Distortion Analysis
Two dudes talking about metal music. Each episode we'll cover a specific topic related to heavy music, we'll review an album, talk about music news, expose artists we haven't heard yet, cover live tours and include interviews with artists.
Distortion Analysis
Distortion Analysis - Episode 4
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TOPIC - David Lee Roth announcing tour. Motley Crue also touring for REUNION tour (didn’t they do a retirement tour?). When should bands retire? Up to them or the fans?
NEWS - Metallica setting up residency in the Sphere in LV. Vicious Rumors are back with a new video, album and tour. Poison reunion tour nuked due to Brett Michaels’ money demands.
ALBUM REVIEW - Unearth: The Wretched; The Ruinous
MYSTERY BAND - Sean’s Pick
LIVE SHOWS / TOURS - BEHEMOTH Announces North American Tour With DEICIDE, IMMOLATION & ROTTING CHRIST, Clutch, COC, JD Pinkus, Whores and Crobot (opening in diff markets) also touring in April and May, SEPULTURA announces final US tour ever in May
Welcome to Distortion Analysis. For each episode, we discuss various topics of music news, bands on tour, and share album reviews all focused on heavy metal. Here are your hosts, Sean McKnight and William Rizzell. All right, that's episode four of Distortion Analysis, William. Let's rock and roll again! That's gonna make a good soundbite for the promos I'm working on. Alright, so um, yes, welcome to our fourth episode. Uh I'm gonna start just by saying I did listen to King Horse a bit. Oh, yeah. What'd you think? I thought it was really cool. I was surprised by it um in terms of like the the the um uh what was it? It was the production value was one of the things that stood out to me because it sounds so well produced, it sounds like it was produced now. And that's and that and for a punk recording from the 90s, I was like, oh my god. So just like the the uh just the quality of the production was really something that caught me off guard. It's not muddy at all. No, not especially and for a punk man, I kind of expected to sound thin and you know, kind of old punky from the 90s. And then when I was like, I was like, oh my god, this is like a full production, that sounds like really um like like again, like a modern quality. It had like a modern quality to it, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, so that's kind of like the vibe I got out of it. And then the second thing I did notice was we talked about Glenn uh Danzig producing it, yes, and um he uh uh like I was curious about his influence on it, and I heard I didn't really hear too much in the music, but the vocals, I was like, oh, okay. Right, there's there's some definitely some vocal style. He's not they're not ripping him off or anything, but there's I can hear a little bit of some maybe some influence from him, or just some or maybe they were inspired by him or something, or influenced by him, you know, from prior work or something. But uh but the vocal, I was like, there's definitely a little bit of an evil Ellis thing in there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. So I that's part of what kind of hooked me into it once I first started listening to it. I'm like, it definitely they definitely are Danzig fans, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or Misfits, yeah, Misfits, yeah, for sure. Yeah, but I thought it was a good album, and I couldn't believe how current it sounded. That really surprised me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, all the instruments are just like they're very pristine and just in the way that it was mixed together. The mix sounds like it sounds very it just very clean and free of like artifacts and oh big time, yeah. You know, you knew it was being recorded and mixed by somebody that knew what they were doing.
SPEAKER_00Oh, for sure. That engineer totally knew what they were doing, so yeah, because I mean the separation is clear, it's not muddy, the drums even sound good, which often for punk bands they often sound like cardboard, but you know, you know what I mean. So, but but this was like really, really like pro quality stuff, and I was just like, damn, it sounds like something they could have recorded today. Yeah, yeah, I was really impressed. Uh and the songs are good, they are good, they have good hooks.
SPEAKER_01Songwriting, it some of that shit pumps me up, man.
SPEAKER_00Oh, for sure. Yeah, there's great hooks on there. It was a solid album. It's a shame it only lasted, they only lasted like one album, yeah, or less. I guess. So that's kind of a drag that they didn't have more to them than that. Yeah, hopefully.
SPEAKER_01Well, look at it this way. On the bright side, we later that decade we ended up with Britney Spears.
SPEAKER_00So, you know, I think we made up for the loss of Kid Hell. I guess I I think that might be a mixed blessing. I'm not sure. So, all right, all right, so let's slide into the topic of the podcast. So the topic of the podcast this time was I read that David Lee Roth has announced a new tour, and I also saw Motley Crewe is also touring for a reunion tour. I heard that. Yeah. So the topic this week is our discussion of like the older bands and them touring. Now, a little bit more specifically, when should they retire? Is it up to them or the fans kind of a thing? And you know, and so let's get your thoughts first on this. So, what when you heard about those guys touring, what did you what was your first reaction to that?
SPEAKER_01Um well you may have seen uh recent performances of David Lee Roth. They they are less than complimentary, yes. Uh, and it's it sucks because he was a great vocalist. Was yeah, and I I don't know if it's just like he's just you know so out of practice that because he didn't keep up with it over the year. I don't know what he's been doing in the in the background, but maybe he just he just doesn't have the pipes for it anymore, and that's fine, but you know I would just you know hang that up. What I'd say is there's a difference between um older bands that have been continuously at it for many, many years and they want to go on a another tour, a final tour, or whatever, yeah, and bands that you know retired 10, 15, 20 years ago, and now they're coming back and they're not the same band.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01You know, and and then you you start saying, Well, what is the purpose of this? And a lot of people characterize it as a as a money grab.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01So for that, for those reasons, uh you know, look everybody's gotta make a living.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, and you know what? So what? If if they do a good job at it, then it's worth your money to show up at the show and have a good time and watch them rehearse the old hits. But if if they just I don't know, if the if the magic isn't there anymore, you're gonna notice it.
SPEAKER_00Well, I noticed the magic with David Lee Roth, particularly had been gone for quite some time, a long time ago. Uh, and because I witnessed this firsthand myself, back in um late 90s, early 2000s, somewhere, somewhere in that time period, he did a tour called the Sam and Dave tour, him and Sammy Hagar. I think it was kind of a fuck you to Van Halen a little bit. So, but but they but they did a tour together, and what they were doing is they were co-headlining, so they'd take tours headlining, you know, back and forth between the venues, and then that was the tour, right? Now, when I saw them, um Sammy crushed it. He was awesome. Whole band was good, he was great, they were you know, he was tight, the whole thing was tight, he was great. Um, but then I saw Roth, and Roth was actually first. Um, can you turn your down your speaker a little bit? I'm hearing a little bit of yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh hold on one second.
SPEAKER_00Feedback there. We're so professional here at distortion. Hold on. I'm not editing this out, I'm just not. Is this better? That's better, thank you. All right, so but anyway, when I saw them, uh Roth was his set was first, and when he came out, it was already kind of sad because he was trying to wear the spandex and stuff from like the 80s, and oh yeah, and he was already going bald at that point, so he had these hair extensions in, which I could see from where we were in the stadium. Like I wasn't close to him, but I could see from the distance where we were sitting from the side. I was like, He's got hair extensions, so you can tell, and he was trying to jump around and stuff, and it just wasn't it was like him going through the motions of it. He felt like he almost like he had to do it, you know, like he was trying to live up to some shadow of the past or something, yeah. And then um, uh, so it and it just seemed forced and kind of lame looking because he wasn't doing the high kicks and stuff like he used to. Sure, it was already starting to go south on him, and then uh and then the voice wasn't great either. He just wasn't a great, he just wasn't singing very well, yeah. So, and all those things combined, I was like, ooh, and that was back, this is like almost like 20 years ago now. So now, like you said, we've seen these videos of him, it's like ooh, that's that's not good. So to watch, yeah. So I I kind of feel like I don't know if he's had money problems or not. I would think he'd have a he'd have a pile of money just to you know go sleep on if he wants to, but um uh you know, given you know, given all their success in the past, but so I don't know if he does it for the money or not, but for me it does kind of feel like even with somebody like that, it feels like he's shortchanging the fans.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but I mean you know a disservice, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I mean, especially if you're paying some crazy amount of money to go see this show or something, it's like 200 bucks a ticket or whatever it is, 150, you know, whatever he's charging. And then you go there and you're like, he sings on a tune. It's just kind of it's just kind of not cringy, cringy, yeah. So I'm just kind of like, I don't know, it feels like a disservice in some ways.
SPEAKER_01The the same could be said for uh ACDC at this point, yeah. Um, I make no mistake about it, I bow to them as gods of rock, right? But uh I don't know if you've seen the video of Angus lately.
SPEAKER_00No, what he's still wearing the school boy outfit that is cringy, that's and it just looks bad at this point. Is he still playing up to the same level?
SPEAKER_01Uh and his playing is still pretty good, but like his movement around the stage. I mean, the guy's uh what is he 70?
SPEAKER_0070 something, yeah. 70 something. Oh, yeah, he's gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_01You know, uh props to him for still feeling like he's got it to get up there.
SPEAKER_00But you know, at some point maybe maybe let go of the school boy thing, maybe let go of the schoolboy thing.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, do away with that, you know. I mean, if if they were gonna make such a radical change to their band, like having having um um Stevie step in for Malcolm after Malcolm passed away, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, uh maybe they could have that could have been the could have been the shift, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and just say, you know, hey, we're still ACDC, but we're gonna do things a little different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Yeah, um, but uh, you know, he doesn't have the moves that he used to when when I saw them in '91, he was still doing the whole you know, going out uh right up to the crowd and going nuts and and running back and forth, and then doing the whole um strip tease act where he moves the audience, you know. But nobody wants to see that shit now.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's what I mean about like, you know, at least I mean, if they're playing well, then sure, you know, play tour great would love to see them, but yeah, that's maybe the some of the aspects they have to kind of look at and go, well, maybe we need to let that yeah, shift that around. And then um, one of the other bands I wanted to discuss with this in mind is of course Motley Crue. And I got kind of a crawl. My my I got a thing at my craw about those guys. Do tell what pisses me off about them is that um they announced years ago that they were gonna do this big final tour where it was just like this was it, this is the final tour, you're never gonna see us again. This is it, blah blah blah. Right? Got all these people to queue up, spends all kinds of money thinking this is the last cute crew tour ever, and then they just kept touring. It's like they took a year off, and then they just kind of kept coming back and they were doing shows after show after show, and now they're doing some other reunion tour. And I'm like, well, that's kind of shitty. It's like, well, you know, why are they you know they keep doing this thing where they announce these retirement tours, and then it just turns out to be like another cash grab thing where you can they can just charge more money because people think it's the end. It's all a big ruse that pisses me off, and then they're not fooling anybody either. Well, I mean, I mean they're obviously fooling some people because they're showing up and buying the tickets, but um that that still buy into it and this and they don't I don't know if they don't care or whatever, but but then my other problem with them is the part two of that is kind of going back to the David Lee Raw thing where Vince can't sing, man. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's true. Have you seen any of the videos?
SPEAKER_01Uh it's it I I think I've seen clips, but not of like their performances. Uh I'll send you one like on news shows I've seen.
SPEAKER_00Well, I've I'll send you one where they they they're showing the whole song Kickstart My Heart.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And what and what they do is while he's singing, somebody put up the lyrics next to his like below him where he's singing, and the words aren't matching up at all to the original song. He's just like he it's like he can't remember the lyrics, and he's just inventing words that sound like the lyrics. That's a problem. Oh my god, I'll send it to you and you'll see what I'm talking about. And and it's it's hysterical to watch, it's a really funny video.
SPEAKER_01I think I I think I've heard of that clip. It's comical, yeah. Oh my god, yeah, and it's such a shame when you get to that level of notoriety. Yeah, you have a brand to take care of, yeah. And that's not caring for it.
SPEAKER_00Well, and again, disservice to the fans. I mean, one thing people were pissed off about the whole way they treated McMars and the way that went down. And but people, you know, I think I don't think there's anything wrong with John Five, but at the same time, though, that was part of what was their part of their attitude was the problem, you know, because the way that those guys are kind of just kind of dicks, and the way they treated him about that whole thing about I don't even know what happened. He has a he has a um he has a spine condition where his spine is hardening, so that's why he can't really tour anymore because he's just too rigid and he can't oh what does he have, like stenosis? Something like that. I don't know the name, but that might be it, something like that. But anyway, he can still play, it's just that he can't really tour, he can't stand for long periods of time, but he can still sit and play things like that. So he's still doing solo albums. But then that was the whole reason that they were kind of like, Well, we don't really want to work with him anymore, and they kind of shoved him to the side, and he was like, Well, I guess they would do shows, I just can't tour, so we could figure something out. They're like, No, that's okay, you're done. And they just kind of shoved him off to the side, and they kind of acted like he didn't and they kind of acted like he didn't matter anymore. And everybody's like, uh, he was like one of the primary songwriters, and you know, all the riffs are him, and you know that's right. So he's like 10 years older than those guys, so they always had this age gap thing in there, so that's something Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, yeah, yeah. He was like before the crew started, he was actually a semi successful like blues guitarist and studio uh uh guy. No shit. So yeah, yeah, yeah. He had he had already had this history before he got into crew, and then when crew came about, then he kind of adopted the whole look and whatever, and then he cleaned leaned into that. But if you look up early McMars, he looks like he would have been in Leonard Skinner. Yeah, yeah. So but uh but but it's one of those things where uh you know going back to the touring thing, I don't know. What do you think about them as far as what they're doing? Crew.
SPEAKER_01I I mean if it's not if it's not doing justice to the the brand, then it it needs to stop. If it's not the Motley crew that used to look, unless if you announce that you're you're like with the ACDC example, if you're changing up the formula a little bit and going in a different direction, which a lot of bands do. I mean, look what Metallica did, sure changing directions. So and and a lot of their fans walked away, but they gained a hell of a lot more than they lost. That's right, you know. So it's possible to change directions, but be honest with yourselves and be honest about you know, when you're doing interviews, say this is a new direction, this isn't something new we're trying, but that's not what Motley Crue is doing. They're saying, Come back out and and hang out with us like it's 1986, man.
SPEAKER_00But it's not well, it's funny you say that because one of the things they're doing on this, they call it the reunion tour, they're trying to get uh bands to come out with them from the 80s. So they have, I think Extreme is on some of the dates, and I forget who the other band was that they mentioned, but they have a couple bands from that sort of period, and they were trying to get some other bands to reunite to come like Skid Row was one of those bands, they wanted them to get back to Sebastian, and Skid Rose is like they're like nope, because they they hate him, so they those guys hate each other. So they they said they will they will never reunite with him. So I mean, yeah, then ever, like forever. So that for them. That's yeah, so they kind of cut that off for good because they didn't want to deal with him. But that was one of the things that they were trying to do is get these other nostalgia bands back together as a means of kind of like uh just I guess boosting up the tour, whatever they were doing there. But that's that's kind of the plan.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, it's a tough, it's a tough card to to to be dealt with when you're you know that long on the tooth, but you still want to be active uh in the industry, you know, you you have to have a clear head about it, and you have to have a uh like kind of a mission statement, really, that you're that you're sticking with so that you have a direction and it's just not like crazy random shit flying all over the place.
SPEAKER_00Well, uh let me pose this to you. Do you think like should the fans have a say in this? Like if the fans are saying you guys need to retire, is that something that a band should listen to? Or do you think that it should be like meh, it's just our thing, and you know, the hell with you guys? Because it feels like there's sort of a symbiotic relationship there. And if the fans are feeling like you said, that they're kind of not upholding the brand, or they're you know, I I paid all this money and he sucks. Right, right, right, right. Can I say that and say, Look, dude, stop this, you know what I mean? So, do you think there's any anything that that anything to that?
SPEAKER_01Well, another tough call because a a band's success would be nothing without their fans, right? A band could say, Well, we're just doing what we want to do, we're writing music for ourselves, and if other people like it, cool. Yeah, but otherwise we don't care. You know, there's a there's you're walking a dangerous line there because you know, you don't want to alienate people just because you you're strong-willed and and and single-minded about the purpose of what you're doing, but you can't get by without playing shows, selling records, uh, you know, if you want to actually have unless unless none of that matters to you. You know, occasionally you see these crazy like indie artists that they're like, I don't care about anything, I just do what I want. But that's not what the the mo of any of the bands that we just discussed. No, these are well-established bands who have been around for decades. We've talked about rush before, right? Going back out and playing live shows after they said they weren't gonna do that. Yeah, yeah. Uh, you know, it's of course they're allowed to do whatever they want. Sure. But the fans do technically have a say. I think um if they don't, if they if they say, you know, that's lame, that's cringy, I saw that show, I want my money back. Yeah, that should be direct feedback that to a band that supposedly, you know, cares about his fan base.
SPEAKER_00Right on. Well, and I think there's other opportunities for them to go out too. I know they're getting older. Like, I mean, Daily Roth could always just do appearances and sign autographs or you know, do something like that. I mean, there's media. Read the room. Exactly. Read the room. So, yeah, all right. So uh anything else on that topic?
SPEAKER_01You know what I had to say about it.
SPEAKER_00Okay, that will move us over into music news. All right, so I read that Metallica is setting up a residency in the sphere. Oh, yeah, in Las Vegas. Um, did you hear about that? I did. What did you think about that? I thought that'd be pretty damn cool actually, is to see them in the sphere.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean it's it's because it's because of the venue, right?
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Yeah, exactly. I don't really have a bigger to see them, period. Like I don't I don't I don't I didn't really go out for the last tour or anything. Nothing against them. I'm just not that into them right now, anyway. But but um but but that show I think I'd be like, Yeah, I kind of want to see that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, if I was in Vegas or had plans to be there at any time during that residency, that would be a stop on my my list of things to do out there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that would be a cool. I think the visuals would be pretty awesome in that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. I like I've seen Metallica a couple times, a few times actually. Uh and um the last time was in like ninety two. Okay, 91, 92, the black album. Oh, okay. Uh, and I'm like, I wouldn't want to see him now, but then the Metallica movie came out what what like 10 10 years ago?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I was like, you know, we're going, we're gonna go because I I wanted to see the experience on the screen and have it be, you know, like loud, and it was great, man. I mean, the the whole movie theater audience was all you know, Metallica fans. It was kind of a neat oh that's funny.
SPEAKER_00It was a novel experience, yeah. That's fun. Yeah, so yeah, I think that uh one of the things I thought about with that when I was reading about that they're setting up a residency there, was uh I think for the people that live there, it's gonna be really interesting to see those images up on that dome because you can see them on the outside, so you know so that's gonna be like uh what's going on over there? So I think that's gonna be like depending on what visuals they have up there, it's gonna be fun to watch.
SPEAKER_01Well, those residents have seen so much crazy shit that they're probably just gonna be like, ah, that's just the next thing.
SPEAKER_00That's true. Yeah, that's a fair point. Yeah, they're pretty, I'm sure they're pretty desensitized by now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, well, who just got finished with the residency there?
SPEAKER_00Was it Fish? Uh yeah, I think Fish was doing one. I forget who else was there. Yeah, uh, I thought I know you too did one for a little bit. Yeah, so there's been a couple in and out, but uh, I don't think anything too radical up until this point, but uh yeah, so we'll see how it plays out.
SPEAKER_01It's such a shame that Vegas is so expensive, it's gotten so expensive lately. Yeah, you know, it it c it basically cuts off a large segment of people who would have loved to just go there for a cheap vacation, like they used to be cheap.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, I don't know if they're gonna with the economy now, it's kind of empty out there, so it's something maybe they'll do to incentivize maybe people to come back, especially if Metallica gets out there. That'll be something people would want to travel to see. Yeah. So I also saw in the news that Vicious Rumors are back with a new video album and tour. Are you familiar with them?
SPEAKER_01Vicious Rumors, is that the uh Mike uh Muir uh no, that's Infectious Screws.
SPEAKER_00No, that's Infectious Screws, yeah. Yeah, no, it's one of the bands sort of the thrashy. bands from like the 90s. So they had a moment and then uh they're back with a new tour. It's one of those bands that was a little bit more obscure. Okay. I was into them for about a for a minute there and I like the band but I always find those bands interesting where they have they had a window of time where they had a moment now they're still kind of lingering. And some people know about them some people don't but they still have a career somehow so that's one of the things I always thought found kind of interesting okay I never got into them I remember the name you do okay but uh never never checked them out. Okay you might like them you might want to take they're kind of an early thrashy band so yeah they're pretty good though the musicianship is pretty good it's been a minute since I've heard them but I don't know what they're doing now but back in the day they had some pretty cool stuff going on that's why I was just kind of that was a name out of nowhere it's like hearing if like Raven goes out on tour or something. Oh okay yeah uh where are they from I forget I thought they were a Canadian band but I don't know if they look that up so there's just rumors I'm not really sure it's been a I don't know their history that much so uh but then also in the news uh poison was supposed to reun uh there's supposed to be a reunion tour but that got nuked I think it what was it Brett Michaels wanted an un un ridiculous amount basically of the share he he wanted six times what the other members were being paid that's what he wanted yeah so uh and I guess the other guys came out and they're like uh that's not gonna work yeah so so that the whole thing kind of died so somebody's still doing cocaine oh and just before I forget Vicious Rumors are an American power metal band originally formed in 1979 in the Bay Area which I didn't know they went back that far so yeah there you go wow oh so they were there from like the earliest days back in the day man 1770 man yeah Metallica Mega all right so they're back from that time period same area too so yeah look them up uh vicious rumors but yeah so going back to this yeah I read that article about he wanted six times what the and then I guess they confronted him about it and he was like and he didn't say anything about the money he was just kind of like well it's a shame that we can't make this happen blah blah blah so you know he didn't say anything about like why it's not happening he just kind of like skirted the issue a little bit okay I mean it's interesting because it could be a cover for maybe he didn't want to do it.
SPEAKER_01Oh interesting interesting and then he just said you know I'll just say it's the money.
SPEAKER_00Oh okay maybe I'm wrong but no well you might not be off about that I'm sure they would make a gazillion dollars the reunion but he has uh like his own Brett Michaels band and stuff that he's doing now anyway so does he yeah he's got some solo band that he does so I'm guessing he's playing all the poison stuff in there but um but yeah I don't know it's like uh uh uh how like how would you resolve that if you were in that band and you were the guitarist and that came up yeah what would you how would you approach that if this is like your old if this is like your old band or something.
SPEAKER_01Yeah I I mean if I was fucking CC Deville and I was like trying to get everything going for a final you know just a reunion tour just a one-off yeah I I don't know like well first of all he's irreplaceable yeah you can't go out as poison without Brad Michaels right right period so for sure I I would say I I don't know I mean there's there's gotta be there's gotta be a way to negotiate you down to a reasonable compensation.
SPEAKER_00Do you think the other guys had um the same panache that he did like if they replaced Bobby Dahl or you know the drummer Ricky Rock or anybody if they re would they have the same kind of like level of you know what I mean? As far as like could we could we replace the drummer or not care.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah I mean I yeah but the panache is a good word for it because yeah if the if the drummer needed replaced I think they could go out with a different drummer and get away with that maybe a different bassist but CC and and Brett are those two the guitarist they're kind of yeah they're replaceable yeah that's what I thought I even thought that Ricky Rockets somewhere kind of along those lines the one guy I thought replaceable would be the bass player and I'm a bass player so that's you know but Bobby Doll I think is was probably the least remembered recognizable guy of that group.
SPEAKER_00Yeah so but um but that's just my opinion I don't know if I'm right about that but but that's one of those things I I I was kind of thinking about I was like is he really worth that much compared to everybody else because you're right he you can't replace him he's definitely not replaceable but I think Bobby Doll you could swap him in and out and then nobody would care as much.
SPEAKER_01I think they'd see it anyway you know here's a novel idea talking about Sebastian Bach I would say maybe we could ask Sebastian Bach if he wants to go out on the road he you know because because I think a lot of people be like hmm you know that might be interesting that's not too bad yeah I'll buy a ticket to go see that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah they're still a good vocalist well they've had some interesting vocal uh substitutes like Skid Row going back to them for a minute Lizzie Hale from Hailstorm was touring with them and doing the vocals so she was playing guitar like rhythm guitar I guess and and doing the vocals in in instead of him and people loved it. They were all over really yeah oh I didn't know that oh yeah yeah so so because they've had different vocalists coming and out a little bit and then they had this tour booked and then uh they didn't they lost the singer so they asked her to substitute and she jumped in and it sounded like it went well so you know so yeah so stuff like that happens and that worked so yeah you know so I'm just kind of curious but it it seems like this one I guess is a little bit tougher a tougher nut to crack.
SPEAKER_01All right anything else in uh music news do you have anything else on your mind um well there was the recent uh statement that um I I I don't want to have this devolve into like a a political no that's fine we'll just say but um there was a piece about the guy from Lamb of God who apparently was posted a lengthy statement about what's going on with Ice in Minneapolis.
SPEAKER_00Yep yep I saw that yeah and and I mean the guy's the guy's pissed off and and and rightfully so um what he's saying here is uh uh where is it uh I want to read this quote this is crazy um where the hell is the quote okay so I'm I'm reading it okay um wake up motherfuckers business as usual is done I'm not democrat or republican which is I identify that with that same here uh so I don't have a uh partisan dog in the fight I would just want this dementia ridded riddled sociopath and his cabinet of freaks removed from office and replaced with someone with at least a semblance of care for the common good hopefully before he drags us into world war three right on now he's not the only person saying things like this because you know we've we've had just since the last episode that we taped um uh uh more violence is breaking out right uh it seems like people are losing their shit even more so I know that we were discussing should politics be in music yeah yeah as a topic and maybe we want to save this for a different episode to like expand on it a little bit for sure yeah for sure we can definitely do that yeah yeah but this just got said oh well it was and like you said it wasn't just them a no converge came out uh around the same time and was also saying stuff about ice and then uh dropkick Murphy's have been on a tear yeah about they made they've been writing songs about ice and things like that too so yeah it I I don't think um and I'm glad I'm glad you brought this up in the news segment because at this point I feel like the politics are unavoidable now we're not gonna turn this into a political show you and I've discussed that already so we're not gonna just anybody listening don't worry about it we're not gonna get into this political thing that's not what this show's about but but there are times when politics affects music and that's where we'll get into it not not the idea of right and wrong and which side side you should land on and all that stuff all the ideological stuff. It's gonna be more about like okay well how does this affect music and at this point for them to come out now he's always pretty vocal about stuff but for him to make a public statement like this is a different it's kind of a different level because those guys don't like to get that far into it and be all political unless there's something that there's a reason to be right and of course now things are elevated to the point where they feel like they kind of have to say something now. Like they almost feel like in some ways at least from what I was seeing his in his other the other wording and the other stuff he was saying it was almost like they feel if you're not doing something or saying something eh you're kind of fucking this up and you should be paying attention. You know I think there's some of that as far as the point that they're trying to make it trying to get people to pay attention to it right. Yep. So yeah I think that's where it's coming from I think it's a good place. Um but it is something I think we all are reckoning with to some degree right now.
SPEAKER_01Well it's it if nothing else it's a plea for people to start thinking about how things are affecting everyday life now. For sure yeah you know and and that's all like I I keep going back to napalm death one of my favorite affits right it the they that's the whole thing that that Barney the singer talks about. It just wants people to really kind of think about their their uh uh point of view yeah um and to try to just educate themselves as much as possible to form and an informed decision right instead of just being ignorant about something and going along with what a crowd is saying yeah form your own opinion or being apathetic to the point where you're not paying attention to it at all and you have no idea what's going on.
SPEAKER_00Yeah right there's that a lot there's a lot of that going on too oh yeah yeah a little bit too much of that for my taste um okay so anything else that's it that's a good that was a good way to end all right so wrapping up the news there and now we're on to the album review so yes now of course this was my my pick for this week I chose the band Unearth uh who was uh formed in Boston in 1998 so they've been around for a while now I have to confess they've been around for that that long but I'm a I was a little late to the party on them so the reason yeah the way I found them was I heard the name here and there but I didn't really listen to anything until they were touring within flames a few a couple years ago that show I told you that I missed they were they were opening for them and I was like okay well I wonder what they're like so I'm gonna check them out since they were open for In Flames and then as soon as I listened to it I was like oh my god and then this is the first album that I started with and the album is by Unearth the Wretched and the ruinous which came out in 22 so uh let's start with you what'd you think the let's see or 23 sorry 23 the great uh the uh production is great on this album flawless production oh my god so cool so so total fucking guitar porn actually let me reword it a little bit total fucking down tuned guitar porn uh and then I have here is the last is that last riff for real the last riff of the last song yeah is so badass right but there's so many good points in this this whole record it's it gets catchy um oh yeah the hooks are they're like it's like slip knot mixed with Judas Priest and it's also like Pantera mixed with on Maiden yeah yeah I was gonna say maiden okay yeah cool yeah those guitar players like maiden man that that dual guitar uh melody yeah yeah yeah well the harm the harmonies uh remind me a little bit of like the the um um the Gothenburg sound a little bit like early dismember uh again in flames for sure oh yeah yeah stuff like yeah there's some of the like if you listen to the leads and stuff there's a lot of that that sort of harmony stuff that they're doing and that did remind me a lot of the the Gothenberg sort of early you know death metal stuff like guitar sounds not not the overall like entomb you know kind of vibe but I'm just talking about like the leads and things like that.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00So yeah so you so so what else did you think of the album? Uh well I appreciated that there were several videos to several of the songs to enjoy yeah um I really liked um what was that called uh mother betrayal mother betrayal yeah it's one of my favorite songs on there yeah I have here felt a little bit like Pink Floyd yeah well the way it starts it's it's got that kind of like uh atmospheric dun dun dun dun dun as it's building up and then he's kind of got the vocal where he's kind of just sort of he's not really deathy with it yet he's just kind of like almost like chanty and then all of a sudden it just explodes.
SPEAKER_01It it breaks into the heaviness.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god so that build and then that explosion that it goes into because it that's one of the things I found really interesting about them they're not just like pound pound pound there's a lot of like dynamics to what they do time shifts lots of different signatures going on in there so yeah and the leads and the guitar the way they kind of blend that together is like crazy good guitar stuff in there.
SPEAKER_01Like you said guitar porn that's a perfect description they're completely locked into each other definitely I really liked uh call of existence yes yes yeah I don't know what it is it's just like the the the the melody of it is just it it drags you in yeah and you just kind of feel like you want to start singing it yourself it's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00I have that with um uh because I I often I often listen to death metal while I'm baking I got under baking in the last year or so and I got and I'm just listening like death metal while I'm baking so real are you are you're not burning a lot of shit are you uh I just burned some biscuits so a little bit here and there um but not a whole lot but everyone's a uh um but yeah but like one of the songs that it really that gets me going is Eradicator and I love his voice when he's doing when he goes Eradicate when he just sort of like you know unleashes like that I'm like oh my god I'm losing my fucking mind when he does he's an amazing vocalist holy shit and he's got that he's got that thing where he's not just one note where it's just like like the whole time because there are vocals there and they're fine there's nothing wrong with that but that's kind of very one dimensional uh but with him he's got that thing where he does a lot of layering stuff like if you listen listen to the end of the first song The Wretched and the ruinous they have that chant at the end where they're like no heroes and then he's like going the Wretched and the ruin like and he's screaming that on top of it but it doesn't step on the toes of the other vocal. No not at all. You know what I mean it all works it all works all that layering in there it's all distinctive but it's also complimentary it all just kind of like works together. Yeah you know what I mean so that was one of the things that that yeah and then uh two of my other favorites were Invictus and also Donna the militant oh my and bro and also broken hour those are like my favorite tracks on there. So I have for uh uh let's see uh Eradicator catchy chorus yeah guitar porn into my left ear because that's there's that break where they stop playing and then ripping that riff and right right right right yeah it's just on those side that's right they don't a lot they do a lot of balance stuff they go back and forth a bit yeah yeah yeah yeah uh I don't know like I was in a kind of an altered state when I listened to this so I don't really understand this comment but what was it it says slop that shit down like gravy so that's good I think I was just I think I was just respecting the groove that's so cool yeah say that again slop that shit down like gravy okay awesome I think maybe we can end the review there I very much enjoyed the album okay good nice pick nice thank you thank you uh yeah I started going back in their back catalog which I do recommend uh like what I found about this album though is this is definitely like an evolved mature version of what they are c are becoming like the other albums are good don't get me wrong but there's just something about like every song is good on this and they're all just so well crafted it feels like they just became such like more heightened songwriters on this album. Not to say they weren't good before but it just seems like compared to the other older stuff I've heard that this is just a more mature realized album I guess.
SPEAKER_01Yes no I totally agree it's very difficult to write a record and not have and and just have it not only to have all good songs on it but the way that it tells the story of the album and the flow of it yeah and they they knocked it out of the park on this album. Yeah I know what you mean because there's lots of metal albums where it's like there's a great section and then there's a couple stinker songs that it picks back up again. This album's not like that at all.
SPEAKER_00No it's like every every song solid and they have that little break in there with uh on on I don't know if I'm saying this or Anyara where it's that that that little musical interlude that they do in there with the guitar stuff. Incredible beautiful yeah but building to what exactly well into the abyss that's what it built to the abyss follows yeah into the abyss which I have a more melodic kill switch engage nice groove and some Dio in there oh yeah I can hear that yeah I can hear that for sure so all right um anything else to add they're gonna come out with more another record I think in March. Is that right? Is it coming out in March? I think I just read that today yeah I gotta look for that there yeah they're on Century Media okay so just heads up for anybody listening all right so check them out new album March I will definitely be getting that we'll we'll probably review that one too okay all right moving on we are over to the mystery band so my turn yes so now I'm gonna tee this up a little bit so the way I found this band was they were opening for Mashuga in Europe. Now I didn't see that tour but I I'm always curious about who has the balls to open up for Mashuga so uh so I was like who's this band right so I looked them up and and and then I found this again this deep rabbit hole that I fell down they have an interesting origin. It started off with the main singer his name is uh Manuel Gagno I'm not I'm not sure if I'm saying that right he's a he was born in Switzerland uh but he has a mer it's like he's Swiss and American so his parents were mixed that way and um he kind of got a little bit of fame early on uh as a so sort of a solo artist for a little bit and then he started doing this thing where he was getting people to kind of his fans and just music fans to kind of critique his music and then he was looking at these challenges he's like hey I want you guys to challenge me so send me two types of music that I will start to mash up together just as an experiment right so one of the people now he's black so just to because this is gonna that's gonna matter for this next thing I'm gonna say so when he uh issued that challenge one of the challenges was someone said hey why don't you take slave music and mix it with black metal now when they said slave music they didn't use the word slave they used another word I'm not gonna obviously use right now so it was a very racist thing that they said. So yeah so I so I don't know what how he reacted to that statement when it was said but I think part of it was he took on the challenge is like all right you piece of shit I'm gonna you know I'm gonna answer this call and I'm gonna you know do this thing. Yeah so he mixed he mixed started mixing this music together it was kind of like more like old blues and gospel and stuff like that and then he started to weave this thing together and then it became this band because he he just tried it as an experiment but then he put it out and he's like I think I'm onto something here and so it evolved into this band. So it's called Zeal and or uh the band is called Zeal and Ardor zeal out and ardor yeah okay now when you listen to them you want to listen to the now there's several albums uh I'm gonna recommend the album Grief it's their most recent album so Zeal and Ardor look for the album Grief they have several albums out right now I have pretty much everything that they put out they have an EP out they have another album out self-titled things like that so but I would just go to grief um listen to it the whole way through and I've never heard a more eclectic mix of music uh of metal in my life because it's a mix of black metal blues um maybe a little hard rock in there industrial gospel and a little soul and when I say gospel you're like really I just saw your face I know I know and I see your face trust me it works it's crazy how good they are it's like this weaving of all these styles together but you know how like blood incantation is sort of woven and out of like the the clearer parts and went back to the death metal parts it's like that but with all those styles I just mentioned smashed together. That sounds nuts Insanely talented, uh, and some of the stuff is just balls out black metal, like there's songs on there that are just like yes, like just like it's just really intense, yeah, stuff like that. But then it uh it all the other songs are most of the songs are this eclectic mix of all these things together, which sounds like a crazy like mess, but then when you hear it, you're like, okay, that's how that's working together. Okay, so so it'll take a minute, but just let it build and you'll see where I'm going. So, yeah, they even have like um he uh he he started off as this solo thing, but then he started adding musicians, musicians to the mix, and I saw them uh last year here in Portland again, and um and they have these, they also have these like backup singers where it's just like two guys that sing on stage, that's all they do. And they do have an interesting presentation. They all wear kind of like black hoodies and they have this sort of you know, this sort of like you know, sort of like uh I don't know what the vibe is, it's just kind of like a uh not not cultish, but um, but they're all wearing black and it's all kind of unified that way. So it's okay, sort of dark, I guess you could say. But but they're excellent musicians. Uh the tour I saw, they were just amazing, and they were super like appreciative that people came out to see them. They were from Switzerland, they're like, but they were like, I can't believe anybody's here, and it was a pack, it was packed, so you know, so yeah, it was great. But if you get a chance, uh you know, see them live if they tour, but then you gotta listen to that album. I'm dying to hear what you think of it.
SPEAKER_01And it's zeal like Z with Zebra?
SPEAKER_00G-E-A-L, Amp, the Amper Sand, and then the word Ardor, A-R-D-O-R. Oh, I did spell it right. Oh, yeah, yeah. So zeal and arder, and again, several albums start with grief. Right on. Okay, that's your sense. All right, all right, duly noted, sir. The next episode, I want to hear what you think. Okay, fair enough.
SPEAKER_01I dig, I dig all of those styles of music. Well, gospel, not so much. Well, I can appreciate yeah, I I can appreciate it as an art form, it's just not something I would, you know, turn on.
SPEAKER_00No, no, I know it's yeah, I'm not, you know, I appreciate gospel. I like Ray Charles, stuff like that too. Um, but but you know, and and then but it's not like I sit down and actively listen to gospel all the time. Yeah, right. So, but but when you hear it woven in here, you'll hear how it works. You're gonna be like, that fucking makes sense because it just makes sense, especially with the the heritage of the black history and stuff like that, with that ideology built into it. It's really it's really powerful, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, it's it's sad that it had to come about as a result of somebody's ignorance.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. But the the but the what we get out of it, it it was kind of a beautiful thing, yeah. Oh, so well.
SPEAKER_01I hope the person who said that feels tiny now.
SPEAKER_00I do, I yeah, me too. I I can't imagine how they wouldn't, yeah, compared to what they this because it's a six, it's a successful band now. I mean, they're in Europe all the time, and so yeah, so I can't wait for something new to come out for them now. Yeah, absolutely. All right, so zeal and ardor. Uh all right, that moves us over into talking about live shows and tours. So I saw that um Behemoth announced a North American tour with Diocide Immolation and Riding Christ. Yep. Uh I saw that. That's a big show. That's a hell of a bill. Hell hell, hell of a bill. Are you gonna go see it?
SPEAKER_01Uh I don't know where it's playing around here. Is it is that I think I saw that it was playing in Reading?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's in Reading at uh uh I forgot the name of the venue there, but yeah, it's in Reading, Pennsylvania.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I may if I go to see that what's the date of the Reading show?
SPEAKER_00No, I'd have to look that up. I don't have the tour dates in front of me. All right, I'll check it out. Let me see if I can look up something here.
SPEAKER_01I saw um I may have to get myself like a hotel room if I go to see that show because that's like a two-hour plus drive.
SPEAKER_00That's like, yeah, that's pretty far from where you. I used to live right near Reading, so I know where that is. Um yeah, so that's not too that's not too close to you. It's like two, yeah, it's like two or three hours, maybe. Yeah. So yeah, I would plan on a plan on a uh overnighter there. Uh yeah, they're gonna be, let me see, that tour is in April. And let me see, they're gonna be they're coming here in April, they're coming to Portland in April. I'm gonna have to see if I can get tickets for that. And then let me see, they're gonna be out your way. Where the hell's all the oh there you go? Hang on one second. Uh the date, they're gonna be at the Palladium Times Square? Really? Wow. Okay, so they're playing in Times Square. Oh wow. That's on uh let's see, May 2nd, they're playing there. Uh then let's see. May 2nd. Yeah, that's when they're playing in New York. I don't know if that's closer for you or not. Uh, but then let me see the oh yeah. Okay, what the hell? What are the dates here? I don't see the they're playing in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, but I'm not seeing the reading date. Oh, that's a little bit of a hike. That's a hike, yeah. Yeah, that's up towards Jim Thorpe, I think. Yeah. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know how close they're getting to you after all.
SPEAKER_01I'll look into it. Yeah, check it out. I'm not crazy about the idea of going to see any shows in Manhattan at this point. Yeah. So expensive and it's it's kind of hard to it's a multi-stage trip, like you know. Yeah, either you drive into the city and you pay an exorbitant uh highway robbery price to park in the garage, or you know, you park somewhere in Jersey and take the train. Yeah, it's just that's a pain in the ass.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that is a pain in the ass. So I don't know. We'll see. I'll look into it. Okay. Well, that's a pretty powerful lineup. Um I also saw that Clutch is going on the road with corrosion of conformity, and then they also be a killer tour, and they got different opening bands between JD Pincus, whores, who I'm not familiar with, and another band, another band called Crobot. So they're taking turns as far as who's opening. Yeah, I don't know those bands. So I think I think the the name whores is interesting. Sure. Whores so hey, let's go see some whores. Let's go see the whores last week.
SPEAKER_01I went and saw some whores.
SPEAKER_00I saw it's a whores live. Oh, they perform live, huh? Yeah, well, that's horrors. They're whores, that's what they do. Uh so yeah, so so but clutch and and corrosion of COC, man. I'm definitely interested in that.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so I've seen, I think I've seen Clutch somewhere along the way. I don't remember where.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Uh I have seen I haven't seen Corrosion to Conformity, and there's somebody that that that's a band that um I don't know how I never ended up getting into them because they have some crazy cool riffs.
SPEAKER_00Oh, so good. Well, they also have a really interesting kind of past because they started as a punk band, like punk and hardcore.
SPEAKER_01That's right.
SPEAKER_00And then they kind of evolved into more like the stoner rock when Pepper took over like the vocals and stuff. So when Pepper Kenny took over, then it became more stoner rocky, and then they are kind of what they are now. Yep, but yeah, they had a I thought that had a pretty interesting evolution. So, all right, so look for Clutch and uh COC touring in April and May, and then another big one announced not too long ago was that Sepultora has announced their final US tour ever. Oh, you know they're done, you know they're done, right? Uh I didn't.
SPEAKER_01I might have read it at some point.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they're doing one last tour and then they're wrapping it up. No more Sepultura, no more Sepultura.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Uh I people like to make a lot of fun of Sepultura because of their and the immense change in direction that their music took.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um, especially, you know, like the the the purists, the metal purists, and well, yeah, they they're like well, the band died in a lot of people's minds after the Cavallera brothers were no longer a part of it. Yeah. So after Igor and you know, Max, once they were out, then people were like, eh, no more Sepultura.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but um a lot of people said, well, Roots was basically the beginning of the end of the of the Oh, oh yeah, I could see that. You know, but uh I so after Roots, I I haven't paid attention to them, so I don't know what they're up to, but I might be kind of cool to see. Is it uh is Max and Igor now gonna be in it?
SPEAKER_00No, not that I know of. I don't know if they're gonna show up for any final shows or anything. I would think that maybe for the last couple shows they would have them on board or have them be show up as guests or something, just to kind of wrap it up, you know. I would think there would be some sort of poetic ending to that, but I don't know where they left it, uh, as far as like if there's animosity in the band towards them or the other way around. I don't know. I know that uh I know that Max and his brother had fights and they had you know they were on and off for a little bit, but then but then Max has always been doing like he's always been busy because he's either been a nail bomb or soul fly, or you know, so he's always doing you know something. Several other than the Cavalleric conspiracy, like four or five different bands he's in. So he's always doing something, and I know Igor's playing with him now, at least in the Cavalleric conspiracy playing with him, so they're back to kind of together. So I don't know. I hopefully they can work something out that I think I think as to the fans, that would be an amazing kind of like final, you know, final it would be sort of they were amazing back in the day. Oh, big time, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I got to see them open for uh Pintera. Oh, did you really? Oh, that's a good that would have been it was in Indianapolis, and uh I I just it was the chaos AD.
SPEAKER_00Oh damn, that would have been a good show.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it was tight as hell, man. It was there was it was no joke. I was supposed to see them like in 91 when they were touring uh um beneath not beneath the remains, um uh not schizophrenia. Schizophrenia. Oh no, no, the the the damn, I'm not that's the only problem with this format of of discussion. It's like like when I'm on the spot and you know not that. I know the thing is it's just like that's why I'm gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_00Well I can sort of relate to that. That's why I have to go to the book. It's a rise, it's the album. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I um uh I don't think you saw this because I kind of updated it, but um the last episode we were talking and we were talking about the bass player that replaced the guy in overkill, Didi Verney, for the tour, you know?
SPEAKER_01And I later found it was Christian Old Walburns from Fear Factory, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I couldn't think of it either, had this brain fart in the middle of the episode. So I don't know if you saw it, but I went back and I put in a graphic that says, okay, the name of the guy that Sean forgot, and I put his name in. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I didn't want to like do this service to the guy and not like credit him. So he's in of course, so just so you know, I didn't fix that, and I put his name in there.
SPEAKER_01Well, so thank you to our listeners. We are sorry.
SPEAKER_00We're so professional here. Yeah, all right. So uh yeah, because that that's why I have my computer, so I could look it up real quick and say, Oh, yeah, there's so I don't look like too much of an idiot. Uh all right, so uh, but yeah, it's it's it's one of those things that uh I hope that they uh I hope they can bring it to the close that they want to, and it'd be nice if they if they brought the original members back a little bit, but you know, yeah, being cool for the fans. But yeah, I kind of had the same relationship that that you did the after uh yeah, after roots and stuff, I just kind of lost touch with them. I think part of it was because of the of the of Max not being involved because I was kind of you know connected to that.
SPEAKER_01That had a lot to do with it, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so I know for me that was part of like you know, I don't know if it's not to say that they're not still a good band, but I think that the direction definitely just did pivot with them.
SPEAKER_01It was it just wasn't the same, it wasn't the same.
SPEAKER_00So all right. So any other mention, any other live tours or shows you got tickets for or anything coming up?
SPEAKER_01Yes, uh, I will be going to see the band Sun on April 10th in Washington, DC.
SPEAKER_00Uh who's the band? Sun?
SPEAKER_01Sun S-U-N-N.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I don't think I know this band. What what the uh give me the level?
SPEAKER_01I saw them once back in the early 2000s uh in Philly, and it's just basically two guys playing Gibson Les Pauls at maximum fucking volume, and there's no drums, it's just the two of them, and I think I don't know what they're tuned down to, but they are tuned to is it vocals or is it all instrumental? No vocals, it's all instrumental, and it's basically them just hitting the guitars and letting them ring out, you know, uh hitting different notes, and and um it's not that it's not that they don't take time to write you know compose make it a composition that's actually like organized, yeah. Where do they plan? Um I don't remember the name of the place in DC. Some I think it's a theater.
SPEAKER_00Oh, it's a oh it's a theater. Are they that do they have that big of a following?
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah. Oh, it's and they're a cult, they they have a very cult following. So they come out speaking about like hoodies, they come out dressed in like monk robes with the hoods over them. What really and and they they play um they have smoke machines, right? And it just becomes a very ethereal atmosphere. Um, they have people going around in the beginning uh before they start playing, handing out uh had uh uh earplugs. Oh, they're that loud, they hand out earplugs. Dude, I the when I saw them, they were at the Unitarian Universalist Church.
SPEAKER_00Oh, the church, yeah, the Unitarian Church in Philly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. And I could feel it in the the the pews of the church, like the benches. Vibrating feel it, and it was vibrating my sphincter in such a way that I will not say that it was unpleasant.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's why you're going back to see them again. It's the sphincter vibrations. Nobody can touch me the way that they can. That's gonna be one of our catchphrases, sphincter vibrations.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. So they're they're phenomenal. Like their live shows are just phenomenal and exciting. I'll have to look them up. I had no idea. Oh, yeah. You yeah, I I would recommend checking them out.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Um, I think the name comes from like the amps that they play through.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, those old amps from like the 70s. Yeah. Yeah. So they got that whole fuzz thing going on. They oh, per that's a perfect description, yeah. Okay, gotcha. Are you uh when's the date? Like when do you see them?
SPEAKER_01April 10th. It's a Friday.
SPEAKER_00Did they have an open or is just them?
SPEAKER_01I think it oh no, it's uh oh, who's opening for them? Crap.
SPEAKER_00I I don't know. There's some really good bands that we're gonna be talking about down the road, like Stoner Rock bands that I'll be introducing that you probably you might know of already, but um bands like Pelican and also uh Elder El Elder. Holla! Oh, you know them, excellent. Yeah, but I want to talk about those guys. I love those right in our same wheelhouse there. Okay. Uh Russian circles. Oh, I I've heard of them, but I haven't heard them. Okay. So get into it. All right, all right, I'll look into it. All right, so let's not get ahead of ourselves. All right, but just for the future, you know, some other bands will probably kick around. All right, uh, I think that wraps us up. Anything else you want to talk about or say or do? Yes, sir. Are we done? Is that it? I'm ready for summer. It's gonna be over here. We got all the metal out here. Oh, don't be such a pussy.
SPEAKER_01Listen to you. Thank you. I'm a winner slapping me back into reality.
SPEAKER_00I'm a winner guy. Come on, man. I've I'm so fucking sick of summer. It gets so goddamn hot. I'm over it. I'm so over the heat. Okay, I'll take the winner. But you get a lot of humidity out by you, too. Oh, fuck yeah. Like it gets like I have to worry about the humidity inside my car, inside my vehicle. I have to put like a towel in there and wipe it down on the inside. That's uncomfortable, yeah. Yeah, that's how you that's how how uh uh moist it is out here. It's very moist. We're very moist out there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, you get a lot of those atmospheric rivers by you.
SPEAKER_00Totally. Yeah, I'm in Portland, Oregon, in case anybody's wondering. But yeah, that's uh yeah, we do get a lot of atmospheric rivers, so for sure.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm not complaining about I'm I'm fine with there not being insects constantly flying into my face. Uh and I'm fine not mowing the lawn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I needed a break from that.
SPEAKER_00All right, so we'll wrap it up there, and uh we'll see you in the next episode. Thank you for joining us.