Seriously. Fuck you.