Episode 85: Black Label Society: Name In Blood

Review Black Label Society's new single and discuss related music news.

Key Takeaways

• "Name in Blood" is a 9/10 classic BLS track. Its monster riff, tasteful solos, and "chug-and-groove" pace make it the band's best single in a decade.
• A BLS show is set for March 17 at the Orpheum. The lineup includes Dario's Dark Chapel and Zakk Sabbath, with tickets at ~$72–$100.
• Megadeth's new album is the next review topic. The single "Puppet Parade" has a classic '90s thrash tone, but the band's 2001 acoustic album was deemed a failure.

Topics

Black Label Society: "Name in Blood" Review

• The single is a standout track, embodying the classic BLS sound.
• Key Elements:
  • Riff: A "monster" chug-and-groove riff that "swims around the root note."
  • Intro: An ACDC-style clean guitar intro, reminiscent of "Who Made Who."
  • Chorus: A powerful, descending vocal melody with a massive instrumental resolution.
  • Solos: Tasteful and song-serving, featuring Zakk Wylde's signature shred and tasteful double-guitar harmonies.
• Rating: 9/10.
  • Rationale: A near-perfect track, but a 10/10 is reserved for masterpieces like Metallica's "Master of Puppets."
• Concern: The track is so strong it may overshadow the rest of the album, a pattern seen with past singles like "Set You Free."

BLS Live Show & Album Details

• Event: Black Label Society at the Orpheum in Vancouver, BC.
• Date: March 17, 2026.
• Lineup:
  • Dark Chapel (Dario's band)
  • Zakk Sabbath (Zakk Wylde's Black Sabbath cover set)
  • Black Label Society
• Album Release: The new album drops March 27, 2026, ten days after the show.

Music News & General Discussion

• Metallica: 25th anniversary of Jason Newsted's departure.
  • Rumor: A Vegas Sphere residency is planned for late 2026/early 2027.
• Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson Tour: An East Coast/Southern US tour was announced.
  • Manson's Early Philosophy: His '90s interviews revealed a sharp intellect and a belief that music reflects, rather than causes, societal issues like poor parenting.
• Megadeth: The new self-titled album is out this Friday.
  • Single "Puppet Parade": Features a classic '90s thrash tone.
  • "Unplugged in Boston" (2001): The acoustic album was criticized for awkwardly translating thrash songs like "Symphony of Destruction" without proper re-arrangement.

Next Steps

• Mike & Sebastian: Decide whether to attend the March 17 BLS show.
• Mike & Sebastian: Review Megadeth's new album for next week's episode.

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Transcript

@0:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay.

@0:01 - Sebastian

On the new TV.

@0:02 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yep.

@0:03 - Sebastian

And my only problem is the sound was weird.

@0:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Were you just going through the TV speakers?

@0:10 - Sebastian

Yes. But the dialogue was like low and then it got like super loud. So I'm like, ah, I need to get a sound bar.

But it was only an issue for that one movie. Like I watched...

@0:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Where did you watch? stream it, obviously?

@0:22 - Sebastian

It was on Netflix.

@0:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, it could have been like the... It was a little bit off like this from Howard Street.

@0:29 - Sebastian

wasn't a good, like it wasn't a... No, it wasn't off. It was just, it was the volume of sound.

The dialogue was lower than I feel like it should be. Weird. But like, I watched Stranger Things, I watched...

@0:40 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It was fine.

@0:41 - Sebastian

Stranger Things was, it was just it for some reason. So I don't know if it was just the mixing of like, the mixing wasn't balanced properly.

@0:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Because maybe it was Pennywise messing with your... Or it was Gremlins. Oh, okay.

@0:59 - Sebastian

Pennywise. Painting-wise.

@1:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Painting-wise. remember I told you, well, I told you, I think I texted you, me and my daughter are coming down to the Fan Expo?

@1:07 - Sebastian

Yes.

@1:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So, the people at the Fan Expo, it's the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbits, all four of them. Like the actual actors?

Yeah, like Sean Astin. that's amazing. I'm not going to be there the day Elijah Wood's there, but on the day we're going, the Saturdays, so Sean Astin's going to be there, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan are going to be there.

Who else?

@1:29 - Sebastian

Talk about living on the coattails of the Lord of the Rings, because they always do, like, appearances together.

@1:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

They're like best friends. Yeah, that's true. They've been friends all these years. Corey Feldman's going to be there.

@1:40 - Sebastian

Oh my God. Ask him to play a guitar solo.

@1:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I should.

@1:44 - Sebastian

Have you ever seen that video of him playing a guitar solo? And all he does is just hit the kill switch on the guitar.

Like, he's just like, ah, da-da-da-da-da.

@1:52 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I just don't know how to play. No, it's unfortunate that I get a lot of Corey Feldman videos like on TikTok and stuff.

@1:59 - Sebastian

time, hey. Thank you. Nice.

@2:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Sure.

@2:01 - Sebastian

Man, what is your algorithm there, man?

@2:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's something, let me tell you. But let's see who else is be there. There's a bunch of cool voice actors that are going to be there.

And then there's this Broadway guy, because Jolene's really into Broadway and stuff. Like Broadway plays? Yeah, she's really into musicals and all that, because she's a musical theatre kid.

@2:21 - Sebastian

She's going to be an actress, man.

@2:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Maybe. This guy, Christian Borle, which I've never heard of him, but he's in all these musicals that she loves.

Like, she adores this guy.

@2:33 - Sebastian

And so he's going to be there.

@2:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Musicals. But what I did was, I'm like, hey, do you want to get your picture taken with Christian Borle?

@2:42 - Sebastian

It was like $75.

@2:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And her jaw went to the floor, and I'm like, I already did it. It's done.

@2:50 - Sebastian

Oh, that's a good daddy moment there. You freaking knocked that out of the park.

@2:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. So that's going to be cool. And I'm going to film her meeting him, because I can't wait to see her reaction.

going one. one. Because when she talks about him, she gets all giddy. That's amazing.

@3:04 - Sebastian

And then, of course, with my Goonie fandom, because Carrie Green, Andy, is going to be there. I'm going have to look that up.

@3:11 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Who's Andy? She was Andy. She was the... She was brand...

@3:14 - Sebastian

Is that the one with the glasses?

@3:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, that... No, no, that was Steph. Andy is the one that... remember.

@3:19 - Sebastian

That Josh Brolin, Mike... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just looked her up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

@3:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

She was like my first crush ever. Like, on a... Like, you remember when you were a kid, you see someone on TV, you're like, oh, like a character, you're like, oh, man, she's like the greatest thing ever.

Well, Andy was like, that was the greatest thing ever to me, so I'm getting my picture taken with her.

@3:36 - Sebastian

Yep, the woman, the red-headed woman from Willow.

@3:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Was she Willow as well?

@3:41 - Sebastian

No, no, no.

@3:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That was, like, what I remember.

@3:43 - Sebastian

That Oh, my God. Not the sorceress, but the... Really? The sorceress's daughter or whatever, right? Yeah.

@3:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So it's going to be a fun... It's going to be... We're coming down on the Friday.

@3:53 - Sebastian

We're going to go spend all day Saturday there, and then we'll go... This weekend, right?

@3:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, Valentine's Day.

@3:58 - Sebastian

Oh, Valentine's Day, right, right, right, right.

@3:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So a couple, three weeks or Yeah, it's going to be fun. It's going to be a really good time.

I'm looking forward to it because I just want to see all the nerdy stuff, too, to see what they got, to see if they have anything, you know?

Nice. Yeah, and I guess she's recognized some, like, anime. There's some anime people there, too. She's huge into anime, too.

So this is going to be, like, because I want, we were talking last week how I wanted to take her to a concert or something.

Then I'm like, oh, I could take her to Sabaton, but I think she'll last, like, a song, and I'm not sure.

@4:26 - Sebastian

could.

@4:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Sabaton? I don't know. Why is she like that? Wouldn't she? Not for, I Have you ever taken her to a concert?

No, I have not. She's been to, where'd she go to? She's been to, where'd she go to? Oh, my God, I'm losing my mind here.

Shawn Mendes, and she went to Jelly Roll last year.

@4:44 - Sebastian

Oh, my God. So Bruno Mars tickets went on sale today.

@4:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, we've been talking about that now, so they're probably sold out in five seconds.

@4:52 - Sebastian

So, Eden, which is one of our bartenders, I should actually, where's my phone? I don't know. Just make sure.

She didn't message me back to make sure everything's okay.

@5:02 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Sure.

@5:04 - Sebastian

So she was like, oh, I tried to get Bruno Mars tickets and it was useless. I was like, what do you mean?

She's like, I'll show you the screenshots.

@5:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, where was she in the queue? 181,000. Oh, my God.

@5:23 - Sebastian

181,000. I'm like, well, I didn't realize he's that popular. And so I asked, I'm like, well, where's the concert?

And she's like, I think it's at Rogers.

@5:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm like, well, if you're 181,000 in queue, I think kind of missed the boat here.

@5:35 - Sebastian

They could have played BC Place, but I don't know if it's even available. might not be available. Yeah. So where is, I'm, I don't, I'm just going to look at it and just see where it is.

So, cause I don't know, uh, where the freaking tickets are on sale now. Oh no, it is on BC Place.

Like, is he that, I didn't realize he's that popular with the younger folk.

@5:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like, like my, like my son, he was, he's kind of a Bruno Mars fan and he's. It's like, he hasn't put an album out in a long time, so this is a big deal.

@6:03 - Sebastian

I mean, I know he's good, but he's just, he's mega, I didn't realize he was that big. So they're doing four shows, I think, in Vancouver.

@6:13 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Whoa.

@6:14 - Sebastian

He's doing, yeah, it started with two, and then I guess they extended another two shows, but. Wow. Yeah, it's, it's something.

What is going Something.

@6:27 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm just gonna, I'm gonna hit a button here.

@6:28 - Sebastian

That's it.

@6:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yep.

@6:30 - Sebastian

Yes. I didn't even know we were recording.

@6:32 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You knew it.

@6:33 - Sebastian

You knew it.

@6:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Good evening, welcome back. Hi. To the weekly show that we do call Mandatory Music.

@6:43 - Sebastian

Mandatory Music.

@6:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's Seb, I'm Mike, and, you know, we talk stuff. Because we've been friends for 50,000 years, and, you know.

@6:54 - Sebastian

Really excited about this one today.

@6:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We are. We've got some, got a couple news tidbits before we get into

@7:00 - Sebastian

Send it.

@7:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Until we dig into the main topic.

@7:02 - Sebastian

Are we talking broken ankles and shattered dreams with the ridiculousness of the weekend of sports? We won't get into that.

@7:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We could do a little football.

@7:12 - Sebastian

Okay, here's my thing. I feel so bad for Bo Nix, and I feel like the Bills got massively screwed.

Because at this point, I don't legitimately know what a catch is.

@7:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I don't think that was a catch.

@7:24 - Sebastian

I think it was an interception. That's just me. Yeah, but if you watch the thread of that on social media, then they call another one in a different game in the same situation.

They call that a catch. So it's just like, well, which is it? Here's the point. Here's the point that I agree with so many people.

Why didn't you just go review it?

@7:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, that's the biggest thing, right?

@7:46 - Sebastian

It's such an important play. It's the play that will define that game. And you don't even go for a booth review to look at it.

@7:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It is, but also, Josh Allen did not play very well.

@7:59 - Sebastian

Yeah, you? Do agree with them firing the coach today?

@8:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, not at all.

@8:02 - Sebastian

It's not the coach Yeah, it's a polarizing thing because a lot of people go back and forth, but like, so...

@8:08 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Did the coach put the team together? No, did the coach...

@8:11 - Sebastian

You have such a small window and they haven't done it with Sean, what's his name? Sean McDermott? Yeah, they haven't done it with him, so...

@8:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Who's Josh, okay, hold on. Who's Josh Allen throwing the ball to? Okay, Shakir? Fine, he's good. Kinkade and Knox, the tight ends, are good.

Brandon Cooks has been on the team for three weeks.

@8:30 - Sebastian

Mikko Hardman's been on the team for two weeks. Yeah, but that's an incredible catch, though. Sure. Actually, wasn't a catch, was an interception, but...

It was an interception.

@8:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But, you know what I mean, like, they don't surround Josh Allen with the talent to win. Yeah.

@8:44 - Sebastian

Right? Well, that's not the coach's fault.

@8:46 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, that's what I mean. Yeah. And they fire the coach, they promote the GM to whatever he is now.

It's like, did that dude put the team together? Like, can you imagine if Josh Allen had a guy like Puka Nakua or...

got the ball in go. Or even JSN, Jamar Chase, a top-tier guy? Yeah.

@9:05 - Sebastian

Like a number one wide receiver.

@9:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh my God.

@9:08 - Sebastian

You know what that does for Josh Allen? So Josh Allen is a phenomenal quarterback, but having like that ace receiver draws attention to your spread, right?

So like when your receivers run down, now you've got to essentially double cover the ace receiver, which opens up so much more options for him.

You can do like a slant play or a little five-yard cut.

@9:29 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Sure.

@9:29 - Sebastian

He can run for 40 yards. Yes.

@9:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So it just opens up your options.

@9:33 - Sebastian

And then he can throw the ball backwards at Because if that number one receiver ever gets away from coverage, you know what's going along towards Yeah.

@9:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And then they signed Joey Bosa. He sucks.

@9:43 - Sebastian

You know, what's his name? I think the Bills are just forever cursed, man.

@9:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think they are too. And I think it's...

@9:49 - Sebastian

It's like the Cubs for baseball. Is Cubs or White Sox? The Cubs.

@9:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

They had that like 80-year curse. No, it was 90. Nope. It was 106.

@10:02 - Sebastian

Oh, my God. Yeah, they won in 2016, and the last one in 19-0... Curse of the Bambino, wasn't it, or something like that?

@10:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Or that's the Red Sox. No, that was the Red Sox. Yeah. No, the Cubs was the Curse of the Goat, or something like that.

Whatever. It doesn't matter.

@10:15 - Sebastian

Who cares?

@10:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, the Bills are cursed now, so... Yeah, the Bills are cursed, but that's okay. To see not one team has a superstar, which is a superstar quarterback guy.

Sam Darnold, Drake May, he will be.

@10:30 - Sebastian

You know what it's going be? It's going be the Pats and the Seahawks in the final again.

@10:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

A little revenge game? Yeah. Or it'll be the Pats and the Rams, another revenge game.

@10:39 - Sebastian

No, Pats...

@10:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Pats and Rams played, remember?

@10:42 - Sebastian

yeah, right, right, right. Right, right, right. Yes, yes. Because I was messaging with my buddy, who's a Broncos fan, and I'm like, he's got no hope.

You're starting a quarterback that hasn't thrown a single pass this entire season. That's fine. He didn't play... Well, it could be.

Like, he's a 30-year-old quarterback, I think.

@10:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Thanks. Okay, so here's what I think is going to happen. If Denver's defense shows up, they didn't last week, but if they show up and sort of limit the young Patriots, run the out of the ball, which obviously the Pats are going be prepared for short passes, but apparently Stidham's got an arm.

The dude can chuck it.

@11:21 - Sebastian

The problem is the Pats defense is pretty good. It's not that good. Do you have four interceptions on CJ Stroud?

@11:28 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay. CJ Stroud. had five fumbles a week before.

@11:30 - Sebastian

Let's just calm down. Okay. Yeah. Well, I know, but like, look at, look at what they've done back to back in the playoffs.

Like look at the wildcard weekend. Yeah. You know, like I know it was a boring game, but it was a defensive masterclass for the Patriots.

It was. So, you know, like that's a threat and you got to Denver does have an offensive line.

@11:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So I will give them that. Yeah. And the other two teams, just Houston did not. And the chargers chargers chargers.

Yeah. not. They stink.

@11:56 - Sebastian

So that could be, I mean, who knows? I put some money. It the Seahawks for sure.

@12:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, I put money on Denver and the Rams.

@12:03 - Sebastian

Okay.

@12:05 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

All right.

@12:05 - Sebastian

Wow, that's a pull. You're standing alone on that island, Mike.

@12:11 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's my own island.

@12:13 - Sebastian

It's my own island. They've got to go against the grain.

@12:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Musically news, I guess the 17th, because it's the 19th today.

@12:20 - Sebastian

The 17th was... Two days ago.

@12:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Two days ago, and it was 25 years since Jason Neustadt left Metallica. That's so long ago. Right?

@12:29 - Sebastian

Doesn't that make you feel old?

@12:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Yeah, because we were... How old were we? We were 24? We were 24? Yeah, I guess. It was 2001, right?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, we're still 23.

@12:41 - Sebastian

I don't think we understood the impact or the level of how close Metallica came to never recording another album again.

Like, we just assumed that... Like, they'll figure it out.

@12:52 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

They'll it out.

@12:53 - Sebastian

But then you watch the documentary, like, wow, I didn't realize they actually were pretty much broken up for... Exactly.

@12:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

About a year or two years. Then they put out the greatest album of all time. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

@13:04 - Sebastian

No, I'm just kidding. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

@13:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's their best album of the century.

@13:10 - Sebastian

It's the only one they put out in that century.

@13:13 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

In this end, no.

@13:14 - Sebastian

In the newest end, no. No, it's not.

@13:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Hardwired is way better.

@13:17 - Sebastian

No, it's not.

@13:17 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes, it is. Anyways. And then there was a tour announcement, which is coming nowhere near us. It's mostly the East Coast of the States, but it's a tour I'd love to see.

@13:27 - Sebastian

There is a big rumor that they're going to be doing a residency in Vegas in 2027.

@13:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, the Sphere.

@13:34 - Sebastian

Late 2026 and early 2027. I keep seeing that on social media. heard that, too.

@13:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

close.

@13:39 - Sebastian

So that would be, you should go there for your anniversary.

@13:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You got married there, go there for your anniversary. Well, go there for our 50th, man.

@13:47 - Sebastian

Well, if it's 27, we'll be 50 in 27.

@13:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

perfectly.

@13:52 - Sebastian

Right? Yeah. You heard it here, folks.

@13:55 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Come meet us in Vegas. In Vegas, if we can afford to go. And... Yeah, I can't even imagine the price of that.

Yeah.

@14:03 - Sebastian

Um, anyways. Well, he'll be impeached by then anyways, but we're not here for politics.

@14:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We are not.

@14:07 - Sebastian

Definitely not.

@14:08 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Um, so the tour that's been announced is Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson.

@14:14 - Sebastian

Like talk about throwing it back to the mid to late nineties.

@14:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's a nineties bang. But it's like all, it's all like east coast and south and it's nowhere near of the states.

@14:21 - Sebastian

It's nowhere near. Highly recommend if anyone has not ever seen Rob Zombie live, please go see him live. He's so good live.

@14:28 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Or, or even listen to the new Marilyn Manson record. Cause it is awesome. So good.

@14:34 - Sebastian

Yeah, I do like Marilyn Manson. I've, I've kind of slept on Marilyn for a long time.

@14:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Now that he's clean and he's not being a turd. He's, he's cool.

@14:42 - Sebastian

Yeah.

@14:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like he was a turd for a long time.

@14:46 - Sebastian

Yeah. But how much of it was playing the role? You know, like the shock rocker role. Like, have you ever watched any of his interviews on Phil Donahue?

@14:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, but did you ever see him on the talking dead? Yeah. He was like loaded. He was so. He messed up on something.

Oh, my God. He just sort of sat there. He couldn't even form words. It was amazing. It was so uncomfortable and awkward, but whatever.

@15:08 - Sebastian

Yeah, no, I would urge people to watch his interviews in his infancy of Marilyn Manson as the band. And he has a lot of very good points on the show.

@15:18 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like, he's super smart.

@15:20 - Sebastian

So they were, you know, he came out as a shock rocker, basically, right? It's like an Alice Cooper thing, you know, or so he wanted to rock the bus.

And he, you know, they asked him about his name. He's like, well, he just wanted to take two polarizing figures that stand on opposite ends of the spectrum and put them together.

Right. And then they were like talking about music and how like kids are brainwashed by music. And his response to that was like, it's not the music that's the problem is the lack of parenting.

@15:52 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's the problem.

@15:53 - Sebastian

Right. If you're if your kids are resorting to all this kind of stuff, it's not the music's fault. It's it's drawing out an issue.

That is there in the family that the parents aren't addressing because they want to be, they don't want, they're just non-existent to the needs of their kids.

And so the kids are going out to find their, fill their hole out of music, right? And so he nailed a lot of things back in like the early 90s on those interviews that people don't realize, right?

Because everyone, as soon as your child has an issue with something or there's problems, a lot of people don't look at the parenting ever.

They just blame outside sources. They're like, look at music, like the whole thing with Ozzy Osbourne and the Unalive Solution, so to speak.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Thing back in the day. Solution, yeah, absolutely. So it was like, you know, people point at the song because it's easy because it's outside their box.

It's not my fault. I'm not a bad parent, but like, maybe look at it.

@16:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Maybe look at it.

@16:50 - Sebastian

Exactly.

@16:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Yeah. That, uh, that's that. So tonight, Seb's excited. He's super excited.

@17:00 - Sebastian

Okay.

@17:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes.

@17:01 - Sebastian

Yes. Name in blood.

@17:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Why are you so excited? Please tell me.

@17:06 - Sebastian

Okay. So this is the classic Black Label Society song. Yes. Right. But this is the song that does everything right in terms of Black Label Society song.

It's a monster riff.

@17:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Monster.

@17:21 - Sebastian

Come on. The riff is so good. It's got layers. It's connected. You know, it's not all just like Lord Humongous where it's just the one riff from start to No.

@17:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's actually, it's pretty musically, it's really deep.

@17:34 - Sebastian

Yes. So, okay. Black Label Society doesn't do anything musically advanced in terms of song structures. It's pretty much intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, outro.

It's a pretty standard thing, right? You got to love the ACDC drumming though.

@17:55 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's such ACDC. Yeah. Even the intro is kind of like that. What's that ACDC song? For those about to rock, a little bit of a nod to Malcolm and Angus, I think it was really smart.

@18:09 - Sebastian

This is the song that I was hoping for they would have released for the last three songs. Like the Gallows I like as well, but Lord Humongous is what it is.

It's fine. It's fine. But this is a song I've wanted the entire time they've been releasing these tracks. Right.

And I'm like, finally, this is like probably the one of the best songs they've released in like the last decade.

I think I think so in my mind.

@18:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, absolutely.

@18:34 - Sebastian

And it's it's the classic it's a classic Black Label Society song. Yeah.

@18:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's like it's just you get the horns up and your arms pumping, you know, like you say, the ACDC drums.

@18:47 - Sebastian

This is the this is the BLS pace, too. Right. It's just the groove. It's just a chug and groove.

@18:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's just chuggy and groovy. And, you know, I noticing with Zach's voice as he's getting older, the Aussie's influences.

@19:00 - Sebastian

He there with his singing style now, because he basically sounds like a yukker version of Ozzy.

@19:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, totally, he does. Not that he's super young, but he's...

@19:08 - Sebastian

Funny that, he played with Ozzy in his infancy as a guitarist. Yeah, and it's just...

@19:14 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So, let me ask you this. I saw on, I think it was on Live Nation, that Black Label is coming to the city that you live in.

I believe they are coming on...

@19:26 - Sebastian

I mean, I would go see them. I think it's March 27th or something. Of this year?

@19:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No. Yeah, no, seriously, of this year.

@19:32 - Sebastian

That's very...

@19:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Really? Yes. If you want to verify that for me while I yammer on... Yeah, I will look immediately. So, the way this tour is, it's Dario's band, Dark Chapel, is opening.

@19:47 - Sebastian

We know you like it.

@19:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, I love Dark Chapel, and I love Dario. He's awesome. then Zach Saban...

@19:52 - Sebastian

March 17th. 17th, okay.

@19:55 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's a Tuesday. That's a Tuesday.

@19:56 - Sebastian

Not that that matters, but...

@19:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And it's also Zach Saban. Speaking of Ozzy, he's doing his Sabbath cover set, and then it's Black Label.

@20:06 - Sebastian

That's a banger.

@20:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So Dario and Zach are both pulling double duties, which I think is hilarious. Like, just keep the whole show and keep it in family.

@20:16 - Sebastian

I like that.

@20:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

How much are tickets?

@20:21 - Sebastian

Is it the Commodore? No, it's at the Orpheum.

@20:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Whoa, moving up. Yeah. Hell yeah, that's awesome.

@20:27 - Sebastian

They look right center, row 22, is $101. So they look like they're all, I mean, their most expensive ticket looks like to be $250.

@20:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Whoa.

@20:45 - Sebastian

Or $225. So basically $100 to $200.

@20:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Wow.

@20:50 - Sebastian

But this is not on Ticketmaster, though. Hang on. I should go to Ticketmaster. That seems like a lot for Black It is, because I think those are reasons.

@21:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, because we paid just over $100 to go see Iron Maiden.

@21:05 - Sebastian

Yeah, let me see what it is on Ticketmaster, Vancouver, Oregon, find tickets, if they even have any. They might not.

$72. Okay. For Orchestra Left Center. Yeah, it looks like... Oh, these are in the back. Hold on.

@21:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That means we get out faster.

@21:25 - Sebastian

I'll see what best...

@21:27 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Best available?

@21:30 - Sebastian

Well, no, because you don't want Platinum, because that's specific seating.

@21:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, God, no.

@21:36 - Sebastian

So, yeah, they're about $83, $80, $100.

@21:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay.

@21:43 - Sebastian

But this is, like, in the second level.

ACTION ITEM: Confirm BLS Orpheum Mar 17 availability; then decide go/no-go and buy tickets - WATCH

@21:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

The balcony overhang, basically. Oh, okay.

@21:48 - Sebastian

So...

@21:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's okay. Because then you'd just be looking down.

@21:52 - Sebastian

Do you have to, like, some tall guys in front of you? I mean, I'd be down.

@21:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Let me know if you want to go. I'll let you know. We'll see.

@21:59 - Sebastian

Yeah.

@22:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I don't know what the schedule is looking like. It is spring break, so I could take time off, but...

@22:04 - Sebastian

Does your son want to come?

@22:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I don't think so.

@22:07 - Sebastian

I'll ask him.

@22:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

don't think he'd care.

@22:10 - Sebastian

Okay, let's get back to the song, though. Let's back.

@22:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Can you stop being so, like, all over the place with excited about it. I know you are.

@22:16 - Sebastian

It's awesome. So it starts off with, like, a clean guitar intro. It's almost like it's so ACDC. Like, it reminds me of Who Made Who.

@22:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

A little bit.

@22:32 - Sebastian

You know, it's got that 80s. Yeah, that 80s. Yeah, it's just such an ACDC intro riff. But the main riff is, like, I love the way it swims around that root note.

Like, it goes high and then low, like... Like, it just goes up and down, and it's just like... yeah.

It's all about that root note slide. Absolutely. I don't know. I just love this song.

@22:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, it's catchy. Like, they're the best band. they're the and like sort of the heavy world is that's good at writing catchy, that chug riff, catchy and melodic riffs that the riff just speaks for itself.

You don't even need vocals to that riff. You could just sit and yeah, you could dance all night to the instrumental version of that song.

@23:16 - Sebastian

Dude, the guitar tone in the song is incredible, too.

@23:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's so sick.

@23:20 - Sebastian

That's what I was thinking. It's sick, man. Like, it's just like, oh, yeah. And then even the chorus has got that really cool, it's like a descending pattern of notes.

It's kind of the same riff, but it's like, it's the same structure and same notes, but it sounds very different, right?

@23:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Because it's like, it's not about that thick, like, it's like, it's up a couple octaves and it sort of comes back down as the riff sort of does that when AQSA is dancing around that.

I think it's in D-flap, I think.

@23:53 - Sebastian

Dude, I've listened to the song so much this week, man. Oh, yeah. They had the jam, you know, constantly.

@24:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Just wait till we get to the chorus, because I want to sort of just have everybody hear what we were talking about with that descending, really cool descending thing with the chorus.

And the song is short, like it's, it's, you know, it's, it's all about- Well, no one's going to listen to Black Label Society for complex time signatures and variants.

Here we go.

@24:20 - Sebastian

Yeah.

@24:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Yeah. It's just, it's just working, it's working the whole neck, right? It's just, and it's not flashy, which I think- resolution is so good.

@24:29 - Sebastian

So hold on. That one. Like it, all the instruments come together for that one chord and just like, you know, you have the bass, the drums, the guitars, like doing this high descending thing.

And then when they all come together in that chorus, it's just this big sound of like, it just hits like probably live watching this live.

I'm just saying like that one payoff and that resolution of the chorus would just be so like-

@25:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like it's right in that older Black Lyrical Society sort of in that wheelhouse. Can imagine hearing a whole concert of all of this?

It's so cool.

@25:10 - Sebastian

Just play a song over and over again. Like my hair would be flopping everywhere, right? It's a good pace too, so.

@25:17 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And then I like, this is weird coming out of my mouth, because I don't like, I'm not a guitar solo guy, really at all.

I love these solos in the song. It fits like a glove. Because they're not going out of their way to on the guitar for 10 minutes.

@25:33 - Sebastian

No, but he has these moments where he does the Zach Wilde shreddy thing, right? Which, you know, it's going to be in every solo.

@25:40 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

and it's tasteful. Like it's not like...

@25:41 - Sebastian

fits so well. Kirk Hammett, please take a lesson in Zach Wilde in this solo and go, this is what a solo is supposed to be like towards a song in your later years.

@25:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And then part of the solo gets doubled, like him and Dario are both playing it. I just, I love it when they double solos.

Like here, now. So they're both doing it now. I think it's, is so cool.

@26:00 - Sebastian

It adds a choral sound to it. It just has a big sound where it's just not so specific.

@26:05 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But again, the solos, they fit the song so well, and I don't want to slag on anyone that writes solos that don't fit.

Zach's guilty of it himself, but just going bananas for no good reason.

@26:19 - Sebastian

He does a thing at the end of the solo, which is a classic Zach Wilde, where it's like... Where he does those runs.

You'll hear it in a second here. This part's great, too.

@26:28 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That bluesy part.

@26:30 - Sebastian

double guitar, yeah. It's coming up in a second. The classic Zach Wilde stuff. Hold on. I think it's right here.

It's coming.

@26:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, even that part is...

@26:45 - Sebastian

Yeah, it's going to be really... This part. It's classic Zach.

@26:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's not a Zach Wilde solo without that sort of up on the... It's probably up on the A string.

@26:58 - Sebastian

Kind of palm muted. You on... You... What's unusual about the song though? What? There's not a lot of pinch harmonics.

No, there's not. Like, do you hear any pinch? And that's like classic Zach Wild out.

@27:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Wow. In the solo, there was a little bit, but not much, but you're right. Yeah.

@27:10 - Sebastian

This is like, you think this, this riff right here would be like, right for a pinch harmonic. Yeah. But he decides not to.

I love it. Yeah.

@27:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's such a great, he's got like his wild audio guitars.

@27:22 - Sebastian

They just sound so good. Yeah. That's so remember when we saw them in Edmonton, that was like a major gripe is just like, guitar.

@27:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Zach's guitar is not loud enough.

@27:32 - Sebastian

Yeah. that was really, it really annoyed me. Like listening to them live. I'm like, just turn him up. Like a couple decibels.

@27:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like he's drowned out by the drums and Phil's voice. It's like, it's not loud enough. Like you can't hear the Zach Wild thunder.

And let's be honest. We did not go there to see Phil sing.

@27:50 - Sebastian

In his bare feet. In his bare feet.

@27:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

patting around. But, um, but you're right. But what a, like, what a song to kick an album off. Cause this is track number one off.

Off.

@28:01 - Sebastian

That makes sense. It does.

@28:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It actually makes sense, yeah. It reminds me a little bit of that song off of, I think, our last record.

It was called Set You Free.

@28:12 - Sebastian

Oh, it's a great song. I like that song.

@28:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like, kind of a little bit in the same vein.

@28:18 - Sebastian

It's structurally the same.

@28:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Name and Blood is way better.

@28:21 - Sebastian

I agree.

@28:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I haven't seen the video for Name and Blood, so I can't judge until I see that one, because the Set You Free video is honestly one of the greatest music videos you've ever seen.

@28:31 - Sebastian

Oh, they didn't even, they haven't even released the track names yet.

@28:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like, okay, maybe it's not the same at all, but it's the same kind of pace. Yeah, I have track names.

@28:41 - Sebastian

Of all of this? Oh, it's not on, sorry.

@28:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I mean, we did actually talk about that last week. think you told me last week.

@28:47 - Sebastian

Yeah, it's not on Spotify, though.

@28:48 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It just, it goes Name and Blood and then Track 2, Track 3, Track 4. Oh, really?

@28:53 - Sebastian

Yeah, then Broken and Blind, The Gallows, Track 7, Track 8, Lord Humongous. I remember that, because I called out the Unblackened ones.

Which were like the last two on the album.

@29:02 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, so this one's just a regular version. got Gatherer of Souls as track two, The Hand of Tomorrow's Grave, which I think we talked about that.

That's a good song title. That's a wicked song title. Better Days and Wiser Times, I'm assuming that'll be a ballad.

@29:14 - Sebastian

That's track four. That seems like it. Do you think he'll play a piano on that? What's your guess? Because he plays piano.

He's a good pianist.

@29:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, yeah, I think so. Yeah. I think there'll be lots of piano on this record.

@29:24 - Sebastian

Above and Below, I think Ozzy's song will be piano as well.

@29:27 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That would make sense. I think it'll just be him and a piano, and that's it. Back to Me, Lord Humongous, Pedal to the Floor, which I'm assuming will be fast and it'll be fun.

Broken Pieces, The Stranger, and Ozzy's song. But yeah, no, this song is awesome. Like, it's just awesome in every way.

@29:46 - Sebastian

Oh, so, okay. So he's here on the 17th of March, but the album's not released until the 27th. So it's not a tour for the song.

@29:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's a tour.

@29:59 - Sebastian

No. That's interesting.

@30:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I wonder how many new songs you'll get. Yeah. Well, I could look up set lists of whatever they're doing right now.

But I don't do that anymore. I don't look at setlist.fm anymore. Sorry, I just got to tickle my throat there.

That's okay. But yeah, we'll think about going and see what's what.

@30:22 - Sebastian

I mean, just say the word, I'm down. You know I'm down. I'll always be down. Just send it. Just send it.

My cat is all over the freaking keyboard today.

@30:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Anyways. So in terms of album openers, this has got to be.

@30:40 - Sebastian

It's up there.

@30:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Remember the song Fired Up off of.

@30:43 - Sebastian

Love it.

@30:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's a freaking amazing song.

@30:47 - Sebastian

This is kind of in the same pantheon as that.

@30:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Because that song is amazing. The song is that good.

@30:54 - Sebastian

It's actually an interesting note that you, we talked about this a lot. But just to highlight. Again, Zach Wilde has a groove pace to him.

Like a lot of his songs are the same beat. Like now that you're thinking about it, like Fired Up, Set It Free, this song, all the other three songs are all kind of the same groovy pace, And there's plenty.

@31:14 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We can go through the whole repertoire. It's all in that, I don't know what the BPMs are, but it's all right there.

@31:19 - Sebastian

It's within a certain range. It's never like overly fast or never. I mean, he does have a couple of slow songs, but...

@31:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Yeah. Well, even going back to Pride and Glory, you know?

@31:32 - Sebastian

Do you like Pride and Glory?

@31:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I wish you'd do more.

@31:36 - Sebastian

It's funny though.

@31:37 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's just like, I listened to the album a while ago and it's just like, it doesn't hold the same candle that it did when it like first came out.

No. Well, I think, cause he's put out so much music. This was like his first solo thing, right? Away from Ozzy?

Yeah.

@31:49 - Sebastian

And it's a, it's a good effort, but like there's, you can like the quality of songs are, they're good as yeah.

@31:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I just love it. If they played the song.

@32:00 - Sebastian

Well, this song is great. Okay, this song is like my favorite song they did for Pride and Glory.

@32:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Right? This song is so good. But again, it's the same pace.

@32:07 - Sebastian

Right? It's all that groove, that chug groove metal pace.

@32:11 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Well, because when he did this and then he put out Book of Shadows, we were just like, oh my god, the dude's doing acoustic now.

It's like, this is a movie.

@32:18 - Sebastian

Yeah, we went and saw him. Southern Ruth. Yeah, the town pump.

@32:21 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

The town pump that is now long gone. He may or may not have taken some of his guitar picks off his stand with.

I've got one. I've got one still somewhere.

@32:31 - Sebastian

I don't know where it I think I gave one to my son and then I think I kept the other one.

@32:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Nice. Well, I mean, that's on you for leaving them up there, Zach Wilde. Dude, come on.

@32:40 - Sebastian

You you're leaving them within arm's reach of feverish fans.

@32:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

What you think is going to happen?

@32:45 - Sebastian

Of 19 year old fools. They're like, I'll take that.

@32:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay, out of 10, what would you? This is solid. I give it a nine and a half. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

@32:56 - Sebastian

Solid nine and a half. Maybe nine, but you know, it's really good. I'd reserve a 10 out of 10 for songs like Master of Puppets or Spit Out the Bone.

@33:04 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Or Spit Out the Bone, yes, absolutely.

@33:06 - Sebastian

But not songs like... I'd say a 9 out of 10, for sure. Yeah, that's what I would put.

@33:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

My only fear with this being the lead track, this is the best song on the album.

@33:15 - Sebastian

I know the other ones are good, but this one's so good, this might be where all the apples are, and the rest of them are just going to be okay.

@33:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@33:24 - Sebastian

Right? That's a realistic fear, for sure.

@33:28 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Because the Doom Crew album, was kind of the same thing, like Set You Free was up on this pedestal, and the rest of the album was just, it was just okay.

@33:36 - Sebastian

What's his best album? It's the one with Set It Free, or not that one, with Fired It Up.

@33:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

that's Mafia, right? Mafia's really good.

@33:47 - Sebastian

Yeah, that has Fired It Up, Suicide Messiah, In This River, which is a great song. Which is a tribute to Dimebag Daryl.

Yeah. That's a slow song, too, right?

@33:57 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Um... Um... Blessed Hellride's good, 1919's not bad, but Mafia is is awesome. Mafia is awesome.

@34:10 - Sebastian

Yeah, that's probably my favorite album I think of him, Blessed Hellride. That's actually a really good song. That's an acoustic song too, Blessed Hellride?

Yes, it is.

@34:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, so all of you out there, go listen to Black Level Society because I know we sort of, we go on and on about Zach Wilde all the time.

@34:28 - Sebastian

I mean, we talk negatively about him sometimes too. We do. Like all of his solos kind of sound the We're honest about it, yeah.

We're kind of honest about it. Every, okay, so to close off this particular song, it's a song that hits so many, and I don't want to use this word, but I can't think of another one, so many Black Label Society cliches, but this is all the cliches that really work well, all paired together or come together to give you just a really kick- song.

Yeah. So this is a song that... It's going to be in my workout playlist on repeat for forever.

@35:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

time.

@35:04 - Sebastian

I was even thinking while I'm running, this might be a good song.

@35:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

a good pace, too, right? It's a good pace because it's not crazy, but it's just that good constant. I was running on Saturday, and I'm not listening to a lot of music anymore when I run because I'd just rather hear my heartbeat thumping through my chest and my foot falls on the ground.

@35:21 - Sebastian

It's going a little faster than that. It was like my heart on Sunday when I played my first soccer game in a month and a half.

@35:29 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, my Lord.

@35:31 - Sebastian

my Lord. That was something.

@35:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So go check out Black Label. They've got 8 million albums. He played a couple albums with Ozzy, the 3-3.

No Rest for the Wicked, No More Tears, and Parts of Osmosis.

@35:43 - Sebastian

Yeah, and the new Black Label Society is out in 66 days.

@35:47 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

66 days.

@35:49 - Sebastian

Yes, sir.

@35:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We're going to leave you with a little snippet of the brand new Megadeth song.

@35:53 - Sebastian

Let's go.

@35:55 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Pop it parade.

@35:56 - Sebastian

And pop it parade.

@35:57 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Let's go. Work. Hello.

@35:59 - Sebastian

Uh-oh. It's coming. It's coming.

@36:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's coming. It's coming. Apple Music. I hate you, Apple Music.

@36:04 - Sebastian

No, I mean, that's your problem for doing Apple Music and not Spotify. Spotify is king.

@36:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

What the Okay, well, I guess I'm not going to play it. So go check out Puppet Parade, because honestly, it's the longest song they've put out so far.

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@36:17 - Sebastian

It's four minutes and 41 seconds. Yeah, that's right.

@36:21 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

it's really good.

@36:24 - Sebastian

I'm going to save it till Friday, because that's when the album comes out in a couple days, and I'm just going to dive in.

So that's what we'll do next Monday.

@36:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, so next week, we'll break down the whole Megadeth album. But, all right, here we There you go. But it's got a real...

God, this song's awesome.

@36:43 - Sebastian

Also, Dave's guitar tone for this album is really good, too. It is. Like, it's lighter than...

@36:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You can tell the difference, though, between the tones, because this is more of like a 90s thrash tone, whereas Zach has that fuzzier, deeper tone.

Yeah. Yeah, because this song is like right out of like Countdown, Euthanasia, Cryptic Writing. Yeah. Oh, God, I love it.

@37:07 - Sebastian

This is straight out of Countdown from Extension.

@37:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You wait to the chorus, he actually sings. There's actual singing. doesn't sing. He does. No, there's actual singing. And there's a sweet like, like the middle, the bridge in the middle of the song.

@37:22 - Sebastian

It's like slow. It's legit slow.

@37:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm excited to listen to it on Friday. It's got everything in that song. Is it as good as Name and Blood?

@37:28 - Sebastian

I don't know, but.

@37:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, it'll be a good conversation next Monday. Yeah, exactly. So, so yeah, so next Monday we will be doing the new album of Megadeth called, simply called, oh, another one that's self-titled.

@37:41 - Sebastian

Yep.

@37:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Self-titled albums are a thing. Your 75th album you've put out.

@37:45 - Sebastian

This makes sense to me. It's the last album that I'm going self-title.

@37:48 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes, that makes sense to me. So when's the first Dave Mustaine solo album coming out?

@37:52 - Sebastian

2028? Would it be all acoustic? No. Also, I challenge you to listen to the Megadeth acoustic album. Like they did like an MTV acoustic one.

Really? It's on YouTube? It's on Spotify. It should be on Apple Music too, I think.

@38:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

wouldn't go that far.

@38:09 - Sebastian

I'm you, Symphony of Destruction and acoustic guitar is something. I'll tell you that much. Really? Yeah.

@38:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That is...

@38:17 - Sebastian

I'll look it up on my phone.

@38:18 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Because Apple doesn't really anger me. But anyways, I'm not here to yammer on about Apple.

@38:24 - Sebastian

Because yes, I am an Apple guy. Seb is not.

@38:27 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Definitely not. Definitely not. So yeah. So that's that. And a bag of chips. We will be back. Thank you everyone for listening.

Because we do love you. Yes. Yes.

@38:38 - Sebastian

Because this is...

@38:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think we're at episode 85, I believe.

@38:40 - Sebastian

We're getting there. We're getting close to the century mark.

@38:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We're almost two years in. I know we're not there number wise. But we've been doing this since March of 2024.

@38:49 - Sebastian

Yeah. We're going to start posting socials.

@38:52 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I have to learn how to do that.

@38:53 - Sebastian

Yeah.

@38:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's a block.

@38:54 - Sebastian

doing a little TikTok mental block for me.

@38:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

A TikTok. Oh God.

@38:57 - Sebastian

You and me both. I've never been good with social media media stuff.

@39:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, I'm trying. I'm trying to get a little creative. There's so many apps out there you can make stuff.

Anyways, TikTok is probably the best place to find us because I don't like posting on Facebook, Instagram, or anything like that.

@39:09 - Sebastian

Nobody uses Facebook anymore except for over 50 people, over the age of 50 people.

@39:13 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, Instagram's okay, but TikTok is the...

@39:17 - Sebastian

Yeah, rules the world right now. Rules the world, man.

@39:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Thanks, Anyways, thanks, China.

@39:21 - Sebastian

We love you.

@39:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And bring your electric cars over and make all the other electric cars cheaper. So maybe normal people can afford that's happening.

@39:28 - Sebastian

Right? Yeah.

@39:29 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Those BYD cars. don't know how you pronounce them.

@39:31 - Sebastian

It's just BYD, but they're cool.

@39:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes. They got air purifiers in them. Come on, man.

@39:36 - Sebastian

I mean, who doesn't want an air purifier in your car?

@39:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Who doesn't want an air purifier in the car? Anyways, that's the show. Episode 85. A little black label and a bunch of other nonsense.

@39:46 - Sebastian

Random stuff. Yes. Great. See you later.

@39:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Boom.

@39:54 - Sebastian

So the album is called Unplugged in Boston.

@39:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Unplugged I've heard of that.

@39:59 - Sebastian

It's live. It's from 2001 and oh boy oh boy 2000 old man they were a mess in 2001 as well so these are the songs that they decided to do for an unplugged oh boy album dread in the fugitive mind trust time the beginning use oh I guess you can see it the I mean almost honest makes sense promises make sense trust kind of makes sense but like holy wars yeah that's a wild that's a wild one oh it's just the middle part of this ugh i'll put on trust because that's just bad it just doesn't make sense to me no they should have done this in the 90s with marty and nick like like you do this yeah i don't even know

@41:04 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I don't know, because I think this is right around when he hurt his arm, when he fell asleep on the couch, but his arm was hanging over the edge of the couch, and it fell asleep, and he pinched a bunch of in it.

I can relate to that with my sciatic nerve. Yeah, it happens to everybody. Oh my god.

@41:26 - Sebastian

Just listen to Symptomy of Destruction.

@41:32 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

There's reasons why certain bands don't do acoustic albums.

@41:36 - Sebastian

Well, how do you play this song acoustically?

@41:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You'd have to completely rewrite it, and they didn't clearly.

@41:41 - Sebastian

No, it's the same. It's like playing it the way it is.

@41:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

song with acoustic guitars. It's stupid.

@41:47 - Sebastian

It's awkward. Like, it doesn't sound good.

@41:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, it's a radio thing. Shut up, ladies. It's a testament to what an amazing- It's a

@42:17 - Sebastian

It sounds so bad like I'm sorry.

@42:20 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

His voice is the best part.

@42:22 - Sebastian

She's saying something.

@42:27 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, I should get one day. I'll record Jolene doing it, but she does a killer Jennifer Coolidge impersonation.

@42:36 - Sebastian

Oh, really?

@42:37 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes. Like it's it's spot on. Like she's got the like, because I always I always talk to them in other voices and accents.

When we play Fortnite, one night I'm Australian, then I'm Irish and then I'm English.

@42:48 - Sebastian

Oh, there's a guy that plays Call of Duty that pretends he's like an Arab guy.

@42:52 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

He's actually Arab.

@42:54 - Sebastian

Okay, but he's like speaks normally. But then when he goes in Call of Duty, he's like, okay, come on my gonna I'll Bye.

@42:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Bye. I'm going to bum, bum, bum. Like it's the funniest ever.

@43:03 - Sebastian

I Yep. He's like, I need perfection. I need perfection.

@43:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

guy. Oh, man. So yeah, so Megadave next week, eh?

@43:12 - Sebastian

Yeah, that's it. I listen to it a lot. I think so. got to eat some food, and then I got to go play a soccer game at 9.30 in Burnaby 8 Rinks.

@43:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

9.30? Indoor game. Oh, good.

@43:24 - Sebastian

First game of the year. Oh, my God. It's only an hour, so I'll be out of there at 10.30.

But by the time I go to bed, I'll be like midnight, so. Well, at least, right?

@43:32 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

At least, so. You'll be jacked. Yeah.

@43:36 - Sebastian

Hey, G. All right. Okay.

@43:37 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

See you later. Yeah, Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.