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291: FORSAKEN RITE, EMERALD EYE, AKROASIS | Metal Promo Review
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FORSAKEN RITE [Folk Metal; Edmonton, AB, Canada] - https://forsakenrite.bandcamp.com/
EMERALD EYE [Power Metal; Kansas City, MO, USA] - https://emeraldeyeband.bandcamp.com/
AKROASIS [Thrash Metal; Fribourg, Switzerland] - https://akroasis.bandcamp.com/
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Transcript
Metal Promo Review Introduction
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I cast them down!
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Hail, Metal Nation! As I, Tim, this is Podcast Them Down. That's Mike, and it is time for another Metal Promo Review, where we take metal promos that have been sent to us, breathe them, and vase. We rate them up to two ears, how many ears we will be giving the set item to you in promo. This playing now is bad Maryland. I die inside from our last Metal Promo.
00:00:35
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Oh, and we have a guest. We have a top rejoining guest. And, well, I'm not gonna pad that one. Jesus, this is taking forever. I believe we said Bad Marilyn was the winner of the last one.
Guest Joins and Technical Issues
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And even if it wasn't, you're welcome. It was. Okay, it was. Alright, so... I'm digging that. It's not bad.
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Yeah. Well, I think there's a lot of holes in it. See, because they're Swiss. You get it? You get it? Yeah. So, um, yeah, this seems to be lost in some people. We're not, we don't actually listen to anything until after. Oh, hey, it is Matt. I meant to hit applause, but instead I hit this one. His headphones aren't even on. He doesn't know what I'm doing.
00:01:31
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Definitely hit the right button. Oh, they're not plugged in. Jesus. You call yourself a professional? All right. His mic's not plugged in. Let's just forge ahead. This is bullshit. Your mic's not plugged in, you idiot. No, it's not. Now it is. This is an episode for... What are you doing?
00:01:56
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We are streaming live on YouTube. Hi everybody. You're embarrassing us. Oh, we're streaming on YouTube. And I will definitely cut this out of the final episode. I don't think you should. I think I, every time I say I'm going to cut something out, I do. Is that, is that an ice cream cookie sandwich Oreo? No.
00:02:20
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How come everyone's eating at the beginning of the show? That's surely unprofessional, Jim. You took the special thing that Mike did just for the twatchers, and we decided to still call them twatchers, even though we're not. Oh, even though they're on YouTubes? Yeah, but now you just gave it away for free for everyone. Oh, are you eating a cookie sandwich?
00:02:45
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You're eating into the microphone. That's what you're giving away. Oh, sorry. That's patreon only twatcher only. Yeah. Hold up. Let me wash it down with some sparkling water. Hold up. It doesn't say we're live on, uh, on YouTube. Mine says we're live. Maybe I don't know what I'm doing.
00:03:15
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I mean, if I get on YouTube through what? What I asked you a question. Can we say fuck it on YouTube? OK. They fuck it. Then we're in trouble. OK. Shut your fucking mouth. The both of you.
00:03:37
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If we have any listeners left, let's get to the first fucking promo now. I haven't even started yet, Jesus. No, because we were waiting for you. All right, here we go.
Forsaken Rite Single Release and Analysis
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Here we go. Join Canada's Forsaken Right on the epic folk metal quest with new video, The Storm. Forsaken Right, the epic folk metal band hailing from the northern plains of Edmonton, Canada. I don't know why they left off the Alberta,
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is set to unleash a tempest of musical prowess with their latest single, The Storm, which comes from their forthcoming EP slated for release later this year. True to their high fantasy roots, Forsaken Rite weaves intricate tales of adventure, battles, and travels with each song they create. The upcoming EP is a continuation of 2017's The Northern Saga and sees the band slash war party heading west.
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The band details what's in store. New stories, new experiences, excitement. The adventurers are traveling west and encounter a terrible storm. As if something greater has other plans for their journey, they must weather high its forces in order to survive and continue their path. So it's the Jack pants album.
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a catchy sing-along with clean and distorted vocals and various folk elements. The instrumental section is percussive and brings together multiple folk instruments and melodies. Having undergone almost a complete lineup change, the
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Storm serves as a beacon for the band's evolution, showcasing their musical growth and creative ingenuity. With new members come fresh perspectives, and the result is an EP that will captivate audiences and leave them craving more. Founded in October 2012, Forsaken Rite has emerged as a force to be reckoned with, drawing inspiration from the vast landscapes of the North.
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and their rich ancestral heritage with an overarching conceptual plan guiding their musical journey, the band invites listeners to join them on their musical conquest in a world where myth and reality collide. Forsaken Bright is recommended for fans of L.W.A.T.
00:05:58
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nightwish and fawn and i assume that's later nightwish when they got folkier uh let's see that's forsaken right dot bandcamp dot com and that's about it so the artwork looks like
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There's a sky with some lightning, and it looks like a character from Metalocalypse looking over some sort of seeing... A palantir of some kind? Yeah, with runes around it. And it looks purposely cartoony. The artwork, it feels like it's better than it...
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looks, if that makes sense. Like yeah, it looks cartoony, but if you, if you look at it, like the hands are really detailed. I almost wonder if this is like a cell shaded 3d rendering might be, might be because if you, if you, if you look at any individual element, it's actually quite accurate. Um, the dress has a lot of like foldy guys. Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:11
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So it's interesting. Foldy guys. Foldy guys. The band photo is them in a CGI forest. It's like clearly put onto a background. What worries me about this band photo, and I want them to take this very seriously, is I'm worried about their arm, their defenses of their arms. Guy all the way on the right has full leather
00:07:41
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armor. Oh you mean they're physical like like these things. Yes goes down to his elbow so he's gonna be safe from bladed attacks from the side you know maybe an errant arrow or bolt but the lady standing next to him
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She's vulnerable. Her whole arm, even her shoulder vulnerable to attack from the side. And then on the other side of the person in the middle, you have partial shoulder protection. And then you have the guy who clearly wanted to show off his tattoo.
00:08:20
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Oh, you mean the green cape guy? Yes, but that's not going to help you in battle. And you never know what you're going to do. Clearly, the only one who is prepared for battle. I know they're just adventuring west, but you never know what's going to happen, especially in Western Canada. I mean, come on.
00:08:36
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Well, I am most concerned. It's kind of hard to see in this photo, but I have ventured onto their Facebook page to see a larger version. I'm really concerned about the kilt guy because he's wearing like a shin guard. One of them killed someone?
00:08:56
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Well, he's wearing a leather shin guard, but then he's wearing a short kilt. So it's basically just saying like, please slash my upper calf right here. Oh yeah. I'm seeing. I, I really enjoy how half-assed the guy in the left, uh, his garb is, you know what I mean? Like I'm guessing you had to be goaded into it.
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then again he spent more time on his face paint than anyone else yeah yeah there's a there's definitely some extremes and the i'm assuming the person in the center is the vocalist we would assume so but like her this
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this like faux bandana in makeup thing or like eye mask in makeup. I thought that was supposed to be like a Celtic, like a spatter in battle thing. And it looks like, it almost looks like she has a sleep mask that has eyes on it and she took it down. Yeah. Or like, like she, she fell asleep at the tanning salon wearing her like neck gator cause it's COVID time.
00:10:11
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Well, they, uh, metal archives has five members listed, but no guitarists. So remember, they did just have a recent lineup change, an entire lineup. Well, it looks like the only one remaining is the drummer, huh? A Daria Ravencroft. I bet that's, um, I bet, I bet that's gauntlet, uh, gauntlet shoulders lady here.
00:10:39
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OK, she looks like what's your name, Rosaria Ravencroft? What is it? Yeah, close enough. All right. I think keyboards is Rave Degdramare. Mm hmm. And then the bass is Ulfbjorn Wiersen. That's got to be the killed dude. Yeah, I 100 percent agree. Yes, it is. Yes. All right. We get a we get a ding for that. Man, we're geniuses.
00:11:06
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Ursa on vocals. Yep. She's middle girl. Middle one. Yes. No. Yeah. Yep. Oh, that's another. That is another ding. And then Emrys fail. I mean, I'm going to say that's Johnny tattoo. It is not. Oh no. It's black armor guy. Yeah. Also known as Billy hubs. Oh, fuck you. If I had Billy hubs, I could have told you that.
00:11:34
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If my name was Billy Hubs, I'd go by Emrys Fayol, too. Oh. I'm not bad. Gravdagramar is... Keyboardist. Yeah. You know what? Looking at his... So you get individual pictures on Metal Archives. His garb is less half-assed than I thought.
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OK. Well, it's it's it's still a little wonky, but it's still it's it's like less half ass. So I like how he has a light cape on. That's his name. Rav Dagdram. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Go to forsaken right and then go to members. Then you can click on each. Oh, man. I mean, you see what I mean? Like, like it's actually pretty all right. I'll take that.
00:12:23
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I know that we've been giving a lot of unsolicited advice to bands and music festivals, but all right, Forsaken Right, I got two words for you, trading cards. I would buy trading cards of each and every one of them. Make up some, I'm sure you all play D&D, put your D&D stats in there, and you know, let's go.
00:12:47
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I know these these individual photos of them all look like they're looking at me as if I just said something that annoyed them.
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Which is pretty metal. It is metal, but I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I'm going to say this like, okay, as Eisenmore itself, I think is a band that may be half-asses garb. They need to know who Eisenmore is. Eisenmore is the folk band that two of the three hosts of this episode are in. We have more guitarists than them.
00:13:26
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Even when we started, because this band has zero guitars, from what I can tell. And we started with one, and now we have two. That seems fair. All right. So we half-assed Garb, I think. So their Garb is significantly better executed than us. Are you willing to give it a three-quarters ass? No, I will give this a full ass. Full ass. Their Garb is full ass.
00:14:00
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Oh my God. They're, they're asked my, their guard might be full ass, but Elv Bjorn Vyerson's Kilt takes the cake and he could show you his full ass if he wanted. So, um,
00:14:16
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Well, I we are spending way more time on this band than usual. I want to be clear about that. That's true. But you're welcome. I'm going to spend even more time because if they're leaving from Edmonton and heading west, I want to see what they're going to encounter. Looks like there's Canadian Route 16. OK. There's some lakes. There's a small town of Edson. And then then finally you get to.
00:14:43
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the, uh, the mountains up there, including resplendent mountain, please. I want that to be the next single, or at least a song on the next resplendent mountain. Then, um, this, I guess you're in British Columbia at that point. So if you're in, I bet on resplendent mountain, they encountered the subject of their 2016 single frosty, the snow beast. Oh man.
00:15:15
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Alright, so I will be giving this 97% of each of my ears. That 97% is the number that Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid wears, and it's the same number that yours truly wears on his hockey team.
00:15:35
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9.7, no, 97% times two ears. Okay. All right. Uh, I am also, I, uh, the only thing I don't really like is their logo. Um,
00:15:50
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I think they could do something better. But I liked the presentation. I liked the CG or Photoshop edit fog in the fake CG forest. Their music sounds like something I would enjoy, as we'll soon hear about or we've just heard about in a certain music review. So I am going to give them 1.8 years.
00:16:16
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Yeah, I'll do a 1.75. Okay. I think I'm interested. Mike's always the sensible one. I, I almost, I'm genuinely curious if their logo designer is the same as Eisenborg's logo designer. Oh, well, it could be maybe it very well could be. I of course lost the, uh, the other one pad for time while I find it.
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How's it going? Pretty good. This is what an overbite looks
Emerald Eye Album Announcement and Insights
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like.
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Thank you. All right. Hey, and that's, that's inclusive YouTube content. Yeah. The more, the more you learn. Okay. The more, you know, whatever that fucking thing is, American melodic, heavy metal band M world. I to release debut album night without day. Didn't we have one of those? Yeah. Isn't that just what night, what night is? That's somewhat tautological, right? Like it's just night.
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They will be releasing their debut album, it's already out, Night Without Day, independently worldwide on April 5th, 2024. Vocalist Brett Scott, never trust anyone with two first names. Comments. Hi guys, I'm Brett Scott. Very close. Hello world. Oh no! We're Emerald Eye from Kansas City. Wait, Missouri or the other one? Doesn't say, doesn't say.
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And we are thrilled to unveil our debut full-length Night Without Day. With this album, we aim to please fans of heavy metal of the traditional melodic variety, and we feel like we presented an eclectic band that we can call our own featuring elements of. Power metal, speed metal, progressive rock, 70s hard rock, and who knows what else. I feel like you should know what else.
00:18:15
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I also feel like that just describes Judas Priest's discography. It does. Well, that's a good thing. There's some crazy song titles here. Fans of older bands like Queensrike, Dio, Riot and Rush should find something to like here as well as any fans of the newer School of Heavy Metal streaming will be available on all major services immediately. And physical copies are TBA. Any labels in distribution, please reach out.
00:18:45
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This is just the beginning. Forgive us a follow, and we hope to catch you all in the future. Tracklist, Tabula Viridis, Winged Woman, Silken Throne. I bet that would be comfortable. Revenge of the being. I love that. Quirrell Wind. Quirrell Wind. Quirrell Wind, Feast and Famine. Feast Hand Famine. Yep. It's not usually how that goes. Hells style.
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Hellstar. All right. Uh, band members, Brett Scott, vocals, Nick Poffenbarger, bass, Nolan Webber, drums, Vinny Lee Camarillo. Oh, he's a good boy. And Christopher.
00:19:29
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Christopher ash lock guitars List the three of them are in van van Leda and who one is? So this is So they either yeah, I guess hmm Okay, we well, you know not not many people are in multiple bands together. So that's that's not a weird thing nope, and as Mike and I know also being in recently vacated graves that it's such a rarity for
00:19:57
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Um, a scene to be so incestuous, right? Just as Sierra white, who's in every band in Denver. All right. Um, there's a biography. It's actually, um, this biography is actually like a digestible length. So that's a welcome change.
00:20:18
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Alright, Emerald Eyes, a melodic heavy metal band from Kansas City. Don't know which one. Formed in 2020 by members of long-running, underground, power-speed metal band VanLave. V-A-N-L-A-D-E, VanLade.
00:20:33
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Sure. Van Laid, vocalist Brett Scott, bassist Nick Poffenbarger, and drummer Nolan Webber, along with guitarist Alex Moran. After releasing a two-track demo in 2021, Moran left the band because they hated him and was replaced by a pair of guitarists, Vinny Lee Camarillo, ex-Van Laid. It doesn't really say they hated him.
00:20:57
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No, it doesn't. I am. I assumed. And Christopher Ashlock, Al Sayshah. With this lineup, the band has recorded its debut full-length Night Without Day, including its preceding single, Silk and Throne. Emerald Eye's music takes cues from traditional power and speed metal, as well as progressive rock and 70s and 80s hard rock alongside
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an eclectic variety of other sources. The band is currently booking shows and writing for their second full length. Well, if you want to get paid not enough to come to Baltimore, reach out to us and we can afford up to like $100 maybe. Dude, check out the album art or the art for the Silken Throne single.
00:21:48
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make it mean right this should be whoa the album cover what yeah no this is much wow you know i i meant to i meant to call them emu rolled eye because that's how that's how they would have said it from uh on uh the the the rhapsody song emu rolled oh emerald yeah yeah the emerald sword
00:22:10
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That's awesome. They, they should totally tour with, uh, with rabbit on the world. Cause they're clearly in like the church of a spider. By the way, if there's a local branch of the church of the spider anywhere nearby, you'll see me there Sunday morning. Oh man. Like they should have just called, they should, that should be the album name. Yeah. It should be silken thrown with that cover.
00:22:36
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Screw Night Without Day. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense. Okay, well, this is timely. Well, it's timely as of recording. It's probably not timely as of release, but the album cover for Night Without Day is a solar eclipse
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of the moon in front of the sun in a landscape with mountains. However, the moon is gigantic and has a green might even say emerald eye in the moon and it's casting a very specific shadow over one very specific part of the landscape. So.
00:23:18
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Yeah, it must be much narrower than it looks to cast such a shadow. I mean, it looks like it's blotting out the sun entirely. Yeah. But in reality, I mean, that's probably only about what, like 50 feet across. So. Well, there's the only scale references those trees. So maybe they're giant trees. I'm doing some math here.
00:23:42
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So according to Metal Archives, it was released on April 5th. This is very clearly a crass eclipse tie-in. They wanted you to listen to this album. Now, I looked. Kansas City is not in the zone of totality, but it's
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Pretty close. They had like a 90% or something. 95%. This is a cheap eclipse cash grab. Uh, Emerald Eye is from Kansas city, Missouri. Now they probably think that's obvious, but we have Baltimoreans don't think that's obvious. So you're welcome. Free advice. All right. Um,
00:24:32
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The last thing, their logo to me looks like, you know, like a knockoff of the Green Lanterns logo. I'm not saying in a bad way.
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or like and in their promo photo, it's a bunch of bald dudes who were like lit from below. Okay, just two of them. But and the front man is wearing a green leather jacket, which is awesome. Because where do you get that? They're all wearing sunglasses and not a single one of them has an emerald eye, which I so I call shenanigans. You don't know that.
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okay yeah i don't see any emerald eyes they're all wearing aviators so i don't know there could be 10 there could be upwards of 10 emerald eyes
00:25:16
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Well, I know for a fact that Vince, what's his name? Vince Camarelli does not have an emerald eye. I'm putting a link to an Instagram photo in the chat. And here's why, despite all my reservations, I have to give them an automatic two ears because he's dressed like a hot dog holding a plate of hot dogs. And that unlocks the secret cheat where I give you two ears no matter what I think about your music.
00:25:44
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This is the Konami code for Matt. Well, I'll tell you, I'm very curious about the Silken Throne and how comfortable it is. So I'm going to go one and a half years. Man, this is two episodes in a row with three nice scores. Yeah, I'll do one and a half as well. I am upset about the miss between the album name and
00:26:13
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like Silken Throne was especially much better. Because when I heard it, when I heard the title, I was thinking like this billowy, like, oh, yeah, it's like a kimono, but you can sit on it. Yes. But no, it's fucking crawling with spiders. Yeah, that's way more metal. And if they, with this album cover, it's immediately obvious. Oh, yeah, that's cool.
00:26:42
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Alright, last one. Acroasis. Acrosis. Is that a metal oasis cover band? Acro- I don't know.
Acroasis Album and Artistic Exploration
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Swiss, melodic death thrash metal. The Swiss are back, how about that? Single video insults the gods. Hey gods, you're stupid. This is from a different service, so it's laid out differently. The artwork is, oh, their album is called Hubris. All right. Sounds like it's Swiss guy's name.
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uh my name is hubris hello gentlemen i am hubris
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Tracks, nemesis, most atrocious deed, insult the gods before a fall, gifted with fire, seven times, driven to kill, eternal rest, unbearable guilt, King Minos. Okay. Running time, 41 minutes, 38 seconds. This service needs to learn how to capitalize song titles. Yeah. Because they are fucking wrong. Oh, are they European though? It is not. I don't think so. I mean, the band is, but I don't think the
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I don't think the service is. Alright, okay. Because I was complaining about this a lot on the last one. You don't capitalize two in Driven 2 Kill. No. You don't capitalize A in Before A Fall. We should really make an episode about capitalization of tiles. We already did! We already did! That's right.
00:28:22
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Yeah, go listen to our episode if you don't know how to do it. Anyway, for immediate press release, we're the press. And that's us. And we'll
00:28:33
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Well, Ben, the word immediate. Yeah. All right. Single and music video from the Swiss medallers. Compact combination of powerful, melodic death and precise thrash. The new single, Insult the Gods was released on March 29th, 2024. We're close.
00:28:54
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Yeah, but they sent this to me April 8th. Oh, on YouTube. Acro acroasis explains the song insult. This is a quote insult the gods. Don't capitalize the.
00:29:12
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Insult the Gods is probably the most brutal song on our new album Hubris. Driving death metal with a thrash edge accompanies the story of Antigone. She accuses her uncle Creon of disregarding the laws of the gods and establishing his own laws for Thebes. Thebes? Thebes. Creon had taken over this rule for a short time after his nephews
00:29:40
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With the Roman names, the Greek names, Atio Cleese. Atio Cleese and Polynices. Thank you. Had killed each other at the gates of the city under the threat of the death penalty, he had decreed that... Wait a minute. Polynices is my sign.
00:29:56
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Should be buried and polished, left outside the gates as he had attacked his city. His sister, Antigone, felt bound. That's how it's spelled. Felt bound only to humanity and the laws of the gods, disregarded this instruction, and buried her brother outside the gates, which resulted in her execution by being walled in alive.
00:30:20
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I was out, I did not care until she was walled in alive. That is metal as fuck. All right. Acroasis established 2016 melodic death thrash metal for fans of Darkhane dimension zero. I'm on a Marth melodic death metal thrash metal. This one has tagging.
00:30:40
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Alright, you ready? At Croasis, the entire country of Switzerland for some reason. Melodic Death Thrash Metal, which is useless because then they don't tag Melodic Death Metal, Death Metal, or Thrash Metal.
00:30:55
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These tags, they need to work on it. You can't tag an entire country and have it be useful. You can't tag this extremely specific subgenre and have it be useful. They are missing on both sides of the precision bit. Anyway, Swiss Metal, Insult the God, single video hubris, second album, full length. No one cares. These are terrible tags. Don't tag with these.
00:31:22
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Beware the Wrath of the Gods. The Band-Aid was founded in 2016 by Marcel Knupp, guitar and Gerhard. Oh my God, that's a lot of vowels together. Bey-er-i-s-weel, drums ex-en-ee-tress garden in Cazare's Fryborg. A short time later, Christoph Schaeffer, lead guitar ex-distant past, joined them. They decided on the bad name Acroasis in Greek.
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This means both hearing and what is heard, and can also be interpreted as the conscious perception of music. The new album, Hubris, was recorded in October-November 2023, again in the tried and tested Little Creek Studio with V.O. Pulver. The current artwork has once again been designed by Métis C.G., who had already created an outstanding cover for the predecessor, Illion.
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Hubris will be released April 29, 2024 via Doc Gator Records on DigiPack. Oh, they blew it wrong. Fucking hate DigiPacks. Oh my God. And various vinyl versions. Bullet Points, God, this goes on forever. Bullet Points, second album by the Swiss. History researchers, playful, mellow death. Mellow death wasn't one of the tags.
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paired with beefy thrash, I would love a beefy thrash. That sounds delicious. Emphasizes high standards musically and lyrically. What's impressive is this band photo is like identical to the last band photo. Except without the green jacket. Yeah, they're all wearing, they all have exposed arms and most of them have exposed shins.
00:33:09
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Right. But they're not going on an adventure. They're just hanging out. Switzerland is famously neutral. Yeah, yeah. They don't need to be prepped for attack unless, what, they're in the Vatican or something, right?
00:33:26
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Line up, Mike Bruger vocals, Marcel Knupp rhythm guitars, Christoph Schafer guitars, Hansud Zorrer, that's a lot of ours, on bass, and Gerhard Baerswil on drums. That sounds like...
00:33:41
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a way to insult like a beer. Oh, this is just the best view. Maybe it's a joke we don't get. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to look at the album artwork is like bloody ground with lots of bloody arrows in a circle, like crossed to create a circle, but they all like meet sort of in the middle.
00:34:10
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It's like a, it's like a bloody arrow clock. Yes. Perfect. Oh, that, that should be what they sell to promote. Oh my God, that'd be awesome. And if they can get a picture disc of this, there you go. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. Yeah, that would be, I'd almost forgive him for the Digipek. All right. So they are victims of, uh, this, you know, I feel like the, the, the
00:34:37
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email could have been written more better. But I will not hold that against them. I will be giving this 1.27 ears. 1.27 ears? Yes. It has one full ear and slightly more than a quarter of another one. I mean, okay. The song titles
00:35:03
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The song titles in their severity remind me of Immolation, which is a band that I really, really enjoy. For the most part, Insult the Gods, Gifted with Fire,
00:35:19
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Eternal rest. They're just very to the point and blunt. But then there's some that don't work. Most atrocious deed is more lame. Driven to kill. That seems very bog-standard death metal. I'm going to judge them on their previous album, which has, I think, better
00:35:51
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has better album art, except I would say for like the right boob of the sea monster lady. They clearly like had the tentacles blocking it and they were like, oh shit, it's too low. Let's just like move the boob down. Which I find just really weird. Oh, this is interesting.
00:36:20
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I'm going to go in a year and a half. There's a lot of commitment to this. Looking at the pictures of them, it's very professionally done. The logo is done. The artwork is pretty solid. Write boob problems aside. The severity of it all.
00:36:48
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just with the doomed from their previous album, Human Sacrifice, and then with the new album, Insult the Gods, I like that vibe. So I'll say it here in a half.
00:37:04
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Yeah, I am also going to give them an ear and a half. They clearly have some kind of Greek mythology thing going on. I actually played crayon in Antigone in high school. It is a very, very good play. Sophocles play. Oh, isn't that what you use to swallow your Sophocles? Yeah. Yeah. Your Sophocles not to be confused with your larynx and where your voice box lives. Yeah, it's good.
00:37:33
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I think it makes sense. I wonder how...
00:37:37
Speaker
concepty the albums are. That's my only kind of skeptical doubt. I mean, are they just metal songs that they've thrown together with titles that sort of evoke the drama, or is it just, you know, an actual concept? I mean, if you look at the previous album, there's Ulysses Fate, and then there's Patroclus,
00:38:04
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uh, Silla and Charybdis. Yeah. So it looks like it's probably pretty concepty. Yeah. I mean, this is like Ilion. This is clearly like a, uh, an Odyssey kind of thing here. Um, so, but again,
00:38:23
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I don't, but without having listening to the music, or is it just a, right. Cause that's where a music review show, we don't listen to fucking records. Um, but, uh, but, uh, yeah, but we don't know how well that goes. All right. Well that wraps it up until next time. Metal nation, if you want a perfect score on podcast them down from at least one of us,
00:38:51
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dress up like a hot dog and roll the plate of hot dogs i will also accept dressing up like a turkey and eating a whole turkey hey guys oh talking now i'm gonna get braces to correct this don't worry