HardLore - Best Cold Weather Albums of All Time

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

We officially welcome the fall/winter seasons (the best time of year) with an official tribute to our favorite COLD WEATHER albums of all time. Hardcore, metal, industrial, electronic, you name it... Some things are just best served cold. Listen to the official companion playlist for this episode HERE: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3w6sZh4B2NCPPwGhJUxuPb?si=a508f351f83f4ec2 HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes: https://patreon.com/hardlorepod HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records store: https://hardlorepod.com Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jA9rppggef Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code HARDLORE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/hardlorepod/ TWITTER | https://twitter.com/hardlorepod SPOTIFY | https://spoti.fi/3J1GIrp APPLE | https://apple.co/3IKBss2 FOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/colinyovng/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/ColinYovng FOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/bosxe/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/bosxe   HardLore: A Knotfest Series, Fueled by Monster Energy Edited by Steven Grise • Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes. Join the HARDLORE DISCORD for community discussions and to participate in our future Q&A episodes. FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, SPOTIFY, APPLE FOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAM FOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER   For sponsorship opportunities, email us! [e-mail] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The iconic VHS franchise returns this Friday on Shudder with six chilling tales of sci-fi aura beyond earthly comprehension. Featuring a new original song by Hardlore's own Holy Blade. VHS Beyond. Hello, welcome. It is Hardlore Time. How are you, Bo? I'm doing very well. Saw Slayer last night.

So the set was pretty good. Pretty good. There was a big chunk right in the middle. but the bookends were A lot of seasons A lot of seasons To south of heaven Come on

Yeah they Mandatory and South of Heaven I need ghosts of war dude I need that song I want spill the blood Which I got to see it Which was awesome Yeah

I can't go without it now But anyway that kind of brings us To today's topic Which is Very near and dear to our hearts Really who we actually are as as music fans as artists as uh spooky black shirt wearing mother f*** really let me ask you what what's like your earliest memory of fall of like what this is you know like what is yeah hit me

with some oh i am from bristol connecticut yeah you know right on yep which is brown leaves orange leaves falling crispy leaves pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin smashed all about mischief, tomfoolery, etc. That's what it's all about. Yeah. And that started very young for me.

And I think having two older brothers who were absolute f*** heads will do that to you. What was your favorite Halloween costume? From your childhood. I'll tell you mine right off the rip. I think I was Batman three years in a row. Beautiful.

I was a Ninja Turtle like three or four years in a row. For sure. See. Yeah. The Ninja Turtle, when they first came out with the like weapon toys yeah get out of here I had Raphael's things

there was not a tree in sight that was safe you know when we moved to California I got like an Anakin Skywalker like deluxe lightsaber for the first time like the really gnarly ones that you're not supposed to hit stuff with

of course but we had a fig tree Okay. It's still, I mean, I got to be wanted by the fig authorities still to this day, you know? Fig Newton. I've spent two years beating the shit out of figs with a lightsaber. Yeah. But anyway, that applies to today's episode, which is our favorite fall slash winter cold weather albums.

The sun goes down. Yes. The moon is bright. We fall back in daylight savings time And we pick the music that best represents That little thing in the air that changes you That first chill We had it yesterday in Chicago

First day of real fall was yesterday It was rainy, the leaves are fallen And it was in the 60s Now will it stay that way? This late into September usually that's crazy usually yes I have

I don't think California is getting fall fall until winter yeah it's I mean it's 90 all week it sucks but yeah

in here it's crisp beautiful yeah yeah so it's all starting so I'm very much in the mood I'm feeling very very autumnal same

and I think one thing I want to emphasize with all these that they're not all not all my picks are inherently like spooky no I don't know.

But there's just things I find it difficult to listen to while sweating. Which most of the time I'm sweating. Yeah. So let's just get right to it. Our usual format we're going to do is 15 albums and then a top five. Are you 15 in any sort of order? I will say the first one I'm about to say was just booted from my top five for something else. Okay.

But I mean, it's all heat. Yeah, that's how mine is too. Pure heat. Okay, good. So I'm going to start with the most autumnal, atmospheric, and overall emotional album from the heaviest band to ever make music. This is Crowbar's Odd Fellows Rest. Oh, good pick. And in addition to how we normally do this, we're going to pick a song.

Yes. As well. Do you have a song from... I mean, it's tough to not go planets collide here when you're talking atmosphere and... It's... It's the heaviest song by the heaviest man, in my opinion. I agree without being, like, inherently... Yeah, it's not a head-banging anthem, but it's heavy here.

As we said time and time again, this is the heaviest man of all time. But this record is heavy thoroughly... in an emotional capacity as well. This is the Thinking Man's Crowbar album. And it was a close call between this and Sonic Excess. Yeah. But I think front to back Oddfellow's Rest is my pick for. This is a band in particular where listening to Crowbar while it's hot outside,

very difficult to do it. The weight sets in. Like the heaviness of the weight, you've got that fat suit on here. 100%. And I can't eat a meal when... Because then I'm sweating... Imagine eating barbecue while listening to Crow Bar. Oh, it's torture.

It would be a sense memory nightmare for the rest of my life. I would eat barbecue and be like, remember that time I did this while listening to Crow Bar? In the sun. And I fell asleep and died. Good pick. Good pick. All right.

My first one, I went way back. I tried to go back to like an early, like young beau being like... I like that. I got a lot of those in here. So I'm going Tiger Army. I love it. The second record is the power of moonlight. So I think it's officially Tiger Army 2,

The Power of Moonlight. The song is Under Saturn Shadow. It was hard for me to not pick from the first record, the song called True Romance, that Davy sings on. Right. And that's really neat. But I'm trying to think, like,

I'm being as true to my nostalgic self as I can. And Under Saturn Shadow was like one of the first songs I heard. Cool chorus. fun song. Nick 13 is like screeching the whole time. It's like a super high register song. And it's just awesome. I don't know. Tiger Army or this, I don't listen to really anything much like that at all. Yeah, they're kind of in a league of their own in that world. They get a pass where it's like, I would go and see Tiger Army today. Yeah. You know. In front of the show London May, I believe played in Tiger Army for a while, right? I believe so.

Then there's videos of them covering American Nightmare by the misfits. Like they, They get it. They know. It's all one thing. I like that. It really is. All right. Let's see what we got here. My next pick, man, where do I go from here? A lot of options. My next pick, I'm going to do something interesting here. Okay.

And this could be a top five any day of the week. Okay. The soundtrack from the iconic October 30th, annual rewatch film The Crow You got Stone Temple Pilots You got 9 Inch Nails You got Pantera covering Poison Idea

You just picked like 20 songs I know Like 20 bands and one Yeah yeah wow And it was and it was It was these are This is an original soundtrack So these are songs

Given for this soundtrack only And Jesus and Mary Chan And most famously The opening track Which I recommend Anybody listens to Is probably my favorite the Cure song

Burn. I have said on record I think it's the greatest song by a band for a movie ever read. Do they ever play that? To this day. Oh really?

That's on set list and stuff? And I think it was during their like meth mania where they have no memory of writing or recording it. Oh my God. But it's something this good that just shows.

What a band. Oh, I got a trimeth. If they're doing shit this good? Imagine what you'll write. Oh, God. Imagine the splash fills you will write. Out of control. Cranked out of your mind.

All right. My next one is only theater of pain by Christian death. The song, Spiritual Cramp. This is, this falls under the, often falls under the like dark wave goth. thing, but is a little more upbeat, a little more punk, which is what I like about it. I have a hard time sitting through Joy Division or Bauhaus or like the slower goth stuff. I need something with a little bit of aggression. And that's what this has for me.

That's what it has for me. The record pretty much entirely is that, which is why I was drawn to it. It's one of those ones too that's like, honestly, probably listen to it once a year and I go, that's a good record. And then that's kind of good. Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's not like some of these others. But that's what this is all about. You know, we revisit these when the chill hits.

And Christian Death, I think, aesthetically, some of the greatest design merch memorabilia in history. There's a lot of that in some. Like, some, it's hilarious. Some of these, like, almost the bigger bands you get, the worst merch to a certain point. But these, like, middle ones are like... You give me all those cats, hats, and bats, and I have told...

Okay. Love it. Great pick. My next pick. That's nice. Terrible game. Great imagery. Great imagery.

My next pick, one of my favorite bands of all time. One of my favorite artists of all time. This is a bit of a cheat because this is two albums, but it's one story. Okay. So it kind of counts. King Diamond. Them and Conspiracy. This is the story.

its sequel. Or them is King returning home, there's grandma returning home from the psych ward or something. And to go back to her chair and her attic to find that the, where King finally discovers that the house itself is alive inhabited by them. And they're communicating through his evil grandma. I hate when that happens, dude. It's the worst.

And then in conspiracy, grandma's dead, his sister's dead. Missy. Steve Chobbs is dead. I've been trying to pitch this to Netflix or something. We'll see. If that happens before I'm involved, I'll kill you. In conspiracy, this evil doctor marries his mom, and he has to work with the house, the spirits of the house, to kill the doctor.

It's good shit. And this is all from King's mind. Yeah, sure. Genius. I would recommend the track of Visit from the Dead from conspiracy. But, I mean, this is a sonic journey here. So take the whole thing for a ride. This is Mickey D. Classic drumming.

Absolute goat level, inspirational for me. This is, like, there's parts from both of these records that if I sit down in a drum kit, I'm going to play them. Like, no matter what. It's just, it's in you. It is, like, muscle memory. At this point. Gotcha. The whole like,

get to do get, that's Mickey D. And that's me, you know? Yeah. So yeah, these are my two favorite King Diamond records,

and they are one continuous story. One story. Yeah. In the, before Slayer, they played like a 10, 15 minute kind of history, you know,

thing that bigger bands do a lot. Just dudes shout and not Slayer or what? Yeah, yeah, kind of that, but then also like a kind of a documentary. It's like the members of the band talking about stuff.

interesting mention Dave and stuff is weird. But I think Kerry King says at one point, yeah, you know, the first record... Did mention Dave? Did mention Dave. Oh, good. But like by name. Like, like, Carrie King was like, yeah, I knew Dave. And it's just so, it's just like an interesting that like

he's mentioned, but he's not playing. Yeah, come, come, come, come, come. Hey him. They say like, yeah, you know, the first record, there's a lot of reverb. And we decided to stop trying to be merciful fate on the next record. And that was Hallowait's. it's just kind of cool to hear that, like straight from the horse's mouth.

It's like we were doing something and then, and that's how I feel about Killamol. But anyway, my number 13 now, you mentioned something and it maybe cross one off and put another one on. Because I realized I didn't have the Kings of Cold in their kingdom cold, the only good black metal adjacent band

that I personally like, Immortal, the record Sons of Northern Darkness, Yeah Front to back is like a technical masterpiece Yeah And it sounds good

So it's like You can sit and listen to it It doesn't feel like Punishing like Most like black metal or whatever And there's like heavy songs Like there's like Yeah no this is a hard ass band

It's a hard band The The song I'm gonna choose It's called Tyrants Which is kind of the I think it's probably one of the singles If there was such a thing In 2006

The very last song the record, which is like a hidden track on some versions, whatever. It's called like across the narrow sea or something. But it's all about touring, but from the eyes of a Viking. So you're standing on your enemy's land with your weapon in hand, like all this shit. And when they play it live, he's like, I now stand. And he's like pointing people out shit. It's the coolest.

But it's all very glacial sound. It sounds cold. And that's a difficult thing to like, I remember one time when we were tracking, when we were tracking Rust, there was a song and I told Andy I was like I want this part to sound like cold like it's cold in the room and he was like what does that mean like how do you know when you hear it man and I was like that's a great question but yeah something sound hot totally you know totally like Lana del Reyer albums sound like it's hot out dude actually really well said like the opening off to the race it sounds hot sounds like a summer in there it's a summer day sweat my ass off but yeah mortal cold, chilly music. In their kingdom. Fantastic. Fantastic.

Yes. Complete 180 from Immortal. Ten years into their career. I would say the greatest electronic band of all time finally makes their iconic standout breakthrough record. Ten years in, think about that. It's very important. So if you're in a band, you're an artist, you're feeling discouraged

because at eight, nine years of making your art, you haven't, you're not world famous yet. It took Depeche Mode 10 years to make Violator. And there ain't a song on that record that isn't an absolute fucking hit. No skips. Even the atmospheric tracks, like waiting for the night, serve their purpose in,

like, enjoy the silence to me doesn't hit right without enduring waiting for the night before. Exactly. Because you need that drone and then... And then it explodes in, dude. Man. My favorite song from the album is Halo. Really?

Yeah, so I would recommend... If you've somehow never heard this record or if you love, enjoy the silence, and you've never dove into the rest, Halo right now, I think, is a perfect chorus, cool verse, cool guitar stuff. This is a record that you and I bonded over on that European tour, the first tour we did.

Big time. We were both just kind of listening to it, ironically, in the middle of summer, sweating our asses off. But I agree with you that it is a very fall, cold weather. Very cold. Yeah. You want to, you want to. There's a lot of, there's a collar. Yeah.

A lot of ear candy in the back of these songs that just feel like wind and chill. Tell the story, the accordion song. What was that? Oh, enjoy the sign. silence, the pre-production demo version, which is on the, I have a 12-inch single somewhere for that song. That's the thing a lot of people don't realize. Any good song used to have a 12-inch single with 18 different versions of it on. Yes. Yeah. And people rejoiced. And now that's kind of coming back and streaming. Yeah. And people are like giving them shit. Like Sabrina Carpenter

Espresso had 15 versions on a digital single. I'm sure there's some Olivia, the Rob Rigo song has a single edit with five different versions on it. I like that kind of shit. Well, there's even like the Taylor's version stuff. Yeah, and those that, like, you can get on her about, you know, blocking Charlie X, EX from number one, and maybe that is true. But also, she's, you know, you give, you're giving back to your fans in a way. And that's like old school music marketing shit.

Is like, okay, put five more versions of the song out until it, until it ain't working. But on the 12-inch single for Violator is the, I don't know if it's an accordion or something like that where Enjoy the Silence was written just going, Gah, no drums, no guitars, no bass, just What's like violence? Very somber over just this accordion. I think the producer of the album was like, dude, you have like the best pop song of all time here under this.

Can we fix this? And it was like a reluctant thing. Yeah. Yeah, right. So, you know, that's a great example of a third party. Big time. Looking at your art in a way that you never would and making it better. Big time.

Love that. Okay. Here's a little cheat for me, similar to your King Diamond thing. Only I'm doing it three times as much. I'm going to do Johnny Cash. Okay. American Recordings 1 through 6. Okay

I I don't I don't remember why but I just kind of like fell really hard into Johnny Cash when I was in like before I moved out of my mom's house and it was like in the school year

and it was just like a never ending stream of music the guy had a thousand songs if not more you know like yeah and not a lot like Elvis you know we're yeah

and not all of the recordings were out at that time yet. I think it was only through four maybe. Okay. And there might actually only be five, but anyway. They weren't all out yet. So I was, I was enjoying them as they came out. And like him redoing his songs as an older man, him covering songs, all that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And it was really cool. And then, and covering like cool songs, like the Danzig song, 13.

You know the story behind that one? Do you ever see that video? Dude. There's a story of, of like, late 90s Johnny Cash. It's a video. It's on YouTube. Wasn't Danzig tapped to write for Johnny Cash at some point? Late. Late 90s Johnny Cash. He's like, we went over to Rick Rubin's house one day.

And he's like talking about how he's like, Rick was like, Johnny, this is Glenn. Glenn, this is Johnny. He said, hell, night to meet you, Glenn. And he says, Glenn has a song. He wrote for him. He's like, all right. And he showed it. And we played it a couple times.

And we put it on the album. It wasn't until a couple years later, I learned that young man's last name. So this is for you, Glenn Danzig. And then he plays it. Danzig wrote 13. It's on Danzig 4, I think. He wrote it with Johnny Cash in mind, but he just wanted to put it out. Like he wrote it to be a Johnny Cash song, the story goes.

And then got together with Rick Rubin, gave it to Johnny and Johnny put it down. So that's going to be the song I choose, because that's obviously the coolest thing ever. Yeah, that's unbelievable. It's in the beginning of the hangover. The dancing version is in the beginning of the first hangover. And then I think the second hangover is the Cash. version. Maybe it's the other way around. But anyway, Johnny Cash, I think it's American

Recordings 3. 13 by Danzig. And you think about how cool that was for Danzig, where like the guy that we would mark out for the most was probably marking out for... He did a song with Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and then played American Nightmare with Hank the 3rd.

Like, those have to be just cosmic. Like, damn, I'm pretty cool, man. I can't wait to go home to New Jersey. All right. Well, my next pick, slightly different direction, but

an inevitable one regardless. From the Bay Area. AFI. Wow. Are they in your top five? Fuck yeah. Okay, I didn't put them, I, maybe I

shouldn't avoid it. Maybe I shouldn't say it. Maybe we'll wait. No, say it. It'll be an hour. It'll be an hour by the time. No, we're good. Okay. Well, black sales for me. Jade enters the ban. changes everything. Sea change.

Start literally, no pun intended. Starts doing things that no band is doing or has done. And thus begins the evolution into the AFI that we know and love. This is cold weather personified. I mean, even the, what's the single video?

Is it seasons change? Till the seasons change LaWade Is that the single? Yeah There's a music video for it Oh cool I didn't know

I forget the title Of that song But it's literally about You know Yeah Yeah Personified I would pick the song

Malius Malificarum Is that number one No that's Oh that's We are Oh man. I wonder how much of that was like at all written when jade joined or if it was clean slate, what do you got? It had that had to be jane because it sounds so different, you know? It feels different.

But then the jump to the EP and Art of Drowning is kind of different too. Kind of, it's just more like, hey, what if we just really went for this? Yeah, true. Spooky thing, you know? Yeah. Great pain. Thanks, man. I'm excited to hear yours.

Yeah, that one, like, you see the record cover and, like, the waves, and I just like, you're getting. I get pumped. Yeah. Love, love that record. My number 11 is a passage in time by Dead Can Dance, the song Cantara. It's, uh, this is about as moody as I get when it comes to these kinds of, like, these are the goth.

these are the goth bands that like you would expect to play a goth night that are never played at goth night kind of a thing because you can't dance to this there's no it's just it's just moody atmospheric exactly but I really like it

Dead Can Dance can kind of fit into any one of their records could fit onto this list because it's all like that and I didn't want to go too heavy or too electronic or two whatever. So this is one of my ambient ones, kind of one of my more symphonic ones. But yeah, Passions the Time, Ben-Tara, I don't know a whole lot about that kid dance, to be fair. But I do know when I, when I was like getting into some of these bands, there was, it was, I think it was actually Andy, again, from nachos, which is like, check this out and just kind of gave me a list.

And I've kept the stuff that I liked, you know, iPod days. Yeah. So that's us now to you proudly. My next pick would be probably the greatest band to ever exist other than, I mean, it's tough to say. The reason for the season, really.

Black Sabbath, I would go with, this was tough for me, picking a record, sabotage. Interesting. Sabotage, I think, is overall my favorite Ozzy Sabbath record. Really? Yeah.

I just think it's like the... And it feels the most 70s, you know? Yeah, totally. Their vibe, their style is hippie-dippy by this... Spooky hippie, you know? Yeah, total spooky hippie.

Druid. Yeah. Drewid. Exactly. What I like about this list is you can't be wrong. Like, whatever makes you think of fall is just your answer.

Because to me, Black Sabbath is very like, summer. Like, I'm grilling. I got Black Sabbath on. Really? Very different vibe for me. Yeah, yeah. So this is, if it's hot, this is not going on. Very interesting. You know? Like the song, Black Sabbath title track during a heat wave? It storms in the summer.

Not here. True. A touche. That's interesting. That could be a geographic. It's burning alive here. This is not burning a live music. I would pick the song, the closing track, the writ. A nine-minute epic opus. Just this is an aggressive record. There's a lot of cool, like, heavy skank parts, kind of. Yeah, right, right.

Over his, you know, what record is after Forever on? Is that Volume 4, Master Reality? I don't know. There's a lot of, like, his, like, post-religious themes on this, you know? Gotcha. At some point, he has experienced. explicitly like, I believe in God. Christ is awesome.

Yeah. Here he's talking about, you know, the universe, holes in the sky. Yeah. Dest and death and whatnot. He's off the wagon. He's fully off the wagon. I think this is Ozzie at his Oziest before barking at the moon, you know, before he began barking at that moon.

Or being a blizzard of Oz really would have been a great pick. I wish I thought of that until right now. But we'll go with sabotage. I like that. All right. Number 10, this is kind of a cheat. It's an EP technically. That's not a cheat.

Okay, cool. It's a record, you know? Yeah. Newer band to me, boy harsher, from the lesser man EP. There's only one choice is this song, Payne. It's like a seven-minute song. Dude, when I first heard it and played it, I probably put it on repeat. It was driving home from Miami to Chicago after the Cannibal Corp tour, and it was just like,

I was just going, dude. And I think it's creepy. I don't think they're necessarily going for like a spooky thing, you know, like overtly. Sometimes you can't help it. Yeah, it just kind of came out. It's in your veins. There's like a kind of an infamous story. I was just talking about it last night where they played a venue nearby called

Empty Bottle around that time that I first heard it. And they played that song twice. So it was like 16 minutes of just like like. Oppressive. Oppressive. of driving. I know a friend who was there who said it was like

the Blade vampire rave. It was just like all red lights, dark, and people just like dancing for the sake of dancing, which you don't really, I don't hear much about

in like our area of music. That's got nothing to do with me. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah. But song fucking rocks. The record's cool. And to your point earlier,

it has several remixes by other artists of that song on the back side, on the B side of the record. Yeah, it's cool. Very cool. So yeah, Boy Harsher, the song, Pain. Excellent. Speaking of Pain and excellent female vocalists,

this is the record that got me by the great and powerful Chelsea Wolf. The record is called Pain is Beauty. Dude. Hell of a record. Hell of a rollout. Hell of an era. The artwork is great. Her, her, just, Chelsea has an artist and as a, as a presence is just like such a star and such an undeniable voice and touch on music. The song, The Waves Have Come was one of the, I mean, this, this record came out, I think,

on a Twishing Tungs tour. So it was like all of us unanimously listening to it kind of every day. What's the cover? Is it the one of her? The red dress. The red dress. Yeah, with like, she's in a red dress. With her on it.

Yeah. Kind of like a portrait. Yeah. Yeah. Opens with Farrell Love, the crazy electronic song. Bam. Bown. Yes, dude.

Remember at the AFI show? How awesome that was at the Sing the Sorrow show. Dude. They sounded. Yeah. That's like the best I've ever heard a band sound at the forum, I think. It was unbelievable. It was massive.

It was massive. That record rocks. That has, uh, we hit a wall. Yeah, banger. It's tough, man. It was tough to pick a track because this thing is so full of them.

But if you aren't familiar with Chelsea's work already, this is the record that got me. I'm sure it'll get you to. Great pick. Thanks, man. A wonderful pick. Next one, for me, number nine,

is the record treasure by the cocktail twins. The song is Lorelei, Laura Lee. It's very vocally driven and very kind of haunting. Very, like, ooh. Every song on the record

has a female name. I don't know why. Haven't read the lyrics. But they all have kind of different flavors to them. Like each song. How so? Just in, like, stylistically,

like one will be more guitar. One will be more rhythmic. One will be more vocals. One will be completely, like, a little more ambient. This one is the more vocally driven one. and she just has a cool way of kind of repeating this melody and it's very enchanting. It's very nice.

I like it quite a bit. So that's... Cocktoe Twins, the record Treasure. Do you know what they're saying ever? No. Okay. That's part of the magic, right? Yeah, they're casting spells.

I still haven't figured it out. Magic spells. Yeah. Bangers, though. Banger after a bangor for those fuckers, huh? Yeah. Are they really twins? If you go, if you just like Spotify, like Cocktoot twins fucking playlist, it's all.

It's also songs you've heard before. One of these coming up, I'll explain, but like pop culture uses these things more often than you think. It's weird. Yeah, I mean, how else are you going to? Oh, I didn't put Echo on the Bunny Man on here. Dan, that would have been good. That was the one I crossed off to put on Immortal. Is it really?

That's so funny. Because, I mean, you drop the weather. That song is fucking coming on. My next pick, a record that is, man, narrowing down a top five here was almost impossible. Oh, okay. Just like there's so, five more of these could have been on my top five, I think. This one is like part of me, straight up. And I think you would agree, many would agree.

Band is Candlemasse. Oh. The album is Nightfall. Yeah. Good. Great. And, you know, if you're over 50, I'm sure you're upset that I did. It's weird.

The over 50 candlemasse heads, I think, think everything but Epicus sucks. Which is crazy. Which is just so crazy. Because it's the same musicians. I mean, other than Messiah. I mean, yeah, Leif wrote everything forever. But Messiah here is like, this is where Camelmas became Candelmast to me. But I'm sub 50.

So that's that's natural. The song I would recommend is Samaritan, which is a cool story about a man helping out a, you know, a homeless guy, a vagabond, giving him a place to stay. Being a good Samaritan. Yeah, exactly. And in that experience, the man dies. But the angels give back to him.

on his deathbed eventually. He gets into heaven because of what he did for that man that day. So it's the story of like the angels giving him his wings because of that gracious act. And it's super melodic, super heavy, super powerful. And just that's my shit, you know. Give me a beautiful story on top of like insane melodic harmonized riffs from a Swedish guy. Ravado out the gills. Sung by a man who hid double cheeseburgers in his robes so that they would still be hot after the set.

It's so gross. Is it, though? It makes me realize that the story of the Good Samaritan is like inherently racist because it's like one of the good ones. Because the whole thing was that they were beefing like the two different peoples. And it was like, he's a good one. Right. For sure. I don't know if that's.

Yeah, I'm sure it's not. I don't know if race has ever explicitly stated in this one, but you can imagine in Sweden. It's like, eh. I just thought about the fable. It's like, that's probably what they were saying. Yeah. One of the good ones is, that's fucked. Anyway, look at it.

All right. Good pick. I was sure that was going to be on your list. Had to. My next one, the record is Tomb for Two by Lebanon, Hanover. The song is Gallaudance. This song, you have heard before. 1,000%

it is a TikTok sound that is used all the fucking time it's a guitar there's a guitar part that goes

burn down burn down burn down burn down burn down burn down burn down and it just

kind of repeats and it'll always be like look what I found in my shed and it'll be like that song playing

you know what I mean but it's one of these things where because it's so it's culturally It's like a quote from Anchorman. You know, it's not a joke anymore. It's just the English language.

Exactly. Well, said. I got you. The song itself rocks. The record rocks. And Lebanon and Hanover are like a more current band. So it's cool that there's this whole, this is a subculture that I wish I knew more about. Like a genre of music that I wish I knew more of, but I don't even know.

I saw one of the bands coming up on my Spotify. I said like, event coming up in Illinois. And it was like April. How the hell. would you know that otherwise. That's cool. I mean, Spotify should do that for... There's a way to fully integrate your tours with Spotify.

My God. There is. There is through the Spotify artist page. There you go. Do that, guys. It's good shit. My next pick, continuing in nothing that we've been talking about, starting a new conversation,

is in the mid-late 2000s, there was a boom of female-fronted... satanic psychedelic rock metal bands from Europe. Okay. This one,

I've got a couple of them on here. One that is my favorite one is coming up, but the first one now is the devil's blood. The record is the thousandfold epicenter. Devil's blood. Metal Blade Records for this one. The song I would recommend is on the wings of Gloria, which I believe is track two.

This is Halloween. music fucking personified dude is like driving drums and riffs under like funky really intricate kind of bass do do do do like really fucking rocking yeah with a like perfect kind of jazz sounding female singer under it singing about Satan what more could you want sign sign me up yeah totally I think they put out one other record after this. Their first record is not streaming. So that's kind of why I didn't put that on, because it's hard to find.

That's my favorite one. This one is streaming and is basically as good. And I think that's the best I can describe them, is rocking ass, spooky, psychedelic rock music where all the songs are about. demons and Satan and here's my soul you evil bastard I love you it's good shit did you pick the song sorry on the wings of Gloria was thank you excellent good pick I remember that era it was good it was good I mean now I think Twin Temple is the

is the like the kind of driving force of that Lana's a big fan I think they're good but this is there's the next one coming up I think is the best to ever do it in that got you oh Perfect. Sub genre. My next one is The Killing Joke. The record is Nighttime. Your favorite word.

The song is 80s, which a lot of these, I'm picking kind of the single and like kind of the most obvious because I want it to be like, here's why. Like, oh, that one. Oh, that one.

What's the rest of this record sound like? Sure. Also, the 80s is like, Nirvana directly ripped it off. Like almost note for note, which I just think is like interesting because it's a different application of a riff. But it's just kind of quintessential, scary, gothy, fun kind of alternative music, you know? Yeah, that's awesome.

My next pick is our guys, Bo. Who we got. This is some old fuckers that we would go to war for, which interestingly is what this song is about. The band is Genesis. Oh. The album is Wind and Weathering, which is my favorite Genesis album. Wow. The song is called One for the Vine.

It's an eight-minute epic opus about the war for God. Religion versus religion. The innocent deaths that, you know, created from people's different beliefs based on roughly translated texts and bullshit. all culminating in what I think this is probably my other than my number one pick from my top five

this I think is the other best bridge ever written and it's entirely musical cool and it's all like this is my dad's shit personified because it's guys playing with toys in the studio I got you yeah it's kind of you can the keyboardist came with a

sick-ass riff that is like a weird fucking time signature. The drummer came prepared and said, I'm going to rock through this. But we're going to need 10 to 15 different percussive toys in the background. So you get to this bridge of this song. You close your eyes. You feel the chill hits you. And just, and let me know what you think. This is like in my top 10 songs ever written by people.

So yeah, let me know what you think. I like, like, that is not a naturally fall, cold weather record to most. No, but like. But I like that. But when you go into it with that in mind, it will completely transform it to you. Love it. That's awesome. Wind and weathering.

Think about that. Yeah. That's what's happening to the trees. they knew man they were trying to tell us something something's up yeah my next one is a band that I I do talk about pretty frequently

called beast milk they were not they turn into grave pleasures and had a lineup change after that so they really they had a 7 inch and then an LP recorder with Kirpaloo the LP is called Climax the song I'm going to pick is called

Genocidal Crush this sounds like the Misfits meets Morrissey meets all of these like killing Joe Cocktail Twins that can dance kind of thrown together. Yeah, this is...

Dude. They might be your number one drafted band for like list episodes. Yeah. And I just added them because I was like,

this is a very fall. Wind blows through their skulls. It's like one of the choruses wind blows through those skulls. It's very... It fits in line with all of this. It makes perfect sense to me or I'm obsessed with that.

I know. it's a shame that they really only did one thing as this project in lineup and I wish there was more but I really for anyone who hasn't heard it I highly highly recommend checking out climax by Beast Milk Beautiful beautiful beautiful work complete 180 Here we have I don't know if it was his only record but it sure was his last record very famously The the one And only, Jeff Buckley.

I think it was his only record. Well, his whole goal was, I got to do some, I got to impress Morrissey. That's my guy. This album, Grace comes out. He dies. Morrissey puts it on his favorite albums of the year list. He did it. The song, a lot of obvious picks on here.

So I'm going to go with the song, Lover, you should have come over. This is, this is music for falling in love. Mm-hmm. In, you know, on a picnic with a big coat on, big Lenny Kravitz-sized scarf on. Mm-hmm. For, this is music for popcorn and pumpkin pie. Mmm. Yeah, me.

But it's, I mean, it's, it's like, there's a dark-sided element to the whole thing, you know? Yeah. That this man would create and finish his legacy, starting his career, really, and then take his own life immediately after. Well, that, that's, do you know, do you know the story? It makes me mad the story. I don't want to speculate here.

No, no, no. No, no, no. There's no speculation. He went swimming in the Mississippi River at midnight with a friend. He was drunk and he got hit by a tugboat or a barge. What are you doing? Don't do that. Yeah. I'm not trying to kick you while you're drowned, Jeff. But Jesus, like, it makes me mad because it's such a talent and that's such a mistake. Yeah. They were listening to Led Zeppelin, and he got hit by something and died. Do we know that he got hit by something? Because isn't it reported as a suicide? side? Well, the friend who was with him was either a guitar tech or roadie kind of guy

does not, like, he was singing a whole lot of love while he was swimming. Like, it was not that kind of thing, and then suddenly it stopped, and he was fond later. So, yeah, to believe is that. That's interesting. Because, like, drowning yourself? Tragic. But, like, hard as fuck. Way to go. Yeah, true. You know? True. So if that's how he chose to go. Yeah. Pretty cool. But if not,

if not, it's sad. It's sad. It's sad. It's sad. That's that either way. Yeah, of course. In terms of methods in which to stop it all, self-drown. All right. My next pick, kind of in theme with what we're currently talking about, is the first ministry record with sympathy, which has a lady's hand and very fake plastic nails on it,

purposefully tacky looking, according to the band. The song would be Work for Love. It's kind of upbeat, but really this is a record that, like, picking one song out of it doesn't make sense. You kind of have to hear the whole thing. It doesn't sound anything else like the rest of ministry. Regardless of what Al says, he's doing a fucking accent.

He's doing a British accent. He's trying to sound like all the bands of the time. Within two records, they're completely different. They're like heavy and awesome industrial. But this is very much a dancey electronic project from Chicago. Totally. It's awesome. And I love it.

I love this record. I think it's really cool. I like the, I like the like the like never trust a junkie. Like I love the, his, the accent thing that he went on. And he went on to later completely deny. Like, no, I didn't. I wouldn't have done that. It's on the record.

Hell, what are you talking about? I love it. That's awesome. But if anybody is, if you're unfamiliar with ministry, this isn't necessarily the best foray into it. But it is a good taste of like that time and play. place of that kind of music. And if you like it, check out Psalms would be the next ministry record.

But this one is with sympathy. Excellent job. Before my next pick, yes. Something really important. So important. And that is manscaped. Because let me tell you,

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Okay. A band from Finland, members of Demelik, the shining star in the 2000-2010's psychedelic, satanic, female-fronted boom.

This band is Jess and the ancient ones. Whoa. Their debut album, Jess and the ancient ones. The song I would recommend, I've recommended others before, so I will recommend come crimson death this time. Which the whole thing with this record is these long ass, big, rockin songs that are all individual journeys within their own. Where they'll give you kind of the hook within the first like minute, minute and a half and then do like this two, three minute kind of rocking.

Yeah. noodleing sesh, but where they're super chill, there's an incredible pianist. And then they bring back that hook later. And then every song builds to a big, sexy bridge. Love it. Like, this song ends with just Lucifer, Lucifer, Lucifer, Lucifer, for a few minutes.

And it's amazing. And having to earn it through this 11 minutes and 43 seconds that it lasts, just makes it so much, Twitter. This is going to be the longest playlist. Oh, she's long. I think you just picked like four of your last picks were over seven minutes each. Yeah, I got a couple long ones. Oh, my God, I got a really long one coming.

I'm unfamiliar with that. Yeah, many are. This is the kind of thing where like Taylor and I were on to them real early. We loved it. And King Diamond being somebody who picks his openers himself. Baller. Cool as fuck. Like right now, overkill is direct for his next tour.

You know, he's fucking awesome. They opened the tour where we saw King Diamond on Halloween at the Wiltern. So that was a perfect show for me. He was like, I'm seeing my favorite new band and my favorite guy on Halloween night. This is beautiful. And they played pretty much this whole record. So, yeah, dive in. Enjoy.

A great pick. My number four is The Cure. I didn't want to go to, I'm trying to keep it purposefully autumn. I know we're doing cold weather, but I'm kind of focusing on like, Oh, that's fair. What makes it feel to me?

So I just went with pornography. Because that's kind of the first in the chapter. Very October. Exactly. And I believe he said that pornography, disintegration and blood flowers are like a trilogy, even though... Seasons? Yeah.

Well, there are a trilogy of the same story, even though there's records in between them. They're not all in a row, which is insane. Love that. Disintegration, I've mentioned many times before. It's probably my top five record. But for this discussion specifically, I think the song, Hanging Garden, which again is kind of an obvious choice, but it's to get you into the record off of pornography by The Cure is like, so this was the height

this is the first bigger record they did is the height of the meth thing where they were reportedly like rolling around the studio sleeping in the studio

in garbage and like dumpsters and shit right just no idea what they were doing but they put out this like I don't

it's a it's a trance of a record it's this is probably my favorite record it's incredible it is incredible and it gets me very much

of the season. This is one of those ones where when I feel it, I physically put the record on. Yeah. Let her rip. I love. Kind of an acquired taste, which I like about it. And it, like, impresses me kind of how well this did. Because if you know the cure from just like Heaven or Friday I'm in love, the same is. Then this is extreme music. Absolutely. This is, like, aggressive. It's awesome. It's fucking awesome. So, yeah. I'm with you. Great pick. Thank you. Oh, man. We're winding down. Yeah. All right.

This is my last kind of non-tebby band type pick. Okay, gotcha. The composer is Max Richter. He is kind of like contemporary classical. He was German-born, but he's from Britain. He's notable for scoring movies such as Ad Astra, Hostels, most famously, the HBO series The Leftovers. His debut album is called Memory House.

And this is before he was composing movies. or anything, he was just writing new classical music. The song I would recommend is called November. Love it. Which, this is in October, really. But you'll see, it's literally like, it sounds like a somber rainy day.

Wow. And you can tell that was very much the goal. And it's all instrumental. It's orchestra. Yes. Beautiful. When he did a soundtrack for the leftovers, because along with writing new music for it,

they just use songs from this record. So I have to imagine Damon Lindelof was like, hey man, I love Memory House. Can we just use this on the whole show? Yeah. And it is scattered throughout the show. And this song, November, is kind of used

in the biggest emotional climaxes throughout the show. Wow. So if you've seen the leftovers, you will put this on and be like, oh, it's this fucking song. Holy shit. This is every big moment, this is in the background. It's got to feel so cool to be a director or producer or whatever on a project, a movie or a show, and to like find

music. And not only that, develop a relationship with that guy. Yeah, yeah. And then give him a new career. Yeah, imagine. Because my mom is a big classical music head and like didn't understand. She's like, where are the classical artists now? And then she had an epiphany that they're all writing, they're all doing scores and

soundtrack. Like, why wouldn't they be? And this is a great example of that of just like a great classical, a new classical artist who just did his thing, completely did his own, he was himself in his art, and it got him

to where he needed to be. And now he's killing it. I love that. I figured there would have been more scoring. It's just albums, you know? Yeah. Yeah, true. I wanted to it was albums. And this is, this is, This is a fucking cold weather album.

Yeah. I love it. All right. My next one is by a Belarusian band. I'm going to pronounce it all wrong because it's all in a language I don't speak, but it's Molkat doma. The record is Itatsi, the song I literally cannot pronounce. It's got characters in it.

I've never seen before. Give it a whirl. Tehueba. To hewa tehub. Tohwebata. Period. Lofi synth music with a guy with a lot of reverb singing in Belarusian, whatever the language is that they speak there. It's fucking so awesome.

It is perfect for right now. To the point where when I was making this list last night, I put it on. And it was just like, I let it play while I was doing the others. This is the soundtrack to putting this list together? Exactly, dude. This fucking song is awesome. They have three records. They're all cool. This is the band that's playing here sometime next year. I'm going to go see him because God knows. I don't know. But they're really cool. It's really creepy.

And this I've also heard on TikTok sounds and stuff like that too. This is another one of those ones that gets kind of used and repurposed. Interesting. Highly recommended. Love this song. I'm excited to pop this on. It sounds good. It's good. Up next for me, this is probably the heaviest single album. My next two are the two heaviest records that I put on this list.

So if that's what you're looking for here, look no further, then to me a doom metal Mount Rushmore. My Dying Bride, the album is Turned Loose to Swans. The song, I'm going to make it easy. It's Your River. It's track two. First song, Sear Me, is eight minutes. minutes and it's only piano

and violin and vocals. The second... So that's like essentially an eight minute intro to this album. Then your river has like a three minute long intro. It's one of the most psychotic album sequences in history. Yeah, it's just

make them wait. But I'll never forget it. I will never forget this back to back because of that. So check this out. Turned loose to swans. Heavy is all hell. Melodic is all hell.

An electric violin on the whole thing. It's like, for that to be your swag, for you to unlock that sauce and not be laughed out of the room and to make that your iconic thing, it's power. It's raw power. It's unusual, to say the least.

It's wild. To pull that off is watching live videos of them, that electric violin is blasting through the mix. That's crazy. And never misses a note. When I see electric violin, I can think of yellow card

and Shinske Nakamura. And that's it. And my dying bride. And now my tie bag. And one of the heaviest doom metal bands of all time. Listen, it's no surprise, guys. I bring her up every list.

She's my number one. She's my favorite. The anniversary was just this past week at time of recording. Bjork. Vespartine. I went with pagan poetry. She hits a note in this song.

You would never expect a human to be able to reach. It's not falsetto. She's belting. It's a beautiful song. It's about being obsessed with a guy thinking that he casts a spell on you because he's a pagan. And we fell in love together. It's got the Icelandic women's, like a native Icelandic women's choir as the backing vocals. it's got full orchestral instrumentation.

It's got Bjork at her absolute prime. There's a music video for it that's awesome. This whole record is cold to me. Again, there's songs. An Iceland, dude? Yeah, a lot of ice. There's songs on it called like Frosty and Aurora and things that are just like, there's a song that starts with her walking on snow.

The beat is like the whole record. So she was freezing cold when she wrote this whole time. rigid and there was a field recorder that's a real thing that's her walking in the snow but the song pagan poetry again i know that's kind of an obvious choice it's because i want i want something to grab you i like that get you into the record i love it she's my absolute favorite although not in tough yeah well you know top five it's no false there's things that have to be in yes you know correct correct it would be disingenuous to leave these things out uh my next pick One of the great of all greats, one of the most inspirational, heavy, hard bands to ever make music, paved the way for kind of our entire generation of expressive, different extreme music.

The album, I would think, is, I would call their most oppressively atmospheric through silver and blood. I like that. oppressively atmospheric. 13 minute opening track, you know? You're obsessed. I didn't pick the 13-minute opening track. But this is why this ties into the Dark Souls thing. Yeah, I love that.

You like to suffer. I want to earn the bangers. There's a correlation there. Of course. It's interesting. Make me work for it. If you give it to me right off the bat, why would I care? The cow and the milk, et cetera, you know?

I got about five examples coming up of why. Excellent. Perfect. I would go with the song Locust Star. Yeah. Which you can also find an amazing live performance of them playing that, I think, a dynamo. Hmm. Where this inspired, the neurosis is the reason I smash the SPD pad.

Gotcha. When I do the twitching tongue stuff and I'm smashing the pad with the 808s and whatnot. Yeah. It's because of neurosis. He's beaten the fuck out of that keyboard or whatever that thing is that's making noise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, tough to describe this band, but like converge, nails.

There's a lot of bands out there that are not doing what they're doing without neurosis. Got it. Need to build you some kind of contraption that can take up bludgeoning. I want a contraption so bad. Like a shock, a spring-loaded, like, bra-l kind of thing. I want a keyboard with fucking six keys on it. Yeah, yeah. That are made of steel.

You know, right. Indestructible. Let me hit little steel pipes that are keys. But it's like more about the plat, like, whatever you put that pad on, that's what fails you. Yes. Where it'll rock. But I've got figured it out.

I mean, I bought like industrial screws for the pad thing. But yeah, I have knocked the pad off countless times at this point. And then and then fucking the, this is how we do it comes on. Return of the Mac comes on. Well, dude, nothing beats when it was playing and Mac tripped over it at FYA. That was one of the... The only sample in the whole set. And this bumbling, bald buffoon knocks it over and...

Triple alliteration. The triple B. I'm just kidding, Mac. Love you. I love you so much. Yeah. All right. My number one of this first 15, it's very poignant.

This, for me, is like... I remember one of the first, like the, the, the, when I, it would be the first fall that I had my license. And I had a weekend. I had some money. And I went to record breakers in Algonquin, Illinois. And I bought South of Heaven by Slayer. Leaves were changing. It was rainy.

I didn't know. So this was, this was pre-metal bow. Okay. This was all, this is all punk and hardcore bow. So I didn't know that, like, it wasn't as. fast all the way. Like, I was expecting Rainian Blood Part 2. Okay. Which, thankfully, it isn't. You know, I'm not complaining.

I'm just saying I wasn't expecting what I got. So when I got like heavier and kind of groovier. I mean, dude, the opening track is one of the greatest metal songs of all time. One of the most iconic intros. And it's straight, heavy, slow for boating atmosphere. Which, of course, they opened with last night.

Perfect. It was perfect It was perfect I love that Do you know who drums for them now? I don't know off the top of my head Is it boss staff still? I don't know

But he plays the Phil's exact He's fucking better Well because in that song too It's like you have to Yeah yeah it's it's boss staff still You have to play those fills Exact You know what I mean

Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Bid Because everybody in the audience is doing it God knows I was It was raining Dude it was perfect The song I would pick is Ghost of War. It starts off the B side with like the, yeah, the like tape, like the fake and then dinan it.

And then goes into like an incredible breakdown bridge of triplets. It's probably my favorite like deep cut Slayer song. I don't think anything beats Angel of Death or Rain and Blood, you know, like I don't think anything is actually better than mandatory suicide or south of heaven. And those are like, probably their shining stars of the deeper cuts that aren't those, I think Ghost of War is... To me, mine is Spill the Blood, which is the closing track on this album. Yes. So it all applies.

Dude, they didn't play Jesus saves. They played the song right before it and didn't go into it. You know, they got... They got... What did they play? An hour and a half? Yeah. I mean, they'll do a headlining tour and play it all.

Yeah, true. but yeah so slayer south of heaven ghosts of war fantastic to this day it'll put me back because I had bought the CD you know so I remember like looking through it reading the seeing the Def Jam logo like all that good shit or the American

I don't remember if it was American or Def Jam at the time but it's awesome beautiful great pick one of the greatest bands yeah my next pick is the newest album on this list oh and it is the newest album by a band called Paul Bearer who much of their discography could have been included in this conversation, but I think the newest album is their best work.

So I want to commend them on that and give them a little bit of shine here. The album is called Mind Burns Alive. From Track 1 here, this is as close as you get to masterful melodic doom metal in the world today. They're the best band doing this, which is one of my favorite things. The song I would recommend is called Endless Place, which ends with a big saxophone solo, but over fucking Doom Riffs, you know?

Sure. And in a way that it just like, it feels right, just a fantastic band. I love to see them still rocking, and I love to see them writing their best music now. Because how often They're six LPs deep or something like that Yeah

Very impressive Very impressive That's what it's all about Good answer All right What's your last before your top five Well I just did 15 So I don't know how we

Oh okay then it's top five time Yeah it's top five time But you went first So this doesn't actually make sense Anyway Yeah you go first What is your number five So of my top five

what puts me in the mood to just walk around, wear boots, wear a jacket. Not a coat yet. Not a coat. Jacket. Jacket. Maybe layer up, but a jacket, you know. Black jacket.

Oh, black is a night. Maybe have an umbrella. Maybe not. Ooh. Depends how I'm feeling. Yeah. Sisters of Mercy, one of my all-time favorite bands. The record, Floodland.

There's a lot of options. I'm going with Floodland. I'm going with Lucretia because it's got to, again, that thing that will get you. It'll pull you in. Because this whole record, it's very up and down, very ebb and flow. There's catchy bops and there's more atmospheric

like, I'm in Egypt kind of things. It's really weird. There's something about the I'm in Egypt type riff, you know? Oh, yeah, man. You would think that would be hot weather music, but it na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-da is... It feels like autumn to me. Think about Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.

The orchestra in Kashmir is the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. It's awesome. It's amazing. But yeah, you, I think 12 seconds into this song and you'll get it. And then it's another eight minutes of the same roof. Yeah, it's fucking awesome. Sisters of Mercy are a very, very, I don't know, I don't want to say important band. to me because it's just they weren't like necessarily and it wasn't aware of them when I was young

sure but it was this cool blend when I discovered them of like all of the things that I liked that also and it obviously influenced a lot of the stuff that I liked so it was it was a very much a focal point of my musical tastes so yeah fantastic number four of oh man the order of this top five is really difficult for yeah yeah um but I'm I'm just going to go for it. So, you know, and we'll, whoever has the artist placed higher, we'll wait to talk about him. Okay. Yeah.

Because I'm going to Anzic right now. Okay. At number five. I haven't meant number three. Two, Lucifuge. All right. So we'll wait a second. So to, okay, yeah, we'll wait a second.

So do you want to switch then? Why don't you give me your number four? because then we'll still be in the same order. Sure. Yeah. My number four is the newest album on my top five. Uh-huh. I've talked about it many times on here, many times publicly.

It is a huge of credit to my weight loss, I think, because of the time that it came out was I was really just motive. And it's not that kind of record. Uh-huh. But I just found it to be the perfect tempo for running. And it ebbed and flowed as I. moved. The album features Pete Morrissey

of 100 Demons and a gentleman named Ryan White. It's a two-man folk duo called Murmur. That's right. The album is called the Boundless Black. I think it is a genuine, modern, all-time

masterpiece. There is not a single skip. There's not a second of skippable music on this thing. Pete sent this to me very early, so I heard like every stage of mix development, every idea for singles, the whole thing.

And then finally getting that master back and listening to it in sequence was like just so the perfect time and place thing for me from where my head was, I was dying. Wow. This is my darkest hour as a human being without a doubt.

It was like the piece of art I needed to survive. The song Last Parade is the, one I would recommend. This is track two. I remember it being a very, a very cold autumn and winter and Glendale when this came out. It was like the coldest it's been in years here. 57 degrees. Probably, but like, but that was peak eating disorder too, so I'm skinny. I'm freezing.

Yeah, it's anemic, yeah. Freezing. And dude, this record got me through hell. So thank you Pete. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you, Murmur. Really hoping for another one soon. Wink, wink, wink. I want to put as many people onto this as possible. I want this. The amount of things that have blown up in the past few years that are, you know, decades old inspires me to do whatever I can for this album whenever I can. Mirmer the Boundless Black. Please, God, check it out. Love it. Or my number four, we're going back to one you mentioned previous. So this is, we can both talk about this. A little band called AFI.

A fire inside. The record, the art of drowning. My go-to is the EP, but technically it's three songs in a cover. You know what I mean? So I went with the record that they were preparing for. Makes sense. Art of Drowning, the song, Western. Oh, yeah.

The bridge I can feel you dreaming of me This is this is Man Church is in session Dude I can't feel you Living on me

I mean it's They're firing on all cylinders They have their direction They have their niche They have the songs Davy is Fucking pitch perfect Yeah he's locked in

They're still doing devil locks They're still doing all the shit that I want Yeah It's not necessarily my favorite record, but probably my favorite era, actually, you know, interestingly. Yeah, because they did it all in this time. Right. Yeah, this is groundbreaking, life-changing music here. Yes.

One of the greatest bands ever. This is where Black Sails was where the evolution began. Yeah. Art of Drowning is kind of the end of an era. Yeah, it's like whatever is condensed. at the end. Yeah, they put the punctuation here on the like, hey, we're a punk band era.

Yeah. You know? And transitioned into global sensation spooky rock music. Yeah. But this is like, they couldn't do this again, you know? There was no point in trying to do this. Yeah, there wasn't an art of drowning part two.

But didn't. No. It all happens here. and is perfected here. It's got, what's the second song on this record? I forget exactly what it's called, but it's Queen Wasp by the Misfits

off of Earth AD. It's the same. Yes. Go! Let go! Lost souls. Lost souls. Yeah, dude, it's like, I don't know. It's also like a 40-minute record or something.

Yeah, it's crazy. They give the nods. They invent. They have their art. Like everything about it, I truly appreciate and love. And there is no more, like, this is the most fall thing to me. Yeah. From the album are.

Everything. Everything about it. Outstanding hot topic. My number three is either your two or one. Just mathematically here. Yeah. I think we have the same top three. I don't think so.

Okay. My number one is different. Okay. I believe. All right, because you have five. Sorry. You're number five. I don't know.

This is, I mean, the band is typo-negative. Yeah. That's my number one. Okay. I don't want to spoil it then. So we'll wait. Okay. So what's your number two?

Well, no. Let's do your number three now and talk about Danzig. You're right. Yes, perfect. So I wrote Danzig 1 slash 2 slash 3. But I would pick two. Two is, two is, as Danzig's finest hour. Yeah, I think it is the ultimate, the culmination of just his, his,

musical artistry. From Cough Cool to Her Black Wings, which is my choice of song. It's like, this is the song I've been trying to write. Mine too, buddy. Yeah, there you go. Because it's, it's everything. Yeah. It's, it's sexy.

It's dark. It's got a, it's heavy. It's got a cool solo that makes. sense. It's got the hook. It's got the woe. And the hook, the legendary Danzig woe here is, this is

Misfits 1-0-1. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's like I said, it's the song. I truly think he was trying to write since the 70s. I agree. If the drums were dintin-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. You could hear it. And you could tell if a different guy was playing guitar,

they might have been going da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na---------------------------. We should do that. We should misfitzify her black ones. Jordan Olds, get to work. Yeah, this is, I mean, this is, again, like a legitimate life-changing record. Yes. This is, two was what did it for me.

Because one has mother. It's got, and my demon, twist, you know, or not Twisted Cane, but it's, no, it doesn't have Twist Cane. No, Twist Cane opens the album. It's the first one, yeah. It's got these things that'll get you to go, oh, cool. Kind of bluesy, but cool. Then two with fucking Snakes of Christ and...

Killer Wolf, Her Black Wings, Blood and Tears. Long way. Long way opening. This is like one of the true perfect pieces of music. Similar to AFI, it's like, it's the same lineup. They got their niche. They're like, here's what worked. Or Glenn is like, here's what worked.

we're going in this direction and we're kicking ass and oh my god this is it man this is this is like a deserted island record two yeah yeah one of the only things i would i need i love that yeah it's great it's it's an all-time record excellent so that brings you to your number two my number two so I wrote Misfits coffin set which you and I both have now which is

the coffin every song it is and this is the tough part is because Misfits discography is spread out in such a weird way it's insane

but I do think the unreleased 1980 collection the album 12 hits from hell would have been the perfect misfits record to get people.

I can't wait to someday hopefully ask them, like, why didn't this come out? Because this session, like these versions of the songs are the versions of the songs to me, to this day. Collection, yeah, I think, you know what? The song that I'm picking is on, I don't know, so I'm picking children in heat. I just love that song I always have. I like the metaphor. He mentioned Chicago.

there's like a disco dance beat in it it's like the most bizarre song but still feels like like you can you can imagine like like rob zombie's draggula with like kids going to cause problems yeah those is it's spooky children yeah exactly you know what i mean i picked london dungeon That is probably the most thematically, you know. Yeah. Listen to the track list, the proposed tracklist of 12 hits from hell. Please. Halloween, track one.

Perfect. Vampire, a track two. Good. I turned into a Martian, three. All time. Skoles, four. All time. London, five.

Night of the Living Dead, six. Incredible. Horror Hotel 7. Horrodel. Ghoul's Night Out, 8. Dude, a fave. Banger. Hell is where you want to be.

That part. Oh, my God. Track Astro Zombies 9. Unreal. Where Eagles Day are 10. Violent World 11. Okay. Halloween 2.12 to close the album.

Dude, and Halloween 2 is... You say this a lot about the state of the world address being the most... I think Halloween 2 is kind of one of the most ambitious, like, punk. It's like kind of... That's brilliant punk artistry at work. It's like kind of industrial. They're sampling. Yeah.

It reverses shit from the original version. It's fucking awesome. And that, those being opener and closer would have been just the most perfect thing. Yeah. Yeah, I'm with you. So I truly am baffled why this isn't the... Because this would be more definitive to them than walk among us. I think so.

I think. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe they, I don't know. Must something with the session he just didn't like. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's like, for children in heat, I think in the coffin set, there's like three or four different versions.

Yeah. It's insane. Yeah. So it's like, I used to know the versions I wanted to. Like the 79CI recording. Like I used to know that. That's, to me, that's this. That's that.

This record is that like when we re-record them and stuff. Yeah. This is what you have. these. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha. So that's from 1980, he said. This is for, this would have been 1980.

Would have been 19. Yeah. And I think it was, but this version was like, there was a proposed official release in 2001. Mm-hmm. That he denied. Gotcha. But I think that's when it hit like lime wire and stuff. So that's my number two.

Yeah. And we already know what your number one is because I alluded to it. So let's talk about it. my number one is typo negative um i had two just in case you picked so i'm going to go with october rust i'm going to go with love you to death because that's from the first second love you to death starts it sounds like leaves do you ever notice if you listen to that really high up you can hear the metronome yeah and it's like fast it's double Which I'd like to do the same thing with drums

Right makes sense I like to be double fast for the high hat hand My pick was also October rust I went with the song Wolf Moon Perfect So we're you know we're getting different strokes here I You know I connected with this album when I was 13 years old

First I found slowed even hard And then when going through the discogger has stopped in my tracks when I got here. And birthdays have always been really somber and emotional for me for some reason. Just, you know, the idea of like, wow, still fucking here. Damn. Always hit me hard. And at midnight on my birthday, every year until really this year, I would put this on and just walk around the block.

Right. So this is like, it's so tied to me personally. and emotionally, that it's like, it's great. I mean, there's some, there's some, like, wacky songs on here. Sure. Yeah. There always are.

There always are. Yeah. But they're not wacky to me anymore. Yeah. I mean, dude. Druidus. Yeah. Green man.

Like. Red water. I had World Coming Down picked just in case. And I was going to pick Pyrrida, please. Because I like. Pyrida Blaze, dude. I think that song. When it, when it doubles the.

you are my foot. It doubles it. I love that part. But yeah, Love You to Death was, I had heard the songs and my girlfriend's girlfriend even. I'd heard the hits.

And I was like, yeah, this is a little too horny for me. Like, I didn't get it. That was a lot of people's first impressions. Because that,

my girlfriend's girlfriend video tore up the charts. Right. But they regretted it, right? They thought they should have put out Love You to Death as the single.

I think so. And it's crazy that it wasn't, but I mean, that's track one itis. of like, it doesn't need to be the single. It's track one. So case and point, in my, like, probably mid-20s

when we started getting into typo-negative as like a friend group. Yeah. I was on a flight and I put that on. And as soon as... Wait a minute. I like... Oh, I haven't heard this before.

Like, what is this? Like, fuck, what have I been doing? Oh, man. A song with a heavy verse, great hook, and a payoff at the end. It's a beautiful. It's a perfect. It's a perfect song. This is perfect music by, to me, the best band ever. It's my favorite band of all time. That'll never change.

There's just, there's a couple things, I think, are a little more autumn-y and Halloween to me. Even if they're not, even if that isn't its goal. This is just bigger than autumn to me. Even though it's called October rust, there's no more October. There's nothing more October-y than this. And I think that was their goal. But this I can put on year round, you know? True.

That's fair. Which is because it's so beloved to me that I, there's a couple things I can't say that about. But in the summer, I'm going to slow deep in heart. For sure. And origin and even like life is killing me or something. Yeah, even life is killing me. Yeah. This one in World Coming Downer.

And even Bloody Kisses is kind of a hot weather one too. I don't know. That's weird. Black number one is obviously very spooky. Scary. My number one. Yes. The most emotional piece of heavy music ever recorded by human beings. There never in history has there been so much depth and emotion in open power chords and 12-minute songs and 8-minute songs and 10-minute songs and 7-minute songs.

minute songs and allegories about love and medieval knighthood, you know? The band is warning. The album is watching from a distance. Just the personification of yearning in the cold, freezing and wanting more. I mean, I got, for the song, I have to pick footprints. This is the greatest bridge ever. Period. I would fight to the death for that statement.

Better than the Genesis Bridge? Yeah, it's the only one better than the Genesis Bridge, but I do think they're different because this one is because of vocals. Genesis 1 is a musical ride of guys playing with toys in the studio. I got you. Where this is like, this is this guy. I've been, like, this is his diary, you know, Patrick Walker. So we're hearing his, his most, the most emotional, personal thoughts this man has ever had turned into art.

And that is like exactly what I like as seen in the rest of my picks. To me, it doesn't get any better than this. Doesn't get any more powerful than this. It doesn't get any colder and chillier than this. And that concludes this week's episode. We hope that you all have an amazing fall season. Oh, and listen to this playlist while you're having it. Listen to this playlist, watch all the spooky movies you can.

You know, make some art this month. I hope this inspires you because I honestly just talking about it inspired me. Yeah. So who knows what we'll come up with. And I'll see you all October 25th. or you die. And Harmsway is on tour right now. Right now. Please. Please come see us. They will. All right, everybody. Thank you so much. We will see you next week.

We love you very much. Bye.