Ep93:Black Label Society New Album Review

This week we get down and dirty and review the new Black Label Society album Engines of Domination. We dig into everything the album has to offer and more!! We also talk a little GnR and their most recent set list.

Review Black Label Society's new album and discuss recent music news.

Key Takeaways

• BLS Album Review: Black Label Society's new album, Engines of Demolition, is a raw, mid-tempo record with a "greasy" production style, a stark contrast to the polished sound of its predecessor.
• Divergent Ratings: The album received a 4/5 rating for its raw energy and mid-tempo groove, but a 3.5/5 for its lack of dynamic song structure and vocal variation.
• Guns N' Roses Tour: GNR's new tour features a 26-song setlist, including deep cuts and covers, with The Black Crowes opening.
• Next Week's Album: The next review will be Corrosion of Conformity's new double album, Good God, Bad Man, their first release since 2018.

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Transcript

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

I'm going to just start going, because we're going, and I'm to hit this button. Whitesnake called, they want their song back.

@0:20 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Every band in the 80s. Right.

@0:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Hi, everybody. Bastion, hi.

@0:28 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Hi. How are you? I'm well.

@0:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

How are you? I'm good. Happy Monday.

@0:32 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Happy Monday.

@0:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

First thing I'm going have to stop, I've to say congratulations on your native country making the World Cup.

@0:39 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Not yet.

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

I thought they're in.

@0:41 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, they're in.

@0:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I thought they're in.

@0:44 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, no. They play tomorrow.

@0:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh.

@0:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

There were 16 teams playing last Thursday, and now they're down to eight teams playing tomorrow for the last four spots for Europe.

I thought I saw a post saying from your establishment of work. arriängen. you. Oh, well, yeah, that was the first game that, that, yeah, they're not through technically yet.

They have to beat Sweden tomorrow, which is doable. Of course it's doable. And then Italy plays, well, for most Canadians, Italy plays Bosnia tomorrow.

And the winner of that game is playing Canada in the first match.

@1:17 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Is it wrong that I want the Italians to lose?

@1:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Cause I think it'd be hilarious. That would be the third world cup in a row.

@1:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

They don't make it.

@1:24 - skwapich@shaw.ca

How do you go from missing a world cup, winning the euros and then missing a world cup? Cause that's what Italy did in the last three tournaments.

@1:32 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes, they did. And I, that's a good question. I don't think anyone, I'm not sure anyone has the answer to that.

Cause they haven't scored a goal, a meaningful goal since 2006.

@1:44 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Uh, no, they have not.

@1:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Cause they haven't, that's when they won it last, right? Cause that's the last time they played knockout stages games 20 years ago.

@1:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yep.

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

That's insane. Like a country that is so prideful with their football. To all of a sudden be so bad and somehow not make World Cups, especially in the extended for the sort of expanded format they're in now too.

@2:10 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, there's way more teams because it should be easier options.

@2:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. For a team like Italy should be easy or, but whatever. So let's go Bosnia and let's go Poland.

Well, I have a, yeah, you got any money, any money riding on this?

@2:25 - skwapich@shaw.ca

No, I don't really gamble much anymore. I can't, I can't, can't do it. I can't do it.

@2:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, it'd look bad.

@2:32 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. So I don't know. I just, I just don't gamble much anymore.

@2:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's good for you.

@2:37 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But yeah, it's fine.

@2:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'll throw a five bucks here and there on a football game and lose it. But, uh, yeah.

@2:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. I used to like want to gamble every weekend for, for football and then I couldn't win anymore. So I'm just like, I'm over this.

@2:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's out. It's done. You know, even like for me, I do, you know, five bucks or whatever. It's something that I don't like to spend much on gambling.

Cause it's just a waste of money. on gambling. But I lose every week. it's like, okay. And I pride myself.

@3:04 - skwapich@shaw.ca

one time you can win.

@3:05 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

One time. I pride myself on knowing things about football, but then I bet on somebody to win, and then they lose.

@3:11 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Because you know too much.

@3:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You're to have beginner's luck. It's paralysis by analysis. That's it.

@3:17 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's a good thing.

@3:18 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But any team I bet on loses. No matter what the team is, no matter what it is. Like if it's the worst team of all time.

So let's say it's the Canucks right now, because they are the worst team of all time. And they play the Avalanche, say.

I would bet the Avalanche, even though I wouldn't get much back, and then the Canucks would win. It's just how it goes.

@3:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I used to tell people at work, if you bet on a team and you really want them to win, give me money to bet on the opposite team, and your team will guarantee to win.

@3:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Pretty much. Pretty much. So we'll start with a little news.

@3:54 - skwapich@shaw.ca

We got a few things to do.

@3:55 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Got a couple things. Before we talk about Guns Roses. They had a couple things last week. week. But Arch Enemy played their first concert with their new singer, Lauren Hart.

@4:05 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, I saw clips of it.

@4:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And?

@4:07 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Good.

@4:08 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@4:08 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Sounds great. Sounds exactly like Alyssa White. You know, if you close your eyes and listen to her, it is not a big difference.

Like, I think they got the right replacement, right? Like, she seems exactly what they need.

@4:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@4:24 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But younger, right?

@4:25 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Maybe they'll be like Leonardo DiCaprio of metal bands. It's just they have, once you hit a certain age, you're out.

@4:31 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Hey, she, Leo is dating the oldest girl he's ever dated at 27. Oh, Jesus. Usually once they hit 25, he breaks up with them and goes from the next 20, 21 year old.

Oh my God. For couple of years.

@4:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

What a life. What a, what a guy. Um, but Guns Roses partnered with their keyboard player, which I don't know her name, but she had to step out of this tour and they got somebody else.

@4:52 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, I heard that.

@4:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Doesn't matter.

@4:54 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Don't they have like 47 members in that band at this point?

@4:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Something like that. I think it's like, yeah, 47.

@4:59 - skwapich@shaw.ca

They're triangle. I heard it's about, I think it's 62.

@5:04 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think there's 62 band members and there's no backup singers.

@5:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's just Axl all the time.

@5:10 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It doesn't matter. They played their first first concert of the year in Monterey, Mexico. This was in the 28th.

this was a couple of days ago. So they had a 26 song set list, which is that's hefty, right?

@5:23 - skwapich@shaw.ca

We really, we talked about this at work literally the other day, like on Friday. Oh boy. What happened to my camera?

@5:32 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh geez. Are you falling apart again? Am I, has the screen gone black on you?

@5:37 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@5:37 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay. Anyways, I don't know either, but yeah, 26 songs. How many covers I got? One, two. I'm looking here.

I think that's only four. I think four. And then that's, that's not, that's not terrible. Four covers. No, five.

Sorry. There's live and let dies on there. That's five. Um, but the. We the show with Welcome to the Jungle.

@6:01 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I'll just read you all 26 really fast. Sure.

@6:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Welcome to the Jungle was one. Mr. Brownstone was two. That's a pretty good one-two punch. Especially when got the old guy from Family Guy singing.

Anyways, Bad Obsession, which is interesting. That's third. Live in the Thigh was four. Slither was five. Is that a Metallica cover?

I'm not sure. I don't think so.

@6:20 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I think they have their own version.

@6:21 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, they got their own Slither?

@6:22 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Okay.

@6:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Chinese Democracy was six. Pretty tied up, which deep cut. That's number seven. It's So Easy. Yesterday's, Double Talkin' Jive.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Talk about covers. Then Nothing with the premiere of the song Nothing, which any of their new music is not good.

13's Dead Horse. 14's Perhaps. Another great new song. Civil War. Atlas. Okay. Knocking on Heaven's Door. A Slash Solo.

Sweet Child of Mine. Now, this is pretty good to end the show. Sweet Child of Mine, November Rain, Patience.

New Rose. don't know what that is. Down on the Farm. I'm assuming that's a cover. Don't Cry Night Train.

and Paradise City. It's pretty good.

@7:04 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@7:05 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

If they could only find a singer, then they'd be awesome. You know, he's not that bad. No, he is that he is that bad.

I will agree to disagree on that.

@7:12 - skwapich@shaw.ca

We were talking about Megadeth the other day at work and and the fact that I felt like their set was so short and then Guns N' Roses came up.

@7:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And it's a far cry from 40 something songs that used to play. 26 seems pretty short.

@7:28 - skwapich@shaw.ca

26 is still.

@7:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's a lot three hours. That's a lot, man.

@7:32 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's still a lot.

@7:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think I'd want to go home by like song 19. mean, like, okay, slash solo. I think I think I'm good.

@7:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I think it's time to opening for them. Oh, there's a Velvet Revolver song.

@7:43 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's why. Oh, that's why. Oh, interesting. That's yeah, that makes sense. I know when they come to Vancouver, the Black Crows are opening, which is pretty cool.

@7:52 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, that would be that's pretty sick.

@7:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That would be both the only reason to get me to go is to go see the Black Crows. But I don't even think we're in town.

Anyway, I think we might be away.

@8:03 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I they play for almost three hours.

@8:05 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's a long time.

@8:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Just them, right? So why does it say start time at 11.40 p.m.? That can't be right.

@8:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It probably is right.

@8:16 - skwapich@shaw.ca

wouldn't surprise me. can't be right.

@8:17 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Why not? Maybe they're back to their old antics where they're coming on three hours late.

@8:20 - skwapich@shaw.ca

11.40 p.m.?

@8:21 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That can't right. That's like, I'm turning into a pumpkin by midnight, man. I'm like Cinderella.

@8:28 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Maybe. That's the one from Mexico that I looked at.

@8:33 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Monterey, yes.

@8:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. if I go to Mexico, no, 9.30. Tour average three hours. So it's four hours.

@8:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So I guess. So the opener gets 45 minutes and Guns N' Roses gets three and a quarter. Yeah, three and a half.

@8:48 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. 29 songs, 30 songs, basically. Yeah, it's a pretty high. That's a pretty absurd set list. Like 29 songs is so much.

It's too many. considering what. Well, when we saw Metallica, what, they played 11 or 12 songs? No, I think they played, what was 15?

@9:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

15.

@9:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

15 each. And that was two hours, exactly.

@9:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, and that's enough.

@9:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Like, within a minute, right?

@9:11 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@9:12 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But they also had two openers, so.

@9:14 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes. I was good and bored by the time they came on. Well, it's like that with most shows now.

It's the opener, you just don't care. Like, when we saw Korn and Gojira, and a buddy at work was asking me, who opened for them?

I'm like, I don't remember their names. It took me, like, I had to get them to look it up, because I could not remember.

Can you remember who opened for Korn and Gojira? Don't look it up. See if you can go off the top of your head.

See if you can do it, because I failed. I failed the mission. Yes. They're from England. That's all I remember is they're from England.

I can do it.

@9:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Loathe.

@9:46 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Loathe. Oh, my God. Bravo.

@9:48 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It is loathe, right?

@9:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's loathe. Yes.

@9:50 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I remember that, The golf clap for you, son. That was amazing.

@9:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's impressive, because I sat there for, like, five minutes going, I have no idea. I literally have no idea.

And I remember it. They, there's a lot of red. Everything was red all the time. Remember it? Like it was all, the screens were very broody though.

Like I'm not sure if I enjoyed them as much as I thought I should, but well, at the same time, we are, you know, more vintage than those guys.

@10:16 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's hard with opening bands though. Cause like, it's very difficult for an opening band to basically sound interesting enough because you're not, I mean, you are using your own equipment, but you have such, it's such a bush league setting up like your sound and stuff.

Right. So you never sound as good as you would if you were, if you had your own gear and your own set.

Right. And everything's rushed, I guess. But yeah, you're just there for flavor for like an appetizer. Yeah. Basically. You're the, do you remember when we saw Metallica and they had, um, Oh man, what's Jim Brewer open up the committee?

@10:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

that was horrible. It's like, what are you doing?

@10:53 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That was a risk, but like, man, he was booed. We were just like a guy from what I remember.

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

He, It was all recycled material they had been using since he was like on Saturday Night Live.

@11:04 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, he did that party in the stomach thing.

@11:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, it's like, oh, dude, come on.

@11:08 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@11:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Come on. I understand you're friends with the guys, but come on.

@11:12 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's such a weird thing to have a comedian open up a metal show. Like, I don't understand. I mean, they tried.

@11:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, got to try.

@11:21 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. It's something.

@11:25 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

so Friday, Black Lives Society.

@11:27 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes.

@11:27 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Mr. Jack Wild himself.

@11:29 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yes.

@11:29 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And the boys released their 7,000th album.

@11:33 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@11:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. I don't know the number. It's a lot. I think it's double digits already.

@11:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, they have a few.

@11:40 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. They released Engines of Demolition, a 13 song ride.

@11:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Do you think that he was watching a lot of Mad Max leading up to the creation of this album?

@11:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I think he might have just. Well, there's a lot of like, even just with some of the. Yeah. Song titles.

Yeah. It's very posted.

@12:00 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's like a very apocalyptic-y. Dude, I feel like he watched Fury Road and Furiosa back to back and they're like, ah, this is so badass.

@12:07 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And then he put the Road Warrior on for Humongous Gog. That guy, now that guy, he's the .

@12:13 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Chad is like playing with my hand here, swatting at me. But yeah, like, you know, I look through the song titles and I'm like, this is, I mean, there's a lot of Mad Max influence here.

I would be shocked if he didn't channel. I mean, you have a song called Lord Humongous, like you said.

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

Right, he is the Humongous.

@12:31 - skwapich@shaw.ca

literally made after the lead bad guy in the second, in the Road Warrior, I guess.

@12:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes, the Road Warrior.

@12:37 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So, yeah. So what's your initial take off the album?

@12:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Actually, I love it.

@12:43 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah?

@12:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes. I'll tell you why. So I've listened to it five, six times, something like that.

@12:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Okay.

@12:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And then I listened to their previous album because I figured I wouldn't be very good at what I do if I didn't.

Because I didn't listen to Doom Crew Incorporated that much. So I listened to Doom Crew, and here's my take from the difference of the two.

The new album, Engines of Domination, is, it's no frills.

@13:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Demolition, not Domination.

@13:10 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Whatever. Demolition. My apologies. So it's very no frills, the songs are short, the production's very greasy, and like very not, I don't want to say rushed, but it's very, it's less is more with production in this album, compared to Doom Crew, which is a polished pearl.

Coming out of a clamshell, or an oyster shell, I guess it would be. I see what you're saying, You know what I'm saying?

Doom Crew is like super, it's slick, it sounds really, it's really, really, everything sounds perfect. This one, not so much.

This one's muddy, and it's dirty, and it's, it's restrained as well. There's a lot of restraint, and I don't think Zach's ever, he's never really been one for restraint, because my big issue with Zach Wild, it's not an issue, it's just my, it's my own personal.

Sometimes his guitar solos go on too long and it's like, okay, we get it.

@14:05 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@14:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And this album, they don't like he, he, he, it's like, every song is slower. Like it's just, there's just, everything's mid tempo and the solos kind of fit a little bit better.

And then they're done and they're out and it's onto the next song. Then it's onto the next song.

@14:22 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I think.

@14:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Awesome.

@14:25 - skwapich@shaw.ca

i mean zach wilde has this freaking heavy rift way of writing like he he writes a riff for a song and then you kind of just go all in on that riff it's very evident if you listen to a lot of black label society songs that like it's all about that one main riff and my only gripe with zach wilde is i would want some more diversity within each song some like it doesn't have to be like with every song but like you know name and blood for example

In my opinion, it's the best song on the album by a country mile. I adore that, the title of song, Name and Blood.

And the reason for me is that there's some sort of dynamic feel to that song where it's connected to such a deep level to him, right?

And I think the weakest part of Black Label Society, to be perfectly honest, is his singing.

@15:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

What? I love Zach's voice.

@15:28 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Well, he's got a great voice, but vocally, I would want some, I was thinking about this in the car earlier, I would love some vocal variants with him.

@15:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay.

@15:39 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Do you know what I mean by that?

@15:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I do.

@15:41 - skwapich@shaw.ca

He sounds kind of, he uses like the same structure to his singing for every song that he does. And I understand that he's not an accomplished vocalist, but he is a good singer.

Yep. You know, but he's not like a Floriancen or like a Sebastian Bach, where he can put in all these layers in his, but you're not listening to Black Label Society.

@15:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Frank. Yeah. I know. For these incredible vocal lines. Yeah, this is for the groove, man.

@16:03 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Listen for the groove, right? What's the groove? Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Yes. And so I will say this, though, listening to albums in different, this album in different avenues will bring out different stuff in each of the songs, right?

So I listened to it at work and, you know, on my speaker at work while I was working in the morning, and then I listened to it the car, and then now listen to the computer.

And it's fascinating how different songs pique your interest based on how you're listening to them.

@16:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yep.

@16:35 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Right? So, like, you know, I listened to Gatherer of Souls at work, and I was like, yeah, it's fine.

And then I listened to it at home, and I was like, oh, it's way better through my computer speakers.

Sure. Or through my headphones than in the car, for some reason. So I think it's a great album. Like, I have nothing really overtly negative to say about it.

No. So. great. So...

@17:02 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So apparently, a little backstory, writing and recording started four years ago for this. Really? Yeah, so the process began in mid-2022 and continued working all through last year to get it done, just because of the whole Pantera thing, right?

@17:18 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, so that would be my question, is to see how he was able to, yeah, I guess that makes sense.

Because, you know, he's touring with Pantera for the most part, right? Yeah, so he's probably just putting ideas and stuff together.

@17:34 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

was all recorded at his home studio. So, except for Ozzy's song, which the lyrics and guitar solo for that song were done after Ozzy passed away in July.

But, you know, I'm really, like, one thing that I kind of love about Black Label, especially nowadays, is the trade-off and sort of, not the trade-off.

ask, me Yes. I'm Yes. Yes. Thank But the sort of connection Dario, the other guitar player, and Zach have, and how Zach allows Dario to, they trade solos, they harmonize everything, because, you know, you and me are suckers for a guitar harmony.

@18:13 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That was another comment that I had. So you have this incredible secondary guitarist in Dario, but yet it seems, it seems, and maybe this was written, a lot of this material was written before Dario was in the band, but it just, like, it just seems that both guitars are doubled.

Like, there's no extra stuff in the riffs. Do you know what I mean?

@18:39 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, that's what I meant by saying this album's very, because the previous album, there's a lot of extracurriculars. This one's just like, let's just double everything, harmonize a few things, and just, that's it.

Let's just keep it, keep it simple, right?

@18:53 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. Yeah.

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

And I think that's kind of, that's cool. Because a lot of metal bands, because I'm sure if Pantera ever puts anything out, it's...

It's going to be like a...

@19:02 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Well, is there a possibility that they'd put in something else?

@19:04 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

There's some rumors going around that the tribute band of Pantera will put out an album, which I don't want them to.

I don't. I just don't. It'll sound like Black Label Society. It really will.

@19:22 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, that's a very interesting thing, because how do you not make it sound like a Black Label if Zach Wilde's writing the guitar parts for it, right?

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

Like, I understand.

@19:29 - skwapich@shaw.ca

He's got a very distinct tone with how he likes...

@19:32 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's the thing, right?

@19:33 - skwapich@shaw.ca

He can probably write Dimebag riffs, but the tone will still be exact, right? Yeah, a lot of Black Label Society is, you know, drop-D.

They do a lot of drop-D songs, and he does have a very sludgy tone to his guitar tone. Like, it's very fuzzy, which works, because it's a very southern slog.

@19:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But it doesn't really work for Pantera, though, because Dime's playing was so clean.

@20:00 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Well, that's exactly it. Dimebag is crisp. He's very, very crisp in his guitar tone. And he's a flawless soloist.

Whereas Zach, I'm not going to say he's not flawless, but he definitely likes that fuzzy, grudgy sound to it, right?

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

Muddies the waters.

@20:20 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Muddies the waters, yeah. We have talked about this before.

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

Yeah. Like I'd almost compare this album. Well, I didn't really want to compare it to anything because it's, I just like it.

It's good. And it goes by, it goes by fast. You know, like it's like aside from the longest song of the album, the longest two songs are Ozzy's song and, and better, the two slow song, better days and wiser times.

Yeah. And better days is the one song I skipped because it just wasn't my thing. And obviously Ozzy's song is very touching and it's, it's really good.

Um, but some songs that stood out to me, uh, the hand of tomorrow's grave.

@20:59 - skwapich@shaw.ca

narrative... Yeah, I'm It's awesome.

@21:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Above and Below is amazing. The Gallows is amazing. Pedal to the Floor, Lord Humongous, obviously.

@21:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Gallows, they released that first, I think.

@21:08 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Was that first? Okay.

@21:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

They released that many years ago, I think. I'm pretty sure.

@21:15 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Back To Me was really good, too.

@21:16 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Like, it's just...

@21:18 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's like, this reminds me of like Pride and Glory.

@21:21 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I was just gonna say that.

@21:22 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's such a Pride and Glory song. Yeah, like, this is so Pride and Glory, and I'm so glad he's, like, tapping into this a little bit more so.

Yeah. Because I'd love him to just do a full-on Southern, like a Pride and Glory 2, like Southern rock record and just...

Yeah. But, I feel like this album is, like, low-key slower in pace... Oh, it is. Big time.

@21:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

...than most of Black Label albums.

@21:49 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It is. It's like, it's... I noticed that a lot of the songs, like I said, it's just all... Kind of this pace.

It's all mid-tempo, whether it's heavy or not, it's just... It's... And this speaks to me. I don't like songs that

They're super fast. All the time, but yeah, not all the time, not all the time. Can't be Slayer all the time, you know, why I like when Slayer goes slow because it's awesome.

It's cool. And when I mean slow, I still mean heavy, but it's not slow. But what would you give this on the old, the old scales of justice?

@22:23 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Out of five or 10?

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

You go to 50, if like, whatever you like. Out of 100, you want, I'm going to give it out of 70.

73. No. I'll it a 67 out of 73, whatever percentage that is.

@22:35 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I'm going to give it out of five.

@22:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm going to give it a three and a half. Three and a half. Yeah, that's fair.

@22:40 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Like, I think some songs.

@22:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

What would take away from giving it a four for you?

@22:48 - skwapich@shaw.ca

More stuff in some of the songs.

@22:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay. Yeah.

@22:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Because he has this habit and I listened to a lot of Black Label, but like I said earlier, he has this habit of like, okay, here's the riff that

We're going to use for the song, like Lord Humongous is the perfect example of that. It's one riff, the entire song is one riff, right?

And so he does that a lot where he's just like, oh, here's a killer riff. Let's just intro with this riff.

And it basically plays throughout the full three minutes of the song. Like it's got a little bit of variance in it.

@23:18 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yes.

@23:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But like Lord Humongous is the best example of like, there's no intro.

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

It's just, this is the riff we're Let's do it.

@23:26 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@23:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Let's just get in there. Let's crush some heads, right?

@23:29 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@23:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Where's the tanker? I need your gasoline. Where's the tanker? Ah, the tanker.

@23:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

We're going to the bullet farm next.

@23:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Who's going to drive the tanker? I'll drive the tanker.

@23:39 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I'll tanker. I'll drive the tanker.

@23:40 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Look at you, Max. You can't drive a tanker. You're a mess. Anyway, sorry. I've seen Road Warrior way too many times.

I did watch it recently. It does not hold up anymore. It's not good. That's okay. It's just, it's all about the car.

@23:52 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's why I We actually talked about it the other day. It's like, because we were watching a movie. We're actually watching Rebel Moon the other day.

@23:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No. How was it?

@24:00 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Well, watched the director's cut, so the difference...

@24:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Should you still be watching it by now, though, if it's a Zack Snyder director's cut? Shouldn't it still be going on, like, four days later?

@24:10 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It took us three days to watch the two movies, yes.

@24:13 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But the... better man than me.

@24:14 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Okay, so the Scargiver, which is the second part, is two hours long on Netflix, and it's PG.

@24:23 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay. Okay.

@24:25 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Zack Snyder's director's cut is two hours and 58 minutes, and is rated R.

@24:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Whoa, rated R?

@24:31 - skwapich@shaw.ca

What? Yes. So both the director's cuts are rated R. Okay. both of the Netflix versions that he originally released are rated PG.

So there's a discrepancy with what he envisioned the project being and what Netflix...

@24:45 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah.

@24:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

...bushed him to be, right? Seriously. So I urge everyone to give the director's cut a chance, because it adds so much substance to the movie.

I'm not going to say it's a phenomenal movie. Okay. I know what he was going for. He's trying to create his own Star Wars...

It's franchise, basically.

@25:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

That's the whole concept of it. But the director's cut is way better than the original because it's like an R-rated.

@25:08 - skwapich@shaw.ca

He's basically trying to make like an R-rated Star Wars, I think, without the laser swords. I never made it through the first one, but didn't it kind of have some sort of laser sword?

It just didn't quite light up or something? It had energy. Well, they were actual swords, right? But they're like energy.

It's not like a lightsaber, which like goes, it's an actual sword that like lights up like on flames.

@25:31 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

like that sword that was in, oh God, in Attack of the Clones and Rebels, the black one that the Mandalorians get, whatever the hell that sword's called?

@25:39 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh, you know what I mean?

@25:41 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, sword of truth or whatever you want to call it.

@25:45 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, it's kind of like that.

@25:46 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Okay.

@25:47 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, but there's like, it's not just one. There's like red ones.

@25:51 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, okay.

@25:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah. And then there's a story point in it when one of the back end goes, how do you get your swords to light up?

And she says something I can't remember. I what it is, but I don't know.

@26:02 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You got to believe the Kyber crystal.

@26:04 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Zach Wild. Zach Snyder, Zach Snydals, there's a lot of slow motion, right?

@26:08 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

But when he does it right, it fits so well. Well, 300 was perfect, right?

@26:12 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Exactly, right? You know, Man of Steel as well.

@26:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, Man of Steel was very good.

@26:17 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Watchmen, when he does the slow motion in the Watchmen.

@26:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You know, the Snyder cut of, I know we were going off topic here, but. Oh yeah, I'll give my Black Label, I'll give it a four out five, because I think it's amazing.

And I love mid-tempo, sludgy, dirty music. So, four to five. Okay, so what are, yeah, we should probably get back to play.

Yeah, let's get back on track.

@26:36 - skwapich@shaw.ca

What are some of your standout songs?

@26:38 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, let me tell you, son. Well, Lord Humongous, obviously.

@26:41 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@26:42 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I do love Pedal to the Floor, because it's just, it's just fun. Broken Pieces is really good. Back to Me is really good.

Above and Below is probably my favorite song so far. That's the one that's really, that's just got some sick riffage.

@26:58 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, that's a good one.

@27:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Like, it's just, I don't know. It's still a little different for Black Label, right?

@27:06 - skwapich@shaw.ca

It's got that... I knew you were going to like that song as soon as I heard it. I'm like, this fits Mike's Wheelhouse, like, perfectly.

That, like, slow...

@27:16 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And honestly, it's got a really good chorus. It's... Like, honestly, the only song I've skipped on this album is Better Days and Wiser Times.

And maybe The Stranger. don't have any recollection of The Stranger. But other than that, like, it's really good. Like, it's just...

If you want some chugging, some chugging milk, like, it's got all the... You're basically chugging a four liter of milk here, or a chocolate milk.

That's what it is. You just... It's just chugging until you can't take any more chug. What about you? What's that out to you?

@27:53 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Okay, so... It's pretty close to what I thought I was gonna get in terms of the album. Like, I wasn't completely...

I Nothing really blew me out of the water. And obviously, we heard four of the songs prior to the album being released, because I think four were, was it The Gallows, Broken and Blind, Name of Blood and Lore, Humongous, were all released prior to that.

@28:13 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yep.

@28:14 - skwapich@shaw.ca

So, you know, I'm on a broken record when I, I guess at this age of my life, I want diversity in albums.

I want a lot of different stuff. I don't want an entire album to kind of feel all the same way.

Um, but I think this, this album will grow on me through many, many.

@28:36 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

think so.

@28:38 - skwapich@shaw.ca

To be, to be fair. And the first song, Name of Blood is such like, to me, that's a five out of five song.

It's one of the best black label songs that he's ever done. I love the pace of it. It's a little, it's, it's, it's more of a gallop beat.

You know, it's got that like Iron Maiden gallop feel to it.

@28:58 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

And it's pretty much the fastest song.

@29:01 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, but the chorus for me is the best chorus out of any of the song in this because it has that like running guitar line with him singing behind it.

And for me, this song is perfect for his voice, for his singing style. So it's so groovy, man.

@29:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Groovy, baby. Groovy. Yeah, baby. Yeah. I do like Back To Me as well. Oh, Back To Me is so good.

Like it's, yeah, it's like a, like a, well, when I was saying it was like Pride and Glory, but it's like a 90s kind of somewhat ballad.

It's not really a ballad. It's just a slow song. Because there's a distinction between a ballad and a slow song, right?

But it's just, it's slow. It's cool. It just, it sounds, well, you know, us, we're, we're 90s kids, right?

That's just, that's our jam, 90s, 80s rock, stuff like that. And that's what this is.

@29:53 - skwapich@shaw.ca

That's That's true.

@29:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's very true. Um, but no, it's, album's fantastic. I'm, I might even go by the vinyl. I'll tell you the truth.

It would be pretty sick vinyl, though. If it's not just plain, like plain black, like standard vinyl, they got some orangey kind of variant, I would, maybe I'll have to go check on my local record store this weekend.

ACTION ITEM: Listen to COC Good God, Bad Man multiple times before next week's review - WATCH

I do have Thursday off, so maybe in my travels.

ACTION ITEM: Listen to COC Good God, Bad Man multiple times before next week's review - WATCH

@30:17 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh, there you go.

@30:18 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

There you go. Yeah. That's that. Do you want to do another album next week?

@30:26 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, what's being released next week? Corrosion of Conformity comes out on Friday.

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

yeah, let's do that. It's the double record.

@30:33 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Okay, I'm in.

@30:35 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm, I got a, I don't even know what it's called. I'm so bad. I'm professional. I'm professional.

@30:42 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Corrosion of Conformity.

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

But I will say I've listened to one of the songs and I actually, I kind of, I turned it off, so.

@30:50 - skwapich@shaw.ca

You know what, another low key, it's, I mean, you did mention it, but Pedal to the Metal.

@30:54 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Oh, Pedal to the Floor. Oh, it's so good.

@30:56 - skwapich@shaw.ca

song, too.

@30:56 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

So the Corrosion album's called Good God, Bad Man. It's 14 songs coming out, and it's a double record there.

So it's going to be long. There's only 14 songs in those two records.

@31:07 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Oh, yikes. Good God, Batman.

@31:09 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. So, and the vinyl, I don't know if this is actually the vinyl, but it looks pretty sick. Here's a little taste.

@31:16 - skwapich@shaw.ca

is You or Me. There was like a, which song?

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

No, this is the one I turned off. Give me some more. I did not like it.

@31:25 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

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

I just got to give it, I got to give it another chance. I didn't, I just wasn't in the mood for it.

But I don't think I have much choice this weekend. got to listen to the whole thing multiple times.

@31:34 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I guess, I guess to close, like I would want, you know, I want a variance of like short, long songs, ballads, thrash songs, not thrash songs.

And I feel like, you know, like that's, that's what I want out of a band. I want, I want everything, but I guess you can't always make your, your best album every time, every time.

@31:57 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Right. So. No, especially when you've made like, I'm on an album, Zach.

@31:59 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I'm

@32:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

He's been a part of, since No Arrest for the Wicked. That was his first, right? was No Arrest for the Wicked, because Miracle Man was the first song he wrote.

You know, that's 1988.

@32:09 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Great song.

@32:10 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You know, that's almost 38 years ago. So the dude's been, like, writing, and he's obviously been writing songs his whole life.

But in terms of music, that's consumable. Man, like, dude's done a lot.

@32:19 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I guess, like, when I was thinking about it, it's like, I would want, I feel like Zach finds a riff and then goes, oh, this is a great riff, let's just write a song about it.

yeah. But, like, somebody, to use, like, Axl Road, for example, which I think is one of the greatest songwriters in the hard rock metal genre.

And look at, I'm not, I stand I'm not touching that with a 10-foot pole. Well, look, like, look at the songs that he's written, right?

Don't Cry, Strange, November Rain, Sweet Child of Mine, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Rocket Queen. Like, look at the substance that he brings in that song.

Like, the journey you go through. That song, especially a song like November Rain, which I'm going to go on record and say that's a top five songs of all time in terms of story, journey, emotion, everything, right?

And look at a lot of the layers of that song, right? I can't go, okay, Mike, sing me the riff from November Rain.

There's so much in that song, right? I guess Guns N' Roses is a different type of band because they're not like a riff rocky band.

@33:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

No, not really.

@33:27 - skwapich@shaw.ca

They're like a... The construction of the song.

@33:29 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, they're like a band band where all the parts make one, right? Some of the parts make the huge song, right?

@33:35 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Where it's like Black Label Society isn't a band about the sum of the parts. It's about the one riff.

@33:40 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's the riff.

@33:41 - skwapich@shaw.ca

we're going to double down on the riff and go through that and stuff like that, right?

@33:44 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Absolutely.

@33:46 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But, you know, Axl Rose and Slash, the pairing of those two together, they make beautiful music together for sure, right?

So, yeah, I just, I just, I want... more stuff in each song.

@34:01 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, I know exactly what you're saying.

@34:03 - skwapich@shaw.ca

know what saying?

@34:03 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. And you don't want to use the word simple, because that's not a good word.

@34:13 - skwapich@shaw.ca

But you can have simple songs. It's just, I would want, you know, a couple simple songs as a break from all these.

Like you can't have these like nine minute complex songs every single time. You want a break in that.

@34:26 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, that's sort of one thing that Doom Crew Incorporated, last record has that this one doesn't. Yeah, All the songs, they're just a little more complex and they're a little more, they're less straight ahead.

@34:36 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@34:37 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Right? They're straight ahead as they are, but there's just more to them.

@34:42 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah, I see what you're saying. You know what But yeah, I will guarantee you that this album will start growing on me the more I listen to it.

Yes. It's fabulous.

@34:50 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It is fabulous.

@34:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@34:52 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

It's fabulous. Yeah.

@34:53 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I'm happy with it. I'm not disappointed at all. I'm happy with it. I've already added like maybe three or four songs.

@34:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Thank

@35:01 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I've put one at the work playlist, the slower one, what the heck was the name of it? The one we just talked about, Back To You.

@35:12 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Back To Me?

@35:13 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Back To Me, yeah. Back To Me. I've put a bunch on my workout playlist for sure.

@35:17 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Nice. And then we'll leave you with some, uh, hell yeah. So, okay, you're a guitar player, like, kind of like me, like, I kind of play guitar.

@35:29 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Yeah.

@35:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

You know, this comes out of your hands. You double down, you just play it for four minutes. Like, come on.

You just sit there, curl your lip, just, your head's going back and forth, and side to side, the hair is, if I had hair, I'd be going all over the place, playing this song.

This is wicked. Like, come on, like, how much fun would this just jam on it?

@35:53 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Come on. Well, yeah. So the, the two best riffs for sure is Name and Blood and Lord Humondus.

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

Yeah, this is just, it's kick-. Really, it's just kick-. Anyways, we'll be back next week with some Corrosion of Conformity.

They're back. Unless Mike changes his mind.

@36:08 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Nope, nope.

@36:08 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

There's no changing my mind. I think it's their first record since like 2018. So it's been a while. It's been a hot minute since they put any music out.

@36:17 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Well, I'm expecting a lot then. If it's been eight years since they've recorded an album, give it to me COC.

@36:24 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, it was. I'm pretty sure it 18.

@36:26 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Maybe it was sooner than earlier than that. Wow. Interesting.

@36:30 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah. Let me look quickly. Last album, 2018. No crown, no cross, no crown. And then before that, I think the last one with Pepper was 2005.

So he hasn't done a lot with COC because they put out two without him. They put out nine and they put out self-titled.

I don't think that has Pepper on it at all.

@36:51 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Hey, we met Pepper Keenan, Mike and I.

@36:53 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, we did.

@36:54 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Got pictures with him.

@36:55 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Yeah, he wasn't too thrilled about that.

@36:58 - skwapich@shaw.ca

I think he was stoned.

@36:59 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Well, whatever.

@37:00 - skwapich@shaw.ca

Whatever.

@37:00 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

We were bugging him, so it was okay. He just wanted to drink a beer and watch the show. But that's okay.

@37:05 - skwapich@shaw.ca

We asked, he said yes.

@37:06 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

I'm like, okay, well... He did. I have the picture somewhere. I have no idea where it is.

@37:11 - skwapich@shaw.ca

on Facebook.

@37:14 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Nice. Okay, so next week, happy Easter.

@37:16 - skwapich@shaw.ca

See you next week.

@37:17 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Happy Easter.

@37:18 - skwapich@shaw.ca

We'll Okay, bye.

@37:19 - Mandatory Music (mandatorymusicshow@gmail.com)

Bye. Yeah, there you go. I don't know why my screen goes blank. It's really...