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Hello and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast.

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My name is George.

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This is Jay.

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This is Will.

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This is John.

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This is Matt.

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And this is Looch.

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We are joined today by Looch again.

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The Looch.

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The Looch.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Also the heavenly provider of liquid sustenance today. Yeah, Luce strove down from Connecticut all the way to Frederick, Maryland. Nice. Spending quality time with the gents. Yes. And so here we are. This is our mid-year episode. So we're going to get almost to the point right away. But there's a couple things that we need to get to before that. First of all, what are we drinking?

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Well, this is Ghost 456 from Adroit Theory, the Oreo cookie variant. Just came out yesterday. I went right from Connecticut, ended up going right there. Which is Adroit Theory is in Percival, Virginia. In Percival, Virginia. Sorry about that. And courtesy of Mark, the owner, and Brian, the head brewer, they gave us a growler of this. I had it there yesterday. It is like drinking Oreo cookies. No kidding. Yeah.

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10 pounds of Oreo cookies in the mix. So it's a stout with Oreo cookies. So thank you, Mark and Brian. What's the base beer? Dia de los Muertos. Beer of the Dead? Day of the Dead. Have you not seen the movie Coco yet? I think that would be a service. From the remote location of Minneapolis, I've got a beer called Portage, spelled P-O-R-D-I-J with accents for the spelling, but it's from a brewery called

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BEMPADLE out of my hometown to Duluth. And this is an Imperial Pale Ale, and it's quite lovely. Excellent. What about you, Jay? What brewery beer are you drinking? City tap? I'm wearing a Three Floyds shirt, so that's going to have to count as early on the West Coast. But last night, for what it's worth, the reason I'm not drinking one right now is I had a shit ton of beer last night. One I had was lunch from Maine. Nice. Which was delicious. That's a great beer. I overdid it a little. I went to a baseball game last night, had a bunch of beer at the baseball game, and it

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I thought, let's just keep this rolling. And you woke up and you're like, that's my number one? Fuck. Yeah, to be honest with you, there was some list adjustment. I've done that. Well, I did a lot in my head. I biked, my buddy and I, we biked to the other side of town and hit about four breweries. And at each brewery, I just kind of reflected on my list and thought, should I move that? And then I was like, oh, wait, what am I drinking? And then something really happened. He sent us a picture yesterday. And it was labeled,

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listing, but it was a picture of a beer on the table outside. I was like, okay. It was helpful. Yeah. So yeah, we're going to, per Matt's idea, we're going to sort of give you a peek behind the curtain as to what our methodology is for coming up with our lists. And maybe we'll start with Matt since it was his idea. Yeah, you bet.

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I feel like I'm sure everybody does but as I'm going throughout the year I feel like I keep a playlist or a folder that I just throw stuff in that I really like or I make a list and then usually within kind of the whenever George mentions when something's coming up that's like a six to eight week window I usually shit my pants and then I start like just trying to take in as much music as I possibly can and it's really not even about you know I mean you do still enjoy the music but it's not like throwing on a

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and just sitting around listening to it. It's all kind of like analysis. And then you get to, I feel like I get to the point where I'm basically like, is this a top 25? Is this a top 10? And then, George, you had that great idea. I just took the playlist and I put it on shuffle. I just tried to take in as much as I could. And then I just sit and rank and re-rank for six weeks. And like I mentioned before, I feel like I'm in the movie Fight Club with 25 Tyler Durden's.

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All right.

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How about

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See, I'll go.

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I'm pretty much Nick the new guy with this, but honestly

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I didn't

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I obviously didn't take

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as much time as you probably guys did, but

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I just, throughout

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the year

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just going back

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looking up the ones that came out

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like new releases. I would give a listen to a few of them, mark down a couple of them, kind of set it aside, and then just keep going back. And it's funny, the big listening time I had was like, at the end of the night, I just literally lay in bed and just scroll through and start playing full albums. Just laying there, shut my eyes, just kind of listen them all out. And then throughout the past, definitely the past couple months,

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more of these last few weeks especially is just really filtering out trying to get a good list. It's hard. It's actually way harder than I thought. Yeah. Because there's a couple spots on my list that I could pretty much interchange like three or four spots. But I think my top, I'd say definitely my top eight to 11 are pretty like I'm good with them. Everything else I could probably move around, but it's just a matter of,

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Like I said, I just lay down in bed and just shut my eyes and focus the attention on it and just play album after album. Maybe give them a couple, like play them over. Like just loop it basically if I really dug it. And that's how I came up with my list basically. Looch, what's your primary source for music? Are you Bandcamp, iTunes, CDs? See, I'm way behind. Spotify. I'm literally Spotify mostly. And then if I heard of other stuff, I would like kind of YouTube it. And then

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just picking up or friends of mine had stuff. My buddy Ryan Beelen at work is... He's going to be 34, but he's up on all kinds of music. His parents raised him well and he listens to everything, but he got me on a lot of the nu metal, progressive metal. We're at work and we just play music. And you? And you, yeah. It's just like... Yeah, I know. I'm just telling you. Oh, boy. Yeah, we're going to have issues today. I know, but I'm not telling you. We're going to have Jonathan Davis solo on one of those four. All right.

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That would be about the Taiwanese TR to just chime in with a... There's not a whole shit ton of it on my list, but I mean, you know, it's on there, I have to be honest with you, and I'm except... Or rather, I'm expecting some little criticism. But that's how I came up with this. We got a lot of cheers and cheers today. Oh, yeah. And, Looch, I would tell you that's the beauty of this process is, you know, we all have a different list for different

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reasons and you know yeah for instance luch has his because he's gay uh gay for you it wasn't openly but thanks now should have i didn't mean to put that out there what happens in philly i guess every time he every time he says when you don't like george you can just kill his mic and then i want you to label whatever button you hit that kills his mic you can label it kill switching game hey jace real quick speaking of gay i didn't tell anyone about your special gift i sent you

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I told them all. Oh, did you? That's what I was going to say. Are you happy with it? Oh, yeah. The scarf. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. No, it was. It was the carpet, the scarf, and the weekend. Where do you even find a scarf like that? Oh, man. I started scouring just trying to find it. And it was called, what's it called? M-O-B or something like that. Scarves are us? No, it was like some crazy. It's just like this goth site. They had shirts, you know, little stuff. But literally, they had like,

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You know, like 666 scarves and sweaters, all kinds of stuff. You scroll all the way to the bottom and it actually says the hotel scarf. And I'm like, get the fuck out of here. I'm so happy, dude. I'll put a picture. I'm lost. So what is the scarf? Is it the hotel carpet for The Shining? Yes. Oh. Yeah. I found it. It's beautiful. Dude, it's a nice scarf, too. It's like six feet long. I will be wearing it next year. If I could just get it real quick. There was a moment when we were in Luchin Will's room when Todd,

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was there for three flights. And we're all talking. And Jay's just sitting on the chair. And out of nowhere, Todd just says, are you wearing a fucking scarf? He goes, dude, what's with that fucking scarf? It was like, we're what, 15, 20 minutes into the conversation. And I think Will and I just literally pissed ourselves. We were laughing so hard. I was laughing just at Jay when just listening to the podcast after George put it all together as even Jay was saying that. We're talking about, oh yeah, we had Todd in the room. And he goes, yeah, he made a lot of fun of my scarf. I think at that point, Jay's like, yeah, these guys have been giving me a lot of fun.

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shit all weekend. Actually, I do have to share with you not to go on and on about it, but the best scarf put down came from Looch, and that was that if I said something that was incorrect, like we'd be like, I think that diner's on 4th Street or something like that, and then Will would say, no, no, no, it's on this street, and it would be the right street, and Looch would look at me and go, nice fucking scarf. I forgot about that. I think next year,

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And we mentioned this then. We all showed up in scarves. Everyone showed up in scarves. Atlas has some. I'll get one from Atlas. There's going to be some, that dude from the Six Most Metal Breweries is going to be the recording. He's like, there's these six douchebags walking around with scarves on. We need custom scarves. Six Most Metal Scarves. Metal Heads Podcast Scarves. We're doing this. Yes. Yeah, you know, Will, you just, you summed up him for me right there with that. All right, so who's next, actually? Me?

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There's no methodology for me. It just... There really isn't. It just happens. It's different every single year. I've converted Will. Will's a MusicBee guy now. Oh, yeah. Thank you very much. Yes. I use this software called MusicBee. And by the way, if you need any help customizing, it's just so much you can do. I create all these crazy... They're not lists, but you can formulate things using tags.

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It's all visual on screen. And I start compiling a list. Literally, when we start listing to new stuff, George is like, hey, this just came out. I'll listen. If I like it, I put it in. And I just do it that way. Like I said, every year is different. I try to make sure I listen to stuff a lot. There's albums I like. If I only listen to it once, it's not going to make my list. I just don't feel like I've given it enough time. I don't even know if I can describe how I come up with my list because it's always different.

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I will say this I don't fret over it I know you guys are all like oh I gotta change my list again tonight I'm like fuck this I'm watching TV let me tell you my methodology while you guys are all saying you're making changes I was up at six o'clock watching World Cup that's what I did I was watching World Cup that's what I did I literally I last year I you know why because

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Two years ago, if you guys remember, I was big on the Arantia Buzuzu. And literally at like one in the morning, I switched it to Fate's Morning. And I said, I'm not doing that again. That's bullshit. I'm not stressing this late about this stuff. And because we have to drive up here, we have to get down a little earlier. I just cut it off. Watch TV. Well, sometimes in the past when you and I, John and I have driven up. Yeah, you were changing that one time. I was driving up. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was changing it.

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But today, we got the new promo for the Hoth. So we just listened to Hoth almost the whole way up. And then we listened to a little bit of Ex Mortis. But I purposely played stuff that, well, I know it's not on my list. It shouldn't be because I don't think they're even released yet. So it's like. Unlike the one time we drove, you were playing list music. And I was like, this is kind of cool. I'm like, you get there and it's like, it's actually on my list. I'm like, fuck. I don't feel so bad now, actually. I think it's just different. Yeah, we're all idiots.

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I'll tell you what I do. I put a little tag around a cat and then... All right. Well, I will. I feel like this year I was a little bit more prepared because we've done this for so many years in a row now. So what I just do is January 1st, I open up a blank Microsoft Word document and anything that I buy or get in a promo box, it goes on the list.

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I don't give a crap if I've never even heard it yet. It goes on the list. I just keep a list. That's what music bees for. And then, you know, I slowly cross things off. I'll listen to it. I'm like, ah, no. And I just take it off. And then I just keep building my list. And then occasionally throughout the first six months of the year, I will arrange it a little bit. And then I'll be like, eventually I'll put an honorable mentions thing. And then when we decided at the last, not the last minute, but a couple months ago, we decided we're going to go from, we usually do 11, by the way. So if everyone's confused,

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We used to do our list go to 11 at mid-year, and now we're doing 25. Because there was just so much damn music this year. We should probably be doing 26. That's a joke. Actually, I think this started last year. We were talking about this because there was so much music last year. And I'm usually the one complaining. It's a constant updating thing. I know the last couple days at work, I would print out a sheet. I would take it to work. I'd listen to music all day at work.

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I come home, I type in my notes, arrange my spreadsheet, print out a new one in the morning. I killed so many trees. I am recycling the old notes. But one thing that I notice is that I kind of just, in some ways, I would almost like a year where we don't do it at all. Because I just want to have a year where I just listen to music to enjoy it and not rate it and evaluate it. It does get stressful. Yeah, and it does. It's this weird, you know, first world problems. I understand that.

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But it's just one of those weird like, I just, like you're evaluating every single thing you hear so much and you're comparing it so much that you just want to listen to it. And that's what, and I said this the other night, and if anyone's listened to this podcast long enough, they're going to find everything I'm about to say like, well, duh, you dumb shit. My time just to enjoy music is vinyl now. I put it on and I make dinner for my kids. We listen to it while we're making dinner, while we're eating dinner. And that is just my time.

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to just enjoy the music where I'm not evaluating with on flack now thank you John thank you George George he's like what's what's your name again yeah um no but with uh you're always a big proponent of flack and John's always big proponent of headphone or both of you guys oh everyone is really you know so I've been listening to music more on headphones on flack on music b and it's helped so that's kind of long answer that's how I come up with my list excellent by the way I can just interject something real quick I think

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So this year we started with the album of the month to kind of help that process up a little bit because we're already doing this to begin with so we figured why not just throw it out there and maybe that'll help us a little bit on this. And one other thing and I think this goes for all of us right now is that I'm not a music critic. I don't get paid to be a music critic. It's just stuff. Everything on my list is just what I like and it's not that hey everyone says this is a great album so I'm going to put it on my list because everyone says it's great and I don't really

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I like it's just stuff that I like and I think that goes kind of goes for all of us

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I think paid music critics are kind of full of shit anyway

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you know because they

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they're full of shit when they don't agree with you

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no I mean in general

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I think they

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I think they pander a lot

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yeah either they're sucking ass because they're getting paid to suck ass

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or they're over critical

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because they want to sound like they fucking know shit

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when

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you know personally

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I just want to know what the average person on the street thinks

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Hey man, do you like this? Because if you do, I'll check it out. But if some fucking douchebag at a magazine, not that there's any of those at Decibel, because Decibel rocks, but some other magazines that I could mention, I'm like, you're being way too critical of something that's just not worth being critical over. Doesn't seem like everybody wants to be Lester Bangs. They want to be the biggest douchebag and be cool about it, and there's only one Lester Bangs.

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Yeah. So anyway. And he was kind of a douchebag too. So I mean, you know, like in all honesty, like he is the model, you know, for that. Like just as you say, John. And I have no disrespect to the guy. I just mean he but he also he's one of those guys who loves music so much he hated it. You know what I mean? And for the record, Philip Seymour Hoffman sort of portraying him at Almost Famous was just outstanding. That was great. Yeah. All right, Jay.

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Well, I start my list as early as I can, meaning January or whatever, but I wait until I have a record that acts as the first benchmark. I'm like, oh, this has got to be on the list. So I don't just throw a bunch of shit on it. It's like, you know, I'm trying to remember what one of the first ones would have been this year. I think my first one was Atlas Moth. Right, yeah, and that's not on my list, but that's a great example. Like, it came out, we are all talking about whatever it was. Spoilers. Well, not for me, it's not on my list, but it's not on my list.

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So I do that, and that just kind of gives me this weird place to put things above and below as other records come out. But as far as my evaluation process goes, we all get a shit ton of music, so I keep an eye on the box, our personal box, where we get promos. I go to Bandcamp. I check out any new release on iTunes and other music sites. And my criteria is basically, if I don't listen to it, if I don't put it in and I'm not willing to

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I would just say this, I really like to have a

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and emotional, spiritual connection to some of these records and things that you feel good about. You're like, wow, I really identify with this. And that was my final criteria. My number one record this year, I totally get this record, totally feel feelings when I listen to it. I think it's a great record. So that's how you get up on my list. Some of it's just academic. I listen to it and I like it and I get it. That's a cool hook. I like it.

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You really like that Machine Head album that much?

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I will say this, my number one record is far and away my number one record this year. And then probably my top five, everything could have moved around. Likewise, top ten. And then below ten, like Luch was saying, it's fuzzy. I can wake up tomorrow and do it all different. Actually, I was going to jump on what you just said real quick. That pretty much sums up what I was talking about. It's just you worded it. Stuff that I like. I keep going back to it.

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and it's my type of shit. That's how I did. That would be the best way to put it then. You put it better than I did. I'm like, damn, I just keep going back to this. And that's how I did it. And it stands to reason, too, that if you listen to music for a long time like we do, it is the kind of thing other people probably noticing. I mean, I've always got one or two that I think that other people are like, nobody pays attention to this. That's my whole list, Jay. Exactly. Yeah. I agree with you.

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I do absolutely, when we're getting close to list time, I look up other people's lists just to make sure there's not a record that's not on everybody's list. And I'm like, I haven't even heard that. I better check it out. I wouldn't put it on because it was on somebody's list, but I would at least make sure I wasn't missing something that I should have listened to. Yeah, but Ann Murray hasn't done anything in a bit. Ann Murray, what the fuck? Yeah, there's going to be quite a few of that, where there's

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is just stuff that I never even listened to and it could be the greatest album of the year and I didn't hear it. Yep. Or we got the promo for I listened to half of it and I forgot about it and then yeah. We get. So I also just add I'm pretty much making my list all year long. I did. I know I started my list in January but it probably had one record on it so. Cool. That's my vibe. Georgie. Yeah mine's not all that special. I mean probably like.

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Well, then let's start our list then. Probably around March or so, I start compiling a list. And I just go through, I go back through my music collection and anything that I have that I liked, I throw it on a list. And so, you know, by a month out from the episode, I've probably got a shit ton of music on there. Anything that I liked, I just threw it on there. And then,

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'cause at about a month out, I start trying to organize it. What's my number one? And I just sort of build from there. And then if we're doing 25, so I organize the 25 and everything else goes below the cut line. Those are all my honorable mentions. And like Jay said, the last couple of weeks, I'm hitting up anything on the internet that might have anything about new music.

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I'd like to know who made the most recent change. I made one about 10 o'clock this morning. Anybody make one after that? Yeah, I did. We're on that time. 10 minutes ago. I made one, I think, before we started the episode, but we were all on Skype. But mine, which I just flipped to, you know what I mean? Yeah, I was doing that this morning. I actually had like five in the morning I woke up and I flipped.

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A.M.

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I tried so fucking hard to like that because you guys liked it so much. I was actually listening to that when I went out to go pick up the pizza. Hey, so quick question for everyone before we start. I'll go first on this. Did you guys know your number one early on? Meaning when you heard the album, did it resonate that fast? For me, it's a yes. It did, but then there was another one that resonated and another one that resonated. So yours was ongoing then. I knew right after I'd heard it a few times, I was like, I think this is probably going to be a

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One, two or three, or it's going to be up there. My actual number one, I did not think was going to be number one, but upon repeat listens, it was like, oh no, yes, this has to be one. So this year for me, it was right away. Oh no, yes? Oh no. Oh no, it's not not going to be one. Yes, it is going to be one. Is that that conversation? Yes means no. It's a double negative. I wasn't even through the first listen of mine, John, that my number one, before I was like, oh, this would probably be number one. You knew right now.

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as soon as you heard it then. I'm the same way, Jay. Yeah. Yeah, for me. And it's a record that I only heard about four weeks ago for the first time. And I'm with George actually on that. I didn't know it was going to be one, but just as I filtered through everything, I just keep moving up and up and up. And then I knew I had my one at, I mean, I probably, I'd say about a couple of weeks ago. But the Machine Head has been out for a while now. Hey, I'll tell you right now, that, that,

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is on my list. I'll tell you right now, but we'll talk about it later. Wait, wait, wait for it. I really hope it's a disappointing list. It's my number two. I felt solid about my number one, but I felt like even my top ten was so much easier. It was always there, and there's been some order shifting, but it was almost what was after ten. So just ten, the top ten, I felt very concrete about those albums, but the bottom 15, it was just a constant battle.

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back and forth.

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But I will say the exposure to you guys and all the new music.

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Who exposed itself to you?

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I exposed myself.

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As you'll see as things go, I do appreciate that exposure as well.

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I'm just trying to find a way to print it out.

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You got to find a gift for it.

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But it doesn't make the process easier.

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For sure.

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For sure.

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Yeah, no.

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And I think the one thing I noted that I felt is kind of common is our lists are fairly living and breathing.

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for a good chunk of the year. So, I mean, that's kind of cool and stressful at the same time. But yeah, I would add that there's a couple things on my list that I put on here because I thought they deserved it, but I know they'll be gone before the end of the year. But I just thought, here's my chance to give this record a little shout out. I do like it, whatever it is. Keep that to myself. Just one other thing. I think this is important to note. There are a few of the bands, I'm sure that we are going to mention today, who may actually listen to this. And I would just say, no matter where you are, if you're

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If you hear your band today, and you're on somebody's list, this may sound a little weirdly self-serving, but we get collectively, all of us, we listen to so much stuff. We get so many promos. Shit tons. And there's so much stuff that we listen to on Bandcamp that is garbage. I almost think, and not that we're the best at this by any stretch of the imagination, but I think collectively we have probably close to 200 years.

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or more of heavy metal music listening. Did you include me? It'd be about 240. It's just on my side of the table right here. Make that about 240. Actually, I think, yeah, me and John are the oldest. I would say this. If your record is mentioned today, but even if you're number 23, you put out a really good fucking record. Yeah, you stood out from a large crowd. Huge crowd. Let's fucking like this. All right, let's go. Meanwhile, back at the podcast.

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more candles in here. Yeah, it smells awesome in here. Somebody's lighting a Roman candle next to us right now. Well, aren't you glad I brought that one over there? Yeah, I'm going to need another one. We're going to need a bigger candle. So, George, how's this going to work? All right, well, we're going to start with Looch, put him right in the hot seat. What, 25? Yeah, and then we're going to go, you know, the usual Matt, and then John, Will, Jamie. So, drum roll. Wait, do I have a drum roll? No, I have a drum hit.

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Not quite a drum roll. Okay. All right. Let's go. And this is just, this is an emotional pick for me. Okay. Galactic Empire. Episode two. Yeah. That's great. It's entertaining. You know, they put a good show on, but they're fucking good musicians, man. Oh, yeah. It's solid and I dug it, man. So I definitely had to get it on my list.

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And they play in costumes. That can't be easy. Awesome. I know. That's ridiculous, man. Oh my god. So explain Galactic Empire for the uninitiated very quickly. So Galactic Empire, it's just a band. Basically, John Williams, who composed all the music for all the Star Wars movies, this is a band that they dress in all the Star Wars costumes. You got Vader, you got Boba Fett, you got Stormtroopers, you got Imperial Guards. Imperial Emperor's Imperial Guard.

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But they meddle the shit out of all the Star Wars soundtracks. And I'll tell you what. It's fucking good. It's good music, man. So I had to get it on my list. Yeah, it is definitely good. God. So there's my 25. All right, man. Matt? Matt, are you like a Star Trek fan? Oh, don't say it. I love it. I love it. Well, I mean, I would put myself probably not in the first tier. But I'm probably more Star Wars than Trek. But I dabble in both.

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You're by Psy.

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By Psy.

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By Psy.

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I'm looking to get into Battlestar Galactic, but I haven't.

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Try Psy.

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Whoa, whoa.

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That doesn't sound like an orgy.

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It would be fun.

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All right, my number 25.

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I like this album pretty early on.

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It continues with both my fixation of folk metal as well as mispronouncing names.

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Arcona, Chrom.

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Oh, yeah.

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I saw that.

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It came out.

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I know them, but I didn't listen to it.

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Let the regrets begin. See, I actually brought extra paper to write down ones that I missed that I'd have to look into because, like I said, I'm Nick the new guy with this shit. Just as a commercial break. My intention is everything I haven't listened to I intend to write down too, so that's a good thing. Ten and paper. All right, John, number 25. So I mentioned we were doing this album of the month stuff, and so my first pick for number 25 is actually

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my first album of the month from the Faroe Islands, which probably most people don't know. And I'm going to butcher this, so if we have any friends from that part of the world, bear with me. Hamforth is the name of the band. It's Thompson's Like Em is the album. Doom Bell album. The singer is Will's favorite singer. He's from Barren Earth. But it's a very good Doom album. It's a lot better than Barren Earth. Spell it, will you? Oh, sorry. I probably just busted.

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It's F-U-C-K

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Y-O-U

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I know that one

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G-U-Y-S

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Fuck you guys

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Fuck you guys

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Hold on

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I really do want you to spell it

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Hold on

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I'm making a list

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Because I anticipated that

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90% of my albums would get a

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Negative reaction

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Will

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Don't put me down

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because I don't know

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what the hell it was.

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I don't even know

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what it is either.

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George.

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What?

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I liked it.

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Barren Earth.

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, we just found out

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what John's number one is.

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Yeah.

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Don't worry.

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My guns are locked and loaded.

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Jay, it's spelled,

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I'm going to spell

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the English spelling for you.

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H-A-M-F-E-R-T-H.

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I don't know what the syllable

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is for the TH. It looks like a D. Yeah. Oh, gotcha. Understood. So I'll send it to you later. Yeah, dude, because the truth is, is like, that's one I don't even remember hearing this year. So everything you guys love that I haven't heard, I want to check out. I think that dropped literally, what, the second week of January, maybe? Yeah. It came out early. Was it? Okay. All right. Willem. Willem. Willem. Willem. Willem. Willem. Willem. Willem. Willem.

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that much, maybe like three times. But last night and this morning, I put the headphones on, had it on flack, listened to it. And I feel like every list I have to have a nod to old school veteran New York death medalers. And I got skinless. Ah. Savagery. Right on. I considered it. I considered it quite a bit. It's really good. I don't own any other skinless albums, but the more I listen to this one, the more I listen to this one, the more I listen to this one, the more I listen to this one.

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I like and I think if I spent more time with it it'd be higher on my list. I think there's a fair amount of death metal on my list this year. Fair amount. I got a fair amount. So you're saying Will will not give you shit about your albums? No I think it's just gonna be you and maybe Looge. Well just remember I have some dandies on my list that you guys will love. But because you're our guest we can't give you shit. And you brought all the beers so all we can do is suck your dick all day. I want the shit. Send it. Here's what's funny is I don't see any of your guys albums listed as

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Angry Metal Guys Albums of the Months. So fuck. How do you know? Oh, I know. You don't know our list? Because you guys don't listen to anything I listen to. That's how I know. I might surprise you. I might. In the bathroom when you're not looking. Exactly. No, not there. I'm an innie. That's not my pen. Those are pillows. Alright, Jay. So this is one of those ones.

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And this is a bit of an anticlimactic thing to say, but I'm sure it won't be on my end of year. But I did like it, and it was kind of a reunion album, and I felt like they were so true to who they were and kind of also did some fun, cool new things, and I enjoyed listening to it. Sleep, The Sciences. Oh, yeah. Nice. All right. That's all I have to say about it. All right. My number 25 snuck in at the last minute this morning.

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I wasn't looking at it. It just walked up and got in line. So it's Looch? Yeah. My number 25 is Looch. Nice. It is Soliloquium. Oh, yeah. Contemplations. It's a good album. Yes. It could be a little heavier. It's a grower album. It's a little slower and quieter, but it is good. That made my list last year, and I will say it's not on my list this year because I just thought it wasn't as good this year.

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It wasn't as heavy. It took me a couple of listens before I was like, alright, yeah, it's a grower. Doesn't mean it's not good. It wasn't as heavy for me. It requires more attention this time around. I have no attention. Who's got time for attention this year? Oh, 24. So this is where I already start getting fruity. Starts? Not fruity. Well, alright. Bleeding Through, Love Will Kill All. It's a little on the lighter side for me.

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Definitely. But the music's good. There's a few songs. I know Buried and Life I really liked. But a lot of the albums sounds the same. A lot of their songs sound the same. But for what it was worth, I like the album. Do they still have that ridiculously good-looking female keyboard player? Yes, they do. And she is. Yes. So that's my 24. Nice. Alright, you survived that pretty well.

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It's worse. Don't worry. There'll be some good ones in there. Don't worry. All right, Matt. All right, my number 24. I'm pretty sure I read that after listening to this album, if you don't put it on your year-end list, you'll die in seven days. On my list that I probably am afraid of from Australia, Portal, and their new album, Ion. Oh, dear. Well, you know, I meant to give that more of a listen than I did. In the past, I haven't liked the production on their album.

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But the little I did listen to it, the production was better. And so I meant to go back and listen to it more, but I didn't. Now I have to. I will say this about my list, just in general, about my list. I feel it's either black and white traditional in-genre. Yeah. So we'll just enjoy the next six days. It's either very black, very cookie-cutter genre, or it's just kind of

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weird experimental stuff and this obviously falling into that and um but yeah all right

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there's too many people i can't remember who's next john i think i'll try to go fast since matt's

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only got six days left so no it's on his list so he he lives the rest of us die all right so i'll try to go

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fast so the rest of us go no this is my uh second album that again i apologize for my pronunciation i

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I don't speak Dutch, but I believe George and Matt like this album, or at least listen to it. It's black metal, and I will say for the record, not giving anything away, but this is my only... No, I have two black metal influence albums on this whole list. Whereas last year, George and I were battling for black metal. There's nothing out there this year I like as much. But anyway, I'll see if I can pronounce this properly. It's Vessenville. Does that sound about right? Yeah, I think so. The W's or V's. Yes, and the album is one.

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Yeah. But it's a black metal album that came out about two months ago, a month and a half? Yeah. It's not bad. It's a solid album. Yeah, it's good. Got a few differences in it, but Jay mentioned this earlier this year. He was disappointed in black metal because it didn't seem like there was a lot of new good stuff out, and I tend to agree with him. This year seems to be a little lacking. There's good stuff. It's just nothing's wowing me. Yeah. It's funny because this year I probably have more black metal than any other year,

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which could just mean I have one black metal album. Or it could mean you just discovered black metal. It finally resonates. A young man discovering himself. His journey from Milan to Minsk, if you're a Seinfeld fan. Rochelle, Rochelle. Rochelle, Rochelle. All right, Will. Beer break, hold on. 24. This one dropped a little bit in the last,

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24 hours. Still really good. Gravelines. Fed into the Nihilist engine. It's a good heavy, harsh, doom album. A little bit of thrashy parts. Some clean singing. I think what did it for me, it dropped a little bit, is that it's one of those, it's kind of like Necros Christos, which I'm sure is on your list, but it's like every other song is some sort of weird interlude and then you end it up with like, there's only really like four good, four songs on it or five songs on it.

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on it out of like not out whatever it was just one of those the pacing of the album could have been a little bit better and the songs vary quite a bit but what is there the good stuff that's there is really really good yeah so i saw that on band camp but i never listened to it it's it's worth it's well i think it's worth a listen it's very good i'll take your word on that yeah i know what you're talking about on that too because there's a couple albums you'll find on my list that they follow that

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Same kind of thing. The shit is great, but they could do away with some of that other little, you know. Yeah. So. All right. Next. Jay. Jay. Yep. This one I think is probably higher on some of your lists, but it also goes along with this somewhat new and disturbing trend of saxophone in heavy metal. Enslaved, I think, had saxophone on their last record, and I want to say

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Amorphous might have saxophone in the new one. There was something I was listening to the other day. There's a few. The Naramarth has saxophone. There's even one more. I think the Eson does too. Well, I'm about to tell you what it is. No, it's not an Eson. But in any case, and I'm just joking, I don't give a shit, but I find out interesting. Rivers of Nehill, where I always know my name. That's the other one. I knew there was another one. Is that the one that has some smooth jazz in the middle of it? Yeah. It does, yeah.

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So it would have rated higher with me. It is a very good record, and I enjoyed it a lot. But yeah, it kind of goes to a couple places that are slightly overproduced for me, and that includes that smooth jazz section. I thought that was a very bold statement. What? The smooth jazz section? The smooth jazz section, yes. Not what Jay said. Everything Jay says is gospel to me. There you go. And I... to George. My number 24,

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This will probably be the first number 24 coming from Will. Akhenaten Golden Serpent God. I'm not going to say that because it just came out. I just discovered this album like a week ago. I'm more enthralled that it is on your list. I think it was a late list buster. Was that the one you were like,

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No. There's another one. I have comments about it, but I'll save it for later. In reference to what you just said. Well, it could have been better, but the production is not that great. Those are my comments. Yeah. The songs themselves are good. And I meant to go back and listen to the previous album because I don't recall the production being bad. This one sounds kind of like it was a home recording, and maybe it was. But like I said, the songs are great. The production just wasn't as high as I would have liked it.

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I didn't notice the production value aspect of it. Oh! We have a pizza down. We have a pizza down. I say again. Headphones. What? You have to listen to it on headphones. Maybe you did. I don't know. I actually did. I listened to it on Music B. Flack Headphones. All right. Well, now that you've heard it, you will not be able to unhear it. And you'll listen to it and go, oh, yeah. George is so right. I love that guy.

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What you have to say like that? I am George. All right. It is back to Looch for 23. All right. And fruity we go. So, yeah. Primordial. There's a way to introduce an album. No, because here it is. Primordial. Exile Amongst the Ruins. Now, they've been around since 87.

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I've heard their stuff over the years here and there and stuff, but I like more brutality in my metal, but it's a good listen. It's a good album, so I put it at 23. I don't think you have anything to apologize for putting that on your list. You seem like you're almost apologetic. I work with this dude that just certain things he gives me shit about, and I was like, that's what I like and whatever. If he gives you shit about Primordial, fuck him!

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It's a good album. I think you're probably going to hear it a few more times. Primordial is of the pagan black metal kind of folky stuff. They're one of the top bands. You guys know way more than I do. I know what it is. Is your friend into Five Finger Dick Punch? I'm in the outer space when it comes to all the places you

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You're ahead of everybody at work, trust me. You can call me. I think it's one of the greatest albums I've ever listened to. See? Good choice. All right, Matt. Looch, we are all Jedi's, by the way. Nice. Well, I'm a Sith Lord myself. I can take that. I like the dark side. You can take it in your dark side?

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That's pretty bold of you. Oh, I mean, there should be some light, but whatever. Well, with Luch's little light. There's a lot of light. It's like a hot dog down the hallway. Plenty of light around it. Just a tiny little pupil in there, that's all. Are you eating pudding? Is that garlic pudding? It's ranch. At least no one's going to get bit by a dog today. Hey, the dang it over,

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Yeah. Number 23 from France. Esauctrilium, pandamorphium, forbidden formulas to awaken the blind sovereigns of nothingness. Also my longest album title on my list. I was going to say, holy shit. That ain't up a lot of time. George, do we have a tape left to do the rest of this? Sorry, we don't have any room left. That's the episode. Check of every syllable I had. No, it's kind of an experimental, atmospheric black metal from France.

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I feel like I've heard of it but I didn't I don't know if I've listened to it or not yeah I missed that one but like I said I'm behind the re-go I missed that one but you know I didn't catch the name but the really long ass album title did sound familiar so John I think they're opening for Primordial I feel nice I'll go see him all right after Matt's pick my number three is since we don't have that much tape left

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A Band From Spain, Death Doom. I feel like maybe people didn't listen to him enough. I think it's a decent album. It's Ataraxy, Where All Hope Fades. It's a solid album. Did we get the promo for that a while back? We did. I don't know if it's going to make my list in the end, but I think it's a solid album. In your end. Yeah. So you're saying it might be in yours? Well. Want to say that again, George? You got that, George? No.

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That's supposed to be a drop later. Will? It's like he's eating donuts or something on that right now. Chicken. Sorry. He went to the gym today, I'm sure. Protein, man. A lot of beer and protein. We've had one growler so far. I'm going to be reaching back in a little bit. I'm going to reach around a little bit. All right, my number 23.

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And this is the one. Just, George, cue it up. Whatever booze, go F yourselves, you're an idiot, whatever thing you have or all the above on there, put it on there because I'm going to get this number 23. But I would say, on the other hand, it's on my list. Oh, boy. Just get to it. Alkaloid. Yes. Sir, yes, sir.

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I'll be honest with you, if you said slugged, I would have shot it at you. No, no, no. Wait, tell your story, then let's tell John's story real quick. Oh, yeah, no, alkaloid, so liquid anatomy. My thing with alkaloid is, and most of this has been off the air, but there's been a little bit on the air, is alkaloid sounds like the absolute best death metal band ever mixed with Ghost, in my opinion, which I know it just... No. If you don't hear the Ghost, the...

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The harmonized pop in that, you're out of your mind. Because Ghost is metal for people who don't listen to metal. No. Shut the fuck up. Thank you. But I will say this, and I will say, I will use your words, John. John, I'm going back and forth, and you need to tell the story. But anyway, when they do death metal, it's absolutely some of the best death metal I've ever heard in my life. Musically,

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Not necessarily lyrically, but vocally, musically, it's unbelievable. And in John's words, it's like they do Morbid Angel better than Morbid Angel sometimes. And yes, they do yes really well too. I have more about that stuff later. But anyway, John, tell your story. So real quick, Will goes to this event when he can. Jen and I, Jen being my better half, go to this event in D.C. called Savor. We've mentioned this before in the past.

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It's a beer and food experience event at the National Building Museum. It's tons of fun. I know Will's gone before. I'm tons of fun, too. You're two tons of fun, let's be honest. That's savor part two. It's an event where I know Will's worked before. He's poured there before, but you also have gone just to have a good time. It's a lot of fun. If you've never been to the National Building Museum, it's one of my favorite places in the whole city. It's just a great place. Anyway, long story short, I send

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I said, hey, you're going to be at Saver this weekend. Jen and I are going. Let me know if you're going to be there or you're going to be pouring. We'll stop by. He says, no, but make sure you stop by Service Brewing and see Kevin. So I'm on the board of the director of Service Brewing and Service Brewing asked me if I want to pour. I just couldn't pull it off that night. You know, family and kids and stuff like that. Sound bite. I just couldn't pull it off that night. Yeah. So he says, make sure you stop by, say hi, mention me, know me. So I did. And now,

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Now, I mind you, Jen and I went with TR. Everyone knows TR because I've heard him enough. My number seven pick is not a metal band. As TR said last year. Anyway, we hit it hard to start this year. So by the time I got over there, I was feeling pretty good. And I went up and I introduced myself. He said, oh, hey, yeah, cool. And somehow we got on the subject of metal and he asked me, you know,

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And Will can fill me in here because I'm a little fuzzy in some of the details. But it ended up coming out that he said that his favorite album this year. So this is Kevin, the owner of Service Brewing Company. His favorite album, metal album this year was Alkaloid. And I got jacked up. I was like, fuck yeah. And we high-fived and everything. And he says, yeah, you know, that kind of sounded like Ghost. I was just like, you fucking asshole.

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And I'm saying this

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There's a whole group of people

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Waiting to get pours from service brewing

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I almost knocked a woman over

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Because I

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Oh you motherfucker

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Anyway

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It was funny

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Because Will made sure

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I went over and saw them

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And I got burned

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The total setup

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You got trolled

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Which is funny

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Because when I

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When Will asked me to stop over there

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I said oh cool

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I'll definitely stop over

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I'm sure they'll be playing alkaloid

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At their booth where they're pouring

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That's what set it up

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And you said

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I'm sure they'll be playing

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Because this whole thing about the alkaloid has been going on in the background for a month or two. And then Will just shoved a big dick right up my ass. Whoa, whoa, that's a sound bite. That is. It's going to be plentiful after this episode. And that's why I said it. No, it was a great way to get punked, and I had a good time with it, and it was fun. Yeah. But now it is Jay's turn. I think. 23. I think. I don't know. I'm up.

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I like what Jay does. What are you looking at Jay? You look like you're like... I was looking at my memory right there. I was like, what the... I was trying to decide who the fuck... Are you sure? Did you use Digit 23? Yeah. That was Alcalo. That Alcalo. Yeah, that whole 10 minute long story. That started that whole fucking shit show. All right. Speaking of shit shows. Since then, I wonder... Will might have this on his list. I can't be sure, but I guess we'll find out. And I happen to know these guys are out by your way. This one doesn't require a lot of explanations. Yahweh? I'll keep it brief.

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This is a vague relation in my mind in the listening sense to another record on my list I like very, very much. Anywho, Genocide Pact, Order of Children. Oh, nice! Dude, they play Atlas all the time. They're the nicest dudes. Do they really? Yeah. They're like our go-to band. I fucking love Genocide Pact. Dude, it's got killer riffs on it.

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We have another record a little bit.

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Mammoth Grinder?

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No, no.

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Two Mold?

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But...

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Maybe.

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Yeah.

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I didn't want to say it because it's on my list.

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Two Mold plays a lot of Atlas too.

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It's like they're coming up to play the third time, I think.

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That's right.

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Yeah, which is interesting to me.

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So I'll just tell you right now, Two Mold is on my list.

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Or as I like to say it, as somebody who has allergies, Two Mold.

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Two Mold.

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Anywho.

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Nice.

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No, no.

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They're...

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Not only do they play Atlas a bunch, sometimes they just show up to see shows. On the seashore? Yeah, they see shows on the seashore. Dude, it's a super solid record. It is. It pains me because I think Angry Metal Guy gave it a nothing score. And they said, oh, there's no riffs or hooks. I'm like, what? Dude, it is nothing but riffs and hooks. Well, as we've had to say repeatedly, fuck Angry Metal Guy. No, I think that's a positive.

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Unless they say something we like. And then, yay, Angry Metal Guy. I've come to learn that if Angry Metal Guy actually reviews your album, it's getting pressed no matter what they give it. Because tons of people comment. Yeah, because Genocide Pack just got signed to Relapse. And they were one of the first bands to play live at Atlas ever. Oh, I think this is the first release on Relapse since you mentioned it. It's their first release on Relapse, yeah. They have another one. On Relapse, correct. Yeah. Cool.

00:55:36.020 --> 00:56:03.860
So my number 23, I had to get it in now while I could still say it. The band is Hooded Menace and the album is Australian Solarisal Hallowed. I wouldn't be able to say that later. Hold on. You didn't say it now. That was one of my early on favorites. Mine too, but then other things came out. Ah, Shiarum. I looked it up. Whatever.

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I swear I saw him. Hey, before Looch gives us his 22, what are we drinking? Oh, so that was the other gift from Mark and Brian at Adroit Theory. It is the Imagination Atrophy Cherry Macadamia Nut Variance. And hopefully we all enjoy it. Yes, as a matter of fact, my friend Dave from Michigan, who is down here,

00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:38.760
a month-ish or so ago.

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And I introduced him to Adroit Theory and sent him home with some.

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He recently sent me a photo, and he's like,

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can you get me more of these?

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And it was this one.

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So I need to go and pick some.

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I was like, dude, I don't know.

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The way they roll, I don't know if they'll keep making it or not,

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but if I can find some, I'll get it for you.

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So sorry, Dave, I'm drinking some.

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Actually, yeah, I think they're pretty sure they're out.

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I know they went in the back and got me one of these and they said that you should, you know, just make sure you jump on it. Yeah. So that's the way you need to be with all this stuff, right? Dad of Northern Darkness. Actually, no, it's Looch. Can you stand up? Can I see the rest of your, I just want to see if you're wearing pants, but. Oh, yeah. I saw that shirt. Nice. Slayer. Join us. Join us. Welcome back.

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I'm going to need more pizza. It's only 22 and I am feeling it. Has Luke done his 22 yet? So, this is funny because I've known Will for 26 years now, but following his 23, my 22 is alkaloid. What? Liquid anatomy.

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I didn't want this on my list. I'll be honest with you. I think it's yes meets tool meets a form of metal. Bless your heart. I thought I was the only other one who would be. But I will say it's got a little tool-ish in it. It's his interpretation. Go fuck yourself. Not in my fucking album. A little bit of ghost. And you know what? I saw a ghost.

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Like a few years ago. And I love them. I like those. They sound a lot more popular, don't they? But I gotta tell you, for what it is, it was a good album, and so I put it on the list. So there you go. There you go. 22. All right. The Avenue. That's the place where we are. Acacia Avenue. All right, it will be Matt, yes? Yes. 22. Actually, I'm gonna tell you what I'm drinking first. It's called Dudism. It is a white Russian stout. Yeah, I like it.

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The Brewery, it says is Mobcraft, but I think there's something more to it in the sense that people submit ideas or they have their own brews and then Mobcraft takes care of it for them. Kind of like the real Mob? No, not that I'm aware of, but that would actually be pretty cool because then you have a bottle you can smash and hit somebody with. Alright, my number 22 from Sweden, The Ugly Thanatology. Thank you. I have to admit that didn't make my list, but it was in

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I thought that was a really good album. What was the name of that album? The Ugly. No, The Ugly. Thanatology. Okay. I mean, I too was getting kind of smitten with black metal this time around, and that was one of them. You just said getting kind of smitten, and I really did it. Getting kind of smitten. That's a fucking t-shirt right there. I almost passed on it just because of the name The Ugly sounds like a new metal band. Sorry, Looch. But it is actually really good. Let me ask you this,

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George, were you sorry to Luce about the new metal comment or the ugly comment? Oh, definitely the new metal. He is one sexy bitch. No, you're right. I hope he'll be my sexy bitch at the end of the show. I'll tell you what, I just met George today finally and I'm telling you, me and him are twin brothers, dude. It's ridiculous. No, you know who you look like a little bit, Luce? I have a little more tattoos than he has, just a bit. I'm a behind on that one. I don't buy for a second you don't hear this sometimes, but Luce looks a little bit like Billy Joel, doesn't he? He does. Wow. Really? You could be with Christy Brinkley.

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I'll tell you what. If you had any talent whatsoever. And a lot of money. You may say he looks like him, but he doesn't act like Billy Joel, and that's a positive for us. Oh, yeah, for sure. Douchebag. Stop. I like Billy Joel. He's a douche to his bandmates. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of douches. But yeah, I get it. I like Megadeth, and I like... Oh, you can like the music. That's cool. Yeah. I don't care about Billy Joel as a person. I just like his music. Where are we at? That would be... John. John.

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So, Looch, if I worked with you, will you be the cool guys at your place? Yeah! Talk to me. I don't know what to do with this album. I know I like it, but I don't know where to put it. I agree with Jay on what song on it is the best song. Soundbite. It's Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins. I agree, Jay. The song Last Call is some of the best stuff that Primordial's done in years. It kind of reminds me of the Gathering Wilderness, you know,

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back in that period a little bit. But I don't know what I think about the album. I like it. And when it's on, it's really on for me. And there's parts I'm kind of like, eh, move on. So it's a good album. I think it'll probably stay on my list, maybe. It should. I feel like they deserve that because they put out so many good years. But it's a solid album. It could be better, but it's solid. Might be one of those ones that gets mentioned quite a few times.

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today's a matter of fact.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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What number are we on?

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22.

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22.

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All right.

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So I just folded my paper up so no one could see anything that was on it.

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Aside from number 22, Primordial.

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All right.

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I dig it, man.

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Wow.

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George and John are rubbing off on Will.

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That's not the first time that's happened.

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I rubbed off on the way up.

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Roadhead is great.

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So,

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just,

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if you've been listening to this with your kids,

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you probably ought to get them out of here.

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It's usually my kids.

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Oh yeah,

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if you expected me to do Buckwheat,

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y'all better get the fuck out now.

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You remember that?

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Eddie Murphy.

01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:48.800
Eddie Murphy.

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Eddie Murphy.

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By the way,

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I have a doctor that asked me if she could listen to the podcast.

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I'm like,

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I don't know if you want to do that.

01:02:54.120 --> 01:02:54.180
Yeah,

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I have people at work.

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I'm like,

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you do not want to listen.

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Don't go.

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No.

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There's a reason Jen doesn't listen.

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Oh my God,

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If my wife ever listens, she'd be horrified. I've been trying to get somebody at work to listen, so I'm going to give her a shout. Hey, Z. And if you're listening, then cool. I know. Anyway. You make it to 15. Yeah. If you get to the end, you never make it to the end. Nobody does. If you made it this far, you can make it to the end. So for me, the primary... Go ahead. Oh, I was going to say, my wife, she asked me that issue. She was like, does it hurt your feelings that I don't listen to it? And I was like... It's a relief. No.

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It's better for our marriage if you don't. And you said thank you? Yeah. So for me, the primordial, I think the first half of the album or the first quarter of the album is absolutely fucking amazing. I agree. And then it really drops off toward the end. And I did read the Angry Metal guy who gave it a 2.0. And they just said it just kind of meanders and goes on too long. And I do agree with that. But it's like alkaloid to me.

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There's a reason why Alkaloid and Primordial are 22 and 23. Is that when they're on, holy shit they're on. It is absolutely amazing. But when they're kind of off, it's sort of like, you know how to make this awesome. Keep doing awesomeness. Stop with this nonsense. And so I just felt like the Primordial just sort of started strong and went downhill. I think it finishes very strong, but in between is rough. Yeah, there's an in between.

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I think Jay and I will agree on something that I'll bring up later, but Permanent is like another band on my list, and I'll explain that later. There's a reason why I feel strongly about this album, being what it is, based on another band, too. I feel strongly about it. I think it's funny that, like I said, it's just the opposite with me, where we have both the same picks, both right together. It's the same thing. It's great when it's great, and then it's just like, ah, so I put it. Ah, if you could only see. All right.

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I haven't seen it in five years. What do you think? Five? 25. Take your word for it. It's called a mirror. Yeah, get a mirror on your floor. You'll be fine. Do what the girls do. They hold a mirror underneath their crotch so you can see what's going on. My feet aren't that long. They haven't done that since 1973. Our bodies ourselves. My 22 is an Italian boom band that I discovered this year. I think they have another release. I'm not sure.

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To me, it's female vocals done right. And what I mean is she sort of embraces what she's got going for her instead of trying to sound like a guy singing metal, which happens sometimes. And she's got this haunting voice. Mesa, Feast for Metal. Or Feast for Water, excuse me. I had a feeling I was going to be on your list. It's really good. Another one that may not survive the year, but I did put it in quite a few times. People seem to be happy with their two releases. They seem to be consistent amongst.

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Yeah, I haven't heard that. I remember the first album. Yeah, me either. And I probably should check it out since I did enjoy this. The first album got a lot of talk. It did, yeah. I remember a lot of people going crazy for it. Distinctive album cover I can always remember. It's like a lighthouse or something. In a lake or something, yeah. Quality, though. It's got quality stuff. Yeah. That brings us back to Big Man. My number 22 is a recent edition, and I have to thank our friend Neutrino, a.k.a. Chris, because he brought this to my attention.

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And it is very good and it just released yesterday

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but I've been listening to it

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for a couple days. And this is

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Funeral Mist Hecatomb.

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What did I say to you about that?

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I made some snarky comment, didn't I?

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Because you saw me buy it on Bandcamp.

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I was like, oh yeah, I said stop buying music on Bandcamp

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you're fucking up your list.

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Yeah, well, I'd already

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listened to it before then.

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You guys seem to like that.

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Yeah, it's good. It's black metal

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with a good production

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quality. I mean, it's not overproduced, but it's nice and tight. So, it's good. Just like you like it. Just like I like it. Well, after years and years, sorry. Fast and loose with the black metal, it's nice to see something a little tight. Hot dog down the hallway. Oh, I almost spit my beer. What was that from? That's from a family guy thing. Yeah.

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This is just there's so many soundbites already. We're on number 21. 21. Let's see where I'm at here. Yeah, there it is, guys. Hey, 21. Machine Head. Catharsis. Let me tell you something. All right, here we go. And I knew I was going to get shit, but listen. We still love you.

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Since 91. Are you fucking serious? Listen to me. It's on my fucking list. I told you it was on my fucking list. I dug them in the Marine Corps. They could definitely get harder. I know that. Do you think? They have changed a bit over the years. You think? No, sir. It's definitely one of my softer picks, but it's a nostalgia pick for me. I dug it. I like the album. Hey, if you have softer dicks, that's fine.

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And that's my 21. I like older Machine Head. It's not like all Machine Head is bad. No, no, I said they definitely changed over the years. But this album was wow. It's, yeah, well, it's the first album in what, how many years? It was, uh... It's been a couple years. Yeah, three, four years. Three, four years, yeah. The last one was actually decent. Hey, man, it's all subjective. You like what you like, man. Like I said, I was like, you know what? But we will ridicule you. Oh, and I deserve it. That's fine. It's all uphill from here. Yeah, hey, it's going to be good.

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You're gonna look way better now. There's literally nothing I can say today. Nothing. It's like I got a free hall pass for the next 21 picks. I'm gonna have fun today. Lute is a gift that keeps on giving. The neighbors are probably going, what the fuck is going on over there? Just to let you know, Machine Head is also my third and

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First pick. Just plug it back in again. Where? In your ear. In your fucking ear. Ta-da! Yeah, my earphones don't do that. Because you don't have Motorhead earphones. Yeah, you can replace the cable when they suck like this one does and I need to get a new cable. So that was Machine Head Catharsis at 21. Oh, you should just go drink that new metal beer that you have.

01:10:00.200 --> 01:10:29.840
Yeah, you know what? Let's go. We can broke that one up. All right. I'm going to give you my next. This is a shitty pick. Trust me. Wait, wait, wait, wait. It's Matt's turn. Matt's turn. Oh, sorry. Well, we're taking out Treehouse Catharsis that I brought just for that thing. So we have to drink Machine Head. Yeah, so you can all enjoy it as I did. Well, it should be a light beer. I bet that beer is better than Machine Head. All right. Hit it.

01:10:30.200 --> 01:10:30.540
Matt.

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My number 21, Prim or Dial, Exile Amongst the Rooms.

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Nice.

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I choose Prim.

01:10:38.020 --> 01:10:38.760
I like the dial.

01:10:39.420 --> 01:10:40.600
Hey, you can't make fun of me.

01:10:40.700 --> 01:10:41.580
I'm not that drunk yet.

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I understood what you were doing there.

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I forgot we did that.

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All right, we got 20 more to go.

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I will be there.

01:10:50.160 --> 01:10:51.120
No, I got to drive today.

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Nice.

01:10:55.480 --> 01:10:56.460
All right, my 21.

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Yep.

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I would like to follow Matt and try to butcher this name, but it's going to be hard enough to say as it is. You can do it, John. You can do it. I'm going to butcher what it already is. Soliloquium. Soliloquium. Contemplations. Excellent. I think it's a solid Death Doom album. Yeah. With some tiny prog overtones in it. Yeah, I think tiny. I think they did more Doom than Death on this one. This one, yeah. For sure.

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And he's on regular music and I see him posting all the time. So maybe I hit him up. Is this a one man project? Is that what he is? I think he's the main guy but I think there's two probably regular band members. I'll just pour it for you. Is that what you're saying Kim Jong George? I am the master. You will pour for me. Hey how did your meeting go with President Trump? Very well. Very well. We're good friends. How come we never introduced us to your porn collection? Yeah. Huh?

01:11:57.340 --> 01:12:26.920
Your Concubine Collection. You ever heard about that? No. Kim Jong-il had like the largest porn collection in the world. Oh, really? Yes. Wow. I don't know what to say about that. Matt right now is like, oh my god, have you seen my house? I did not read that. That's what all the Ikea shelving's for. Or your shed. Yeah. We're gonna need to. What the hell are you doing?

01:12:27.340 --> 01:12:56.360
Will discovers a chicken bite. Remember he said he was good without them? Yeah. He's enjoying it. Let's just make a lot of noise. I kind of want the Chariots of Fire theme in the background. More better yet, what is it, Girlfriend Ipanema from the Blues Brothers? I love that song. I know those guys. I have that album.

01:12:57.900 --> 01:12:58.520
All right.

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Where are we?

01:13:00.740 --> 01:13:01.460
Are we John?

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I'll repeat mine again if I need to soliloquize.

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Oh, right.

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We are Will, then.

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Will's chewing.

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Swallow, Will.

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Swallow.

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Thank you, may I have another?

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Get back in the pile!

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Black metal.

01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:20.480
Did I just say that out loud?

01:13:20.740 --> 01:13:20.840
Wow.

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Yeah.

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For the world to hear, or for at least the other ten people listening to hear.

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Wilt.

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Ruin. All the way from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Manitoba. Yeah. What I really dig about this album, it is this epically beautiful symphony of black metal. And yes, I just said that out loud. What's cool about this, it was inspired by Cormac McCarthy's book, The Road. Oh, really? And if you've seen the movie, it's the Viggo Morrison

01:13:56.620 --> 01:14:25.760
movie, the post-apocalyptic world where him and his son are trying to basically get through the world and survive. The film is just too depressing. I know, but it was good, though. It was really good. Yeah, that's a tough story. I think the dad of Northern Darkness can hit home a little bit on this with his son, William. My son, William, was when you have a son and you watch a movie like this, you will do anything in the world to make that kid survive. So anyway.

01:14:26.080 --> 01:14:56.040
For What It's Worth, Will, I've seen it a movie like five times. I fucking love that movie. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, this album is based on, the Will album is based on that book or slash the movie. And it's a beautiful black metal symphony. Did not know that. That book is iconic in the sci-fi world. Yeah. It's a great book, yeah. The book, I read the book before I saw the movie. Fuck. Oh, like Corbin. Anytime you have a book where they put a newborn baby on a spit to eat it, that's pretty fucking crazy. Yeah, it's funny.

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It's like The Last of Us video game or something. So that's one of my black metal picks. I really like that album. If I listen to it more, it could be higher. Way higher. Way higher. Take me higher. I'm going to see some of my early picks here pretty quick because there's just not a lot to say about some of them except this was the second record by this band. California Boys, Straight Up Good Death Metal, a little bit old school.

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Better Production than this one. Skeletal Remains, Devouring Mortality. Nice. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Solid record. Yeah, super solid. And that's all the comment I have for it. 21? Is that where we are? 21. 21. I am 21. All right. Yeah, you're 21. I just sent this one out to the guys, I think, like, yesterday. I've listened to it for a few more days than that. Nobody responded, so I'm guessing nobody listened to it. Wait, wait, wait. So that means you've had it for a couple days and you held it from a place.

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So you got to put it on your phone. Did you put it in the trash can in the box? No, I just sent you the Bandcamp link. So you're the only person who's on your list and you listen to it for a few days. Anyway. Thank you, John George. How are you doing? The band is called Atme or Atme and the album is Sewer Born. It's their first album. It's a death metal album and it's kind of technical, I guess, and it's good. You should listen to it and like it. I don't know if I want to now.

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you as soon as I realized it was worth listening to. It's not like we had a promo or anything. I don't know. I don't think we did. Okay. It was just something I found on Bandcamp. So fuck you guys. Come on. Look, I just found it, alright? Jesus. I didn't tell anybody to share anything. Jesus. Just fucking around. Jesus. You know salt really hurts when it goes on your chap.

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Now let me tell you it really does Wait didn't you just say that earlier today? No dude we've been saying that for like a half a year now Oh yeah Okay No the new one we said you'll hear it later George Alright alright By the way You really edited that and got into the sound bite quick Yeah We're five picks in I know Shit Show Matt and Jay are just like Come on Fucking drunk This is a shit Holding strong

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I like it. All right. Hey, Matt, this is just a preview to Decibel Fest. Yeah. Oh, right. Yeah, you better be going. Yeah, absolutely. I'm already looking forward to this shit, man. Matt's joining us on the couch. Yeah, no. My cousin just moved out to Philly for a year. So he and he's usually been, you know, a cohort of mine in the metal touring realm. So he would like to join us as well.

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I got a buddy joining us too. I am honestly like... Who did you say was joining you? His cousin, Co. Not Eric. No, but Eric will join us too. Sweet! Seven-way dick punch! Yeah. Maybe even 11. But once we started talking about it, I already started not sleeping with just giddiness of, you know, just the thought. You know what? Somebody's going to have to be a designated couch driver to get us off the couch. Because we may miss bands.

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I hope all the bands suck and we just stay on the couch. So now that Matt's going to be there, I have to bring double the amount of beer that I brought? Yeah, he drinks a lot. Oh, it's going to be fucking chaos. It goes all right to his nose. All right. Who wants my number 20? We're in our top 20 now. New metal. Anyone? New metal? No? Nothing. The in and the out.

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Parkway Drive. O.M.G.

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You are so hot.

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Somebody's been listening to Liquid Metal lately.

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So Parkway Drive, Reverence.

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Again, my buddy Ryan at work got me on these guys.

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I do actually like them.

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If you got on them, I hope you like them.

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That's the one I ever listened to.

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He just had, we had like a freaking

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Pandora mix or some shit going on one day

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and I heard a couple songs

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from them and I was like, hey, these

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they sound fucking good. Who's this?

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And he told me and I've listened to the album

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and I like it and it's on my fucking list.

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The only thing I can comment is I've heard

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that the new album's

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a little heavier than normal. It's actually pretty fucking good. They have little, you know, spouts of sprinkles and sparkles, but I fucking like the album. I was like, you know, I actually gave it a listen and I fucking liked it, man. I got, I fucking strapped on my feather boa and fucking marked my ass down the hall and I looked beautiful. I kissed a girl and I liked it. I felt pretty. So damn you all to hell.

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Parkway Drive, Reverence, number 20. Well, that was a podcast first. All right. Hit it, Matt! Save my ass! Number 20. Bringing it back. I should have listened a little bit more closely, John, when you said it, because I don't remember the title of this album, but from the Netherlands, Vessenville, it's either I or one.

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I'm assuming it's one, but maybe it's I. I don't know. Thank you, Matt, for bringing us back. It's also pronounced their neater lungs, by the way. Their dear neater lungs. And I wanted to almost call this, Sean, it was kind of black, but almost like a technical black in some parts. And I don't know. Yeah. That's just all I have. It's a solid album. Yeah. Technical black, that's an interesting concept. Yeah. It'd be kind of cool if someone could pull that off. Yeah, I'd like that. Future Roundtable.

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Well, I don't know what it's like to win the lottery, but I'm feeling like it today. I've got carte blanche like you wouldn't believe. John usually feels like the one that's put upon. No, I just feel like I have to say fuck you guys every episode, but that's cool. I mean, I could throw Machine Head on my list now and not get shit for it, which is kind of nice. I got mad street cred right now. That's what it is, man. I was testing the waters today. That's all I was doing.

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I'm just feeling out of things. This one's already been mentioned. Another album I don't know what to do with, but I do like this album. I just don't know where to put it. And that's Rivers of Nile, Where Owls Know My Name. George got me turned on to this. He said, you know, I didn't dig the last one, but this is actually really good. You might like it. Gave it a spin. I was like, this is not bad. I think you know where to put it at number 20. No, I don't know where to put it because I'm not sure how much I like it. There's books that will teach you where to put it.

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My grandma showed me. Anyway. All right. That's my number 20. Will. My number 20. The Inquisitor Downfall of the Apostates from Colorado. This is relentless rhythmic black metal. Or death metal. Sorry. Sorry. I was looking at Lucha's butt. There you go.

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Did you say something? I didn't catch that.

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I'll change it up.

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It's magnificent.

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If you keep going with stouts, I'm going to just be laying on the floor.

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We're going to drink something that's not a stout.

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Oh, God.

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We've got to mix it up.

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How about some Brimming Horn?

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Before we get to shithouse, we have to have...

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There's two things that we need to have before we get to shithouse.

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One is Brimming Horn, which I'm not going to take any.

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I've had some.

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It's for you guys. The other thing we need to have is... I've had it too, but I'll take some. Utopia. Yeah. All right, let's finish our 20, and then we'll take a break. All right. Food and pee for me. Did you do the 20 in that order? Will turned me on to this one, though it's certainly visible and out there. I think we're at me, right? Yeah. Okay. I think it's visible. I know it's visible and out there, but

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Will was the first one who mentioned it to me and I kind of looked it up, checked it out, and it stuck pretty hard as a matter of fact. I dig it. They're starting to get into what I consider the meat of my list. These are the ones that I know are going to survive probably. Church without a U in it. Light will consume a thought. Oh, nice. It's a solid pick. I mean, it's an evening, you know what I mean? You've got to sit down and just surrender to this fucking thing. It's not a casual listen. Not by a long shot. I mean, I guess you could, but...

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Maybe that's the appeal of the album that you have to give it all your attention. You really gotta go with it. And I think that's the same for the first album. I felt the same way. I like the first album a little bit more for whatever reason. They're both solid albums. Yeah, yeah. Number 20. I think I will get both shit for how low this is. Cheers and cheers. But also acclaim for it being on my list.

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George is getting a handjob. Say it. Yob. Our raw hearts. Okay. It's on. It's on there. It's on the list here. Okay. And we had to convince George is not, I wouldn't say he's not a Yob fan, he just is a newbie. You're a newbie to Yob. Were you surprised by that? I'm not a newbie. I was reviewing their, what is that, Illusion of Motion album many, many years ago. I just haven't liked them until now. So that's funny, because I've gotten in them all later.

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than you, Dan from Winnipeg, our friend. Claganger. He got me into them. He said just start. And Mike Klassen from Winnipeg. The last album was good, Clearing the Path to a Science. I like that one a little bit better than this one. Me too. He told me to get into them. I'm down big time now with them, so it's good to hear George's. Are you down with the sickness? You know, I don't like them, but I have to give them a little bit of props. I could never do that if I tried.

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Is that disturbed? Yeah. He does pull it off. Let's do a quick reset break. Yeah. Yeah. Reset break. Fill beer. Break. Like taking wee-wee and all that? Yeah. In your mouth. Food. Wee-wee. Yeah. Dude, you're killing me with the fucking stouts, man. Well, that's what I fucking like. I'm not complaining, man. I'm fucked up. That's what I like. But I don't want to come out and find these two.

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So listen, the stuff that we have to have, there's other ones I can just wait on.

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We still have a sump that we have to drink? Fuck.

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We can do that later.

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Alright, so honestly I have two that we have to do on there if you want to talk.

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Alright, which is?

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Gotland's Dricker, and then the one from Adam, dude, the fucking Dimebag tribute beer.

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Okay.

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Sour tea, IPA.

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The beer from your friend.

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We can do that after, whatever you want to do with that, you know what I mean?

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Alright.

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That's this one right here.

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Now Will's going to open up our drink. Meanwhile, back at the bar. What do we have here? I still remember the night that Will and I and who was with us? I'm sorry. I can't remember his name. Blake. Blake. I'm sorry, Blake. I'm trying to blank about Blake. It's a little bottle. It's kind of little. Oh, dude. Pour it for me, dude. It's so cold.

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It does have girth. It's gonna just take over your body. We are opening up my last bottle of Brimminghorn Meadery's goat blood. The official mead of it. This is so good and I don't even like mead.

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I believe you I am anticipatory and what just you know that's drink that just to rinse out your glass hats off to to the meadery they have been nothing but responsive and supportive just smelling it oh yeah I want to make a I need to go there and when I had troubles with the shipping and stuff the guy was extremely responsive extremely apologetic um wow yeah they've been great about it they they interact with us

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Whenever there's any point to interact, they've been great. I mean, aside from Jay, this is the best thing you ever put in your mouth, right? Ah! Jay's not even there to appreciate it. Jay loses out. I like dicks. Matt, if you had this, even you'd be oohing and on. I have not, and I have no doubt you are right. This is good mead. Rinse it. Drink it. I have some on my leg if anyone wants to suck it off. George, I'll take some. You can save more for others.

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I just would like a little. Even the smell is amazing. Oh, God. My nipples are hard. Meanwhile, my next doctor's visit. Wow. Holy shit, man. Wow. I hope you are not oohing and aahing over this because I've said it so awesome. No, it's fucking great. That is really good. Literally, when we had this at Will's, I think I stopped in the middle of the podcast and just looked at him and we both at the same time was like, this is fucking amazing. To me, this is... We didn't say anything for a couple minutes. I will give up beer.

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to only drink this, in my opinion. See, now I'm ashamed of my machine head pick. Now you are? Now? I don't think I should drink this. You should just appreciate the friendship you have with Will right now. He accepted your pick and gave you some meat. Yes. Yeah, this is really fucking good. There's so many dick sucking motions right now. Can we check this in? Yeah. Can I have the bottle? Yes.

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I have one. You don't have that. Are you an Incantation fan like I am? I am now. You converted me. Yes. You're a super fan. In more ways than one. You were giddy to re-interview them. This is one of those times where it's like, almost like don't meet your heroes because you're going to make an ass out of yourself. I really made an ass out of myself. This is that one time when it was the three of us, you, me, and Jay, and I think, were you that way? I just stood in the back and let you guys talk because you were just like, Incantation.

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Oh my god. John Mac and Cheese. Will, your statement was don't meet your heroes because you're going to make an ass out of yourself. But you could just leave the don't make your heroes part out of it. You're going to make an ass out of yourself. Let's like this list up, boys. Let's move it along. Let's move along. These are the droids you're looking for. Oh, yeah. So number 19, Looch. Oh, my. Let's see what I got here.

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Linda Ronstadt. No.

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What have you been listening to? The 70s channel and XM Series coming down?

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Alrighty. Purist of Pain, Solipsis.

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Who?

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Yeah.

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What?

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Came out in March. They're from the Netherlands. I played it straight through a few times.

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This was up and down my list, actually, but Purist of Pain, Solipsis.

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I have no comment because I don't know it. Give it a shot. All right. Number 19. All right. Number 19. This band is from the country where 50% of my ancestors came from, Will. That would be Poland, where I get my nose. Some atmospherical black slash post-metal. The band is called, and I'm going to script the name, but I believe it's Hegemon, and the album's called We Disappear. Nice. I think it's Hegemon, just so you know. Hegemon.

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Yeah, right on. It's like Pokemon, but not. But it's hegemony. Hegemony? We disagree. Jamonet. Jamonet. I went to Poland last year. It was cool. Right, because you did the barbershop? That's right. Yeah, okay. That's where Jay gets his nose, too. No, my nose comes from Sicily. And you can't get my nose. It's epic. It's a list all its own. Your glasses do a nice job of covering it. You know when you

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Buy those Groucho Marx glasses, the ones with the mustache and the glasses and the big nose. I just buy the glasses and the mustache. Actually, those aren't glasses. That's a VW Bug windshield that he has on that note. I'll put mine on for the second half of the show in three hours. 19. 19. John, yeah. Another band from Spain. I think it's the first time I've had two bands from Spain on here.

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this album when it came out when I told them about it. Oceans of Grief, Night Falls Lament. Yeah, it's cool. Good record. I didn't know if anyone else got into it, but I thought it was a solid album. I liked it. Not quite. It was in contention for me, but I didn't. They're from Spain? I believe so. Are you sure? Pretty sure. Yeah, where do you think they're from? Spain, Georgia. Greece. Are they from Greece? They're from Spain, New Jersey. Somebody needs to look this up. Well, there's any number of computers in play here. I'll look it up.

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So they're either from Spain or Greece. I don't know. One of those places that don't speak English too well. Spain or Jersey. One of those. Well, I will stand corrected if they're from Greece. I will stand corrected if they're from Spain. I will stand erect no matter what. All right, let me just get the about loaded here. Let's see where these motherfuckers are from. They are from... They don't like to tell you. I think they're Greek.

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They're from Athens. Jay, while we're waiting, is that... May I ask, a Walgreens scarf? This is one of those stupid fucking... I'm trying to kill my headaches. This thing heats up on the microwave, so I'm heating my neck, which I feel much better. So I fucked up, but that's okay, because I've got a full pass for the whole episode. You can say whatever you want. You know, I'd like to cash one of my cards in there.

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I have unlimited cash cards here so sorry about that oceans of grief oceans of grief from Greece

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hmm

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their names give it away because they're all like Philip

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this is

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well you got a 19 over there somewhere 19 sleep the sciences there you go

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um I doesn't that I I I feel like I had this on my list because it's sleeper I think there's what six songs on the album the first song doesn't even count

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It's just a bunch of reverb and noise. Yeah. Is that like half of their other albums? No, I'm a big Sleep fan, and I just think this one was sort of... There was three songs that I really, really enjoyed on it. And one that my favorite song is Giza Butler. Probably best song title of the year if it wasn't for Sludge. Yep. Yep. Yeah, exactly.

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Giza Butler and something about the first couple lines is something about super high and underpass. I just think it's the funniest goddamn thing in the world. All right, I'm going to take it from there and go to my 19th. There you go. So my 19th is, I feel, this is on everybody's list, most everybody's list, and I'll tell you why it's 19 for me, which is,

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I love I can do math metal for sure you know which but if it gets a little too mathy and John will appreciate this comment more than anybody on the Prague train come from librarian I can do Prague but on the Prague train I get off around Livia Strangiato that's my station you know what I mean like I mean if you're gonna get super mathy on me come on that's stated you're gonna have to say after Livia Strangiato yeah after no no I mean okay now I can agree so that's stated and some of Will's comments I would mirror and I'll just say alkaloid

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Liquid Anatomy. No, I find that every time that we, even if we mention alkaloids super low on our list, John is still happy. Yeah, for sure. I am proud of John. He's being very inclusive. And that brings us to the Georgia board. Nineteen. Crescent, the Order of Amenti. Will just got excited.

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Me, massive boner. George, get love from Will all night. Me love you long time. Wow, you made Will happy. Oh, no brew pills for this boner. I thought you'd like that. Loach. 18? What are you throwing at us next? No, you know what? It's a solid one, at least. But it might be on different.

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Parts of you guys list. Judas Priest, Firepower. Yes! Good choice. So, what can I say? Halford just won't ever fucking lose it. I love that they're still making quality music. They don't fall off. In fact, it's a fucking great album. It's a very great album. They have not started listening to Fish and made a jam band record like Iron Maiden did. Or Parkway Drive or any of that. I mean, it's no Machine Head.

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It's definitely no machine head. Judas who? Give me a fucking break. But anyway, yeah, so that's my 18. Judas Priest firepower. Solid. It might be the only album that I will be a little upset if it's not on everybody's list, but I believe it's got to be. If it's not on everybody's list? Yeah, it better be. That's my point. It's just out of respect, if nothing else, but it probably is. All right, that would be Matt. My number 18 is a band that is from Spain. Their name is Unreal Overflows, and their album is...

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Say the album again? Hey, I had a band from Spain earlier. Come on. The album is called Latent. Think of like... What's the name of the band? The band is called Unreal Overflows. They're kind of a later era death with a little bit more tech to them. I have not heard this. I must listen. Listen, I must. Oh my god, this... Mead. Mead is amazing. I love it. Second time around, it's still awesome.

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Breminghorn. Milton, Delaware. Can we buy stock in this? Home with Dogfish Head. They're going to make another bash, I heard. This might be the only brewery beatery that George is willing to bring on. Just because it's that good. I've told you guys. And they're total metalheads, yeah. And honestly, I keep going back. I'm drinking it and it's great, but the nose is fucking nuts. It is. It really is. They're right there. So good. They're right there. I mean, don't make fun of them right in front of their feet.

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The best big nose joke will always be, hey, why the long face? Jay is my bitch. Yay, Yanni's back. Hasn't been on for a little while. I love Yanni. John. Johnny boy. Is it my pick? Yes, sir. Anybody from Greece over there or Spain? What do you got?

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I guess from Sweden, but it wouldn't go over that well because he's from Norway. Oh, no. Are you serious? That feels a little low, but we'll take it. It is because... Is this Eson? Yes, it's Eson. And I'll tell you why. Because Jay said this earlier. He said, I didn't know... Wow. What the fuck is that? I feel better. I liked it on the first listen, but then it kind of like,

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I don't know. It's not as good as the other stuff. But the more I listen, the more I'm convinced it's going to be higher in my year-end. I hope so. Jesus. You've got to give it about four or five spins, and then it just turns on. The Legion of Prague is disappointed. I'll say this. There's a darkness that you start to feel. The instrumentation could get to you in some senses. It's not poppy at all. That's what some people said. It's fucking dark. Let me do this properly. Number 18! You know what? I got that one.

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The Arctus didn't make my top shot number. Let me do this properly. You wasted number 18 on that? I'll tell you guys. No, George's was better. John, you'll feel better when you get to my 18 because I'm about to get fucking eviscerated by everybody for my 18. Can't be worse than my shit. No, I mean it. Jay, you've got a free pass too. We all have free passes. Thanks to Lich. We've got beers and we've got frowns. Come on, dude. Fucking redeem me. Bury yourself.

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But I think I'll like this album more as I listen to it. So there. Eson. I think of it as hammer. Like hammer without the H. Hammer. Oh wait. Was that a television show? It made it been. Will. Get us out of this shit show. Take us to your 18. 18. Two mold. Matter of infinite form. Two mold. Don't mog. One of the things I absolutely

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What I absolutely love about Tumult, aside from their brilliant musicianship, is that they like to play Atlas Brew Works. And they're going to play again, I think, for at least a second or third time. So you're biased, is what you're saying? Maybe. I know it. I am biased. And I will fully admit my bias that if I have many times said that if I have friends with people in a band, I tend to like that album higher. Because if they end up to be really nice people, and they play my brewery, and they're

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make fucking great music, then yeah. So what you're saying is that if Machine Head played Atlas, they could be on your list. Okay. Well, let's not get crazy. Hold on. We know Machine Head's heading that direction because they're going from playing 10,000 season places to playing breweries. Wait, what are you saying about my brewery? I'm saying you wouldn't let them play there. That's what I'm saying. I honestly, I think I would have to say no. You might not even let them drink there. Not if they're going to wear those whiteboards.

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We get free beer. No, they have to pay free beer. Every band that comes there, they all get free beer. Unlimited free beer, whatever they want, all the tap. It would be pay to play. You need to pay us $500 to play here, and you need to buy your beer. Listen, I'm finding that... I mean, I'm a pretty intelligent guy, but I'm starting to feel bad. Like, I made a bad pick on that. Are you guys not with me on that? Because I'm feeling a little wavy about it.

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At first I thought you didn't get it but I know you got it. You be you. I can't wait. Tomorrow we're going to have Matt Flynn just tweeting the shit out of our podcast pissed off. No he's going to be like who's that dude? He's in my fucking corner. Two mold. Matter of Infinite Forms. Two mold. Okay so now the reason this is going to make John feel a little better is because I'm sure you guys will all think I should have had this a little higher. And I'll just throw it out there. Chemist. Desolation. Loser.

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That's what she said. You suck. I'm going to start to have more to say about some of my picks moving up. I know some of you boys are going to have that. You can discuss it at length if you wish to. Jay's going to say, well, it hasn't been released yet. That is true. Oh, fuck. But we've had it for weeks. That's true. But you know what? I'm sorry about that. You're killing my point. Jay, have you ever seen Chemist Live?

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Yeah, he even met them. Yeah. Well, we all met them. Yeah. Yeah, so Zach was the one I talked to the most, actually, and then, of course, we got to hang out with him at Decibel. And you know what? I will reserve judgment, Saint, because that was one of the things George said, was that when he saw him live, it kind of turned them around for him in a positive sense. That's what I said. The worm has turned. The worm has turned. And I fully would embrace that.

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Well, I have seen them live, but by the way, they played like a 25-30 minute set when I saw them. Decibel Fest, they were cool. Death Fest, like fucking badass. And it was only for like the first three seconds that Phil's vocals were like, he just needed to warm up a little bit. He just had to adjust, yeah. And then once he warmed up, just forget about it. Yep, exactly. It'd be Thursday, I didn't care what we saw after that. It was all gravy after then. But yeah, I had to take me a culpa there a little bit.

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It didn't even stop the dawn of me that this hadn't come out yet. So I feel bad about that. Yeah. Well, no, I get, I get, Jay gave you an order. No, no, no, but it will come out before July 1st. That's all it counts. Oh, perfect. July 1st is the cutoff. It comes out the 22nd. Probably going to come out before this gets posted. Nobody was better than chemists at MDF, period. No. Blood Incantation was awesome. Not even close. Yeah. Doddheim's card was good. And you said you were awesome too. But still, chemists. Yeah. No, and truth be told,

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We did spend a little bit of time with them before and after the show. Of course. Yeah. And we had a good time hanging out. Regardless of how cool they are, which they are amazingly cool. Number 17. 18. 18. Who? Who is number one? Oh, that was you. Right, right. Okay, 18. Ingested. Oh. The level above human. Whoa. Whoa, Georgie. We need a... Will, do I have to Uber home tonight?

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No, because you need to be... You need some roadhead to keep me away. Roadhead. Don't make me shoot incantation meat out my nose. Just don't stop short. All right. Who's going to venture into number 17? Looch. All right. What will you bestow on us now, Looch? Well, right after Judas Priest.

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Number 17. This doesn't sound good. Ode to Catatonic J. Monster Magnet Mindfucker. Okay, it's time for the first reach around over there, John. If you could do something for me, I'd appreciate it. All right, so I'll tell you. I'll say it again. My phone just buzzed in my pants. Sorry.

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I admitted my mistake to you there. And so seeing them live, I had to fucking listen to this album. They were great at doing so. And I'll tell you what, hail fucking Windorf, because the dude, the fucking album is solid. And I dug it, dude. So it's on my list. That's a driver right there. Get yourself a 1978 Dodge Challenger or Charger. Put that fucker in the 8-track and down you go, dude. That's a good record.

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I think we were all standing, Jay was back and forth, but we were standing in the back for them. Yeah. We were all like, these guys are fucking cranking out. And I said it, you said he's what, like 60 or some fucking shit. He's 60 years old. The dude was fucking just action, dude. He was flying all over the place. They played fucking awesome. So I started burning that album, man. It was good. That was one of the bands that I was really disappointed that I didn't get to see. They were fun to see. They were a lot of fun. Like I said, never gave them a shot. And I'm like, wow, I missed out, I guess, because they're fucking good.

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Power Trip is one of my all-time favorite albums. They're also one of those bands that has really embraced Europe because they could play bigger places there, so you just don't have many chances to see them here now. And so I was, I'd say it was one of my high points of Decibel, for sure. Yeah, fucking great, man. All right, Mateo. My number 17, Eson, and I believe it is pronounced a mister. What? What? A mister for the win. I'm sticking with the hammer.

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Take these broken wings. And learn to fly again. Learn to live so free. Wait, I'll take it. That's another thing. Mr. Mister. Yeah. Save that. Wow, this thing came to the right. George started singing. Oof. You were actually on key, though. I'll give you that. Nicely done. Thank you.

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I have proven that you can sing in key and badly at the same time. I don't know how you did that. Hey, William Hung made a career of that shit. I don't think he sang in key. You know what? God bless his heart for getting up there. Thank you. What is this? What are we drinking here? All right, real quick, just to invoke the holy name of Adam Teppledalin. This is a gift from our dear master,

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Pastor Adam Tepedellan of Decibel Magazine fame. The Holy Bible. So, you have a copy on the table right there. Yep, who wrote the Brutal Truth Guide to Extreme Beers. It's at the center of the pentagram. Volume 1. So, this is, it came from Canada. It's, I guess the place is called Moon Underwater. But it's a tribute to Dimebag Daryl. It's Dimebag Sour Key IPA. Turn it around and show the guy.

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Yeah, he actually sent me a picture of that when he got it. Oh, wow. Yeah. Let's see what you think, boys. Dive in. And what's awesome is even on the side it says, by Dimebag Daryl, the worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. Oh, there you go. Outstanding. And IPA, finally. What a sour, though, right? It didn't have a little sour on it. Yeah. It must be a bread of myces because it's very minor. Yeah, I got that. It got that little crisp on it, too, though.

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It's good. Not my style. It's drinkable for me, at least. I'm an IPA guy, so it's up my alley. It's up my butt. Everything's up your alley. Hot dog in a hallway. Jay, don't feel too bad because I got more stuff coming from you next week. For you, rather. Yours is boxed, too, my friend. I just got to get to the airport, as it were, but it's coming your way. You guys need a room? Yeah. No, we'll just get in your friend. We don't get it.

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I was just gonna say the same thing. I don't need a room. I'll fucking take him on the hood of a car outside. There's no point at this point. Neighbors will love that. It feels like a white snake video. Hey Matt, I was just thinking of her name as you said that. Tawny Katana. The only thing that sucks with me, Jay, is my belly always gets served way before he does. So I mean, sorry, you'll have to wait a little bit. Maybe if he even gets there. It's soothing to have it.

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I totally forgot where we were. Matt just said. I was just going to say, where are we? John. 17. John 17. John 317, probably. I was just guessing. Do I have to put on a funny colored wig and stand behind a home play J now? Yeah. A little baseball there. And golf. That's right, I forgot. So I'm going to take it to the melancholy state here. I think I'm the only person who probably dug this album. International band, I don't know where they're all from.

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Maybe they're from Spain. Maybe they're from Greece. I don't know. Collapse of light each failing step. It's a good album. Yeah, and I think it's appropriately placed at the back end of the list. It's a solid Doom album. Got a lot of melancholy to it. It's good. Just leave it at that. If you like painful Doom, it's definitely Borelli then. Yeah, it's good. I haven't been listening to it a lot just because, as you may have noticed, I've been listening to things that are a little harder faster lately.

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A little more death, but I bought it. I'm pretty sure. If you want to slow it down and just let it kind of grind a little. Are you guys still talking about metal? What? Harder, faster, slow it down, grind it. This is metal, trust me. It's almost funeral doom. It's close to that. It's definitely good. Not everything's death metal, Will. Sorry, I was more making bromance jokes. Harder, faster, slow it down, grind a little.

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Car Ride Home. Oh, I got it. Will. Will. Come on. I'm number 17. Oh, boy. Demonical. Chaos Manifesto. I fucking loved it. That is on your last row. Oh, my God. If you loved it, it better be on your list, because this is the best thing I've heard that's a cross between Bloodbath Entombed and Amon Amarth. You know, I would point out, too, that at least for me,

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Matt from Sludge put that one on my radar. I spent a lot of time listening to it this year. I considered it, but I didn't put it on. But it's good. It's a good album, for sure. Super solid record. So we'll just jump straight into me. Again, starting to do some doubles here, so not too much to say about it, but this was an early favorite with a lot of people and most of the people on the pod. It stuck with me. I still put it on. Hooded Menace, Asuarium, Silhouettes on Hello. Nice. It's a good one. Nice.

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It's on vinyl and it sounds fucking badass on vinyl, by the way. Bet that cover looks awesome, too, doesn't it? It does, yeah. It's a very worthwhile vinyl purchase. Okay. Number 17. Gruesome Twisted Prayers. Yeah! Probably will be in contention for multi-listers. I bet everybody will have it, probably. Probably. Like it, I did. Yes. There you go.

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All right, let's get back to you, Looch. Looch. 16. And I don't know how you said it. Well, you said it. I don't know how I say it, but either way. Rivers of Nihil? I don't know. Yeah. Where Owls Know My Name? That's where I got at 16. From Will Cook Territory in Pennsylvania. Progressive Metal. I loved it. I really did, actually. It's just a good style album. That's one of those albums I had where

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They had a little, I don't know, like the orchestration stuff and everything like that, but they come hard and they fucking hit it, and I love the album. Smooth Jazz Sax. Smooth Jazz. You're listening to the Smooth Jazz Sax. That was Rivers of Me Hill with their new release here on NPR. We need to gate this way deeper. Smooth Jazz. I'll tell you, Wayfarer?

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World's Blood.

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I like the cover of that record too, even though I didn't do my covers list.

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I actually thought about it for that too.

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No, that's a cool record though, by the way.

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But that brings us to you, Will, if you want. Or no, excuse me, it doesn't.

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Jayhan.

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Jayhan.

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This will make Will happy because he thinks I don't listen to death metal, but...

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Tumold.

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Yes!

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What?

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Outstanding.

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What? This is one of the death metal albums of this new generation. It actually sounds good production-wise, I think. It's not the end-all be-all of death metal, but it's a very good album. Cool riffs. I can't tell if George is in disagreement because it should be higher or it shouldn't be on your list at all. I don't think he's that big.

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I like it. I do have issue with the vocals, but the music is awesome. Yeah. But I'm not complaining. It's the same vocal. It's the same deathmow style bird cavern vocals as Blood Incantation. Just to produce a way better. Which I don't like Spectral Voice. Blood Incantation. Yeah, I get it. Same thing. They're not high on my list either. Don't you talk bad about Blood Incantation. Son of a bitch. Sorry. I beg forgiveness. Okay. So that's the

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The Point Where the Little Message Comes On The Screen is This Is Just For Fun. Oh, yeah. Please, no wagering. Will. Go. Sixteen. Yes. Witch Sorrow. Hex and Hammer. Nice. All the way from Hampshire, United Kingdom. It's like Electric Wizard Doom, but a little thrashier at times. A little less sucky. Yeah. To me, it speaks of Old Cathedral.

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I think. No, no. You're right on. Which is nice because we don't have Cathedral anymore. It's old school British doom. Not old school. It's British thrashy doom. I'm digging it. Cool. Witch Sorrow, Hex and Hammer. Good album. Mine, or whatever this is, is Celebration of a Record that I think came out in 2015, wasn't it? And I really want to put this on here.

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if it wasn't a good interpretation of said album, but it's pretty exciting, raw, and good to listen to. Really enjoyed it. Also bought the DVD, Behemoth, Messy Nori. A live album. Yeah. That's the first live album I've ever pulled here on the list, but it's well known that I really love those guys for one thing, but it's a good, cool performance. Jay did say he was going to drop some different ones on us this year. We just saw. Yeah, I got a couple weirdos for you. There's some more weirdos coming, so look out. We just saw Behemoth the other day.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, I forgot to ask you guys how that was. And they were good. Nurgle got a birthday wish. Yeah. Super short. Everyone came out and they're wishing them a birthday. Yeah. I watched it. Anyone seen any of the pictures that got posted from the Instagram page? No, I did. I was just looking through them, but I saw them June 1st when they came my way. There was a background picture, meaning from the back of the stage looking out to Nissan. Holy shit, is that place massive. Yeah. I mean, it's already big when we're in there, but to leave.

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Jiffy Lube? Yeah. So it was from behind the stage. Somebody took a picture of them all waving at the crowd. I was like, fuck that place. We're in there all the time. And it's big. It looked 10 times bigger from their perspective. It was fucking full too. Yeah. Jay, they did not sell the lawn seats for that show. Oh, really? There was another, they were short 15,000 on that show. No shit. That place is massive. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Because I did look at those pictures. It's over 10,000 just for the pavilion alone at that place. Jesus.

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Yeah.

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So now you know what Will, John, and George were bitching about when they went to Black Sabbath, when they were stuck in traffic for an hour and a half to go half a mile.

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Yeah, it's like Mountain View, dude. I'll avoid Mountain View if I can because I don't want to sit there for three hours.

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Because it stinks also when you're there.

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Yeah.

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P.U.

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No, it's built on a dump.

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I just said P.U.

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George.

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All right. Number 16, one I can guarantee that will not be on any other lists.

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Order of Riven Cathedrals, Gobleki Tepe. You were right about the first part. God bless you. Nice, Will. It's pretty fucking brutal technical death metal from Italy, I believe. Or Spain. Or Spain or Greece. Not United States is all I know, for sure. We're all going to have to take your word for it. Mediterranean? Yes, can you guys? You should listen to this. It's really good. Can you guys? Luch.

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Slightly lower numbers now. Well, now we're getting to my... Now it's getting semi-crazy. I didn't see Looch write that down. Should I be insulted? I can't fucking say what the hell you just said. All right, so now at least we're getting to my very credible picks. I'm happy with the front half of my list. So, 15, Skinless, Savagery, Brutal, Crushing, I fucking love that shit dearly, and it's a great fucking album. There you go.

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That was the first kiss. Yeah, but the mic picked it up. I should say it was on the lips. Even though it wasn't. It's on my butt lips. Ass treaks. Let's keep it rolling. Let's keep it rolling. That'd be Matt. Number 15, Judas Priest, Fire Pooher. Fire Pooher. Fire Pooher. Fire Pooher.

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Okay.

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John.

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John.

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I know Jay will probably disagree with me on this one.

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Okay.

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Here we go.

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Let me lean in.

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He's not big on this album.

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It's too slick for him.

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But that's okay.

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He likes it big and slick?

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Because this band has put the same album out since 2006 and I like all of them.

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Here we go.

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Amorphous Queen of Time.

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I think it's a solid album.

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I agree with Jay.

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It's not as good as our last one, but I like it.

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Me too.

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They can do no wrong. They're not breaking any new ground, but they're never giving you shit, though. I actually had to fight to keep it off the list, as bad as that sounds. I will say this, though. A friend of mine who listens to the pod agreed with my original comment. It was, is it just a little too Finnish for me? Was that John? Yeah, John. Hey, John. It's not our John. But technically it was our John. AJ, I think it's because they added some of that little bit of an influence of symphonic stuff, I guess, when they toured with Orphan.

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They kind of picked that up a little bit, but I like the album. It's still good. There's still some heavy tunes on it. A lot of good stuff on it. Yeah, a lot of good stuff. But I agree. We're not breaking any ground since Eclipse came out. But it's one of those ones, by the way, though, because I like Under the Red Cloud or whatever it was called so much that I'm still kind of working on this one. So I'll put it in when I'm not sure what to put in sometimes just to see where I'm at with it. So it may make a comeback for me. Yeah. All right. I hear it's making a comeback.

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It's getting half real Freedom Rock, man I love that infomercial I hear it's making a comeback Never went away, dude What are we on? 16? 15 The Crown Cobra Speed Venom And this surprised me because I've had The Crown albums before and I was like, yeah, you know, it's okay This one, really fucking good It is

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It's a really good album. Is this stoner metal? No. The crown? It's like death metal. Oh, because just the way you... The album title sounded like just like a car on an album cover with a snake. Yeah, it does. It's a total monster magnet album. I figured I'd be cruising just like, fuck yeah! Yeah! Oh yeah! You know, for me, Will, it's like every year for the last few years I've been lucky to find some good thrashy, slightly old school, slightly new school thing I would call to mind here. Witchery, Goat Whore, Destroyer 6,

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666 fits right in with those bands yeah with with a few more hooks by the way though yeah it's a great looks galore hooks galore it's badass the crown cobra speed venom yeah digging it and that's me uh this is one that i will be the only one to have this especially since i know y'all aren't partial to eps um these are on a separate list you wasted a lister no i can't use on a separate he pointed he pointed this out a couple weeks ago he said fuck you guys i'm putting an ep on the

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And the reason I insist it be on my list is I feel like its quality is so high that I cannot wait for a full album from this band, Salomoth Death Spore. Fucking A, dude. I heard about this from Colt, whatever, what's that page we have, John, that we go to? Colt Nation. Yes, Colt, yes. And I went and checked it out. I've listened to this record like 20 times. And you can do that because it's like nine minutes long, but still. I mean, honestly, I think it's 19 minutes long.

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I'm telling you this is an up-coming band. I look forward to their full

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length and such was the quality it deserved to be on at least one list. It was on mine.

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Georgie Boy.

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All right, before you, uh, what are you trying to mention? You actually talk about this one, dude.

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What are you guys drinking? Well, Will and I aren't drinking it, but what are you drinking?

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Oda Danny.

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Oda Danny Boy.

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Yeah, talk about it, dude.

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The Nuclear Hop Assault. So I saved one. Danny and his wife, Heather, when I met them at Decibel Metal Beer Fest numero uno, when I was talking to them, they sent me some Nuclear Hop Assault beer brewed by McKellar in collaboration with Dan and Nuclear Assault. So they sent me a whole bunch of bottles of this, and I kept one for this special occasion because George said he wanted one. Now it's probably a little past its prime. It's a double eye taste.

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It's fucking good. Still tastes good. It's a double IPA. So I've had it. I think I maybe. You and I had it before. Yeah, I shared some with John. I love this bottle. It's so like the game over album cover. It is. It's the life obviously off the game over. That's my favorite nuclear salt album. So thank you. Keep that bottle. More for George. Keep the beer too. I don't need it back in any sort of weird. I can give it to you after it's been transformed. Yes. I do magic. Alchemy. Anyway.

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So, uh, Georgie, 15. 15? 15. Quincey-era. Much like Matt, Judas Priest, Firepower. I'm happy to see that album lasted with everyone so far. Yeah. Yes. It's awesome. Yeah. And it was an awesome show. It was. Even though TR got a better show than us when he's in Texas. TR's always better. Damn it.

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Bastard. Bastard.

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14 from Looch. Let's do 14.

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Bastard up.

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All righty.

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Let's see.

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Excuse me.

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What time am I?

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Nope.

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That's the old list.

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Halfway through and the shit show keeps getting better.

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All right.

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It's like you're a school kid.

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Like you ripped out your sixth grade notes.

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My traffic keeper.

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Where's your peachy?

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When, oh when, would a fucking cover album make a list?

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Oh, give them some room.

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Burn the Priest.

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Legion, 20.

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S.O.D., Bad Brains, Cro-Mags, and that's enough I gotta fucking say.

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I'm an old school, East Coast, New York hardcore fucking dude.

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Just to hear these songs again, I loved it, and they did a fucking great job, and I love this fucking album, and that's why.

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14, Burn the Priest.

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It's not Machine Head, can't complain.

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And it's not Machine Head, so there you go.

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I will say this is I think I enjoyed this Burn the Priest album more than some of the recent Lamb of God albums. Sure. And shout out to John Burkholder Travis who I know also loves this record. Cool. So you're not alone. And by the way John is the possible source for your black metal beer. Looch. He's the one who's in Texas. John a reminder Looch would love some black metal. Yeah let's get that black metal man. I need it. So would John will enjoy.

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We've had it. We could have it again. I have had it. That's the only one all you guys got up on me, man. I need that fucker. Send that to us first. I gotta take care of Looch for everybody else. Oh, that's that one beer. I'm finally catching up, sir. Yeah. Mateo! I'm a little... Yo. What are we on, 14? Yes, sir. King Gort, Debt of Aeons. Okay, okay, okay. I'm gonna just go ahead and digest that a little bit. Respectable.

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Okay, hold on. Let me stand up. I got to. I didn't even get that for you. Is he pinching one out right there? What is he doing? It's like I got mead. Because we're like, what, at 14, I think? And Matt said, can't go. Number 14. My season pick just got wiped right off the table. I was internalizing that so I didn't have to do that to Matt.

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Can we just get on to somebody else, please? For God's sake, as fast as possible. 14. I'm completely lost. John, are you guys upset? Well, since he just said King Go, we must be in the top five, so just pick one of those. I'm kidding. 14. Okay. All right. John, I have to hold my head right here so I can hear anything that's going on. George and I saw this band. We were like 20 feet from them, and I don't think I saw one minute of their set the whole time, because

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It was a fog-filled venue when we saw them. Those are good pictures. Yeah, I look like I just shit myself at that show. Anyway, Wolf and Hammer, The Moments of Ash and Bone. I like that album. I think it's a solid one. Wolf Hammer. John, if it's on your list, you don't have to say, I like this album, by the way. Like you're apologetic. I'm not. I'm just saying I like it. I fucking love this album. Yeah, it's not like you're holding my fucking list. You're back in the pile. You know, Looch,

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For me, it's muscle memory. When I say that, I've had to say it so many times in the past. And it's funny because I shouldn't have to, seeing as my lists are always so superior to everyone else's. But I just feel it's a need to... It's funny because on the way up here, you were talking about how you got arthritis in your left hand now. I do, man. It sucks. I'm not a right-hander. You're a lefty. What the fuck? That's my gear shaft when I'm driving the car. What am I going to do? You have an automatic. Crank your shaft.

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I mean come on the phone 14 just the stranger 14 depravity evil upheaval all the way from Perth Australia and evil Knievel I have to say so it's it's a tech death brutal tech death and if you know anything about the geography of Australia and I love Australia I live there I studied there minus Parkway Drive

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Hey, great fucking band, I might add. So Perth is like, if LA was surrounded by 10,000 miles of desert and was the only city, that's Perth, Australia. So on the West Coast, there's not really much around, and I have no idea how they tour. There's only so many times you can play in your same hometown, but holy shit, this is a great,

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Brutal Tech Deck album. I love it. A what album? Brutal Tech Death. Tech Death. Well, I'm just going to jump in here and say, here's a little band from Greece that I like very much called Gru Isome. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I got that wrong. Gruesome, Twisted Bruce. I think they're from Florida. Yeah. Gruesome, Twisted Bruce. I don't have anything about it. I really don't. I have comments coming.

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For other records, this one, you know it, you've heard it, you like it, you love it. You bought the t-shirt. You bought the t-shirt. George. Number 14. When you're thirsty, you want some water. Cult of a dying son, you water. Nice. Nice. And that's all I have to say about that. That's all I got.

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It is a good record. I like it. Also a good cover, by the way. Podcasts are like a box of chocolates. You guys got to slow down. I can't keep up. Oh! On the beer front. We didn't drink that one with you, remember? We're waiting. Oh, shit. Will and I have been patient. Okay, I need to hurry up. You don't have to drive. It's your problem. You can sleep right there in the corner next to your cathedral poster. Yeah. Underneath a quiet ride poster.

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You know, I have the new Death Fest posters up now. Fresh poster. Yeah, anyway. Oh, where are we? No, we're going to... 13. Jay just left. Do we want to take a quick break? Let's take a quick break. We can. I'm going to go look for another pair of headphones for you. Yeah, because we can't hear. I don't know if it's the headphones or it's whatever, but... It's the headphones. I've had that issue. I didn't know which pair it was. Yeah, they suck. I checked them and they all worked.

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OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT WORKING. BIG FLOPPY DONKEY DICK!

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OH GOD!

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Apparently you and I didn't have to...

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I mean I brought little ear buds and I can use those.

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It's just not...

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I mean I don't even know...

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Excuse me.

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Hey I got the glass! Where?

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Oh!

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Oh!

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He's taking his dick out!

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Are you really taking your dick out?

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In front of the camera now last?

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What?

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How many guys are talking about?

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What are these guys talking about?

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You need to show them the bottle.

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Oh, I'm not even on the fucking thing. God damn it. Hi. Alright, so hey. Oh, fuck. This originally cost $100 in 2003 and I paid $425 for it. That's $425. American dollars. 2003 Sam Adams Utopia. So. U-distopia. So what I have in my glass here is probably like

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$50 worth.

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Yeah.

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You probably had like $12 more than you last time I got mine.

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Fuck it.

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Bitch, bitch, bitch.

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Smells amazing.

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I don't complain about getting shafted, but you know.

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All right, so Jay, as long as you're getting shafted.

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What I plan on doing, because obviously this is a fucking big bottle.

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It's 15 years old already.

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I got some people back home I got to share this with.

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And then eventually as it goes, I'm going to leave a good amount for you at the bottom of the bottle. About this much, I hope. And I'm just going to mail it to you, and then you can keep the bottle, too. Now, Matt, I need some sort of a dress on you, because I'm going to get... Put a dress on. I want to freaking get a small... I need a dress on you. I just need to run my closet. Like an airtight container or something that I could actually get some out to you. A test tube. You know what I mean? Dude. Matt, put a dress on, and we will make you airtight.

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Not to mention, and if I'm going to send you that, I'll probably send you a bunch of stuff like I'm giving these guys anyway for my area. You know what I mean? Hey. Well, I will reciprocate. Say congratulations for the gonorrhea, okay? Do you think I should be, like, a summer dress? Or maybe more of, like, a night out one? Oh, I love those. Summer dresses are the best. I want a nice form-fitting one, though. He's got Hammerheart by him, so. Si bueno. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers, boys. Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much. Thank you.

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I'm on the right.

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All right, let's see some reactions on this.

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Holy shit.

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Holy shit.

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Wow.

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By the way, I'm on Untapped, and I'm going to check in from the location of Jug Oh Happiness.

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Oh!

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It's almost like butterscotch-y.

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Great.

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It's boozy.

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It's smooth, sweet, strong.

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It's very toffee.

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It's got a lot of sediment.

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That's the quietest you guys have been all day. You're all like, let me think about this for a minute. Jay, we thought more about this beer than we have about our albums. I know, I know. I enjoyed it when he treated us to it out there, not this one. The only thing is the Yankee Candle's kind of not putting out like it did at the decibel. Well, it's been a bit smothered today. By what? It's working really hard. By what, can you tell? I don't know. By those chicken bites, that's what. Those ass-treeks. All right, so Jay and Matt, I got a beer share with pretty much

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everyone else, July 2nd. And so, like, probably after 4th of July holiday, I'll be, you know, sending it out and everything. And then, Jay, I got shit for you anyway, but Matt, I'll get you a bunch of different stuff from around here. And these guys could tell you, Jay could tell you, I send you all the big shit for my area, you know what I mean? I'm not going to send you some taquiza shit. You're not getting any little shit, trust me. You're not getting Bud Light Lime or any of that. 12 hours post-burrito. And not that I'd be upset if it was there. I would find something to do with it.

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Thank you very much. I have enjoyed the airboxes of joy, to be sure. Roger. I will reciprocate with... God, I feel like I should be sitting in a leather chair next to a fire reading a book right now. Hey, do you guys have cigars? No. I bet you if I look under this table, I'd be able to find some. Cigarellas, maybe. Maybe a sushi suite. Maybe a suite.

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13. Did I go yet? No. No. 13. All right. Back to our regular schedule programming. 13. On Thorns I Lay, Aegean Sorrow. Greek. Greek. Yes, they are. Released in March. I heard of them before. I didn't pay much attention to them as I feel I should have, but I'm not, I don't know, I wouldn't say I'm gothy, but I like this album.

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It's a good album. I probably gave it a good solid, like, at least four or five listens back to front. I like it. So, On Thorns I Lay, Aegean Sorrow. A little pretty. Are you a little spongy there? Oh, you missed the visual on that one. Just go to YouPorn tomorrow and you'll see it.

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A little red tube action. Wow, is that all shit up top? It's foamy. You do the honors of this one anyway. Now what are we drinking? Matt, your turn. Number 13, bringing some BM back to my list. Uwata, Cult of a Dying Son. What? Wata. Wata. Depends on where you're from. It's either Wata or Uwata. Forget about it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just in the interest of moving us along.

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Oh, yeah.

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Let's move us along.

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John.

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You're just keeping it real.

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I'm keeping it real.

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All right.

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My friend Jeff will be happy to selection.

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Hooded Menace.

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Oscearium Silhouettes Unhollowed.

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Nice.

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A good one.

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Your friend who?

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My friend Jeff's big on this band.

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He likes this album a lot.

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George told me about him. I think you guys all mentioned. And then I just, whatever. And he kept sending me texts. He got to check this out. I finally did. And I was like, fuck, this is actually very cool. I'm more of an unhooded menace. Oh, no. Somebody doesn't have four skin. Somebody's been waiting all year to say that, man. Foul.

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No. No. I got a head and a wrinkle. Meanwhile, back at the podcast. You're number 13. Ascension. Under Ether. I feel like I am.

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It's black metal with hooks with some slightly doomed elements. And they are from Germany. You know, the weird people who like scat porn. Scheisse! Scheisse! Scheisse! Maybe Greece. It makes me think of Matt in a shaking trailer. Oh, yeah, the van? The van? I'm trying to figure out what you're doing. Scheisse! Scheisse!

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All right, there's a dead space here. I'll fill it. Number 13 for me, not deeply metal, but it was a record I was very pleased with because I didn't like their last one. But I think their band with a lot of potential in the first one. Machine Head? Graveyard piece. Yep. I called it. It's a good record. It's not metal. No, I hearken everything exactly you just said, except if you remember a bunch of podcasts ago when I mentioned Graveyard and I put it on my honorable mentions list because

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I was afraid it was too much rock and roll and I got ridiculed and I said yes it's rock and roll. It's more deep purple than it is Judas Priest. Graveyard or Clutch? Graveyard. Smartass. Jay, I 100% agree with you that I like this album way more than the last one. The last one I didn't even buy. Yeah, I didn't either. I didn't like it and I was a huge Graveyard fan before that so I'm happy that it's on your list.

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However, I'm disappointed in my cohorts here, my co-conspirators, because when I mentioned Grave Every Four, they just ridiculed me. They came after me. This one's not as bad, but it's not. That sucks when that happens, doesn't it? It sucks when you guys don't issue your justice equally. Can I just say that this is the smokiest beer I have ever tasted? It's called Jester King, brother. Yeah, it's a smoked beer with juniper bear.

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It's all smoked. This is a campfire in a bottle. Oh my gosh. Keep her in the book, bro. They're all smoked. This is Jester King. Wow. Jester King Gastran Lica. Wow, you fucking murdered it. They talk about smoked. This is a typical Norwegian, also little beer knowledge, historical knowledge.

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They used to dry the malt out. They used to use wood. Put a bonfire under a whole bunch of malt and light it on fire. And then the malt would get smoked and dried at the same time. Now they have different techniques that they don't have to necessarily smoke it to dry it. But also the beer brewing techniques back in the day were not as sanitary. So they used to get infected a lot. Which means there were a lot of smoked and sour beers back in the day.

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back to the Scandinavian style, which was a lot of smoked beer. So, Gastran Licka from Jester King. And it is in the what, John? The Buddha Truth Guide to Extreme Beers. The Bible. Which I brought my copy this time, which is all beat up. The beat up torn. Yeah. A lot of the pages are stuck together. We can't use my copy until Adam literally steps on it and throws beer on mine.

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Yeah. Blesses it, you mean? Oh, yes. What was that? He blesses it by spraying beer on it? Yes. Thank you. And there's like a little Viking dude on the label here. I've never tasted anything more smoked in my life. Period. Oh, you have never had... Had black metal? Yeah. Have you ever had Oxlankerla? I don't think so. No. Yeah. You did. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's like you're smoking a cigarette while you're drinking.

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Wow.

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Jesus man.

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There's a very strong band-aid.

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I just smell that.

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It's like holy shit.

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Sometimes this smoked beer you get the band-aid flavor.

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Yeah.

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I get that.

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The band-aid is strong with this one.

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I cut my hand.

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I got a burger.

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Oof.

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Wow.

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Yeah I'm not oof.

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Okay back to some music.

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13.

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Hell yeah where are we again?

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12.

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Oh man we're at 12.

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No we're not.

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I didn't. I didn't. Sorry. Give us. Is it me? Yes. Yes. Hoth. Astro Necromancy. Dude, that just came out like yesterday. Yeah, but I had it a little earlier than that. Oh, because you're an asshole put it in the trash can. I don't know who put it in the trash can. Let's clarify the story. So we have this thing called Box.com where George puts all the promos in that we can all have access

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Yes.

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And so when I went in there this morning to go find.

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I went in the other day.

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Yep.

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When I went in there and John went in there, came John John.

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Thank you.

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Came John George.

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Apparently he put this album in the trash can so the rest of us could not listen to it.

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I don't even know what this trash can is because my box setup is a folder on my drive.

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All I do is drag the album over to the folder and it goes and it uploads.

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I know nothing about a garbage can, so I certainly did not put anything in said garbage can.

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I need to get one. Yeah, I don't use the website. I just drag it directly there. It uploads from God's mouth to you or whatever. If you believe in this sort of thing. Yes. Keep John George's mouth to mine. Ass to mouth. Never go ass to mouth. That's what I hear. Experience. So whichever one of you guys put it in the trash can won me. All right. Well, I found the trash can.

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I found other things in the trash can there. Really? What else? This is 13 picks in. Yeah. Fuck. Hoth. Oh, we listened to Hoth the whole way up here, by the way. And it is awesome. I like it. It's good. Yeah, we like it. Maybe I'll get it on my ear end when I get a chance to listen to it. Yeah. When somebody put it in a fucking trash can. All right, Looch, number 12. Number 12, Altars of Grief, Iris. Oh, nice. I love it.

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So, for me, not much good comes out of Canada outside of Rush, Terrence and Phillip, and Poutine. Usually. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Triumph. Usually. Trailer Park Boys, Celine Dion. Devin Townsend. Ann Murray. Look, Ann Murray. Brian Adams. That's all I'm getting. Neil Young. Shania Twain. There's always room for doom and gloom. Dan Kay. And I think it's a good album. So, there you go. It is a great album. I love you. There's my pick. I want your children.

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You have to really dig up there and find them. I would find very curious logistically how the two you would have children. And not like the fact that you're two men. Very carefully. How would that happen? Interwoven penises. Yeah. George is clearly playing his own. Now do you know, not quite unlike a pig, my dick is corkscrewed. So I could feed it right up there, actually.

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We're stuck.

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Okay.

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Hey, Matt! Matt, buddy!

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Move us along.

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Alright, number 12, my most anticlimactic pick, Hooded Menace.

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Whatever you guys want to title.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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You guys look like you're getting tired of us.

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Is that three times?

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No, no.

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Is that three times?

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I think so, yeah.

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Alright.

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Raise your hand if you had a hooded menace so far. Oh, three times. Four. Four times. Four hooded menaces. Whoa. Or unhooded, whatever country you live in. Or covered wagons. That's about what your religion is. Okay, who's a... I'm gonna go to Egypt via the United States. Wow. Akhenaten. What number is that? Golden serpent god. Twelve.

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Did you say 12? Can I just go? Go. Akhenaten. Yes. 12. Yes. Golden Serpent. Production not great, but album good. Production bad. Album good. We talked about this earlier. I don't find the production that bad. I didn't notice the production that bad. It's a little thin in places for me. But man. Go ahead, Jay.

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I've got a new one. I'll be the first one to mention this. I'm thinking it'll come up some more. Ghastly, Death Velour. Oh, good pick, Jay. That was a good surprise for me. I think this is their first record, is it not? It's their second. Second, excuse me. I didn't know anything about them. It was one that George, I think, pushed towards us and I got into it immediately. That was on my list for a long time.

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Love you a long time. Uh, Georgie. Oh, number 12. Amorphous, Queen of Time. Yes, I like. Okay, nice. Shower me with adoration. You are. Or whatever you got. I'll shower you. Give me about three seconds and I'll shower you. All right, Looch, number 11. Wow, we're moving right along. Now we're good. Now that we got past that single lane construction zone.

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I think it could be economical. I didn't get to the top ten of the next hour. This is one of those picks for me that was going up and down the back half of my list. But Between the Buried and Me, I think it's Automata or Automata. Automata, I think. Automata Pia. Yeah, I guess it's part one of a two-part album. Second part to be released in July. What's the matter for you? Progressive. Like I said, I'm getting newer into that type shit. You know what I mean? But I mean, it's a good sound album. I liked it.

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So there's my number 11. If you're getting in that, we'll talk later. Yeah? I'll set you straight. He's going to give you some Yes albums. I've already sent some suggestions to Matt, who I assume will get to them after this podcast episode. Yes, sir. All right. There you go. Exactly right. Yeah. Not that we had enough to listen to up to this. Right. Not at all. Speaking of Matt. Yo. 11. What are we on? Number 11? 11.

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I do not remember who

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excuse me who put this

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in the

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who shot it through the new music thing

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Negredo, Fleshtorn, Spirit

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Pierced

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good album

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somebody did

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somebody did

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anybody

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anybody

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George is happy

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it was probably me

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okay thank you

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spell that

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N-I-G-R-E-D-O

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oh

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that must be on someone's list

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nice George

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I'm looking at it

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back at George's

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It sounds a little racist to me. I'll be honest with you. I try to be careful with the bunch. It's Greedo, man. It's Star Wars. It's his brother, Negrito. All right, John. Give it George more props for pushing this one on me. Give it to me. From Canada, maybe the United States or Mexico, I don't know. Hands of Despair. Oh, yeah. Well of the Disquieted. That's disquieting that it's this low.

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But okay. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's perfect. I would assume it's going to be higher for the year end. It's a lot to listen to. It is. It's a lot to listen to. It is. But there are moments on there where I'm just like, fuck, this is awesome. They get a little long in the tooth in a couple songs. They get a little French. Yes. I don't mind when... When they're not French, it's better. I don't mind when bands singing a foreign language. I know you like the French. I don't mind it. It doesn't bother me. I don't throw a shit fit over it. No, no, no, no, no. It's all good. What's the voiceover?

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What's the vocals like on this one? Good. Tuffy. They're both. They're... I recall you saying... Oh, thank you. I recall you saying that you... It was too all over the place for you. There was harsh vocals, there's clean vocals, which is the case. There's both. And I agree. It does get a little spacey in some places. But when they... But not Kevin Spacey. No. Oh, he was pretty much all over the place, too. He was. He was. I like the girl.

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And he was on several lists. I'll tell you that. Hashtag me too. The last thing I'll say about it is when these guys hit it, they hit it well. Yeah. So. Will. Will. 11? 11. Now we're starting the actual mid-year. We're getting right there. This is where the mid-year list actually started. Number 11. So I don't know if you guys are going to be upset that this is number 11 or you're going to be like, yes, this is number 11 out of 25.

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Okay.

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I'm looking at you, Jay.

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But as he's looking at me.

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Oh, fuck you, dude.

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As a King Goat or Sludge.

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Pre-fuck you, you mean.

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King Goat.

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Yeah.

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No, I'm happy.

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Dead of the Yons.

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See, I'm happy it's on your list.

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Yeah, I'm happy.

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Yeah.

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Because you went back and forth.

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I know.

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I went back and forth, and it took me a very long time to get used to the vocals.

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Because they were awesome.

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It's not a perfect record.

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I mean, it's not a no-brainer. Are you not a Candlemas fan? I am to a certain extent, but I just felt, and I will say this still, I think the music is awesome. And after talking to the guys in King Go, Rez and Petros, I mean, great interview, which we haven't posted yet. You will get it soon. It'll be on our next full episode. And I bought the vinyl, and I think what I really enjoyed about it was

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is when I got the vinyl and I just play it and my kids are in the room or we're making dinner and you guys see the posts I do with it. But the guy is a great vocalist. I just think that Trim is, it's almost like he's a great vocalist. He's always trying too hard to be more theatrical than he needs to be sometimes. I think it's perfect. I do too. He just doesn't have your number somehow, I think. Yeah. And this is just, it's a,

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It's a completely personal opinion. However, it is still number 11 on my list because I understand and I can get it. This is good. I have the vinyl and I love it. I just, but there's, there's 10 other albums that I love. What did George and I say? He's like, in some parts, he's like a pissed off Messiah, which to us is just like, yes. You know what? When you say it like that, no, I don't. There are some moments where he's just like an angry Messiah saying, and I just love it. And there's times where he gets a little harsher in the vocals toward the end of the album. Oh, for sure.

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And that's when I really enjoy it. I like how... It's not like he goes from like... There's this whole transition in between. It builds. It's just like... He just takes you with the two by four. It's just... It's so good. Even though they told us it's not a concept album, I still don't believe them. To me it's a concept album. I want to talk to the vocalist. I want the vocalist to... AJ, three years since

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Now they're gonna be similar. It's like, you know, I think we wrote a concept album. We don't even know it. But I want to say again for the record, because I know I've harped on the vocals before. Trim is a great vocalist. He really is. It's just, it's not 100% in my wheelhouse or what I enjoy. But overall, I understand and I enjoy. I have it on vinyl, which they were supposed to sign it and they didn't. What the fuck, guys? But, uh, like, I, I've gone back to this record more. There's two albums.

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I probably listen to more and more than any other albums. Alkaloid and this one because I'm trying super hard. Who is that sexy guy? Who the fuck is that? And just invite him in. Who the fuck is that? Invite him in. Say yes. No. No. No. Was that trim? Message wills, are we still meeting at four? We're running a little late. Anyway. Everything I said, I don't want to disparage anything from

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and King Goat because they're phenomenal. There's certain things that are 100% in my wheelhouse and there's certain things that I know that it's still really good. It's not 100% but you still made number 11. Yes, Matt, what do you guys say? The thing is, Matt, I am 100% understanding exactly what you're saying, Will, because I feel exactly the same way. I think it's a fabulous album and yeah, I do at times. At times, the vocals are not my thing. He's a fabulous vocalist.

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But I too listen to it repeatedly just because of how much love it's gotten off of from all you guys. The smarter members of the pod. Could you turn the camera a little more towards you, George, so I don't have to look at these other guys for a while? No, no, no. By the way, it's the same thing for all of us with all different bands. Like Atlas Month, honestly, it was the vocals that kind of kept me away from that one. So it is what it is. Sometimes people just don't have your number. Penis.

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Penis. You know what? Let's put off the kick note and move on to the next album that George has given me at least a little bit of shit about, and it's most welcome. In fact, I wonder if you can guess what it is since you're going to give me shit, George. It's a career-spanning collection of things. Oh, Napalm Death. Yeah, Napalm Death. It is a good time, man. It's 31 songs. It's all the extras that have been on Japanese releases over the years and stuff, but it's fucking great, dude, and I know it's not a new album per se,

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But it's Napalm Death. But it's Napalm Death, and it's really good. It's really good. There's just not one clunker out of 31 songs. So, Jay, it's 31 songs, and it's 42 minutes long? Actually, no. To be honest, it's a very long record. I mean, there are a lot of three- and four-minute tracks on here. But anyway. Has any band spawned more big names that have left the band? That's a reasonable question. Cathedral. The Purple.

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Godflash. I mean, it's crazy. Mick Harris. Who? Was Mick Harris in there? Yeah. But he still is. But doesn't he play like a gazillion other bands? Yeah. But it is. You are not wrong. They are a training ground for heroes, apparently. Is there one member who's been there the whole time? Is there anybody left right now in Mayfell death who's been there the whole time? I don't think Barney's in there. No, Barney's not. The Basis has been there the whole time. Yeah, Shane has been there the whole time. Shane has been there the whole time.

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Anyway, that's all the comments need to be said. Once we get George's 11, we are in the top 10. George, take us to the top 10. Alright, my number 11. Panopticon, The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness 1 and 2. I was wondering where we're going to start here. The first one to drop it. Yeah, I was kind of surprised. You just made Matt happy. I know, you see. Sorry.

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My Humidifier. Oh, there you go. Matt's going to give his number one and leave now. To from my hometown. All right, let's get this fucking top ten rolling, boys. All right, top ten. Now she's getting semi-serious. Top ten. Machine head again. All right, top ten. Number ten. Gruesome Twisted Prayers.

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Beginning to End. It's exactly what you're going to get from Gruesome. I mean, it's fucking death reincarnated. I love it. What's funny about them... He's getting loved. And I'm not going to... It sounds like I'm talking shit, but for essentially a tribute band, they're fucking awesome, dude. They're original. They're fucking... They just do a great fucking job, you know? It's a fucking great album, man.

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And it's better than the last one, and I love it. So Gruesome, Twisted Prayer. They are super well respected at this point. They have been for a while, but I just mean, yeah, nobody picks on them. I love that. They're totally a death copy band, but that doesn't matter. Everybody fucking loves it. Everyone knows that, and yet they stand alone on their own. They're fucking good. But they're up front about it, though. Yeah. But again, it's not like everyone that loves Gruesome is like, oh, I'm a big death fan, and so I like fucking Gruesome. These dudes are fucking good, man. They're making great fucking music.

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I'm going with it. Couldn't agree more. And that means... Let's get your number 10, Matt. Number 10. This band is made up of two people. One from China and one from the Czech Republic. Cosmo Geyer. But they're based in Greece. Yeah, exactly. They're based in Athens, Georgia, via Greece. I believe that they're pronounced Cosmo Geyer, Cosmo Geyer, and the album is called Eve Eternity.

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Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Get the crickets. Wait, wait, wait. Wow. Please. Thank you. I'm sorry. I don't know that. I haven't even got that yet. They're like black and deaf. Black deaf. Say the name of the band again. Cosmogyr starts with a K. O-S-M-O-G-Y-R. Cosmogyr. I learned things from Matt. They might not be good things, but they are things. But they are things, to be sure.

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I'm surprised I missed that one with my wealth of knowledge, I'll be honest with you. I'm going to have to look that one up. I like dicks. I didn't know that. I'll have to look that one up, too. Oh, Johnny. You got that?

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Let me wipe off my glasses. I gotta thank our friend Dan in Canada for this band. He got me tuned on to them. I'm a fan of this album. Yab Arahar. I know it's not like their previous stuff, but I appreciate the fact that they're able to still make music. What number is that? Ten. So he snuck them into the top ten out of respect. Not a fan. Ten. Too fucking smoky, man. My number ten.

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That's what type of shit. Yeah, our heart. Oh, a little bit of love fest. Push the button. Oh, no. Oh, Jesus. And Will just destroyed the whole table in his efforts to love on John. I actually saw it go in there. I'm on the side here. You may have seen it. I felt it. But I felt it.

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That was the second time that we've had the exact same. It's a different album for them, but I still appreciate what they're trying to do. That album for me went all the way in the last couple weeks from number one to number ten. Like in various stages. So it dropped. It got worse. No, it dropped and it was weird because I listened on vinyl in the background with my children in the room and I liked it more and then I literally just analytically went through it.

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I'm like alright first song mmm and then like second song alike and like and it just it dropped me by okay but I love yob I love all things yob but I think we appreciate what I love yob yeah I think that's the thing it's I know some yob fans are like it's not like old stuff it's not supposed to be in this case it's not supposed to be yeah right and but I did like their second the second song of the album sorry I feel better now man that was jammed up there all day

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At some point it was coming out. If I could just get the ball gag out of my mouth. You'd be golden. Golden showers? Yab. Jay. We can scoop on mine pretty quick as is customary because there's just not too much to say about this one, but I will say this. I think one member of this band embraced his age-old limitations or his old age limitations to great effect this year. Best post-2005

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2000 album by this band Judas Priest firepower yeah the very solid record so honestly it's the only one after 2000 that I really like and I like it a lot so super solid yeah what is that noise that's that my dog that's one of my dog watching the watch oh I get it now hey is Matt I'll be honest with you it sounds like the gimp

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Is Evelyn and Wyatt William there? No, no. I have the house to myself. What? I want to see these children. I'll get them here next time. I'll make them stay up late. More smoky. This isn't smoky. Stay up late? That's the smoke from you. That's probably the remnants. That's the remnants. That's the remnants. That's the remnants. That's the remnants. That's the

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I dig it. Where are we? I have no freaking idea. Number nine. You're number ten. My number ten. It's me then. Right. The Atlas Moth. Come and wire. Yeah. I'm happy to hear that. Yes. Very good. Very good. Yeah. Very good. Number nine, sir. Nine? Are we already there? Yes, we are. Fuck! We're already there. Nine? For me.

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Released in May,

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at the gates to drink from the night itself.

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To drink from the night itself.

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The first track is kind of a little intro track and then track two.

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It's a title track and it's just bam.

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It's fucking straight through.

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It's a great album and I loved it.

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I'm glad I got to see him live in Philly at Decibel Fest.

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Got to hang out with Jonas, all of us.

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And it's just a good album.

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So that's that's my nine right there.

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Nice. Great. Awesome.

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Cool.

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What I loved about the At The Gates album is it was At The Gates. There was no curveballs. It was straight up At The Gates. No surprises. If you like At The Gates, you're going to like this album. There you go. Mateo. Dad. George, do have the crickets ready. My number nine from Lithuania. The band is called. Yeah, really, you should get them ready. Lithuania. I did some fucking research, man. My interpretation of the band name is Erdve. E-R-D-V-A.

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and the album is called Vito Himas. I would... God bless you. Post-metal, sludge metal. I feel like I've seen this band on Bandcamp. Okay. But I have not listened. I heard it. I think Matt is more obscure in metal than all of us. He is. Well, I heard it. It does exist. Matt makes me feel like I bought online records at Hot Topic. I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with me, man?

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If you don't recognize it, I probably just made the name up. I'm just filling blanks on a spreadsheet here. They don't know that these aren't real albums. Matt, you just gave me a great idea. We should do something where one of us in one of these pots just makes some fucking shit up and see if anyone catches it. It's going to happen. Have the kids make up a band name and the title and stuff like that.

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When my wife is making fun of me, she'll make up band names and just say them to me. One day she's like, you know, Maddie listens to that band like Christ eats snakes. I'm like, actually not a bad band name. You need to know that. Hold on, let me jot that down, sweetheart. Necrotic dysentery from Germany. They're really fucking good. What am I fucking last? Scat porn purveyors. Scat porn. From Germany. Number nine. Man, that smoke is still hanging. John. I think I might be the only person with this on number nine.

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I like this album because Will likes when I say that. And it's on your list so you verify. I like it. And we only waited like a gazillion years for their follow up from their debut from England or Spain or Greece. Who knows? Who cares? Age of Taurus, The Colony String. I knew that was going to be there. It's a solid traditional Doom album. A little more metal-y metal than Doom.

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than their first album, but I like it a lot. And I think it's good. Actually, I don't like it. I hate it. And I put it on my list because I want the world to know that. But, no. I think if you like traditional Doom with a little more of a metal approach, just straight ahead metal, it's a solid album. Solid. Supposed to runny. Or loose. Loose. It's a goose. Looch.

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Luce, Luce, Luce, Luce.

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Will, number 9.

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Luce.

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Buster. Oh, here it is. We've been waiting all week for this. Lago. Sea of Dress. We knew this was going to happen. All the way from Phoenix, fucking Arizona. George, I will fucking kill you. I saw that. I will eviscerate you. It's alright. Can I have your CDs? Look of death, by the way.

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Lago. All the way from Phoenix, Arizona. Just straight off

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fucking death.

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For the record, I did listen to this.

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I need to listen to it more.

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I'm just talking about it.

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It is good.

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It's not good. It's exceptional.

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And if I had more time with it, because I just

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discovered this last week.

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Number one.

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What are you doing?

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I was just...

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I was just...

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Yeah, look, this isn't the old Mike and Mike on ESPN where people can watch them in the studio. Everyone's like, what the fuck are they doing? I thought he was trying to hit like a delete button. No, it's the exact thing he said. I will say this. Holy shit. Lago. L-A-G-O from Phoenix, Arizona. Like, it's really, really good. I really, really like it. It's really, really good. And holy shit, one of the guys in the band,

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was a Marine. Oh, there you go. Wow. Truth comes out. I really liked that John kind of did a little golf commentary on that, too, because you were like, I got a list buster, and John leaned in him, sort of like, yeah, here it comes. We've been waiting for this. He's going to pull a big one out of the bag. Let's see what his number nine is. Will pulls out his nine iron. You should have seen Will pulling it out at the Slayer show when he met another Marine. Oh, my God. Yeah. Another Marine sniper. It was like smoochy smooch. They were getting it on.

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I mean, he was a good guy. I hope maybe he found the podcast. Yes, he was fun. Because it'd be cool if we could hook up with him again somehow. What? Wait, you hooked up with him? On the podcast, okay. It was Jeff Schminger. Jeff something, yeah. He was a lot of fun. He was fun. He was very excited about being on a podcast, which hopefully I actually post that shit. What was his expression? Oh my God, this is a fucking podcast? Yeah. We were like, yeah. Yeah, Jeff Schenner.

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Shender. Why don't you find him and get him on here? Yeah. Well, no. I was texting him today. Oh, are you? Yes. So you did talk to him. Yes, he's been talking to him. I was like, dude, did you get his number? And you're like, no. I didn't get his number, but I saw his friend later at the Slayer show. And then I said, we're going to exchange numbers. When you see your friend Jeff, exchange numbers with him. And it took a week later or whatever. And then he. Okay. Well, he has to come on now. Well, yeah.

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The Dude, because he was cool. He had hogs tooth on, which is a bullet around your neck, which if you're a United States Marine Corps scout sniper, which means you went through sniper school, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. How did he get a beer again? What question did he have to answer? So we had a keg that we weren't supposed to have in the parking lot. Thanks to Warren, thank you. Warren from Black Flag. So what was Warren's question? Warren. Do you guys remember? What was the question you had to answer if you wanted a beer from the keg?

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about Slayer and he got completely fucking wrong. I thought it was Sepultura. Now anyone who walked by he just oh yeah he liked his patch on his vest. Oh yes. And so people who walked by he just like do you like a patch on my vest? Have a beer. No Jeff was great. I want to have I do want to have Jeff on. He was an awesome dude. He was. And we had many bromance moments. Yes. And right now Jay and Dad in Northern Darkness are like what the fuck. They're like fuck eat more.

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I will say this is the very first time through the whole of the afternoon

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and I'm like, okay, it's an okay story.

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It's not the best story I've ever heard.

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You had to be there.

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No, you did.

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I can tell you for proof, you did have to be there.

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I was bored out of my fucking mind right now.

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I'll switch it up.

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We're drinking a new beer now.

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Yeah.

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There you go.

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Hardywood.

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Yeah, do that real quick because I'll be right back.

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Yeah.

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We're doing a Hardywood beer.

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I seem to bring them. Yeah. John brings the wood. I bring the hearty wood. Bourbon Barrel. Will, how do you say it? Sadamo. Sadamo. It's from 2006. It is an Imperial Coffee Stout aged in bourbon barrels. It is a big beer. 10.3 ABV. That's old. It's not as old as some, though. No. Yeah, sorry. But it's old.

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It's 12 years old. I just heard Will waging his glass. Anyway, it's a solid coffee stout that's bourbon barrel aged. We have good luck with them. It's not the bourbon barrel aged gingerbread stout we had last time, but it's still good. It's damn good. I can finally have some now. And I think, Looch, and to George, you guys mentioned about it still having a little bit of smoky taste. I think that's the coffee coming out. Yeah, for sure. Alright, sorry about that. You're good. Alright, so.

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We've got to be beer geeks or who's next? I don't have any idea. I do. It's me. It's a fast one because you knew it was going to be on here. My number nine is Monster Magnet Mindfucker. All right. Number nine! Hey, I just wanted to get it above ten. This was a rough year. But I'll say this. You guys know I'm a Monster Magnet file. This would be probably one of their top four or five records for me and they've got ten. So it's a quality record. Good stuff. Excellent.

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Number 9.

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George.

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I'm going to side with Will on this one. I like it, but there's so much atmosphere tracks on it. Is this a 47 track album? There's some really quality stuff here. I get there's a lot of filler. But in my opinion, what they should have done is they're extremely talented. They do this on every album. I'm not familiar with them, but in my opinion, what they should have done, because

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Obviously my opinion is... Mood. Cherished. Yeah, let's do a cherish. Thank you. Shite. Scheisse. S in my scheisse. Put like five awesome songs together, throw out the trash, throw out all the filler, put five songs, and then put out like three different albums. Like Swallow the Sun? You're like the George Martin of the Beatles. He's like, hey, it's the White Album. I could have got rid of two of those. George Martin, huh?

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Yeah. Dropping some fucking names here, man. That's no Ann Murray. Necrosis. No Ann Murray. I have to tell you, I know a lot of Ann Murray songs. My mommy still liked her a lot, so. Your mother or you? Your mother. I sold my soul, you bought it back for me. Okay, who's got number eight? Number eight? Only their second album. Tune.

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Mold.

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Mold.

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Actually, I really tried to put out there. I gave it my all. I didn't last time. Nobody I know listens to this podcast. Because this is going south bad. On iTunes, this is going to get like two or three E's. We're going to get NC-17 ratings at some point. Actually, I want an NC-17 rating because I want more listeners. What the fuck is this? That's from the Goblins, Rebecca.

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That's fucking awesome. I gotta post this. Okay, this needs to be on YouTube because nobody knows what the hell we're doing back here. That's why I'm taking a picture. Matt, talk to me. Number eight. My number eight. Yab Arahart. Dang, that fucker's out there, huh? Push the button. Right in your face. Push the button. Which button? The eye. Yeah. You don't have to blow shit. That might have to get cut a little closer.

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Take some of that out while you're fucking around on your phone. Thank you, Matt. I was taking a picture of this awesome lid. Thank you, Matt. Yeah, Jester King. I'll just do my number eight. All hail dad of northern darkness right now. Thank you. Let me do my number eight since George and Will fucking shit on this album before we even started. Barren Earth, A Complex of Cages. What's your number eight, Will?

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You know, there's only so many times I can say, fuck you guys. I love you so much, but I don't want to be rude all the time. Will you? My number eight. I think a lot of people will like my number eight. Really? I think five out of six, maybe, except for the guy who likes Machine Head. Oh, come on. Hooded Menace. Usarium Silhouette Unhallowed.

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I think I am the only fuckface that don't have that on my list. So far that album's... I did not... Yeah, I missed that completely. Happens all the time. It's a top tenner, I think, for our top 25. Yeah, I missed that shit all the game. It's alright, we don't want to include your list. So get on Bandcamp and fucking listen to it. It's too embarrassing to include your list. No, what's funny actually is, do you know that... This is like armor for your little chub. That Lago... Do you know Lago? You know Lago was on my list, but I bumped him for Machine Head? Did you know that, dude? Oh my god, that's so funny.

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And you can tighten it up on the end.

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That's my Luch Cod piece, dude.

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Via Wasp era.

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You are cutting that out.

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No, I'm not.

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What I mean is you're going to save that.

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Snacky Lones.

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This is armor for your little chub.

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Look.

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That's my little, right here, look.

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You know the little...

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That's like a diaphragm for you.

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That's my little...

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You know when you get certain bottles of beer

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or wine, they have the little

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thing you untwist and there's a little

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wire thing on top of you.

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That's my

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snacky lawless

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snacky lawless

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armor for your

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little show.

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I hope people appreciate when they see that this episode

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is like 9 hours and 43 minutes

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that they realize that there's a lot of

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funny shit in here. At least for us.

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We had fun whether you'd lake listen to it or not. And where else would you hear about a cock piece for a little chubby? Yeah, man, look, dude. All right. Where are we? Who's next? I have no idea. Who said Hooded Menace last? Zip. So it's Jay. Jay. Number eight. The Crown Cobra Speed Venom. I love it. Yes! Super fucking heavy. Super aggressive. Super catchy. Good from start to finish. Nothing on here I don't like. Had to be in my top ten.

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you? Yeah. Okay, you can. Well, I mean, not truly, but trying. Hold on. Wait, close your eyes. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is this better? All right. Okay, hold on. Wait, I'm dodging it. Whoa, that one's coming hard. Whoa, whoa, whoa. All right. From here on out, it just gets awesome. It's been awesome since 25, man. Come on. Oh, yeah. It's been a good year. For some of us. Number eight. Number eight.

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I don't know what you're talking about. My shit is solid, dude. Good to know. Number eight, Rivers of Nile, where owls know my name. We've been talking about that for a long time. Number seven. Seven from Washington, D.C. Genocide Pack. Yes! Order of Torment. Follow up to 15's Forged Through Dominations. Fucking dark, dirty.

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and fucking nasty and I love that album. Yeah, it's fucking brutal. Dude, I cannot wait to tell these guys to listen to this. This is what kills me, actually, as you're going into this, is as you were saying this all throughout, like, oh, these dudes played fucking Atlas all the time, I'm like, they're at the top of my fucking list, man. That's awesome, dude. I didn't even know that. I didn't even know that. So, you might want to point out Ben. Yeah, send him a link to the exact one. None of these guys have to hear about Machine Head, right? Just leave it all.

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We're definitely going to edit that out. My number 24 is... Malikani Bolinu. Matt's number 7. My number 7, Will, I need to thank you for this one, Virant Exordium. Wearing a shirt right now! I wear the shirt right now! Virant! I gotta say, I do like that.

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That's what got bumped off by soliloquium. So sorry guys. Dude, you failed. No I didn't. Sorry. It's good. I like it. You failed. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I think I can just give into it. That's the best way to shut me up. It is. Just like, yep, you're right. I'm wrong. I'm right. I'm wrong. Sorry. I'm good. I'm good. Drugs are bad. I'm kind. I have my number seven. Yeah.

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Spanish from England, but their name is French. And they're from Greece? Maybe Spain? Juddus Pari? Firepower. Firepower? Say what? Wait, wait, wait. Not only did you get me then, you got me again now. I was like, what? Oh! Everybody knows I'm a huge priest fan, and I have been for years, but I was so...

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I was so happy at least that this album was not a dud and it turned out to be a great album. It is. The only person I have a suspicion about how high one of us might have put this on here. I was just going to shut my mouth, but it's not me. Shut your dirty little mouth. I am going to shut it, but I'm starting to have a fucking instant. Only one of us has not set this record yet. You guys might not be able to figure it out because you're super fucking drunk. What a super fucking drunk. Is it you? I mean, we're still wearing our, some of us still have our pants on, Jake.

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Yeah. I think it's you. You didn't say it yet, George, did you? I did. It was my number 15. I thought you were going to sneak in. What was your number 15? What's your number 15? No, 15. What is it? I take it back. I think we've all said it again. Priest was 15 for me. Yeah, so everybody's throwing it. So I'm the highest priest so far? So far. All right. You are the highest priest. You are the high priest. It was John J. I think it was John J. Matt. John J. Jingleheimer Schmidt. I'm happy to see that Priest has done well on our list.

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The people always shout. Don't you hate that? I'm old. I can't hear one. John Jay. Huh? What? That's a baseball player, isn't it? Wilson. Are we on number seven? It's also one of the founding fathers, I think. Yes, it is. Gruesome. Wow. Twisted prayers. And I know, I know, here's my thing. I know Gruesome's gotten a lot of crap only because, but no, they've gotten a lot of crap.

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They're starting to get a lot more crap. Are they okay? They got a lot of crap because they just say it's too close to actually being spiritual healing from death. This album specifically. Right. Yes. Which I will say this. If you can mimic one of the best albums ever made of all time. If you can lick a piece of dead chicken like George can.

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Right now. I laugh because I heard the crunch on the mic. Slathered in ranch dressing. Four hours in. I would say by this time the chicken is cold and the ranch is hot. Yes. The ranch will give him the shits. Hey Jay, something else is going to be hot in about two hours. But I think Gruesome has gotten a lot of shit for the fact

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that they played it too close to death. And for me, I don't give a shit. I think if you are that good and you can get that close to death, holy shit, you're fucking talented. Oh, that's fucking great. And to me, I just feel like death is one of my favorite bands of all time. And if you can mimic them and know you're mimicking them, then I think you're doing a fantastic job. And Matt Harvey and Robin and whatever.

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Mr. Rios and the other guy. Fuck, you're doing a great job. So I only have one thing to say about them. You got your first three albums. I really hope they do more at least human or individual thought patterns. Those are the two I like the most. I think that's the plan. They're good starting from the beginning to the end. I know they did the EP with the one human-like song where Sean Reinhart from Cynic. What's great is right now it looks like Jay is blowing mad. I'm like that. Actually it was behind so you didn't know.

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Matt's smiling. I don't know. Actually, it looked like he was making a salad there, actually. Tossing it. He's just putting a facial touch on that. Jay, just by the way, if you lean down to your left, on our view, it looks like you're blowing Matt. Blowing Matt. And Matt is really smiling. He's so sheepish. Truthfully, my poor cat wants to hang out with me, but there's nothing here comfortable, so I'm stuffing her into a blanket. She likes to sleep in a cave. Oh, you've got to get a Sherpa, Jay.

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I'll tell you about those later. Is it like a little KVK thing? I'll fill you in on the shirt. All right. You need one tootloosh. A shirt. All right. I'm just going to assume that Will is done ranting and in the best kind of way and give you my number seven and just tell you I agree with what everyone else has said about it so far. Toob bolt. Yeah. Every time Jay says that I feel like I should sneeze. Toob bolt. It's toob bolt. Oh, uh-oh. By the way,

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This was a list destroyer for me when I got this. No, I got it and I listened to it for a couple of weeks. Then when I listened to it, it just went straight up into my top ten. Fucking great, dude. Straight into my honorable mentions. Straight into George's dustbin of fire. And that brings us to George's seven. George's seven. Two mold. Nope. Ultras of Grief, Iris. Yeah. I did do it. I did. Fuckin' A, man. That's good.

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You were big on this one. Oh yeah. The fact that it's seven blows my mind. That is how good this year is. It's a funny one. Because this could have been a number one. Anything from now on could have been my number one. And what kind of doom are they? Good. No. Sorry. You didn't read their bio on Bandcamp. No. Prairie Doom. Prairie Doom. Let's be honest. That's kind of cool. Yeah. Match it up with the Prairie Doom. Prairie Doom from Canada. Or Greece. They have a bit of a

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What's the ePray vibe about them, which is why that's what I immediately picked up on. I was like, yes. And a cover by Travis Smith, which I'm a big fan of. Yes, that too. All right, Looch, number six. Number six? All right. This one. Sorry. It's way up there, and I have to admit that it is you fuckers that we're talking about a lot. That's about good. Jesus fucker. Slugger. Slugger. Isoteric malacology. Nice.

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That's a great album. I know it's probably higher on you guys' list or whatever. I know I definitely... Top 6 is pretty good, man. For me, I know if I listen to it more, it's going to get better. I mean, the music is fucking awesome. It really is. It gets better in every listen. Yeah, it does. Yeah, I started... You guys have been talking about it for a bit, and I'm like, let me at least check it out. And when I put it against other shit, it moved up.

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All you can do is check it out. It makes the hair on my arms stand up in places, man. There's one fucking riff on it. Your arms? Just your arms? Well, I shave the rest of my body. He is a swimmer. Matt, what's your number six? My number six, I'm trying to think of who I owe the gratitude to on this one, but it's Depravity, Evil Upheaval. Evil Caniva! Who was that? Who gave it to him? That was weird.

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I did mention this, but I'm not the original mentioner of it. No, you are. Am I? Yeah. I thought you were. I mentioned it after you mentioned it. I mean, you basically kind of take credit for everything, so. Yeah, but no, you said this one first. I said it second. Wow. Well, there you go. Another Australian pick, if that matters. Wow. I love Australia. Did I ever mention that? Mine is Parkway Drive. Yeah, no, you do. How was your driveway? Driveway Park. Uh, John. Okay, so,

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My number six, number five could easily flip flopped. And I just stuck with my list. Flip flop. Are you John Kerry? Flip flop. Big floppy donkey dicks. Big floppy donkey dicks. Okay. In the spirit of my friends to my left, I could have switched five or six. Ghastly. Death floor. Ooh, a little black metal. It's meaningful to me that so many of us connected.

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with this one.

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Because this one has,

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they're not great musicians,

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this has the X Factor going for it.

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There's some extra fucking,

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little fucking salt on that thing

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that just fucking,

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oof.

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Yeah,

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it's a really good album.

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And I like it more and more

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the more I listen to it.

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Yeah,

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me too.

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I like this album,

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Will.

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that one last song ends

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with that guitar solo

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and it lines up the neck.

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You know what I'm talking about?

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Oh yeah.

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There it is.

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What up?

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Number six.

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I'm really going to need help pronouncing this and maybe that Northern Darkness can help me. It's... Judas Priest? Yeah, Judas Priest. Firepower! Wow! Yes! Wow, that is weird. That's awesome. So my thing with this album, it took a lot for me to...

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I didn't pay a lot of attention to this album.

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And at first I heard it because this is one of the things that drove me nuts.

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There were so many songs.

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All the best songs were released early.

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So you heard them.

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You were tired of them.

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Totally disagree.

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So you heard the album.

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Yeah.

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You heard them and you just, well, you're wrong.

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Anyway.

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No.

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Not even fucking close.

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So I listened to all the songs and I skipped through a bunch of them and I heard the other songs.

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I'm like, ah, you know.

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But then when I really paid attention, I put the whole album into context. Now I get it, and it's a great album. Evil Never Dies just rules that out. No, no, no. And there's so many songs that are good. And like I said, I had to put them all together, listen to them separately, and wow. I love it. I agree. Evil Never Dies, Spectre, fuck, that's a good song. Spectre, Mazur, Spectre. It's a great album. So many good songs. The last two are okay. The last one. The last one especially is just okay.

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I liked it.

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No, they're good.

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They're good.

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He's like, I'm sitting outside the sandbox.

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Come on, let me play it.

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I'm like, but I liked it.

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I'm happy to see it's on so many lists.

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That last song, Red Something Something.

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It's very 70s.

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It sounds like something that ought to be on

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Set Wings of Destiny.

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Okay, I thought you were going to say something else.

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I was going to have to shoot that shit down. No, it's total Sad Wings of Destiny. Okay, fair enough. Don't you agree? Yes, I do agree. Thank you. I thought you were going to say Stay in Class and we're going to have to fucking drop a massive amount. I'll hang the fuck up if I have to if that's what this is. But come on, Sad Wings of Destiny. Yes, I agree 100%. But I agree with your comments. Well played. Agreed. Yes. Now. My number six, I have to tell you, the first time I heard this one was like, eh, every other successive list.

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and it has creeped itself into my soul. This is a great fucking record. Eson. Hammer. Nice. Ditto. I like it better than Arctis. Ditto. I really do. And you like it better than Arctis too? The literal ditto? The literal ditto. My number six is Eson. Yes. Eson may rule the podcast right now. We shall see. How many times? Four? Matt, did you have Eson on your list? Yes. That's four.

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Go for it. Yeah, that's the only four-year-old. Yeah, but two number sixes, though, is pretty big. That is big. That's points, baby. I keep hitting this. Points. Oh, wow, top five. You guys want to take that? Top five. It's a big deal with the top five. Now the shit gets really serious. What are we drinking now, top five? Am I drinking the old thing? I'm still drinking my old beer. Evil Twin. Evil Twin. Double Barrel Imperial.

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Biscotti break. I don't want cheers you. Imperial stout aged in bourbon maple barrels. Then in Marsala wine barrels. All right. Yarno Marta. Oh, wow. He's got a big mirror. We lost both of them. At this point, 33% of the podcast just left. Jay and Matt just both got up and walked the fuck up. I guess so. At five? At the top five? Me too. I'm guessing.

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There's a couple people who want to finish. We are moving into our top fucking five. Hi. Looch. Getting fucking nuts. Number five. Five. Scorn of Creation. Self-titled. It's a debut album. They're from New Zealand. They have like a classic old school fucking, it's just dreary. It's fucking dark as shit. It's hard. Not dreary. I'm sorry. That's a stupid word. Bellincolny?

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No, no, no, no. It's good, hard, fucking nasty metal, man. Dark. So, yeah, they just came out, got released in February. It's a good album. It's a debut album. It's definitely, if you missed it, check it out. I don't know it. Yeah, I have to listen. Scorn of Creation. Cool man. I wrote it down. How did you hear about this? Just same thing. Like I said, I would see what comes out every month, just check it out, give little listens, and I caught this shit and I was listening to it. It's fucking nasty. We gotta get you on Bandcamp. That's what I mean.

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I don't even have I don't even do all the stuff you guys do but I just happen to come across it. Bandcamp's free. Come into our world. Join our den of dicks and join us. Join us. Join us. Join us. Oh dude this sounds really badass dude. I went and tested it I'm listening to it it's fucking good. What Scorn of Creation? Yeah. Yeah they're fucking good motherfucker I'm telling you. That's just brutal. I thought you really liked our.

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Chicken Dick and beer. Oh, no, no, no. I never listen to anything you guys say. Jay. Jay is famously said, you'll end this as to whatever he's talking about. Does it take away my machine head pick? No. No. Oh, you know what? No, hey, Looch, because I love you, your machine head pick never really sat poorly with me. Thank you, my friend. We ignore these guys. I don't. I'm going to say, you're not fucking up my other 23 picks. I don't trust them. Why is Matt still laughing? It's just a permanent.

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Matt, your pick, buddy. Number five. The Atlas Moth. Coma, no ear. Yes. This is going to get some points, too. This is going to score high, I think. Hey, Matt, let's get together and have a circle jerk. Atlas Moth. Coma, no ear. Let me rephrase this. This is going to score high. Not with me, but you know. Not with me. I think this is going to be up there. I'm not a super fan of these guys, but I do.

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I was a huge fan of them before. I just felt this one was a little bit darker, a little bit more aggressive, and I didn't know how I felt about it at first, and then I just kind of warmed up to it, and it's just been magic ever since. Were they baby metal before or something? No. We were Facebook friends. I met it on albummatch.com. Johnny John.

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I'll do mine again. The Atlas Moth.

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Come in the way.

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There you go. I told you it's gonna get some points.

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B-b-b-boydo.

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Will.

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*Bangangangangangangangangangangangangangangangangangangangangangang

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Number five. All the way from motherfucking Queensland, Australia. Wow. G'day, man. Parkway. Parkway. Parkway. Jesus. Shut your fucking mouth. Virent. Oh, you did your idea. Nice. What shirt am I wearing? Virent. Justin Bieber. Oh. Lady Gaga. I'm wearing a Virent shirt.

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The band sent me the shirt when I put them as our monthly pick. Jeez, I mentioned them too. Where's my fucking shirt? Well, they don't have 15XL. Whoa. Damn. That's cold. You went all the way to 15. That's cold. You could have went to 12 and that would have been fun. Even fucking something in single digits. You had to be a dick. Yeah, wow. All I got to say about that is...

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Dicks.

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Viren, they are

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un-fucking-real.

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To me, these guys,

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they're

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I'm trying to think of the words.

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Good?

03:24:35.220 --> 03:24:35.400
Cool.

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They're good.

03:24:37.340 --> 03:24:37.720
They're cool.

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They sound a lot like Ojira.

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They're not 100% clones

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of Gojira.

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But they bring it like Gojira, I guess is the best way I can say it.

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In a French sort of way?

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But from Australia.

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Yeah.

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It's really fucking good.

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Just listen.

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If I'm putting this in my top five, just listen to it.

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You like it.

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We get it.

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All right, already.

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All right.

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Jesus fucking Christ.

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We'll like some.

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I'm probably going to listen to it or die. Listen or die. Okay. Viren. All right, all right. Everyone listen to whatever their name is when they get a chance. All right, my number five. I'm probably the only one who has this. I know Decibel over agrees with me on how good this record is, but it is fucking good. Tribulation down below. Oh, I was wondering if you were going to put that on the list. It deserves to be in my top five. Guess what? Here's my statement about these guys. No one agrees with Decibel, by the way. Yeah, fair enough.

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If the 1950s and 40s and 30s Universal Monsters got together and made a band, this is what it would sound like. Let's just say Frankenstein, Dracula, blah, blah. And I mean, that style of those old movies. It's just perfectly Victorian and weird and dark. The guitar players are super creative. I love it. You know what, Jay? I think the issue for them is that that album came out so early in the year, it seems like it's been a little forgotten. Yeah. Unfortunately. That's not the issue.

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It's also not that great. Well, you will remember, and I don't agree with this, but Decibel gave it a 10. I know. I remember that. I asked Albert about that. Albert did not give it a 10? Decibel gave it a 10. Albert did not give it a 10. Yeah, no, no. Fair enough. That came up with another album when I showed up. Yeah. That's not to say Albert didn't like it. No, I know. I have a very broad and diverse top five, but that one deserves it. Good enough. I remember you talking about,

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I'm liking that a lot when it came out. Yeah, still playing it. Still listening to it. Bought it on vinyl, put it on a lot. It's got a cool cover. Do you put it on when you want to go to sleep at night? Maybe. Okay, so John, you did me a physical favor on Looch. Looch, would you punch Will for me when you get a chance? I need to wait. George, what's your number five? Here we go. Kim Jug Chicken.

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Number five.

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Piece of crust.

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Alkaloid.

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Chicken.

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Liquid Anatomy.

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Yes!

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Fuck yeah!

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Rulers of the podcast.

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It's called Owner of a Lonely Heart.

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You are the only one who's been right so far.

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Much better than a Owner of a Broken Heart.

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Okay, that can stop.

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By the way, hey guys, it's called Group Think.

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Wow, very 1984.

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Come, come, come.

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We're cracking this up.

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Beer is bad here in the podcast.

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Don't drink beer is bad for you.

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Wow, George, you tricked me.

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You son's a bitch.

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How did I trick you?

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Because I didn't know you liked it that much.

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I did.

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Wow.

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Number four from Sweden with a bullet.

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Mr. Will Cook.

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At the gates.

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Demonical.

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Yes.

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Chaos Manifesto.

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That shit was fucking loose.

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So fucking hard.

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And like I said, that's really my go-to shit.

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I fucking love it.

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There's been more beer burps and farts in this episode than any of them combined.

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It is heavy.

03:28:30.380 --> 03:28:31.540
That's a heavy fucking record, man.

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Demonical, man.

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Nice.

03:28:33.720 --> 03:28:34.420
Awesome fucking album.

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Good call.

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That's my three.

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That would be your number four.

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Yeah, that'd be my four. So go ahead. As you can hear, the paper's flipping. I'm impressed we've made it to four. We're getting there. We're getting there. Okay. And speaking of? Number quattro, Slugge. There we go. Slugge. All right, there we go. I have no complaints about that. What's the name of the album?

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Malacology? Yeah, Malacology. There you go. I don't know. That is neither too high nor too low. Jay's been pumping these guys for a while now. Well, George is the one who turned them on to me with the last one. And that one was on my own. And George has been turning them on. So George is like the fluffer, and then you've been, what's going on here? He's the fluffer. He's the fluffer. George, what was the last one called? Let me see.

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Does anybody remember? Anyway. Demon slime ridden kingdoms. Yeah, slime ridden. That was on my list that year. And it was, and George turned me on to him one time. And I was like, holy fucking shit. He's pulling shit out of his ass. Yes, I am. I know my metal, thank you. Yeah, I remember very well. George was like, he made a point. He was like, dude, you really need to go check these guys out. Yeah. Even before that, I liked them. Yeah. Whatever the one before that is. I know there's. Slugsy Night or whatever. Yeah. I forget the names, but. I, um, they went and.

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I think they were in my top 10 or 15 that year. This is not a first thing. But in any case. And a fun interview too, by the way. Oh yeah, I love that guy. I'm still friends with him on Facebook. I like to see the interesting things he says. Yeah, Matt's a great guy. Where are we? John. Oh, it's my turn. Wait, who went last? Matt. Matt has left. What number are we on? Four. I don't know.

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Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland. They're from somewhere. Okay, they're from England. King Goat. Debt of Aeon. Wait, did you get the vinyl? I did not, and I'll tell you why. And I told George this. I did not want to pay more in shipping than I went for the vinyl. And I did want it bad. I diverted my money.

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I'll give it to you back if you really want. I've heard that. I may have a copy coming. I don't know. Yeah, you do. My copy is promised to you, George. I ordered it. I have it. It was not signed. If you still want to sign copies, is that what you're saying? Well, I have to say that I ordered it because we talked to them. I said to them, can you sign it? And they did not. I think I know why, though, well, because there was two ways to order it. One was from Bandcamp and one was... That's what I figured. If you ordered it the wrong way,

03:31:36.800 --> 03:32:06.740
the wrong way it actually came straight from the label you had to order it like i think that's what i ordered the wrong way but no somebody said like hey did somebody message somebody in the podcast say who's from alexandria oh now you're all lying i was never in contention for a vinyl well's number four number four is it my number four yeah yes crescent the hoarder of i'm a t well there

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There goes your number one prediction, George. There it is, George. I thought that was your number one. Let me just say something about Crescent. They're from Egypt. They play brutal, fucking phenomenal, awesome, well-arranged death metal. This is true. They make Niall look like a bunch of little bitches from America. Well, let's not get carried away. But they are a real Niall.

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South Carolina based death metal band that sings about Egypt. This is an Egyptian band that sings about Egypt. It would be funny if they sang about South Carolina. I was going to say something. But they are good. They are fucking good. We had the last album, which we could not order from Bandcamp because you can't send money to Egypt. Muslim Brotherhood, thank you very much. Fucking Muslim asshole terrorist.

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You can't listen to your music. But they've left Egypt, or at least their music has, and they have a label that is outside of Egypt, so we can now buy their album. There you go. But holy shit, this is such a great album. Just listen to it. It's awesome. It is. Take my word for it. Yep. Yes. Mine, okay, so I have several comments to make. John, if you stick with it, this will get real for you. Looch, you shouldn't be above.

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I definitely want to hear this one now. Go ahead and say it, whoever it was. Oh, Primordial. Exile Amongst the Ruins. If you settle in and give in to this fucking thing, man. Yes, it does a lot of this stuff that you guys all said it does, but it's great. It's brilliant. It's emotional. It's like a Viking standing on a cliff for an hour. I like dicks. I did not say that, Jay.

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That was,

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I don't know.

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Well,

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you did,

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but not now.

03:34:09.760 --> 03:34:10.080
And Jay,

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you called it with that last song.

03:34:13.810 --> 03:34:13.940
Yeah.

03:34:14.160 --> 03:34:14.280
Sorry,

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I have to cut you off.

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You called it with that last song,

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Last Call.

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That was fair.

03:34:18.620 --> 03:34:20.400
This record had to be in my top five.

03:34:20.920 --> 03:34:20.980
Nice.

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Jay,

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I absolutely love this record,

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but I will say that it just seems like it falls off at the end,

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but I wanted,

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this was way higher.

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It wasn't my top five.

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I mean,

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because that's crazy.

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Who would put that fucking thing in the top five?

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However,

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It's probably my top ten. But no, no. All joking aside, it is phenomenal. I do love it. I just wish... Did you get those two I told you to get? If you do, you'll appreciate it even more. The Butt Plug and the Gang Ball? No, the other two. Not those two. I think it's one of the greatest albums I ever listened to. Jay, Jay, no, seriously, I'm super happy you have this so high on your list because I thought it was great. It just fell off.

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I still listen to it. It was hard for me at first. I was like, I don't know. Two, three lessons in, I was like, fuck. So it's great. My goal is to have this higher on my year end. How about that? It may well do. It may well do for you. Is it me? Are we agreeing more on this one than we have in the past? I think we all feel sorry. There's a lot of albums we all agree on. No, I think we're doing more. It should be noted that this hasn't been on my list. I noticed. We don't care.

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Really? Really? Fuck primal. Okay. What does that mean, George? Whoa, whoa, whoa. This can't be personal. No, no, no. Don't make it personal. I'm just kidding. Yeah. Mostly. Mostly. All right, it's personal. Okay. Anyway, George. What's your number whatever? Now it's going to be primordial. Number four. No. I can't even say it.

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"Despair Well of the Disquiet."

03:36:08.260 --> 03:36:09.880
Okay. Oh, well, that's weird.

03:36:10.470 --> 03:36:12.260
That was your number one with a bullet for a while.

03:36:12.739 --> 03:36:13.100
Wow!

03:36:13.740 --> 03:36:14.400
I am adrift.

03:36:14.939 --> 03:36:17.260
Number four through one, they're all number one.

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Wow.

03:36:18.220 --> 03:36:22.500
I'm adrift. I didn't think I... you've just blown my world. I thought that was your number one for sure.

03:36:22.620 --> 03:36:23.000
Wow.

03:36:23.650 --> 03:36:25.340
Yeah, it was for a while. It was.

03:36:25.410 --> 03:36:26.200
It still could be, Jay.

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Okay.

03:36:26.890 --> 03:36:27.760
It still could be number one.

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Number three, "Hands of Despair."

03:36:29.540 --> 03:36:30.560
Number two, "Hands of Despair."

03:36:30.640 --> 03:36:31.940
Number one, "Hands of Despair."

03:36:32.050 --> 03:36:32.140
Wow.

03:36:32.510 --> 03:36:34.720
Like, there's a long album, so it could take up four swats.

03:36:34.810 --> 03:36:34.920
Yeah.

03:36:36.160 --> 03:37:05.300
All right, Looch, number three. Make this shit even more real. Top three. Skeletal remains. Cheers. Oh! Devouring Mortality. We need to get a chance to cheers. Let's not break those glasses, folks. George only has no pairs of them. I know, that's why. I have one. You need... If we buy him a fucking set of glasses, we would. I am buying George's set. Of all different shapes and sizes.

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So, come year-end, we'll have our new glasses. Yeah, and I don't have to drag this shit up here. I don't really have to say much about that album, actually. It's fucking bad. It's good as all. Those guys really came into their own. This is crazy. Fucking top three. Mateo. So, my number three. Why is there nothing in there? This band, I was absolutely in love with their first two albums. And for the third album, they took it to another level, and really the only way you can do that, and that's by the saxophone.

03:37:35.840 --> 03:37:36.700
Rivers of Nile.

03:37:37.020 --> 03:37:37.840
Four Owls Know My Name.

03:37:39.180 --> 03:37:41.800
For a second, I thought you were going to say Saxaboom.

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Saxaboom.

03:37:44.779 --> 03:37:46.700
Doug Beattie, bring out the Saxaboom.

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Saxon.

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I need to figure out what that other saxophone record was.

03:37:50.340 --> 03:37:50.780
Are you serious?

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Yeah, he's serious.

03:37:52.700 --> 03:37:53.320
He's not fucking around.

03:37:53.660 --> 03:37:54.200
For real.

03:37:54.380 --> 03:37:55.380
What do you think he's serious?

03:37:55.380 --> 03:37:55.880
No, no, no.

03:37:56.920 --> 03:37:58.600
Sorry, the way he introduced it.

03:37:59.340 --> 03:37:59.580
Oh, yeah.

03:37:59.640 --> 03:38:00.320
No, he was just.

03:38:00.740 --> 03:38:02.640
Okay, Matt, give us your rule number three now.

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I was hard on it for that reason.

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Yeah, he had to give me a little shade. And honestly, when I heard that there was saxophone on the album, I thought, I'm out of here. And then I listened to it, and it's just, like, of all the albums on my list, that one has probably been, like, in my head the most for the last six months. Nice. It's a really good record. It is. Solid. It's awesome. Solid. You know, it is awesome. It's a lot of good songs. It's a lot of good songs. It's a lot of good songs

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The Third Best Record of the Year is... Hold on, what are we drinking? I'm not in common. We're like 12 years behind. Well, did you guys know about the Double Barrel one we just drank? Yeah, I'm still just going. We might have mentioned it. Double Barrel Imperial Biscotti. Yeah, Evil Twin. I'm still drinking it. Well, this is from Firefly Hollow in Connecticut. It's only 5.6%, but it's a bourbon barrel age toadstool stout. Toadstool? The fuck is a toadstool stout?

03:39:15.400 --> 03:39:34.660
I'm almost sure John was just about to say number three okay so my number three is this band is gonna fucking break with this one oh what huh yeah right with this one yeah I mean I know what it is Cindy Lauper no I know what it is

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Oh, starts with a K. Yep. Desolation. Oh. Chemists. I know that one. Okay. I don't know what that's supposed to be. Number three! What? Will and I admittedly were late to the party last year. Oh, solely. But I think they have... Like I showed up. I didn't have a dress on. I showed up my underwear. Yeah. Dude, I was still in the car.

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You were recovering. No. I think they're going to get the accolades they deserve with this album. Or this is the album that's going to set them up for the big payday going forward. Yeah. If not this one, the next one is where they're going to get it. Payday is best on album sales. It is. It's their chance to... Payday is based on album sales. No, no, no, no. It's going to be...

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He's gonna come going forward from here. Yes. Fair enough. And they're a bunch of fun guys to hang out with. They are mushrooms. Very nice guys. And they actually put up with us. They're fun guys. I think of them as the sort of official, unofficial band on the podcast. What? They're mushrooms. They're fun guys. Can you tell them I said hi? There's a fungus among us. Hey guys, Matt said hi. Matt said hi. Actually, it was funny. Well, maybe even if you don't see them, Zach,

03:41:04.700 --> 03:41:34.660
George and I were talking to Dan at Death Fest and he was saying how for whatever reasons he thought that we gave them a lot of praise more than most people we looked at him like really us he was very complimentary he gave us the best compliment we've ever had saying that of all the interviews he's done and he's done a bunch recently that we were the most fun yes that meant a lot we were we both kind of just like pause like us really really you remember from mental heads podcast right yeah

03:41:34.680 --> 03:42:03.020
Wait, what podcast did you say? Yeah, we're not those guys. And you should expect to hopefully hear them before the summer is out on here because they will be coming by now. I expect listeners to get on board on New Music Friday next Friday. Yes, next week. Get on board. Or this week, since you're probably hearing this next week. Yeah, actually this will probably be out by the time you go. It'll be next week, but this week. Will, what's your number three?

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It starts with a K. He's, oh, it's kind of Scott. Yeah. Let me whip this out. Excuse me while I whip this out. Sludge. Esoteric melancholy. Melancholy. Nice. Whatever. Melon. I like melons. Actually, I hate melons. What? But I like melancholy. I like huge tracks of land. That's a multi-punch.

03:42:34.800 --> 03:43:04.460
I thought in the rift there. I haven't heard that in years. Huge tracks of land. Someday this will all be yours, so. What? The curtains. You know what? Jay, props to you. You actually understand the whole thing. We just understand the punchline because we're dumb knuckle draggers. But I love the curtains. We're going to start saying a lot of the same bands now. Until we get to number one.

03:43:04.560 --> 03:43:33.960
We are. It should be a weird shit show. So I'm just going to tell you that my third best record is King Goat's Debt of Ion. Yes! Whoa. The goat is picking up votes. Yeah. The goat votes. The goat's got the votes. I like it. Goat votes. Goat gets the votes. All right, George. When the Afghan insurgents are fucking goats, they get the votes. Yeah. Weirdest up, George. My number three is a goat vote for King Goat's Debt of Ion. Oh! Oh, shit. George and I, we think alike. We do.

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We go like this, but when we meet, we meet an important point. That's three top fives for King Ghost. We don't cross the streams. Just shoot them wherever. Wow, three top four votes for King Ghost. Okay, put your dicks away and let's do number two. Oh, here we go. This is getting serious. Looch. It's getting ugly. Jonathan Davis. Mammoth Grinder.

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Dude, this is classic, old, and tuned for me. It's fucking sledgehammer fucking bass drumming. It's hard, it's nasty, and I fucking love it, man. Mammoth Grinder. Cosmic Grinder. You still talking about music? I think we got it right around the time we got Tomb Mold, and for some reason I took Tomb Mold, and I listened to Mammoth Grinder like five days. It's great, but I just like Tomb Mold occupied that position. Not terribly similar bands, but...

03:44:34.660 --> 03:45:04.500
Grinder and... There's a couple of them. Fucking... What, Demonical Rose? No. I said Mammoth Grinder. Oh, Skeletal Rants? Which one? My number three? Alkyloid. Ultras of Grief. Oh, Scorn of Creation. You missed that. Nisan. Stay on Target. Hands of Despair. Stay on Target. Good call, good call. Number two for Matt. How long ago? Anyway. Number two. Hold on. I remember when Absolution came out quite a few years ago.

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I was the same year I actually started my blog and so I was doing like a top 10. That's dead in northern darkness dot com by the way. For the six people that have been there I've been disallowed from WordPress so it's currently under construction. Anyways from the first time I heard Absolution and then Hunter. I mean both are out of my top 10 and the same is true for Desolation. My number two chemist Desolation.

03:45:34.540 --> 03:46:04.020
I agree with 100% of what you're saying, John. I feel like they're kind of immediately... I don't know. They'll be immediately loved for this one after the last two albums. It's such good geeky metal, too. Meaning they just embraced metal. They were just like, fuck it. We're not doing anything that's slightly off course here. Right down the middle of the road. It was epic. I remember the interview. Actually, it wasn't an interview. We were just sitting there talking with Zach. And he said, yeah, single's not like the rest of the album.

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And we're like, okay. But you know what? That single is awesome. It is. But it was cool for him to say, I think you'd be surprised what we came out with on this album. But when they played it at the fest. You know what he said? He said, it's more heavy metal. Yeah, he did. I agree. It is. But still some doom influence. You were saying well? I'm not saying shit. Okay. My turn? Yeah. Number two. Get your salt shakers out. Come on, man. Let's get down and do it.

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Dirty and the Wet Dirt. Sludge. Yes! Teric Malacology. Ow! Ow! Every time I listen to this album, it gets better. Yeah. It really does. It does. That is the one record that the more I listen to. It just keeps getting better. It creeped up and up and up and up and up in my list. And there's so much going on in this album. Yeah. And none of it's wasted. There's no wasted space stuff. No. There's death metal, but there's prog metal. I mean, but there's all kinds of things.

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There is everything. And nothing's overdone. And let's follow the fucking story. Let's just see where these slugs are going. Yeah. It's going to take a while to get there. We'll get there at some point. As long as some asshole kid doesn't show up with his mom's salt shaker, we'll get there. Honestly, I love this record. I didn't think I could love the record more. And then we talked to Matt, and then I love the record more. And you know what I liked about him, actually? He's the first guest since I've been involved.

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He immediately friended all of us. Yeah. Before we had a chance to do it. He was down with everything. There are certain guests that we've had on that would, they never shared our post. Immediately. He was. He, within like a minute of me posting the episode, he shared it. Everything went out. Everything. This is, I think Matt lives an internet life and he's, you know, he describes himself as a bit of a shut-in. So I think he really gathers his information, lives his life, and has his connections largely through the internet. So, but I think he's, you know, he's, you know, he's, you know, he's, you know, he's, you

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But I think his acceptance of our sort of friend's requests and stuff were very sincere. I love talking to him. I just thought he was one of the brainers. And now that you guys said that, actually, it's just funny because I listened to the cast you had when I'm on there and I just identified with this guy. I liked him. I was like, this is fucking cool as shit. I friended him and he, like, immediately. And I didn't even meet the guy. I was just like, oh, this guy sounds like he's got it together and shit. He's awesome. Can't say enough good stuff about Slug.

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I'm going to go ahead and hazard a guess that they will be a top 10 metalhead podcast band. For sure. Top 5. Top 5. Oh yeah. Easily. It's my number 3, George. No, it's your number 2. Did you mention it? Yeah, George. Oh, you didn't, yeah. I did. My number 3. Wait, you're number 3? No, I just did number 2. What are you talking about? It says number 2. Whose turn is it? Is it Will's turn? Yeah, number 2. Did you do 3? No.

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I've got all of you. That's true. I fucking definitely. What is your number two? Come on. My number two all the way from Spain. Or Greece. But actually from Greece. By way of. Who is number one? Ocean of Greece. Greece. Grief. Ocean of Greece. Who said that? Ocean of Greece. Well you sit next to me and I'm sweating a fucking big time away. Night falls lament. Holy god. So oceans of grief. I totally turned you on to this.

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You did. Not only do you turn me on. I didn't mean to turn you on. I completely either. That was not me. Meanwhile at the chair. No, I'm happy to hear you like this. Wait, wait, wait. Can I just get through this band and give the band proper? Please. Yes. Before all the methane gas escaping from the dirty buttholes. I was up here.

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This is just fucking awesome. It's such a good album. My number two. They were my number one for a long time. No, well, I'm happy you still have them on your list. That's awesome. John told me about them. I fucking love them. It's unbelievable death doom, and I love it, and I'm a sucker for death doom. I have to say, it's very early Swallow's Son for me. Spirit Swallow? I'll buy that.

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Swallow the Sun. Early stuff. Spit or swallow? God damn it. Both. Jay, give us your number 10. What was yours again, John? Number two. Oh, Jay, you bastard. Just my number 10. I'll have one of those, please. Yeah! Esoteric Malacology. This was a record that occupied my number one spot more than any other record this year, but somebody else came out and blew it. But that stated?

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I can't add anything to what you guys have said. You were probably the most vocal of all of us about it, I think, when it came out. I love it. That shows you how much I love my number one. Wow. Everything you guys said about this record is true. It's good. Every time I listen to it, there's something new about it. It's deeply interesting. So many hooks. It should be. You know what? Decibel was not kind to this one, so fuck them for that. Wait, wait, wait. What'd they give it? They gave it a seven and said, the songs are too long. They need to cut it down a little bit. They're just wrong.

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My answer to that. No, they're wrong. No. It's all about the individual. Same as Angry Metal Guy. It's the individual person who gives it that. Listen. And then I talked to Albert, who's a managing editor of Decibel, and he says a lot of times the general rule is somebody gives it a rating and we knock it down two points. Oh, is that right? Interesting. Here's my take on it. I mean, it's not official. It's just like, you know, a lot of times they like it too much.

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I'm sure.

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Here's my take on Disable reviewing it.

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Awesome.

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They reviewed it.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And they gave it no worse than a 7.

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So that's good.

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We'll take it, yeah.

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I mean, it's better than the Machine Head review.

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All right, all right.

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Slightly.

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That was epic.

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My final word on it, though, it's brilliant.

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It's almost a work of genius.

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Yep, yes.

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George.

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Oh, I can't.

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Wait, wait, wait.

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Come on, George. Is this our number two? This is the last number two before we fucking get real. Wait, so wait. Wait, you pulling it out now? Yeah, that was our number two. George, fill us in. Me? Number two. Yes, you. Number two. What? Yeah. Please, right, PC. Go. Slug. Esoteric malacology. I'm going to go ahead and say they might be number one now. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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There may be another number one. I know, but somebody's waiting in the wings. There. I think we may have a consensus. Let me tell you, this is going to be a tight top five. The tightest. Toys. Toys. Toys. Toys. Toys. Toys. Toys. I have a good feeling I don't have the same number one as you guys. But I don't give a rat's dick because I fucking like my rat's ass. I'm going to give Lucha's number one as sludge. No, I was already out there.

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I don't even care god damn it

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as long as it's not machine head

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alright can we all just appreciate that this is

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Bon Jovi

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Jay say it

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no no say it

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appreciate what

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I just wanted to stop and appreciate that this is the moment of truth

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we're hitting our number ones boys

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are we at number one

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we're at number one

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we did this under five hours by the way

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barely

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And I'm actually almost done with the third movie in the Matrix trilogy. Hey, Matt. He's not joking. Matt, I got one thing to say to you. You knew what you signed up for. I don't know what this will edit down to. I don't know what this will edit down to, but right now we are at four hours and 31 minutes. That's still better than the past. That's to be expected. And we have more people. I would not change it. Number one, Luch.

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I'm going to talk about this one first before I say it. Sure. Because if I say it, you guys shit all over it. I don't give a fuck. This is another half an hour. So. Oh, is this on? Okay. Yeah. So my number one is it's all over the place. It's fucking. I like this because it literally and this is the best way I describe it. This album to me is what goes on in the head of a fucking schizophrenic.

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This shit is fucking hard, nasty. They fucking kick you in the gut and you hit the ground and they pick you up, wipe you with a cool rag, nice, everything's cool, and then they fucking slice you open and pull your fucking energy out. Letters from the Colony, vignette. I like that fucking album. I'm a little bit tripolar myself to people normally. And this album, literally, I swear to God, that's the best way I'd describe it. What's the name of the band?

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"Letters from the Colony." I've heard this. And the album is Vignette. V-I-G-N-E-T-T-E. But I'm telling you, it's not fucking all over the place where you're like, "Oh, what the fuck is going on?" It's just a sick fucking album and it's my number one. And it's been my number one for a bit now. 'Cause Barren and Isan. It's better than Machine Head. I'll tell you that shit. I'll agree with that. And yes, according to you it is.

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Number one, letters from the colony, Vinyan. Check it out. That's all that matters, bro. Seriously. That's all that matters, yeah. I don't know it. None of us have heard of it. I have heard of it. You have? Yes, I have. Dude, I know everything, okay? Almost everything. I know everything. I am all King John George. Matt, give us and grace us with your number one, Matt. John, you know me too well. You called it earlier. Panopticon. There you go.

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I knew you were going there. You know, I loved one and two or is you like one or two better? Probably one. I love it. But I appreciate number two and I enjoyed having album number two in there. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. So what just happened is Jay just leaned in your lap again and blew you. Yeah, there he goes. Every time I blow around, my cat is really happy for what it's worth.

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An angel gets its wings. It's another one of those moments where you wish we were on YouTube. One of these days we have to publish this. I looked into trying to do video for this, but it was too complicated. It's not too complicated. No, it is. Put a goddamn camera in the corner, record it, and put it on YouTube. Yeah, but we won't get them. I think George means we're all too complicated. We'll figure it out. We'll just get a round table or something. We need everybody in the same room to get video.

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Make it work. Everybody in the same place. We will. You need to rent some fucking conference room at a hotel and just fucking go nuts. Oh, yeah. It's called Decibel 2019. Yes. Yes. All right. John. John. John. Number uno. Uno. Fucking light years ahead of everything else. There's no tool in this album. There's certainly no fucking ghosts in this album. There's no yes in this album. Yes, there is.

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There's yes. There's post-80s Russian heroes. There's ghosts. And there's some of the best fucking death metal you hear. Ghost. Fuck you. Ghost. Shut up. Stop talking. Stop. Stop. Zip it. Alkaloid. Liquid anatomy. To fucking rule all.

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I will point out the tool to you at some point, but it takes some doing. There's actually a spot. There's a spot that's very tool. See, now I said... Jay, Jay, I said that earlier. I said yes meets tool meets metal. No, yes meets rush, not tool. This is a tool in mine. To move an angel meets ghost. That's all you need to know. Alright, this half of the room can just... Right there. Yes meets tool meets some sort of thing.

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No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to save everybody's likes here, buddy. The simple fact that this has showed up on so many lists makes Jonah happy, little boy. It says so out there. Give me some re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-

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1. Go fuck yourselves, Chemist.

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Yes!

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Yes!

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They might have just told me.

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Chemist, I think, just stole the spot.

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Holy shit.

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They just did, yeah.

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I get the points now.

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And I will--

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Don and Don.

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There's 30 seconds of what I want to say.

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Go.

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It took me a while to appreciate the full aspect of Chemist.

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When I saw them live the first time at the Decel Metal Beer Fest, it was over. It was like, I'm in. And when I saw them at Maryland Death Fest, I was in. It was just on fuck. And they only played one song for the new album, but this new album, it's just better. It's just better than what I already thought was awesome. It's one more. Yeah. It's been a plus one. All our albums go to 11.

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And this one went to 12. And it will be extremely... It's only six songs. It is only six songs. But it will be very, very hard to knock this off my number one for the year-end. Holy shit. Fucking Chemist. So I mentioned earlier that my number one is Far and Away my number one. And that's saying a lot because we just got done sucking slugstick all over the place. But there's a record that comes sometimes and you connect

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I connected with the story behind this record. I think it's beautiful in places. It ends in a doomy version with a doomy version of the sort of of the kind of riff that Leviathan ends with. And I really think I'm going to drop a bomb. I don't think you guys could ever guess what I'm about to say. Yes! Yab, Our Raw Heart is my very favorite record of this year. I love you, Jay. I love you. Well, I just jumped into the top five or six with that pick.

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I cannot tell you enough how I've listened to this repeatedly. I like it so much. Tell me, is the raw emotion that that album gets you every time? Yeah. I mean, the heavy stuff is all perfect, but that song, Beauty and Falling Leaves, I was listening to that underwater, as you know, swimming as I do, and I just went to another place, man. But it's good, the whole fucking thing, and it just ends triumphantly, man, with this big wave of chords that just goes on and on.

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The big triumphant bastard. Big veiny triumphant bastard. I'll stop there, but I love it so much. Jay, I'm with you. I fucking love that new album. I can guarantee you that it will be higher on my year-end list as I listen to it more on vinyl. I had to stop myself five times to not text you well.

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when I decided this was my number one, which was about three weeks ago. And I was going to be like, I got to fucking tell. Hey, Jay, I mean, it's okay. I'm open to dick pics. It's fine. Well, I've been sending them. I think Fiend and Dan K. are going to be really happy about this. They're both big fans. George. All right. Here we are. Wait, hold on. Before you say it, I want to say, you said sludge. You've already said alkaloid. Just wait.

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I'll just wait for it. I'll wait. I'll wait. I just can't imagine what it is. This is the number one to end the episode, essentially. Even though we have more to say. Minus more to go. But yes, but this is the last of the listers. Not that I am fucking shit in the things, but I just happen to be the last one. So, this album. I did not think this was going to be my number one when we first heard this.

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up there. But I was like, nah, this won't be my number one. But then I kept listening to it. And I kept listening to it. Oh, you're ready. Wills takes his pants off right now. Oh, no, I don't need to see this. He is literally taking his pants off. Oh, shit. I might have to drive home. Do not. He is down to his underwear. George, just text us to pick and they'll say it.

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But the more I listened to this, the more I realized that this had to be it. Go. And, you know, we know these guys. Will is mounting George as we speak. And... Ah, come on, Will, I got to go with that. This has nothing to do with the fact that we know these guys. These are all great guys.

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I love you guys. I love you guys. Say it. Phil and Ben and Dan. Chemist desolation. I have no pants on. Oh my god. I feel violated. I gotta call Uber. Did they come out this far? Yes. I'm exhausted after that. Jesus. He's really fucking naked.

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There it is.

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It's at that moment that Jay and Matt were really happy they were in their own homes.

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Yes.

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You can strategically place things on your screen so you don't have to actually look at the camera.

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Aside from me taking my pants off.

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Yeah.

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So Chemist number one.

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Wow.

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Chemist number one.

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I think Chemist is going to steal the podcast.

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That's almost no way it can't.

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Chemist sludge.

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Yeah, sludge.

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Who we?

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Chemist sludge.

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King Gobe will be high.

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King Gobi, yeah. Wow. Man, oh man, how am I getting home tonight? Will's putting his pants back on. It's all for fun and games. It's all fun and games until somebody has a sticky shirt. So the top 25 mid-year in the books. Almost. But we're not done yet. Let's just add another hour to this shit. Excuse me. Let's go through honorable mentions very quickly. Oh shit. Yeah, yeah.

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Not quickly. Alright. Alright, yeah. So, Luke, just give us all your honorable mentions. Do you have any honorables? No. No, I was ill-prepared. That's cool. Go. Moving on. I'm sorry. Sorry. I just put my headphones on. Somebody's speaking Dutch. Yes. Yeah, that's out of Belgium. So, they would either be

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Yeah, it'd probably be Dutch. Flemish or French, yeah. Para, Riti, Akhenaten. Is that how you guys said it? Yes, Akhenaten. Golden Serpent God, Mammoth Grinder, Cosmic Crypt, Hoff, Astral Necromancy, Skeletal Remains Devouring More Is That Mortality, and then the crown, Cobra Speed Venom. Wow. Cobra Speed Venom. I'll go, my honorable mentions. Ultras of Grief, Iris, Crown Black Sky, Sid Real Light, Volume 1, Gruesome,

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Twisted Prayers, Herakiri for the Sky Arson, Skelter Remains, Devouring Mortality, Sojourner, The Shadowed Road, and Witch Sorrow, Hexenhema. My honorable mentions, I have three EPs I mentioned before we go to honorable mentions. In case anyone gives a shit about my EPs, all three of these are fucking all things. Nussra.

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Nusrat, the creeping unknown, from the void. Yes. High fives. Ow. From the void. That's a great EP. All three of these were on my list until I realized, oh, these are kind of EPs. Yeah. But from the void, I fucking love that. That's a great. And then dominant, the summoning, not all the way from Norway. Norway. My honorable mentions.

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Ready? Go. Number one. I was surprised it was not on George's aborted fetus. The ancient spirits of decay. So close. And these are all just alphabetic order. At the gates. Drink from the night itself. Three. Church. Church. Without you. Light will consume us all. Number four. Corrosion of conformity. Number four. Downfall amongst the dead.

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This is very professional tonight. Number five. Downfall amongst the dead. And you will obey me. Except for George. Number six. Foehammer. Second Sight. Their local DC. Oh my god. I need this. Number seven.

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Freedom Hawk.

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Beast Remains.

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Fucking love Freedom Hawk.

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Number eight.

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And holy shit.

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I'm so glad you guys mentioned these guys.

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Genocide Pact.

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Order of Torment.

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Number nine.

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Ghastly Death of the Lord.

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Number ten.

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Graveyard Peace.

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Jay, I would have them on my list, but they would ridicule me just like they would ridicule you.

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Number eleven.

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The Grotesquerie.

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The Loopline.

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Athenema. Number 12. Ilsa. Core Fortress. Number 13. Mammoth Grinder. Cosmic Crypt. Number 14. Necros. Christos. Dominum. Dux. 15? Whatever. Number 15. And I fucking love these guys from Pittsburgh.

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They should have made my list Slaves BC low and I am burning I fucking love those guys and then number 16 Tumuska mammoth breathless oh nice John I'll be quick and I didn't write a list so I'm just gonna tell you some I know I was dealing with here I'm kind of going through my files oxygen destroyer which we all just picked up recently is really fun Dave's Berman one I discovered recently that I like

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a pretty good record this year was in serious consideration for me age of taurus i really

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gave some thought to john just didn't make my list i gave some thought to baron altar and skinless was in both of those

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necros christos that was good um i wanted to do at the gates for jonah but honestly the truth is i

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didn't listen to it enough um the mammoth grinder was very close to making my list panopticon almost

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made my list and i think those are the high points let me just make sure there's not one oh there's a band

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from Texas called Duel who put out a live record this year. Oh, no, I know Duel. Yeah. That's a good record. We actually played them on an early episode. They're good. No, I like Duel. I think they just decided, like, yeah, we're done. They did a live one this year, but it's good. Solstice put out a cool record after many, many, many, many, many years, but just not quite listworthy. Yeah. Let's see here. I think that pretty much calls it... Oh, I liked the Void Hanger, Dark Days of the Soul was good. I looked at that a lot in the early part.

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of the year. And I also, I know you didn't like it well, but I liked the Pestilus record. I thought that was pretty good. And then most recently, Bleeding God. I do not think I said I did not like it. That was me. Oh, you're okay. I always joke. A band called Bleeding God. But I like it now. I like it now. Bleeding God's Dodecal-Thon, whatever, I don't want to say it, except that this is, I would have put them on, but it's almost like a carbon copy of Behemoth in ways. I'm almost convinced they might be Polish too, like modern Behemoth. I don't know what covers it.

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I was just saying that's tough fucking year boys and I'm not looking forward to the second half because there's a lot more stuff coming out that's going to get worse. It's going to be grueling. It's going to get brutal. Bear in mind we've got flying fire coming down the pike and possibly behemoth coming down the pike. And I am telling you now I have every intention I should be able to pull it off of being there for you. Shit show times ten. That covers it for me.

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Yes.

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Absolutely.

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We have a couch.

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We'll be under the other room.

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No, we'll put it in a foyer and we'll order pizzas and just sit there.

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So we're going to need it.

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Somebody's going to need to bring a peacock here.

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I guess I bring this to Georgie.

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Yeah.

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So my honor rolls this long is as long as the rest of my list, but I will go through it quickly.

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So it's like two inches.

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Yes.

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It says, alphabetically speaking,

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Oh, okay.

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Aborted fetus, the ancient spirits of decay.

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I really thought that was going to be on your list.

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I thought it was too.

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It wasn't.

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So what happened?

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It just missed it.

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It just missed it?

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Just missed it.

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Holy, holy, cracker shankers.

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Crikey.

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Cracker jacks.

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Wait, that's Australian.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Ascension.

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Holy, carol popcorn.

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Cracker Jacks with a prize inside. I cannot believe it. Ascension. Black crucifixion. Lightless violent chaos. This should have made my list. Boss colloid. Melted on the inch. Kruikon. Nine years of blood. De profundis. The blinding light of faith. Demonical chaos manifesto. Depravity. Evil upheaval.

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Drutka, or Drutka, as they say. They often see dreams about the spring. Ghastly, death velour, harakiri for the sky, arson. Good call. Just before dawn, tides of blood. Necrophobic mark of the necrogram. Necrogram, yeah. Negrito, flesh-torn, spirit-pierced. What'd you call me? You're a racist. It finally made it.

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I didn't actually have them like around I just didn't put them on

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Urarv Argentum, that's the former singer for Dotton Heimsgaard. Veld Sin, that just came out yesterday. And Wolfhammer, the Monuments of Ash and Bone. Nice. I should have mentioned that one too. Yeah. So, there we are. Outstanding. We fucking made it. We almost made it. We still have album covers to do. Oh, I'm down. Let me get my tap. Jay, did you get your shit together?

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It looks like me right now. No, but yeah, I have five and I'll just take them all. Yeah, see, yeah, as my first go around, I'll be better prepared next time. Do you have none or do you want to? Honestly, the only one I could think of offhand was Bleeding Through. Just the album cover was sick looking. All right. Offhand. Matt, do you have something? I do. All right, do it. Go. You want me to go through? Portal, Ion, Uwata, Cult of a Dying Sun, Gruesome Twisted Prayers, Rivers of Nile, Where Our Owls Know My

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Name and Deprivity, Evil Upheaval. Alright. Oh, we're doing all at once. Yeah, that's what we usually do. Alright, John. Alright, I'm not going to give album titles, just band names. Number five, Chemist. Number four, King Goat. Travis Smith album cover. Number three, Alders of Grief. Are we doing album covers? Travis Smith album cover. Two, Age of Torres. And this should be the one to rule all. Sojourner. The Shadowed Road.

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Will. Album covers? Yep. Go. Absolute number one, without a doubt, king of all. Start with five. Hello. Yeah, go five to one, dude. Oh, you guys are so strict. Yes. Number five, I don't own this, but Ghost prequel. That is a fucking awesome album cover. It is cool. Like I said, we're just going by strict album covers. Number four, La Ghost.

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See of Duress. Look at the album cover. Check it out. It's fucking awesome. They have a cool logo. Yeah. Number three. Chemist Desolation. Sam Turner, who's the artist. Fucking awesome. Number two. Yab. Oh, raw heart. And number one. And Raining. Still champion.

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because I had mentioned this a long, long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Bill Witch? Sojourner. The Shadowed Road. Yeah, it's a great cover. I think we said that right when it came out. Yeah. No, I mentioned it before. Jake, you miss your five. Mine are in no order, and they have nothing to do with how much I like the records, though some of them I like very much. Foehammer has a kick-ass cover on their records. Slug Lord. Wait, what was the first one? Foehammer. Foehammer. That cover's killer, dude. Wait, the one?

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The one with the ship and the sea? Yeah. It's like a painting. Yeah. No. I love the guys on Phil Hammer. They play Atlas all the time. They're the greatest goddamn guys. There you go. Well, they have good record covers apparently. Oh my god. There's like bestiality going on right now, by the way. I know. They're getting restless. There's a Slug Lord Endless. If you don't know that cover, take a look at it. Slug Lord is awesome. And the cover's cool. I like the cover of the Crown Cobra Speed Venom.

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Yeah, I thought sojourner was pretty close.

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No. No. Scratch your beard some more, George. Scratch your beard. Sucker dick. Come on. Number five, Judas Priest, Firepower. Number four, Gruesome, Twisted Prayers. Number three, Ghastly, Death Velour. Number two, Rivers of Nile, Where Owls Know My Name. Number one, for the fucking win, Chemist, Desolation.

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Oh yeah, I probably should have said that. Nice. So, the album will be out by now, by the time you hear this. But you should fucking check out Chemist. It'll be out the 22nd. It will not be out next Friday. This will probably be posting after that. No. What the fuck? It's a long fucking episode. It's going to take a long time to edit. Post it Tuesday. It ain't going to be fucking Tuesday. I'll tell you what. Tomorrow morning. That is George Ray's Amazon.

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We are at 4 hours 59 minutes and 30 seconds. This shit is not going up Tuesday. Shut it down! Shut it all down! Shut it down! Compliments of the FBI. Get to the chopper! Alright. I thought that was from Dark City. I thought you were doing Dark City. Dark City reference. Yes! Shut it down!

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That was a messed up movie. Die Hard. He's talking to the FBI. The FBI agent says, shut it down. Shut it all down. I only remember yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker. Yippee-ki-yay. All right, shut it down, George. Yeah, let's shut her down. Shut her down. All right, well, I think we're at the end. Yeah. I think we are. You think? I think we've reached a limit. Yeah. If you've made it this far, congratulations. And thank you. Thank you.

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You have nothing better to do with your life. Please come back. Yes. But here we are. We have just crossed the five-hour limit on our end. It's probably going to edit down to like four and a half hours for you. But still, that is quite the achievement to get this far in the episode. So congratulations. And we will be back soon with a regular episode. Probably featuring an original.

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I hope so yeah yeah yeah we

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recorded like a month ago yeah yeah we did so we'll uh as soon as we get a chance we will

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record an episode to tack that on to and then we have some other people lined up after that so

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until then we remain the metalheads podcast see ya bye yeah later adieu adieu

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FIGHT!

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Hating the fuel of the fuel on the moon

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I shivered up a wall that dragged me to be too weak