Full Transcript for Hyperblasts: Sam Says Nice Things About Electric Callboy At Slam Dunk

years ago when it's like the 75 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.800 nightmare one like that generally is something they've got now. 76 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:42.439 It just it seemed like the that one stage, which 77 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.800 again I was slightly like affected by it because of 78 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:48.240 hoping to see Scalp for watching our Galantria, and then 79 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.560 because of the delay not being able to which is 80 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:50.879 a shame. 81 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:54.080 But yeah, so got their early to middle friends ended 82 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:54.599 up watching. 83 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:57.240 The first thing I watched was Lake Malice, who the 84 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.479 most live thing about them was their backing dancers. 85 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:02.439 The first few things I thought were very TikTok, that 86 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:03.000 kind of thing. 87 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:05.520 Lake Malice just not for me in the slightest, but 88 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.000 really abusing the backing tracks to a point where I 89 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.159 was like like, come on, like when it's not just 90 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.520 like a bit of vocals. There's lots of vocals, there's 91 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.319 guitars on the back truck. There's so much, and I 92 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.759 was like, put a bit more effort. 93 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:18.480 In it, just not for me. 94 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:22.399 And then after that on the same stage. It feels 95 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:23.879 like every yet sunder, I have to see a new 96 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:26.240 worst thing ever apparently which and that happened to be 97 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.959 Sophie Powers. So again, is I know nothing about very pop? 98 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:34.160 Loads of backing tracks doesn't have a basis, like it's 99 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:37.600 so artificial, And I just had to then watch her 100 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:40.879 do the worst cover of hard Shaped Box by Navana 101 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.240 I think I will ever see, And I was like, 102 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:45.319 genuinely abysmal. 103 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.160 Is this is this a sign for the day? I 104 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:49.120 was not feeling good. 105 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.120 Fortunately, following on from Matt and I know you weren't 106 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:54.839 massively keen on the album, but I went to see 107 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:59.639 a fighter who were act really fun live. I think 108 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:01.279 some of the like some of the things that you 109 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.439 don't like in the album were almost dialed up live. 110 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:08.800 But watching them live, they are so just like raggedy 111 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.439 and full of energy and like it's constantly fizzing over well, 112 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:13.959 like she can't remember the times if she's gonna be 113 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:15.839 playing guitars, she'll just throw a guitar down and like 114 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:17.639 just gonna jump in the card and kind of on 115 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:18.639 the bands could hold. 116 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:20.439 It together because she's like she's a. 117 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.560 Big personality on stage and that to me, I was like, 118 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:26.319 I really, I'm enjoying this. They're so because again I 119 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:30.240 just watched two acts where it's so like backing track heavy, 120 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.079 plug in and play a punk rock band really going 121 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:35.600 at it live, and I thought that was really fun. 122 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.519 The songs off the album played live. I think some 123 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:38.800 of the. 124 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.160 Production things where it's a bit clean, it's a little 125 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:43.959 bit more like again ragged live, so that that helps. 126 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.680 There did a cover of Sabotage by Beastie Boys. 127 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.079 For some reason, they do their Paramo cover. 128 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:49.920 They did. 129 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:52.360 They did do their Paramore cover, which again I was like, 130 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.160 and they got to that is that post like it's 131 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.800 the second half. I was like, everyone was like, god, 132 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:00.560 you know this really is this means me business? But 133 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.199 I saw that the song's pretty catchy. And I think 134 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:04.800 the other songs they play, which was mostly off of 135 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:06.959 the new album, they they're they're they're pushing that quite heavily. 136 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:08.800 It settled me in for the day. I was like, 137 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.800 you know what, this is cool that they're they're really 138 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.480 high energy. They feel like I'm watching a proper band 139 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.279 right now. I'm not someone playing to a load of 140 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.720 backing tracks. I'm now settled in for slam Dunk speaking 141 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:22.839 of someone playing to I don't know if it was 142 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:25.000 backing tracks. Maybe they had a keyboards, I can't quite remember. 143 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:30.560 Icy Stars really fucking boring, Like was this. 144 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.120 Just a more big curiosity choice. 145 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:35.839 Gonna watch? 146 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:38.720 Oh I didn't actually watch a little bit of Knucklepuck 147 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:41.000 whilst I was getting a beer, and they seemed fine, 148 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:43.639 you know their knucklepuck. They were doing like the same 149 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:45.800 thing

they've been doing forever. Not that much to say 150 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:46.319 about them. 151 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.000 But yeah, the problem Icy Stars I was going to go. 152 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:50.480 I was like, well, I hope they just play all 153 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:52.920 the old stupid stuff and are just really garish and 154 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:55.720 like obnoxious, and it feels like the modern Icy Stars 155 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:56.720 they're trying to be serious. 156 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.000 Yeah, they're trying. They're trying to keep up with you know, 157 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:00.000 the bad Omens and all that. 158 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:00.360 Yeah. 159 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:02.480 Problem, And I was like, this is a problem you 160 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:04.160 should be and that There was a couple of months 161 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:05.399 that they did play an Order song and I was like, 162 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:05.879 here we go. 163 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.879 This is really rubbish and stupid but quite fun. 164 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:12.279 But those like fleeting moments in otherwise I see a 165 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:13.879 very self serious metalcore. 166 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.399 There's a little bit today it was like no your enemy. 167 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.120 I feel like with this slam done. 168 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:22.639 And next up and this is the like last one 169 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:24.680 before the day got really fucking good. To be fair 170 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:29.519 was I went to see Landmarks, Oh right. I was 171 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.839 curious because they were on like the metical stage and 172 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:36.040 obviously they're blowing up all of a sudden, and I'm like, 173 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:38.399 I know very little about them, so I was kind 174 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.439 of like, you know what, let's go find. 175 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:44.199 Out what the deal is. Yea. And I will be honest, if. 176 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.120 There were any kind of like modern metalcore band that 177 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.759 people want to go crazy for, I could actually tolerated 178 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:50.439 being Landmarks. 179 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.439 They would They seem not the worst of them. 180 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.079 Yeah, that was my impression. They were like, actually quite heavy. 181 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.240 The cream vocal stuff isn't super whiny and self serious. 182 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:02.360 That there is a little bit of like the very 183 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:04.240 sort of serious stuff in there. But then there's also 184 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:07.639 French rapping thrown in because like they're French, so like 185 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:08.040 why not. 186 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:10.199 But I was like, I can think of some of 187 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:11.079 some reasons why not. 188 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.519 To be fair, Yeah, but I was like, this is 189 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:14.519 a bit of personality. 190 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:16.720 At least. They did a song with a Matt from 191 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:17.319 Whish Sleeps. 192 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:19.199 He came out and did these guest spot for them, 193 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.160 and I was like, oh cool, that's you know, nice 194 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:22.879 to see him hop up and again it was one. 195 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.560 Of those was like, I don't really care for this. 196 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:27.079 If this isn't going to be massive and they are 197 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:28.879 going to whole sea of these bands who I think 198 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.639 are all terrible and a massive I can let Landmarks 199 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:36.559 slide there. They were, yeah, solid, totally acceptable. I was like, yep, cool, 200 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:38.960 fine with that. Fortunately, from here this is where the 201 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:42.360 day really kicked into gear. Straight from the Path always 202 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:45.039 fucking great. Like again, I saw them a couple months ago. 203 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.480 They they played basically the same set I saw them 204 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.519 play at the Underworld, only this time it was on 205 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.320 the big stage where massive crowd going absolutely ape ship 206 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:56.480 for the entire sort of forty minutes they played. Obviously 207 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.480 the big talking point from this straight from the Past set, 208 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.759 they announced their new album on stage is out on Friday. 209 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:03.639 Parent of people said they were posters of it around 210 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:05.120 the site. I'n't actually seen any of them yet. It 211 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.240 was like bands all these like big social media campaigns 212 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.039 that we thought we'd just do. Souldsko away. Yeah, our 213 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.279 album's coming out on Friday. Here's a couple of vinyl 214 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.120 copies and started frisbeing him out into the crowd. I 215 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.360 was like, no, that's actually quite cool like that. That's 216 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.039 made me more excite for a Straight for the Path album, 217 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.759 where I'm like, do you know what's coming from? There 218 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:24.200 was Finch, who I maybe were like for one song 219 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.000 was my highlight of the whole festival. I quite like Finch. 220 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:28.519 I think What It Is to Burn is a really 221 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:30.559 good album. They are they are a one album band, 222 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:32.919 but I mean they've got, you know, a great album 223 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:36.519 if you love that kind

of early naughties emo sort 224 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:39.000 of sound. Every time they played the song off of 225 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:40.919 What It Is to Burn, crowd went mental. 226 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:42.919 Crowd was loving it. Everyone was dancing, singing and having 227 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:43.440 a great time. 228 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.799 Anytime they tried to do anything else start everyone kind 229 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:47.080 of stop. 230 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:48.559 And I was like that was just not. 231 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.159 Bad, but you and then you know they they've said 232 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:52.679 they've got a new album coming there they played a 233 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.919 new song. I was kind of like, Ah, you're at 234 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:57.679 the wrong place to still do this, like slam on. 235 00:09:57.759 --> 00:09:59.799 People want the nostalgia, that's all they want. They don't 236 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:00.799 care about anything new. 237 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:02.919 And then you know, they close with the title track 238 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:04.279 of what it Is to Burn, which was my highlight 239 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:05.039 of the whole festival. 240 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.039 What a song like that? But I did enjoy Finch. 241 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.360 That was my dose of like nostalgia bait, like I'm 242 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.360 gonna just relish in, you know, something old and have 243 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.200 a good time with it and it enjoy those roast 244 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.960 into glasses. Actual highlight of the festival came next though, 245 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:22.840 in Newfound Glory. 246 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:26.559 Say, if that's your dose of nostalgia, what is New 247 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:27.559 Found Glory? 248 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.559 I mean just Finch is you know, purely like this 249 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.360 is a band with one album from two thousand and 250 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:36.159 two that I really love Newfound Glory. Maybe it is, 251 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:39.360 you know they have a fair yeah, yeah, but they have, 252 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.559 you know, several albums and a set list where basically 253 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:45.919 every song they played I was like, that's a. 254 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:47.200 Banger, to be fair. You know. 255 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.200 They come out the open of all Downhill from Here, 256 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:50.639 which is my favorite Newfound Glory song. 257 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:52.360 I'm going to be in a good mood. 258 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:54.200 It's a funny song to open with, isn't it? 259 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:56.080 Maybe, but you know it wasn't all. 260 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.919 Yeah obviously, Like anyways, they've got down from four years strong. 261 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:04.440 Filling in on guitar for them at the moments. 262 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:06.799 Obviously, Chad Gilbert is ill, so you can't be proving 263 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:08.919 of them, and he was like just a good present 264 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:10.840 to have on stage. But they, you know, came on 265 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:13.480 again like forty five minutes or fifty minutes of just 266 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:15.720 some of the best pop punk you'll hear. 267 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:15.960 Like. 268 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.120 It was like, man, Newfound Glory, their songs are so 269 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:22.960 good that they let you forgive those vocals. Like on record, 270 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:25.759 those vocals are not good, and live they are even worse. 271 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:27.039 But when you're you. 272 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.200 Know, you're singing hit or miss or dressed to kill 273 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.399 and it is just the best time. 274 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:33.159 They played their little Mirmon. 275 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.639 Made cover, which I was like, cool, yep, that's fine, 276 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.480 I'll take that, and then you know they're closing with 277 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.440 my Friends over you, like one of the best pop 278 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.440 punk songs ever. It was this is what slam dunk is. 279 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:48.279 Great pop punk songs, have a beery mate, dance sing along, 280 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.120 have a wonderful time. I genuinely I was like, yeah, 281 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.720 Newfound Glory were like on really good form, even if 282 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:57.399 again Jordan's vocals are never good and are probably worse 283 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:59.799 than they've ever been, but you forgive him. 284 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:01.799 Those songs are just that fucking good. 285 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:06.080 After that, I did see fifteen minutes of As it Is, 286 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.559 who were fucking rubbish. 287 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:09.519 I don't know. 288 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.360 Part of it may have been the sound on that stage, 289 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:15.480 deciding to just like completely crap out for them, but 290 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:17.919 I was like, this just sounds really unpleasant. 291 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:18.879 I don't know if they're. 292 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.000 Playing out of time or just like things are just 293 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.320 getting lost because of the sound. I saw them because 294 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:24.799 they were doing the album in four and then they 295 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.240 but they did they do the thing now where obviously 296 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:29.440 the big song that's like two like's like three songs 297 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:31.759 into the album, don't do that there do it at 298 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:33.480 the end. So I caught them playing dial Tones, which 299 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.799 I again I'm a dial Ton's defender,

and I was like, 300 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:37.279 this sounds bad. 301 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:42.080 I'm bummed out. So that wasn't good. And then what 302 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:45.399 might actually turn out to be the main event of 303 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.360 the festival for me, again not my fit. 304 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:50.000 Set, but I'd be waiting for you to finally get 305 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:50.200 to this. 306 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:51.039 Yeah. 307 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:55.919 So initially my plan was watch a little bit of 308 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.919 Neck Deep, then watch Scowl, and then watch forty minutes 309 00:12:58.960 --> 00:12:59.679 of Alkaline Trio. 310 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:00.440 That was my plan. 311 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:02.720 But with that stage running so far behind now where 312 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.559 Scowl and Alkaline Tria were going to like completely overlap. 313 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.879 I was like, well, you know what I saw scow 314 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.000 what two weeks ago. I am seenlc Lintria for a 315 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:11.480 good while. 316 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.559 I will take one. 317 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.519 I will do something out of like sheer curiosity again, 318 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.679 know your enemy, as I say. And I didn't a 319 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.879 deep and I decided it was time for me to 320 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:25.759 actually watch Electric core Boy live. 321 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.000 There the worst place. I didn't even get Sehi play that. 322 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.960 But we'll get onto that, I know. 323 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.200 But here's the thing, right, they were headlining the like 324 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:39.360 the metal Course stage, so. 325 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:41.720 Fair play to them. 326 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.039 They treated it like they were headliners. They bought a 327 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:47.080 fucking show. 328 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:49.519 Looked kind of mental. 329 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.000 Insane, like if they even come on, they have are 330 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:57.360 like the elevator man or what everyone's called, like when 331 00:13:57.399 --> 00:13:59.399 you know when they're characters that they play. He was 332 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:01.559 was like interruting. Thing was like, yes, you're here to 333 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.639 thee Electric Collboy. We need to check everyings ready for 334 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:05.879 the show. And it was like so it was like 335 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:07.799 lighting and they had like all the lights go off 336 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:12.080 music and they had like a little electro sample pyro and. 337 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:13.960 Then like the stage erupt into file and I was 338 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:14.960 I was like, oh, this is what. 339 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:17.240 They even played the note and they're kind of showing, yeah,

340 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:20.159 we've got Pyro Convetti and again they ever played note 341 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.600 and they've sent Convetti canons out onto the audience. I 342 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.799 was like, how big are they going to go? And 343 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.919 then they come out open with is it Elevator Operator whatever? 344 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.200 The newest single? Not not? There was another new one 345 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:34.720 apparent they played again. I forgive me Electric. 346 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:37.919 Collboy fans like for not knowing the names of their 347 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:40.480 songs that apart from like high Pyper and the obvious ones. 348 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:44.200 Almost immediately I was like, fuck's sake, am I gonna 349 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.000 have to like is this going to be a really 350 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:47.360 humbling experience for me? 351 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:49.960 Because they were fucking great when they came on. 352 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:53.080 It was so like, I don't like this music, but 353 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.279 the euphoria that kind of just swept out of the stage. 354 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:58.840 It's built for the live show, isn't it? 355 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:00.799 It absolutely is? It really is. 356 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.399 I will I will like hold my hands up and 357 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.399 say Electric Corboy when they are dropping the full on 358 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:12.919 eurodance metalcore songs with those choruses, those mental stupid simps. 359 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:15.240 It was everything that Icy Stars wasn't like when I 360 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.159 said that was like really po faced and boring. Electric 361 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.480 Corboy was like, so in your face, so obnoxious again, 362 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.080 insane amounts of pyr they confected going off every other song, 363 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:28.120 They've got like confetti cannons they're shooting out into the 364 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.840 crowd like handheld ones. I was looking, I was looking 365 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:32.639 around and the size of the clan pit. I was like, 366 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:36.679 I can't like shit on this. The evidence is there 367 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:38.759 for me. I'm swept up in it. One of the 368 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:41.360 funny things was they had so the drummer from some 369 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:43.879 point one is currently drumming for them, which is why 370 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:46.679 they decided to pull out a cover of Still Waiting 371 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:48.600 part like kind of like straight cover. 372 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:50.360 And then on the second verse they they cool. 373 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:52.720 Boy and it goes like Eurodance and Still Waiting, and 374 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.960 I was just like, again, I gotta respect the audacity 375 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:59.639 of that, Like this is so ridiculous. 376 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:01.519 I can't believe I'm enjoying this. 377 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:03.559 But I'm almost like they go off stage one point 378 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:06.240 and they come on in their gym outfits for pump 379 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:06.600 it is. 380 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:08.919 It again, like whether so yeah, who was pumping? 381 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:10.399 When they're in the full on gym outfits doing like 382 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.279 the aerobics on stage and I was like, I need 383 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.159 to hate this, but I'm smiling. 384 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:19.080 I'm having fun. Fucking what's gone on with the word. 385 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.600 Maybe this is again the state of metalcore where cool, 386 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.559 we're having personality, having like powered to their live performance 387 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:26.120 is just so refreshing. 388 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.519 I was so and then you know, they did that 389 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:29.720 every time we touched cover again. 390 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:31.320 I was like, ah, two covers in the set, maybe 391 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.559 a bit much, but again it's a it's a fun cover, 392 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:35.799 isn't it like that? And it makes sense that they're 393 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:38.080 covering that. I was like, can something go wrong? They 394 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.120 played like a brand new song and I was like, 395 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.559 this is this is actually a bit different there, there's 396 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:44.480 a layer to this song that is not just your 397 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:47.879 very typical electric call board things. I was like, I 398 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.320 was so ready to admit to feat And then fucking 399 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:54.639 thank god they shut the bed catastrophically for me, and 400 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:55.879 it was what I've been working for. I was like, 401 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.360 you hat fucks, thank you. I can have my cake 402 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.600 and eat it. Because they decide to like kill the 403 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.519 momentum of the set dead and do an acoustic set 404 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.160 like an acoustic cover set. And again, there'd already been 405 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:10.240 quite a few covers I've seen today, and like I was, 406 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.400 having already played two covers on the set which were fun, 407 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.559 doing an acoustic cover of Crawling, which, again, what's. 408 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:16.319 The fucking point in this? 409 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:18.240 I thought the whole point of Corboy was to be 410 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.039 you know, obnoxious and Garrison them doing this like really sappy, wet, 411 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.519 shitty cover of Crawling by Lincoln Park is one of 412

00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:26.720 the worst things I've heard. You're you're doing the complete 413 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.920 antithsis of what you're meant to be and this acoustic 414 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:31.279 sept for like ten minutes in them in the set, 415 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:34.160 I was like, I'm out of it. I've been completely 416 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.720 snapped out of the kind of like delirious euphoria of 417 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.519 the first sort of preceding thirty odd minutes, and I 418 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:43.519 was so like, I was genuinely upset really happy at 419 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:46.839 the same time, but I was like, the fund's gone. 420 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:49.240 And then like they came back and they started doing 421 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.039 like EMC Thunder and a few other songs, and I 422 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:55.279 was like, yeah, fine, but now I've got to go 423 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.359 watch our client trio. And as I'm walking off sucking it, 424 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.359 I was like, I've gotta go watch our Colin Trier lads, 425 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:03.000 I'm sorry. 426 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:06.599 You blew it. You almost yeah, you almost had me. Like, 427 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:07.839 but here's the thing. 428 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:10.319 They are really fucking good live when they're not shit 429 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:13.200 in the bedroom an acoustic set, like everyone is gonna 430 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:15.200 be like, ah, Sam, you were wrong this whole time. 431 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:17.720 I'm like, I will happily be wrong in a when 432 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:19.319 they were, when they were good, they were Yeah. 433 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.039 Right, here's the thing about this. 434 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.359 I was not there. 435 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:27.920 I can probably imagine that Coolboy acoustic set doing covers right, 436 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:31.319 does not sound like a good idea. I also think, yeah, 437 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:35.039 they probably don't have like an hour worth of solid 438 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.839 front to back golden hits. That much is true. But 439 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:41.559 if we were to remove that part, and if basically 440 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:43.839 you had seen the ending run, if they'd like not, 441 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:47.799 then you know what's the word overran with like Alkalan 442 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:49.359 trio and stuff, and you'd been able to see the 443 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.359 whole set, the last run and there's obviously there's a 444 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:52.880 song in here where you'll go no, no, no. But 445 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:55.920 the last five songs of Cool Boy set just as 446 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.880 you were leaving are EMC, Thunder, Hyper Hyper, the Baby, 447 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:04.319 a Collapse, techno train, and we got the moves in 448 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:05.920

terms of hit power. 449 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:08.359 Yeah, it's it's. 450 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:11.759 Only like a data remember a newfound glory at there, 451 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.160 like when they're hitting their runs of a sustained amount 452 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:17.920 of like bang bang bang. As that as said, it's 453 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:20.079 unfortunate that you got to see the shittest part of 454 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:22.720 their set and then left before the the you know 455 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:23.240 the video. 456 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:25.240 I like, I saw EMC funder and I was like, 457 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.279 you know what, you're getting back on track with EMPTC funder, 458 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:30.279 Like that's again having fun with that. They did the 459 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:31.839 other mc funder one where it's all like the ninja 460 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:33.720 moves in the mosh pin. I was like, yeah, really stupid, 461 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.799 but like the first empty Thunder is such a jam. 462 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:39.839 But yeah, it's like they might not have a full 463 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:41.839 front about golden sets, but in terms of like the 464 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:44.920 final run of what they have money to build of 465 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:47.440 slam dunk type band, it's among the best of them 466 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:48.079 right now. 467 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:48.599 Do you know. 468 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:50.119 And there's the thing I think if I'd got to 469 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:51.559 see that, I would have come away saying that could 470 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:52.640 have been my set the whole festival. 471 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:53.759 I genuinely think that. 472 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.839 Because they just the sheer stupidity of what I was 473 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:01.039 seeing and hearing the the again pot so much fucking 474 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:03.680 pirate and really well done. Pyro not just you know, 475 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:06.319 you know someone that pirates just like flame Shot Flameshot. 476 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:07.839 They had like the flame kind of showing up and 477 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:09.480 patterns and like moot they like Flames was kind of 478 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:10.480 like spiraling around the stage. 479 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.200 Yeah, really fucking cool. They put so much thought into 480 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:14.079 this stage or the lighting. 481 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:16.079 They had a big screen at the back which had 482 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:17.960 like quite fun sort of stuff going on, and they 483 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:19.640 would have like the interues with the characters coming on, 484 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:21.279 and I was like, and I think if I had 485 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:24.440 not seen that acoustics there and seen the closing run again, 486 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:27.400 maybe even Techno Train could

have got me like having 487 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:29.839 fun in the live environment because I was. I was 488 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:32.200 so swept up in it until they pulled the rug 489 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:34.279 out from underneath me and it like again, it. 490 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:36.319 Was like, I can't believe. 491 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:39.480 I'm genuinely disappointed that as that electrical we were doing 492 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:42.480 something shit because I was having so much fun with it, 493 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:43.599 but the way it is. 494 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.200 Fortunately I did then get. 495 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:49.519 To go watch Outline Trio play just an hour of 496 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.200 amazing punk rock. They were on fantastic form. It was 497 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:55.160 a bittersweet moment of I was was like watching because 498 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:57.240 they've got obviously Adam Willard drummer at the moment. He's 499 00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:58.759 a fucking great drummer for them. He has brought like 500 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:00.720 so much power to them on on the drum kit. 501 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.119 But I'm like, it's not fucking against me you're playing for, 502 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:05.039 is it, though, go back and reform against me? Please 503 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.440 get Laura stopped in that. Come on, guys, get together. 504 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:10.279 But yeah, al Chine Tria were fucking great. Skiboard was 505 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.240 on really good form, incredible set list of like good 506 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:15.319 so many hits. 507 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:17.799 The actual best band at slam Dunk this year. I 508 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:20.720 think like, yeah, I would say so, like both the 509 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:24.880 best material and actually being able to respect themselves after 510 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.039 what like twenty thirty years the best band of slam 511 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:28.880 on twenty twenty. 512 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:29.680 Five, Yeah, I would have. 513 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:31.319 I'd say, like the highest set with me were still 514 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:33.559 glory just because you for a feeling of just the 515 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:35.519 moment of it. Tria was just a great way to 516 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:38.160 We've actually like, oh no, I'm just watching a fucking 517 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.359 great punk band. This is what slam Unk should be. 518 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:43.359 Mercy me like stupid kid, Like they just shot kid 519 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:44.079 really early and I was. 520 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:47.079 Like the opening with like time to Waste or something time. 521 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:50.680 To waste like sady like and then again like you know, 522 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.240 when you're closing with Private Eye, No Private Eye into 523 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:57.200 Radio excellent hour

of had a really fun time watching 524 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:59.519 their masks, are like, yep, this is that what I need. 525 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:01.799 And then I had the sort of choice of do 526 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:05.799 I again catch work out from the scale delay or 527 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:07.359 watch a bit about a day remember, or do I 528 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:08.960 get home early. I made the choice to get home 529 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.240 early because I could just that people trying to go 530 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:13.599 on that train is a nightmare if I can. 531 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:15.480 Get so did you see any data remember at all? 532 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:19.400 I walked past as they were playing If It Means 533 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:20.880 a Lot to You, And then their cover of since 534 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:23.000 You've Been Gone? I was like, oh, another cover like 535 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:25.759 the theme of the day, but I kind of I 536 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:29.400 heard mixed reports on a data remember probably like started 537 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:33.240 fucking great and then kind of like tailed off pretty drastically. 538 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.759 Yeah, looking at this set list, they open with the 539 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:39.880 Downfall of us all into I'm Made of Wax, Larry 540 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:42.839 into second sucks into right back at it again. That 541 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:46.880 is perfect, isn't it. The problem is they then have 542 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:49.599 other material and they're currently touring, which is you know, 543 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:52.920 less ideal. But I'm sure for a slam dog set, 544 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:54.839 you know, certainly the beginning and probably the ending as well. 545 00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:56.240 They hit out the monsters and I'm sure it'd be 546 00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:58.200 a very good time, just as we know what a 547 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:01.160 data remember are. So yeah, that wraps up up slam Dunk. 548 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:04.759 I guess I Last weekend I saw Aborted and they 549 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:07.440 had funny little props on stage which were like kind 550 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:10.440 of like blocks of ice with like skeletons in them, 551 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:11.839 and they looked like that now that. 552 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:13.680 Show was I saw someone else post post. I was like, 553 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:15.799 what band is that with like these light up skeletons 554 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:17.440 in like blocks. I was like, what is going on here? 555 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:18.279 Who is this? 556 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:18.680 Yeah? 557 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:20.880 It was Aborted and they looked like the aliens from 558 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:22.519 Mars attacks. So that was fun and haven't seen the 559 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:25.200 boating in a long time, so equally as high stakes, 560 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.720 I'm sure. Rights, let's talk about some news, and you know, 561 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:31.200 we've already had a little bit of time there on 562 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:33.839 slam Dunk and this was a I'll call it a 563 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:37.960 normal week because some of the stories that I do 564 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:40.960 not want to, you know, spend a lot of time 565 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:44.839 here talking about right now. But we could talk about 566 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:48.960 the R and B at Caliuchis, who had kind of 567 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:51.160 bizarrely a couple of weeks ago, got into a bit 568 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:54.599 of a war online with sleep Token Stands due to 569 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:58.480 them kind of warring in the charts, saying essentially accusing 570 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:02.240 sleep Token of using black face when it comes to vessels, 571 00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:05.599 makeup and stuff. And I think that is a genuinely 572 00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:08.319 interesting conversation. Not that it's something I thought about before, 573 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:10.599 not to do with Sleep Tooken, but eat like just 574 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:13.079 there is kind of corpse paint and stuff when watching 575 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:15.359 certain bands. I have to myself, I've had the thought of, like, 576 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:19.279 where is the line between painting yourself black essentially and 577 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:23.240 black face. I think there's an interesting conversation we had there. 578 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:26.640 I do like we are not the people to, you know, 579 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:31.599 determine that that conversation. So I'm gonna just say it 580 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:34.240 and leave. But what a headline that is. We could 581 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.359 stay on Sleeptoken talking about Richard Osmond, of all people, 582 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:39.319 who has along with a lot of the rest of 583 00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:41.000 the all I suppose because they've got like number one 584 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.039 records and stuff, has discovered Sleeptoken this week and has 585 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:47.160 upset people by even Richard Osmond is saying Sleep Tooken 586 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:50.920 aren't head for you enough. But there's that we could 587 00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:54.160 talk about Einstein kills using ai R and then when 588 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:56.039 they got called out for it, doubling down with an 589 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:01.160 ai apology, which okay, fine. Or you know, there is 590 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:04.880 the Iron Maiden setlist unveiling, which I guess we will 591 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:06.920 not go into in detail in case like there are 592 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:10.599 people out there who keep it unspoiled. Iron Man are 593 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:12.400 a weird band where they make it a big deal 594 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:14.920 of unveiling

the whole social media, you know, on their 595 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.519 social media, the settlers for the upcoming tour, and it's 596 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:21.079 kind of part of the ritual for them, of all bands. 597 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:24.079 But I guess, you know, we'll talk about the tour 598 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:25.960 and the settlers and stuff when it comes through. But 599 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:28.960 that was also in the news this week. So let's 600 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:31.160 start with one that we are going to speak a 601 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:32.960 little bit more in depth about, because of course we 602 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:36.240 have to, because this is a little bit closer to 603 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:39.039 home maybe in terms of the kind of bands who 604 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:42.599 we have spent you know, many many years talking about 605 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:45.359 and championing and just kind of existing around in the scene, 606 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:48.759 particularly here in the UK. Because there was an announcement 607 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:51.200 that came a couple of days ago that really took 608 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:54.519 people off guard. I think that was then properly followed 609 00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:57.039 up with an official confirmation and statement and everything that 610 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:01.720 Svalbard are going to be disbanded in twenty twenty six. 611 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:04.839 They are embarking on kind of their last shows. There 612 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:08.119 is a tour that has been announced for November, headline 613 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:09.720 tour of the UK, which they are saying is their 614 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:13.720 final headline tour presumably in twenty twenty six. They'll probably 615 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:15.880 do some festival shows and stuff like that whenever their 616 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:21.000 last show ends up being. But Svalbard are after about 617 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.160 fifteen years of being a band, I think calling it 618 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:26.640 a day in twenty twenty six. And this is a 619 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:30.440 band who are one of you know, a crop of 620 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:33.720 bands who when I think about you know, T and 621 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:36.519 M is a podcast, right, and the kind of bands 622 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:41.359 who we have been most adjacent to as people going 623 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:45.000 to heavy shows in the UK, right and trying to 624 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:47.240 look for upcoming bands and stuff, and then seeing the 625 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:50.119 bands who maybe ten years ago we're in that stage 626 00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:52.640 we've then watched kind of blossom and have a you know, 627 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:57.039 a career. Svalbard are, I mean I've said it before 628 00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:59.279 employed to serve really are the last one standing now, right, 629 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:01.119 Like of of that one, and it was it was 630 00:27:01.160 --> 00:27:05.359 them and Salbard. This is a band who we've spoken 631 00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:08.799 about countless times. We've had Serena from Svalbard on the 632 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:12.279 show when she was talking about her Noctool project. And 633 00:27:13.119 --> 00:27:16.519 I think for that reason as well as just obviously 634 00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:18.640 them being a band who who's you know, music and 635 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:20.759 records we have reviewed and enjoyed and so on, and 636 00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:24.079 we're fans of the band. But there's something about when 637 00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:25.720 a band likes Svalbard, who are in this kind of 638 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:27.559 position that just feels a little bit closer to us, 639 00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:29.359 I guess than it might be for any other number 640 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.759 of bands. Calling it a day feels like a moment 641 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:33.440 to take stock. 642 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:36.599 Yeah, the same as you know when Ifka did it. 643 00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:39.279 Uh this Bard Now, I was like, I felt like 644 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:41.759 so bummed out about this again, Like they've just been 645 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:43.799 one of those like constants. 646 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:44.799 Of like the last ten plus years. 647 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:47.359 Like say you would go to those period you'd go 648 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:50.559 shows and you know, Stalbard would be like pre libly 649 00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:53.160 supporting and they were always really good every album. I 650 00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:54.720 felt like, you know, there was a real kind of 651 00:27:54.759 --> 00:28:00.559 really steady like Incline their music. Well again from twenty 652 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:02.440 one with the long Tar, which again I think is 653 00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:05.839 just like fucking outstanding. The band was so much integrity 654 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:08.559 and kind of what they sung about and like standing 655 00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:11.799 by their sort of like words and everything they've represented, 656 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:14.480 and so again it is just a real shame. And 657 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:17.200 I just say, like all of those UK bands that 658 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:20.640 if you were into like alternate music in the UK, 659 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:23.319 in like I said, the mid twenty tens, there were 660 00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:25.039 just so many bands that you kind of latched onto 661 00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.559 from that kind of like underground scene. And yeah, as 662 00:28:28.599 --> 00:28:31.240 you say, Employed Serve are the only ones kind of 663 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:34.319 sort of left standing. And that's it feels like a 664 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:36.240 real kind of like end of an era for like 665 00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:37.920 so

many of these bands and what they what they 666 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:38.400 stood for. 667 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.920 Yeah, and Svalbard are I think in their own waves, 668 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:43.640 Valbar were quite divisive. I know there are quite a 669 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:45.759 lot of people out there who never got Svalbard and 670 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:47.880 will tell you how boring they think they are. But 671 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:50.640 I think the flip side of that is Svalbard are 672 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:54.279 intensely beloved by their fan base, like the particularly I 673 00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:58.279 think because of the kind of the wading into themes 674 00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:00.519 around like mental health and you know, green and loss 675 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:02.480 and kind of depression and stuff. Like that that's going 676 00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:04.960 on in some of their later records. I think, you know, 677 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:08.359 the people who took them to heart really intensely have 678 00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:10.440 done and have connected so hard to those records, and 679 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:13.720 I think that you know, they will feel that loss. 680 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:16.160 Spalbard are a band who I've been a fan of 681 00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:20.599 since their first album, the twenty fifteen one Day All 682 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.519 This Will End album, and I loved that record and 683 00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:25.640 they were part to me of again the kind of 684 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.720 a generation of UK bands in that time who often 685 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:32.160 coming from a hardcore whether it be an employed to 686 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.400 serve or a palm reader or someone even like you know, 687 00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.079 Black Peaks or whatever kind of adjacent to all these words, 688 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:38.240 but they all had their own sort of thing they 689 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:40.240 were doing. And Spoubard's kind of in the early days 690 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:45.240 crust punk essentially combined with like the beginnings of what 691 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:46.559 was going to really blossom into a sort of like 692 00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:49.720 post metal, post black people kind of sheene on it. 693 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:54.559 I loved that engine of it on those early records, 694 00:29:54.599 --> 00:29:58.039 and then they did blossom. And again I think the 695 00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:02.640 twenty record that you're talking about, Yeah, yeah. 696 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:04.839 Names just came to I was like, yeah, yeah, that 697 00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:06.480 to me is like the high point of it. 698 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:10.720 I agree that is I think the real the cresting 699 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:14.640 of everything they were going for, and it's a fantastic record. Uh. 700 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:17.079 And then of course their last album, they signed to 701 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:18.880 Nuclear Blasts, and it kind of felt like after you know, 702 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:21.759 a decade of pushing where again a decade before that 703 00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:24.240 they were doing like crust Splits and stuff in the underground, 704 00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:25.599 and then they was like, oh shit, you know, like 705 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:28.039 they almost felt like they were becoming a bit of 706 00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:31.799 a you know, not necessarily a big band, but like 707 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:37.799 a really established band who would reliably tour with again 708 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:39.079 some of the some of the greats of the world 709 00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:40.480 like Enslave and some of these bands that they were 710 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:41.960 kind of going out on the road with, and it 711 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.839 felt like they were really hitting not necessarily a like 712 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.920 you know, a momentum in terms of like dramatically improving 713 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:50.400 from what they've been doing in the early years, but 714 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:54.400 kind of like successful, somewhat being rewarded, you know, and 715 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:56.559 they felt like they were becoming a really you know, 716 00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.240 time and time again with the TNM audience poles and stuff. 717 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:01.640 Their albums, I think pcreasingly with each one would have 718 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:05.960 like gotten high into the audience rankings. And stuff, and 719 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.240 so you think, like at that stage, after that last record, 720 00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:11.200 which was their kind of most you know, widely distributed 721 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:13.680 one to date, why go now? Because I don't think 722 00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:16.680 this is like, for example, some of the other bands 723 00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:21.279 where we've gone, they they never entirely got the success 724 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:22.720 that they deserved or got their jewes. It seemed like 725 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.440 Falbub were again not the biggest band in the world. 726 00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:27.599 I'm not saying they would have been making cracking living 727 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:29.359 or something off of being stalbar, but like you know, 728 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:31.839 for a band like them, they were they were playing 729 00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:34.519 the long game. But I think what has been put 730 00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:37.839 out here is so Serena made a statement to specifically 731 00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:40.839 to metal Hammer, actually kind of giving more of a 732 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:43.039 reason as to why they've decided to hang it up. 733 00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:46.240 And I think I really respect this statement. I think 734 00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:50.039 it's a great kind of mindset that she's approached

this with, 735 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:53.319 and she's quite eloquently laid out. I recommend everyone goes 736 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:55.720 and reads it if you are as Svalbard fan. But 737 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:59.119 she basically talks about not wanting to have you know, 738 00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.599 kind of diminishing turns creatively, and the idea is we've 739 00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:06.119 made four records now that we're really proud of Do 740 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:08.319 we want to become one of those bands who just 741 00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:10.440 puts out stuff for the sake of putting it out, 742 00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:14.200 you know, if it isn't necessarily going to you know, 743 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:18.079 advanced dramatically from what we kind of had already been doing. 744 00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:22.240 And Valbard are a band who I had wondered that 745 00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:24.839 about their music. Not that I thought necessarily were you know, 746 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:28.599 kind of going downhill or something, but like I felt 747 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.400 like the last couple of records they had hit a 748 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:33.839 kind of a plateau of the different elements that you 749 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:37.960 heard in their music, thinking how much more can they 750 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:39.680 expand on this? You know, like the kind of the 751 00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:43.359 post rock stuff and the integration with the clean vocals, 752 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:44.319 and the kind of the you know, the kind of 753 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.480 the real the sadness and the beauty and everything that 754 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:50.200 was kind of really seeping over that kind of crust 755 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.160 engine that they had from the early days. Felt like 756 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:56.759 it was really almost like a maximum. And I thought, 757 00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:58.640 you know, I don't know if we were going to 758 00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.599 Reviusevalbard record Astervalbard, right, I was a thinking a bit, 759 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.680 I don't necessarily I can't see coming exactly what they're 760 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:09.119 going to do to dramatically go beyond that. And I 761 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:12.519 think if they have felt that, you know, we don't 762 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:16.119 want to force anything beyond that, and that we would 763 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:19.880 rather again the biggest their band's ever been, which I 764 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.440 think is really admirable and respectworthy about this. They've gone, 765 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:25.000 They've gotten to this place where they are the biggest 766 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:27.200 the band has ever been, and they've gone and this 767 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:29.720 is where we're going to call it. If that's how 768 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:34.119 they feel, I applaud the decision. I'm obviously I'm sad 769 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.039 to see Farbar go because i love this band and 770 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:37.519 I've been a fan for a decade and I've got 771 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.119 so many fond memories of seeing them live and so on, 772 00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:42.720 and they're they're great, so Falbar They've been a really 773 00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:44.839 great part of the UK music scene for the past 774 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:48.319 ten plus years. But if this is their decision and 775 00:33:48.359 --> 00:33:52.880 they're reasoning for it, I applaud the guts and the 776 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:55.559 self awareness or whatever to do that. 777 00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:57.759 Well. I think it's almost like as a band, you 778 00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.839 go like, do you want to be again be a band? 779 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:04.039 Two releases an album that you don't feel is you 780 00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:06.920 know one hundred you've given everything too, Like they've released 781 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:09.719 four records and they clearly feel like they put everything 782 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:10.760 into those records. 783 00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:11.679 That's it. 784 00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:16.239 This was Spoubard, you know, four albums, fifteen odd years 785 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:18.639 of like great live shows, and we can we can 786 00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:21.360 walk away of it proud of everything we've done. Again, 787 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:24.199 I've always been one who's like abandoning it on their 788 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:26.480 terms is where it's my ideal way for any band 789 00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:30.079 to split. I hate it when bands go we can't 790 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:31.840 have WHI spliting because we can't afford to do it, 791 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:32.760 or they implode for. 792 00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:34.079 It, which is basically what Ithaca said. 793 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:34.280 Right. 794 00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:37.320 Yeah, that's why I like the EF one really stunk, 795 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.039 because it felt like they were being taken from us 796 00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:43.840 basically Spoulbuid. It feels like they've gone, we have completed Spoubard. 797 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:46.960 We've taken this as far as we can possibly take it. 798 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:48.079 And that's that. 799 00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:51.400 And again I'm sure Serena at the release and everyone, 800 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.079 they will probably go on to do other stuff. Maybe 801 00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:56.039 is there if there's a new Nuctural album coming on, 802 00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:56.440 I don't know. 803 00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:58.519 I think she's she's been saying she'd been writing a 804 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:00.800 second one for a long time. I'm looking forward to that, 805 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:02.760 you know, because I enjoyed the first not to record 806 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.760 a lot I saw what. I

think it's apparently to date, 807 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.239 probably one of their only live shows to date. I 808 00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:10.960 think it's Celestial Darkness Festival in London. But if that's 809 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.039 to become her main project, then yeah, bring it on, 810 00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:15.079 like because I like the first one. I'll take more 811 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:16.679 of it, and particularly as Foulbod is not you know, 812 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:20.599 in the picture, then if that becomes her primary kind 813 00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:23.079 of project, then you know, we we we welcome it, 814 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.440 and I'm sure the rest of them will have their 815 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:27.440 fingers in some other pies as well. 816 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.199 There's no blemish on Spoubard. Then there's nothing you can 817 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:32.159 ever look back and go like, oh remember when that happened. 818 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:33.639 That was a bit embarrassing, that was it? Like you 819 00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:36.800 go like, no, they had a really good run. It's 820 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:40.039 great records, great live shows, and they seem fulfilled of 821 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:42.519 what they achieved. And again maybe there is and maybe 822 00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:44.000 they will all be quite sad about having to walk 823 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.239 away from it as well, but it won't be like 824 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:49.159 any It doesn't feel like this is anyone a sour note, 825 00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:51.039 which I think is like really important and it just 826 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.199 makes us feel a lot easier. It's going to be 827 00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:55.760 like yeah, cool, like do what you do what is 828 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:57.199 right for you guys as a band. 829 00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:59.119 Like yeah, and if they regret it, if they you know, 830 00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:01.880 if they regret it one day, then maybe they'll come back. 831 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:04.039 But it doesn't seem like this is a decision that 832 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.280 has a lot of regret involved with it compared to 833 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.519 as with some of these other ones that we have seen. 834 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:14.679 And so their their final UK headline tour is happening 835 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:17.440 in November. I have already picked up my ticket for 836 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:20.039 the Manchester date to see him off, and I really 837 00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.239 recommend that everyone who's listening to us, who has enjoyed 838 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:25.880 Spabar's music over the our ten years, go and do so. Obviously, 839 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:27.559 I know that we have some listeners in the US 840 00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:29.159 and places like that, and I don't think Svalbard ever 841 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:30.840 made it there, and they've said it's because they were 842 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:33.360 never able to afford things like US visas and stuff 843 00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:34.880 like that. But that is, you know, it's kind of 844 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:38.199 the unfortunate reality of the business at times. But they 845 00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:39.920 have said that they are going to go around places 846 00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:41.960 like Europe and I think Japan and stuff as well, 847 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:44.320 and obviously going into twenty twenty six, we would expect 848 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.239 to see them, you know, I don't know where their 849 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:48.679 final show will be, maybe a Damnation, maybe an octangent 850 00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:51.559 Ithaka are doing whatever it ends up being, or maybe 851 00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.159 just like one big, you know, hometown trial, whatever it 852 00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:57.760 could be. But in regards to seeing you Know again 853 00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.920 kind of sparbarred off and giving them the farewell run, 854 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:03.000 I think they are one of the bands of the 855 00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:07.239 last ten years who they've just been such a good 856 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:09.519 thing during those years. Like they've been, they've been a 857 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:14.599 net positive for the UK, European and global even you 858 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:17.039 know music scenes, these kind of regards and what they 859 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:20.760 put out there, the music they've made that I think 860 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:22.679 this has the opportunity to be one of the more 861 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:26.159 celebratory endings of a band that we've spoken about like this, 862 00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:29.280 and so I hope everybody gets involved. But yeah, I 863 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:32.159 mean that is Valbard. We're to hear this episode. Like 864 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:38.199 I said, I applaud the decision to bow out at 865 00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:40.599 the point that you feel like you should bow out, 866 00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:44.320 and so yeah, lots of love to Valbard and thank 867 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.199 you for all of those those great records. There's a 868 00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:50.599 few albums that are coming over the horizon. We'll skim 869 00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:53.199 through these very quick. First one, we have Rise Against 870 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:56.679 have got a new album that's called Ricochet that's out 871 00:37:56.719 --> 00:38:00.039 in August. It's their first album since Nowhere Generation in 872 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:01.480 twenty twenty one, which I thought was a good album. 873 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:02.880 I thought that was the best Rising Against the album 874 00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:05.119 in you know a number of them. But that's out 875 00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.800 in August, and there's a track off it as well. 876 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:09.960

Sam excited about a new Rise Against the album, considering 877 00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:12.559 as the last one was again one of their I think. 878 00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:14.119 They've been on a sort of steady incline over the 879 00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:16.639 last couple after sort of wobbling from their like peak years, 880 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:18.880 and I think No Generation was really good, maybe into 881 00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:20.679 my top twenty from that year. They're one of my 882 00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:23.119 favorite bands. I'm always going to be interesting new album. 883 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:26.280 I'm not blown away by the single as they put 884 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:28.800 out so far, but you know, I'll hold judgment until 885 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:30.639 I get the full album. I'm sure I probably will 886 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:34.079 like it, because even their like worst album, as long 887 00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:35.639 as I really like on it, I just really like 888 00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:37.320 Rise Against, So yeah, it make sad for it. And 889 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:38.880 I think it comes out like the day after my birthday, 890 00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:40.320 so that's a nice thing. 891 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:44.440 Like, yeah, the week after that, Pendulum are going to 892 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:48.400 be releasing their first new album in fifteen years since 893 00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:51.480 twenty and ten. It's called Inertia, which is quite funny 894 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:53.800 when you think about a very very long gap, but 895 00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:59.840 that also features a star studded cast of guests including Worgasm. 896 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.239 Of course, where would they not be? Boy with my 897 00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:06.239 Valentine hybrid minds who I'm not familiar with, Joey valanceon Bray, 898 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:10.519 who I am familiar with, that's a whole nation, and 899 00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:12.880 also scar Lord and that's just you know, a handfle 900 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.480 of the tracks on a sixteen track album. 901 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:17.239 Sam. 902 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:21.000 I do not give a shit about Pendulum. I never have, 903 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:24.320 even in twenty ten. They were never a band that 904 00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:28.079 I cared about at all. I think they are so 905 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.719 not only of a time, but they were like well 906 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:35.400 basic then, So I just don't care about Sometimes people 907 00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:37.519 try and make me care about Pendulum, Mark mainly, I 908 00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:38.599 don't care about Pendulum. 909 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:42.800 I'm sorry, But new album in fifteen years from Pendulum, 910 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:48.760 do you care? Pendulum got bangers? Like they are stupid? 911 00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:50.800 You're right, they are like the most kind of like 912 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.440 me and is dumb down drum and bass for the 913 00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:57.719 Masses band, but they got bangers. I'm also not particularly 914 00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.280 like I would go see Pendulum live now to see 915 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:03.880 you know, those songs from back then, like I'd have 916 00:40:03.880 --> 00:40:04.639 a very good time. 917 00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:06.920 The song with jovan Anson Bray is a banger. 918 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.239 They you know, I haven't heard it, but that's the 919 00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:11.480 thing this album I'll be most key to here for Joeyhillansam. 920 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:13.079 But they played a bit of it they like they 921 00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:15.719 dropped it like a loop of it live. Yeah, and 922 00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:18.760 that like that's you know, just like Jovanser Bray doing 923 00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:20.239 their thing over like a sort of fast rum and 924 00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:22.800 bait beat John bass bat good fun. I look at 925 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:24.480 the rest of Sam, I'm kind to go like, I'm 926 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:26.199 sure there'll be some tracks that are pretty fun. 927 00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:27.400 I'm sure they're gonna be some tracks. 928 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:30.199 It's like this is a like a demo you've had 929 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:32.760 kicking about phrases that you've got full of my Valentine to. 930 00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:35.239 Yeah, look for the tracks that sound the most like 931 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:38.960 BBC three adverts and you will find the oldest Pendulum songs. 932 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.039 Then we have a new album that's coming from your 933 00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:46.880 favorite Sam. Yellow Card are coming back with their first 934 00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:49.840 album in quite a long time, almost a decade. 935 00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:50.159 Yeah. 936 00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:54.800 Yeah, that's out in October and it's produced by pop 937 00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:58.119 punk's favorite sun not John Felman, but the new one 938 00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:04.360 Travis Barker. There's a new song out, Sam, there's two songs. Okay, 939 00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:06.519 well I've got one here better days with a music video. 940 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.760 How are you feeling about your your favorite cult violin 941 00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:19.159 lead band working with the big man himself. 942 00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:20.880 Musical terrorist Travis Barker. 943 00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:24.519 Like again, like the amount of like I made the joke, 944 00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:26.599 Someone's made the joke. It is the full on monkey's 945 00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:29.280 poor moment of like as it again. Yellow Card are 946 00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:31.760 one of my favorite pop punk bands. I like, well 947 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:34.119 beyond just Ocean Avenue. I think they're like they've got 948 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:37.079 a number of great

records. I was like, you know, 949 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:38.800 when they came back, I was like cool, I don't 950 00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:40.519 know if I need a new album, but the like 951 00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:43.519 I'm happy they're back. And then sometimes to get like like, oh, 952 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:45.320 you know, maybe a new Yellow Card album. Maybe they 953 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:47.199 they found a bit of sparking. So think their last 954 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:49.800 album is one of their worst because I think they 955 00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:51.920 were just the energy had gone by that point. 956 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.400 And then again the Monkey's. 957 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:57.559 Poor curls because Travis Barker is here and I was 958 00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:01.000 like a god and the thing is, I don't know what. 959 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:03.360 You'll probably hate these songs, and that's fine, Like you're 960 00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:06.000 allowed to. I like, that's hard a conversation. I think 961 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.119 these songs are quite good Yellow Card songs. Why has 962 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:11.480 Travis Barker decided drums need to sound like they're being 963 00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:12.360 played underwater? 964 00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:14.840 It's so distracting. 965 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:18.119 Well, maybe you'll find an unlikely savior in Robbie Williams, 966 00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:22.079 who released the song I Thinks Maybe came out a 967 00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:23.400 bit over a week ago, but now as a music 968 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:27.039 video and everything for a new song called Rocket, which 969 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:32.679 features mister Tony Iomi ripping out at the very least 970 00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:37.400 a guitar solo on this and Tony Iomi right, he 971 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:41.280 has a history of working with some pop greats, right, 972 00:42:41.599 --> 00:42:46.519 Bev Bevan, a probably fictional version of Michael Bolton. That 973 00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.119 those are things that will only make sense to you 974 00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:50.119 if you've listened to our Black Saber special that we 975 00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:53.039 did this year. But maybe that will tantalize you enough 976 00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:57.760 to go and do so. And now, Robbie Williams, I'm 977 00:42:57.800 --> 00:42:59.639 not going to ask you intensely what you think about 978 00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:01.480 the Robbie William's song, because, like you know, it's Robby 979 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:05.480 Williams in it's mostly fluff, but it is more guitar 980 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:07.960 lad than a lot of pop punk these days. And 981 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:12.320 Tony Iomi can play a guitar solo, So I guess 982 00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:14.159 what we take what we give. 983 00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:18.880 Like he's stupid and naf and like the thing is 984 00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:20.760 is like I wasn't dden. Robby will just got like 985 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:23.000 a patch of sort of leather jacket with a mitched 986 00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:25.480 this thing and then a monkey scots like he's still 987 00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:26.599 keeping the monkey bit going. 988 00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:29.039 I at this scene in the Monkey movie, you know 989 00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:31.039 Oasis here in it. They're pretty funny in it. I 990 00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:32.199 want the meeting with Toniomi. 991 00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:36.039 Yeah, Like it's like I think this is, you know, 992 00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:38.960 kind of fun in a very stupid way. 993 00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:41.639 And you're right in fairness, Toniomi. 994 00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:43.639 He can crank out of riff and a solo and 995 00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:46.360 those are like, yes, pretty good Toniaomi solo Right there 996 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:47.559 is what it is. 997 00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:50.320 Robbie Williams of the Young Blood that we deserve literally, 998 00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:53.920 So that's out. The song's called Rocket, And then we've 999 00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:56.760 got a couple of UK tour announcements that if you 1000 00:43:56.840 --> 00:43:58.000 are not aware of them so far, we want to 1001 00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:00.599 just keep your kind of you know, direc your eyes 1002 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:03.400 over to them. The first is the more kind of 1003 00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:06.599 oh surprise news. I suppose Torch with an E that 1004 00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:10.639 band they're reuniting. They broke up. I can't remember exactly 1005 00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:12.719 when it was, but maybe around five years ago, like 1006 00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:16.239 it was sort of covid E times. I think they 1007 00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:18.920 are reuniting, and it's bizarre that they've got their only 1008 00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:20.679 announce shows that I'm aware of so far are in 1009 00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:24.079 the UK because they're not a UK band, but there 1010 00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:26.159 was this random little show that kind of got leaked 1011 00:44:26.159 --> 00:44:30.239 through that cave In playing Jupiter in full in the UK, 1012 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.320 which by the way is also a factor of this. 1013 00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:35.000 Cavian are doing some Jupiter shows. They've just played at Roeburn. 1014 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:37.639 They're doing a few around the UK at the very 1015 00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:42.760 least one of those in London has Torch reuniting for it. 1016 00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.440 And then there is also the Core Festival in Glasgow 1017 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:50.920 has also added both cave In and this reunited Torch 1018 00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:55.039 onto their lineup, and that Core Festival lineup does look 1019 00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:56.960 it looks pretty decent. There's the caven Day has got 1020 00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:59.800 like Ash and Spire and Frontier, the Hers

collective on 1021 00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:05.159 it agriculture. That's pretty cool. But first off, Caven playing Jupiter. 1022 00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:08.760 We did our album Club, great fucking record, perfect. But 1023 00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:10.719 Torch coming back, Sam, I don't know if you would 1024 00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:13.760 have ever spent much time with Torch. They are a 1025 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:15.239 cult bad when it comes to this sort of school 1026 00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:17.159 of heavy. But they're reuniting, so that's fine. 1027 00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:19.079 Yeah, they kind of passed me by, right. 1028 00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:20.960 I didn't quite get round to untwelf they've broken up, 1029 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.599 so now they're back, I like, I should, you know, 1030 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:24.719 I should probably spend the time listening Torch. I know 1031 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:27.719 a lot of people really fucking love that band like that. 1032 00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:29.719 They are like one of those proper cult bands where 1033 00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:32.519 anyone who likes them is like, Tortu are fucking amazing 1034 00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:34.119 that they I don't feel like there's a casual fan, 1035 00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:36.280 so I'm like, we were one of my things this year. 1036 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:38.679 Over the next couple of weeks or so, give Torture 1037 00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:39.079 a proper go. 1038 00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:42.960 Yeah, Meanderthal is a fun record out on hydra Head 1039 00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:44.679 in the mid two thousands, so that's normally a sign 1040 00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:48.440 of quality, isn't it. But obviously Tork coming back cool. 1041 00:45:48.440 --> 00:45:50.599 I imagine they probably must announced some US shows or 1042 00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:54.880 something fairly soon. But also Caven doing Jupiter in the 1043 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:58.000 UK that is fucking sick. And then we have a 1044 00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:02.119 tour announcement from Undeath, who around Bloodstock Festival. They are 1045 00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:04.079 gonna be playing the second stage of Bloodstock in August 1046 00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:07.000 and out several dates quite a long actually the UK 1047 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:12.119 talk consider him around Bloodstock. They are playing, for example, 1048 00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.960 Liverpool on the Monday of returning from Bloodstock, so dependent 1049 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:17.880 on if I'm there or not, I will be absolutely 1050 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:20.920 fucking shattered. But they're doing a number of dates around 1051 00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.639 the UK. The city of Glasgow is the one that 1052 00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:26.800 has locked out here because Horrendous are also in the 1053 00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:30.000 UK because they're playing Art Tangent Festival and they are 1054 00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:33.079 doing much fewer. They're doing only

like a couple of 1055 00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:35.400 other dates outside of Art Tangent Festival, which I am like, 1056 00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:38.880 I really want to see Horrendous Glasgow. These two shows 1057 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:40.840 got booked the same night and so they've combined them. 1058 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:43.159 So if you are in Glasgow and you can see 1059 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:47.320 Undeath and Horrendous. If you're in Scotland and you're not 1060 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:50.320 going to Bloodstock or at Tangent Festivals and you like 1061 00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:53.559 death metal, that is the must show see, must see show. 1062 00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:57.480 Even that you've got to get to this year, Glasgow, Undeath, horrendous, 1063 00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:01.639 brilliant cool. Let us carry on into the latter stages 1064 00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:04.159 of this episode of Hyperblasts, and we are going to 1065 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:06.519 talk to you a little bit about the podcast that 1066 00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:09.440 we put together a couple of days ago, where we 1067 00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:12.840 finished as promised, because very slightly longer than I intended, 1068 00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:16.840 but we have finished our Poison the Well band special 1069 00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:19.360 retrospective that is available along with all of our band 1070 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:22.519 specials like the Fucking the bed Bevan special that also 1071 00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:24.920 features some Black Sabbath in it that we did at 1072 00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:27.719 the start of this year. They're all available at Patreon, 1073 00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:29.760 corm slash That's not metal and that is what keeps 1074 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:32.639 this show alive all these years. But the Poison the 1075 00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:35.519 World special that we did, we obviously started doing the 1076 00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:37.920 part which everybody knows about how they basically invent a 1077 00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:41.039 certain strand of metalcore with records like the opposite of December. 1078 00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:46.079 But considering they are everybody knows them to be metalcore 1079 00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:49.639 pioneers in that regard, movie the second part, where we 1080 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.039 frequently go are they even really a metalcore band? Is 1081 00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:57.480 a different story and I loved this part. I love 1082 00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:01.400 getting to explore those questions of the much more complicated 1083 00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:03.119 and not at all what it says on the tin, 1084 00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:06.719 not just bits of their catalog and their legacy as well. 1085 00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:10.199 Yeah, absolutely, I mean obviously part one is like two 1086 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:13.199 classic Melecorps albums, and then it is from here, like 1087 00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.719 again the journey they take

and the kind of like 1088 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:22.079 really underappreciated legacy of like being more than just one 1089 00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:24.119 of the greatest melecal bands that everyone rips off and 1090 00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:26.639 rightfully does, because I just keep ripping that sound off, 1091 00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:27.320 I'll never get. 1092 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:27.639 Bored of it. 1093 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:30.880 But they become so much more interesting as a band 1094 00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.480 when you like dig into like these next couple of 1095 00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.239 albums and sort of the turns they make. And again 1096 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:39.519 like we had a moment of kind of like we 1097 00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:42.159 are starting the like the renaissance of one of these 1098 00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:44.599 Poisonoul albums, and we will be fighting the case for it. 1099 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:47.679 And again like you and Mark were even more like 1100 00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:49.360 gushing over the album than I was, and even un 1101 00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:50.960 like this album is fucking outstanding. 1102 00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:52.760 We need to we need to. 1103 00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:55.679 Get the word out there that like this Poisonoul album 1104 00:48:55.719 --> 00:48:57.320 that kind of just seems to be the forgotten one 1105 00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:00.079 is fucking amazing. You should go listen to it and 1106 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:02.800 then kind of like again analyzing their legacy of like 1107 00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:05.639 did they open the floodgates for all the shit we hate? 1108 00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:07.079 Now? Did they like? 1109 00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:09.159 But how they also saw shown that like, you can 1110 00:49:09.199 --> 00:49:11.320 be a much more artistic and interesting band if you 1111 00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:14.400 like better on yourselves and don't go with a major 1112 00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:17.400 label route and do all these things are really kind. 1113 00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:20.079 Of like interesting specialist doing loads of cool chats. 1114 00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:22.559 Had Yeah, there is, as you're saying, there's one record 1115 00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:25.320 in there that if you are to call Poison well 1116 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:27.639 a metal core band, even though we were kind of saying, like, 1117 00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:29.639 you know, is this really a metal core record or whatever, 1118 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:31.840 there's one in there that I think you could argue 1119 00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:35.039 is maybe the most underrated metalcore record of all time. 1120 00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:39.880 But then I when I was again thinking about formulating 1121 00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:42.199 that we were going to do a Poison Wel special 1122 00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:47.360 in twenty twenty five, it's impossible to ignore where Poison 1123 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:49.280 Wells sit

in the culture at the moment, because then 1124 00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:52.000 when they're a band who have been largely you know, inactive, 1125 00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:56.840 not producing music for over a decade, there's a very 1126 00:49:57.079 --> 00:50:00.400 needly funny place where Poison Wells sit in the coming. 1127 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:04.320 Essentially like ammunition that has been used by two different 1128 00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:09.320 sides of a warring culture, and moving into discussing that 1129 00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:11.840 and not just like, did Poison the Well create the 1130 00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:15.119 blueprint for metal core to eventually get bad or what 1131 00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:17.760 anything like that, actually viewing it from the opposing side 1132 00:50:18.039 --> 00:50:21.719 of being like, is there a more conservative kind of 1133 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:26.159 outlook that people approach Poison Well's music with and this 1134 00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:28.280 idea that we have to kind of return to tradition 1135 00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:29.880 and how it was good back then and all this 1136 00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:33.679 stuff that Poison Well the band and their actual trajectory 1137 00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:38.840 doesn't necessarily stand for. Yeah, I think is a big 1138 00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:41.239 part of the kind of the the crux of us 1139 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:44.159 doing this special at this time. And so going through 1140 00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:46.880 the record was awesome and I really love doing it. 1141 00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:49.880 And again there are such that there's classics, there's also 1142 00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:52.559 total underrated records, like we were saying, but also trying 1143 00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:56.159 to weigh up what do Poison the Well mean to 1144 00:50:56.360 --> 00:51:00.079 the culture of metal in twenty twenty five? Is I 1145 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:02.079 think one of the more involved in that particular area 1146 00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:04.199 and one of the more complicated in that area of 1147 00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:06.800 the band specials that we've done. And so I was 1148 00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:08.199 proud of it. So the new point in the well. 1149 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.960 Special that we have completed is available for your listening 1150 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:14.559 pleasure over at patron of corm Slash. That's not metal. 1151 00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:18.199 Let's get into the releases. Obviously we did a review 1152 00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:20.079 show where were speaking about Ghost and all of those 1153 00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:23.079 big records last time, so we have got a couple 1154 00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:26.239 of weeks releases to go through here. So let's jump 1155 00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:29.519 back to the twenty third. We had Skunk Nansie releasing 1156 00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:33.920 their new record, The Painful Truth. We had Midnight the 1157 00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:36.679 King of you know, black and black rock and roll 1158 00:51:36.719 --> 00:51:40.599 and all that with the covers record Steel, Rust and 1159 00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:45.400 Disgust featuring covers of bands from the Cleveland area that 1160 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:48.440 I guess kind of inspired him growing up. Also featuring 1161 00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:51.079 a couple of original songs, including the absolute banger that 1162 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:55.039 was Cleveland Metal that is a genuine Hall of fame. 1163 00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:58.599 Midnight June, so that came out last week. There was 1164 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:02.039 a death core band called The Spoke Zarathustra with a 1165 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:06.239 record which has an amazing title, I'm done with self care, 1166 00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:12.280 It's time for others harm which is of the long 1167 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:14.960 wordy titles. I'll take that one, and that one's funny, 1168 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:16.800 Like I said. A death core band but I was 1169 00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:18.400 listening to a bit of them, and it's not really 1170 00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:22.360 the full on like modern you know, Lorna Show, Brand 1171 00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:24.800 of Sacrifice whatever. There's a little bit more kind of 1172 00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:26.639 like two thousand and seven in it. 1173 00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:29.119 So if you there's a crop of like MySpace deaf 1174 00:52:29.159 --> 00:52:31.400 core bands coming out like them Psycho Frame, I won 1175 00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:33.199 the like really buzzy ones to keep an eye on. 1176 00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:35.559 But yeah, I'm down for this kind of strand of 1177 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:36.920 throwback death Corps. 1178 00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:40.440 Yes, so that's out. Then there's homer Is Where who 1179 00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:43.440 are a emo band who We reviewed their last album 1180 00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.079 what feels like not too long ago, but they've put 1181 00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:49.360 out another one called Hunting Season, and Sam, I know 1182 00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:50.440 that you've heard this one. 1183 00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:53.840 Yes, I was like, oh, homes were they got that 1184 00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:56.639 EP from like five or so years ago? Is really 1185 00:52:56.639 --> 00:52:59.400 great and I've kind of been catchhag into them and 1186 00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:02.760 this is like, like, why is clear as the slack 1187 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:04.320 your jocal fronting an emo band? 1188 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:06.159 It's bizarre this album. 1189 00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:09.880 It's so like they they the amount of Americana on 1190 00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:13.400 this album is so dialed up, Like again, I'm down 1191 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:16.119 for americanas or ema and punk and they've gone so 1192 00:53:16.280 --> 00:53:18.760 hard on it. Where it's like full of like country 1193 00:53:18.840 -->

00:53:21.159 songs and like banjo's and harmonicas and all of that, 1194 00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:22.719 and like, I think it's really cool, but it was 1195 00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:24.800 just it was a jarring listen at first, with like 1196 00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:29.239 just how like American a country it gets. 1197 00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:31.960 Yeah, I'm not surprised by that, considering them their their 1198 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:34.679 last record, but that is out. Then there is the 1199 00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:37.480 one of the kind of one of the architect bands 1200 00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:39.960 I suppose, of the sort of like retro doom revival 1201 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:42.440 of like the mid two thousands and late two thousand stuff, 1202 00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:44.239 but you know, continuing on to this day, the band 1203 00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:47.920 Witchcraft with a record called Idag e Dag maybe. And 1204 00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:52.039 then again in that kind of realm doomy stuff witch Rot, 1205 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.199 not to be confused with with a record called soul Seller. 1206 00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:57.639 There was the post metal band Year of No Light, 1207 00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:02.599 releasing Matre. And then if you like your kind of 1208 00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:06.000 slightly daft like black speed heavy metal stuff that I 1209 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.000 bring forward sometimes, we had a couple of them last week. 1210 00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:11.400 First up there was the band hell Crash with a 1211 00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:15.519 record called Inferno Crematoria, which is great because it's just burning, burning, 1212 00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.440 And then there's the band sex mag with a record 1213 00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:23.480 called Sexorcism, and both of those records have fantastic cover 1214 00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:25.480 art to Boot so Go and Filly Boots with those 1215 00:54:26.239 --> 00:54:30.360 I believe Nepalese grindcore, the band Chepang releasing a record 1216 00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:33.920 called Jiappa. Then there is a more kind of death 1217 00:54:33.960 --> 00:54:36.719 doom area your death metal record for last week, a 1218 00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:39.440 band called Ostu Area, where I believe contains former members 1219 00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:41.840 of jeck Thoth, even though it sounds nothing like jack Thoth, 1220 00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:44.599 but there are called a Barrant Worship. Then in kind 1221 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:49.800 of experimental progressive black metal, there's and Oceans releasing the Regeneration. 1222 00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:53.440 Itinery a project called Magus Lord, which is a new 1223 00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:55.320 project he always kind of has a couple on the 1224 00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:59.000 go of m from Lamp of Murmur actually doing a 1225 00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:02.039 record called in the Company of Champions, and this is, 1226 00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:04.679 you know, it's kind

of rawish black metal. It's the 1227 00:55:04.719 --> 00:55:06.239 similar sort of terrain of where you'd think Lamp of 1228 00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:08.239 Mumber being, but it's much more on the kind of 1229 00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:12.599 like long form epic batthery, leaning more into like the 1230 00:55:12.679 --> 00:55:15.480 Dungeons and Dragons kind of side rather than the you know, 1231 00:55:15.559 --> 00:55:19.639 vampiric creeping around Lamp of Murma side. But you know, 1232 00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:22.039 that guy is brilliant at what he does. I've listened 1233 00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:23.480 to that record. I enjoyed it. So if you like 1234 00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:26.239 Lampa Murma and his adjacent projects, says another one for you. 1235 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:29.599 Then we had some shorter form releases. There's House of 1236 00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:32.840 Protection with Outrun You All. Those are just to clarify 1237 00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:34.119 this for the probably the last time because I think 1238 00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:37.079 people probably know. But those are the other former Fever 1239 00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:39.800 through through three members, isn't it Yes, Yeah, yeah, And 1240 00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:41.760 they were featured on The Architects Adam as well this Yeah, 1241 00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:43.840 but they had a record out. Then there was ms 1242 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:47.320 Paint with No Separation. MS pant are a band who 1243 00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:49.400 you have mentioned on a few occasions, Sam, so if 1244 00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:50.920 you checked out No Separation. 1245 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:51.159 Yes I have. 1246 00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:54.840 And again like they're a really cool sort of hardcore 1247 00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:57.440 band in the kind of like the Post or Turnstile World. Again, 1248 00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:00.239 it's it's hardcore, but it's all electronic, and they're of 1249 00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:02.239 carrying on that. They're getting a little bit more experimental 1250 00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:04.000 with it. I feel like this is almost kind of 1251 00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:05.480 like a taste of where they could go on the 1252 00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:07.239 next Fall length. But it is a really cool, kind 1253 00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:10.000 of like more short form glimpse of where they could 1254 00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:10.960 go yeah. 1255 00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:13.639 And then the hardcore EP that everyone was raised about 1256 00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:17.159 last week was a self titled release from a man 1257 00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:20.440 called crow Quill, which is as you would kind of 1258 00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:24.239 imagine your early two thousand style metallic hardcore, you know, 1259 00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:26.079 related to some of the converses we may have just 1260 00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:27.880 been having. But I listened to this one earlier and 1261 00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:29.960 this one, actually, this one really sounds like early vein 1262 00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:33.760 to me, Like it's that kind of like the needly 1263 00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:35.199 stabby thing that they were doing early on. 1264 00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:37.519 It's got a little bit more that chaos sort of 1265 00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:39.599 like that you are, that kind of like stabbing like 1266 00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:44.039 nastiness to it rather than just the straight up point 1267 00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:46.079 in my worship, I think this is really cool again 1268 00:56:46.960 --> 00:56:48.840 Will I will lap up all these EPs, but this 1269 00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:51.440 is another one person one Like, Okay, this has got, 1270 00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:53.800 you know, potentially something more going on to it that 1271 00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:55.360 I'm like, I'm going to like put this in the 1272 00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:58.039 similar vein of like Balmora and stuff like that, where 1273 00:56:58.039 --> 00:56:59.840 I can be like, there's a bit more to these guys. 1274 00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:01.719 It can be worth keeping an eye on. 1275 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:03.920 Yeah, Like I say that one I thought was really 1276 00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:05.599 for fans of like Vain and stuff like that. So 1277 00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:08.280 there you go. Let's move on to today, the final 1278 00:57:08.320 --> 00:57:11.920 release week of May. The biggest one, in my mind 1279 00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:14.960 maybe is the fact that Swan's certainly biggest in terms 1280 00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:20.679 of duration. Swans are releasing their album called Birthing. It's 1281 00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:24.920 as mostly anyway. Yeah, it was about two years ago. 1282 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.840 They are productive considering their albums are two hours long. 1283 00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:31.880 This one is interesting. I feel again, I feel like 1284 00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:34.119 I've heard this banded around with some other other records. 1285 00:57:34.119 --> 00:57:35.320 I feel like we've been talking about kind of the 1286 00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:38.159 last incarnation of Swans for a long time, but this 1287 00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:41.280 one they've said is going to be their last kind 1288 00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:45.079 of like overwhelming wall of sound type record, and then 1289 00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:48.000 Michael wants to kind of like retreat into doing much 1290 00:57:48.039 --> 00:57:51.280 more stripped back. Maybe could amagine more acoustical or something, 1291 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:54.159 but kind of, you know, in terms of the huge, 1292 00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:58.480 you know, noise, post rock one in a million thing 1293 00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:02.599 that Swans have been for over a decade now. Supposedly 1294 00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:04.920 this record is a kind of conclusion of that kind 1295 00:58:04.920 --> 00:58:06.880 of chapter of this one's career. So they're touring at 1296

00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:08.199 the end of the year, and they said that can 1297 00:58:08.199 --> 00:58:10.880 be the last tour of like that you know style 1298 00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:12.119 of the band. So certainly if you want to see 1299 00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:13.679 that material they've done, you know, you should go to 1300 00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:16.960 that tour. But the final record of that guys, if 1301 00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:19.920 they are to be believed Birthing is out today, then 1302 00:58:20.079 --> 00:58:23.440 there is of course alt rock, Titans, Garbage releasing a 1303 00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:25.639 new record card Let all that we imagine be the Light. 1304 00:58:26.039 --> 00:58:28.920 Then add this in last minute because I've kind of 1305 00:58:28.920 --> 00:58:30.679 forgotten about it because it wasn't on the schedule because 1306 00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:33.320 of course they hadn't surprise announced it. Straight from the 1307 00:58:33.320 --> 00:58:37.599 Path obviously if slam Dunk is, you know, true, then 1308 00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:41.400 they will have a recordcord. I think clockworked out this 1309 00:58:41.440 --> 00:58:43.920 coming Friday, which of course many many people will be 1310 00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:45.920 looking forward to because Straight from the Path are great 1311 00:58:46.639 --> 00:58:49.079 in that kind of hardcore if you just need more 1312 00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:53.360 like ass beating after that desolated a back. This is 1313 00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:55.400 a blast in the past, isn't it? Desolated them aback 1314 00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:57.480 with finding Peace. You're a big desolated firm. 1315 00:58:57.679 --> 00:59:00.599 I've always really liked desolated stupid music, just the most 1316 00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:02.679 kind of like knuckle dragging beatdown thing. 1317 00:59:03.159 --> 00:59:06.079 But they were good at it. And I will listen to. 1318 00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:08.199 A new death Head album and I'm sure it will 1319 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:10.960 just be you know, twenty eight minutes of beat downs 1320 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:13.840 with maybe the odd kind of like slightly different thing 1321 00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:14.440 thrown in there. 1322 00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:16.519 But yeah, it's gonna be violent music. I'm gonna have 1323 00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:17.400 a good time of it. 1324 00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:20.800 It's gonna be hard. Then we have the Haunted with 1325 00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:23.280 a new record called Songs of Last Resort. The Haunted 1326 00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:26.000 the long running Swedish thrash band I guess you would 1327 00:59:26.039 --> 00:59:28.079 call them. They're playing Damnation at the end of the year, 1328 00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:29.920 so if you want to get up to speed on that, 1329 00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:32.599 then there's a new Haunted record out. Rivers of Nil 1330 00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:36.159 have a self titled album out the you know, progressive 1331

00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:38.840 kind of technical death metal band. Then there is the 1332 00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:42.519 band vill Charter with a record with a long Swedish title. 1333 00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:44.400 I've rereadly just butchered their actual name, so I won't 1334 00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:49.079 attempt that one. But interesting band in terms of their 1335 00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:51.000 fan base I suppose, and where they fit because they 1336 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:53.440 are like a gent band. Yeah, but they almost like 1337 00:59:54.079 --> 00:59:56.480 they were ever into this band, they would They almost 1338 00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:58.960 have their own weird little like sub sector of gen 1339 00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:01.199 because everything obsessed with the Fall thing, weren't they. 1340 01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:03.719 Yeah, Like again, they all in the gemp Banzo like 1341 01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:06.360 aware of never got super intext. It's kind of like, yeah, 1342 01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:09.840 like this is maybe it's not as like dumb enough 1343 01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:11.840 for me when I was into that a lot of stuff. 1344 01:00:11.880 --> 01:00:14.280 But I was surprised to see they're still going because 1345 01:00:14.280 --> 01:00:16.440 I'm just not thought about this band in about ten years, 1346 01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:17.320 so like, yeah. 1347 01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:19.199 Yeah, they're not they're not prolific, which is I guess 1348 01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:20.480 why it's notable. They got a new record out, but 1349 01:00:20.519 --> 01:00:22.760 there you go if you are feeling even more big brained. 1350 01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:26.280 After that, there's the kind of instrumental, you know, kind 1351 01:00:26.280 --> 01:00:29.599 of techie band called Kusa Nagi who got a record 1352 01:00:29.639 --> 01:00:32.480 out called Paramnesia. Then we're going to go a little 1353 01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:35.079 bit darker than that. There's the band Planning for Burial, 1354 01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:37.079 which is kind of a more kind of you know, 1355 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:41.639 stylistically interesting kind of mix of things like shoe Gaze 1356 01:00:41.639 --> 01:00:44.199 and doom and drone and these kind of like areas. 1357 01:00:44.199 --> 01:00:47.760 But that's got a new record called It's Closeness It's Easy. 1358 01:00:48.159 --> 01:00:51.800 Then from I think Scotland, there's a band called Coven, 1359 01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:54.440 not spelled as an English person would spell to Coven. 1360 01:00:54.519 --> 01:00:57.480 It's kind of I would guess Gaelic, but you know, 1361 01:00:57.559 --> 01:01:00.639 coven with a W and an F with a record Sorrows, 1362 01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:06.360 and that is spooky doom type stuff. If you want 1363 01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:08.320 to go even just sludgier than that, there's the band 1364 01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:10.760 Grin with acid Gods. Speaking of bands who haven't been 1365 01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:12.360 around in a while, I'll surprised see this name. The 1366 01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:15.599 band Cults Blood, who were a Merseyside based, you know, 1367 01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:17.480 sort of sludge band from about ten years ago. They're 1368 01:01:17.679 --> 01:01:20.599 back with a new record called Obscured into Nebula Dust. 1369 01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:23.159 Then we're gonna pivot up to black metal. First up, 1370 01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:26.880 there's the band Tryvax with a very good black metal 1371 01:01:26.880 --> 01:01:30.440 record called The Great Satan, which sounds like a very 1372 01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:33.239 very like cliche does what it says on the tin title. 1373 01:01:33.280 --> 01:01:36.280 It's actually more complicated than that, because Trivax is a 1374 01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:40.239 band primarily led by a guy who essentially fled from 1375 01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:43.039 Iran and now you know, lives in the UK. And 1376 01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:45.760 it's a record heavily about essentially the kind of the 1377 01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:50.639 Islamist kind of dictator regime over there, and it's very 1378 01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:52.199 much kind of, you know, sort of a protest record 1379 01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:55.039 in that regard, and that's you know, they're reworking the 1380 01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:56.480 title and stuff to do with that. But the new 1381 01:01:56.519 --> 01:01:58.360 Trivac's record. I would say that's for fans of like 1382 01:01:58.400 --> 01:02:00.480 it's quite accessible black metal. So if you stuff like 1383 01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:03.119 Behemoth or wat Ain and stuff like that, then maybe 1384 01:02:03.159 --> 01:02:05.559 the new Trivac's record will be your band if you 1385 01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.480 want some more just sort of like Scandinavian type black melt. 1386 01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:11.440 There's the band Sparta Sin with Vortex of the Destroyer 1387 01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:15.239 and on Profound Law there is an Obsidian Tongue with 1388 01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:18.639 eclipsing World of Scorn. Finally, for the albums, there's a 1389 01:02:18.679 --> 01:02:20.960 band called Lord Vigo, which is kind of, I guess 1390 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:24.119 sort of a heavy metal post punk sort of you know, 1391 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:27.559 spooky epic heavy metal to some degree. I've only heard 1392 01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:28.719 a little bit of that. But they got a record 1393 01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:32.079 out called Walk the Shadows. Then finally we have we've 1394 01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:35.039 got an EP from the death metal band Vader, who 1395 01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:38.000 have got an EP called Human Nihil Human NIONI it 1396 01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:41.400 what the human Nihility. That's a little portmanteau that I 1397 01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:43.400 could not get out of my mouth there but human Nihility, 1398 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:47.119 and that features the what is apparently the official anthem 1399 01:02:47.159 --> 01:02:49.719 for Mystic Festival twenty twenty five. I guess it's because 1400 01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:52.199 they're like local Polish festival or something, but they've done 1401 01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:55.960 that great and worm Rots have a live album out 1402 01:02:56.079 --> 01:02:58.639 called TNT. They've been teasing this for a while. I 1403 01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:00.760 don't know if it's like a studio orded live album 1404 01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:03.119 like in a session or something or where it was recorded, 1405 01:03:03.159 --> 01:03:06.719 but or worm Rot new record out called TNT that 1406 01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:11.039 does us. Thank you very much for listening. I do 1407 01:03:11.119 --> 01:03:13.519 have to announce there is not going to be a 1408 01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:17.360 podcast next week. This is because I am after this. 1409 01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:19.760 I'm immediately I'm going to Fortress Festival in Scarborough, but 1410 01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:23.239 then with about twenty four hours turnaround, I am then 1411 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:25.760 going to Mystic Festival in Poland. I'm going to hear 1412 01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:29.400 the official anthem of Mystic Festival. They're shipping me out there. 1413 01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:32.400 They shipping me to Poland to do that. So two 1414 01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:35.639 weeks time we'll be back here on Friday. I'll recap 1415 01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:37.199 the best stuff I saw and stuff like that. But 1416 01:03:38.119 --> 01:03:39.880 if you're waiting here every week, we will not have 1417 01:03:40.039 --> 01:03:42.760 a show next week. But thank you very much for 1418 01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:44.960 listening to this one. To fill your boots. There is 1419 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:47.880 of course our I guess about five hours or something 1420 01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:50.639 total of Poison the Well special that has been done 1421 01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:53.960 over on the Patreon. Like I was saying otherwise as well. 1422 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:56.480 When I return, we will get into we will plan 1423 01:03:56.519 --> 01:03:59.159 whatever I next special will be. But we'll also fairly swiftly. 1424 01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:00.960 We've got to get into some reviews and stuff again, 1425 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:03.559 because while I'm away, like the Turftile album's coming out, 1426 01:04:03.599 --> 01:04:06.840 and you know, various other big things are happening in June, 1427 01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:11.519 so we will return to discuss all of that stuff. 1428 01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:15.000 That's it for right now, so cheers everybody. We will 1429 01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:17.320 see you again, see you back here in you know, 1430 01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:20.480 two weeks time on Friday, and until then, cheerio