 We are going live, we are going live, we are going live, and now we are live. What is going on? To take you away from all the politics of the world, here we are reviewing some albums, Alan. Bring a little happiness to people's lives. We're getting down to the basics, which is what this whole show has always been about. And it's going back to our record reviews, like we started with that. Luckily, you know, we've done a good job, we've got some documentaries, and you've got your interviews, and now we've got our own little posse, had the own little metal voice posse with Aldo Nova, Carmine Aposy, and hey. Going back to basics, stripping down Alan, stripping down. And now we've stripped it back down to the beginning, which is all about our record reviews here at the Metal Boys. All right. So I'm excited. I've been waiting for this release. Let's get right into it, Jim. The Dead Daisy's Holy Ground. January 22nd on SPV. Go ahead, Alan. Ever since Glenn Hughes joined the band, you know, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dean and, of course, Soria's name is Casey right here, Doug, Dean and Doug, years ago, and what, it was still my favorite interview of all time. Check it out on our website, and I'm listening to the show live. These guys are a great live band, right? And now you're adding the voice of rock himself, Mr. Glenn Hughes, to the equation. And I have to say, Jim, this is a completely entirely new beast, man. You know, Dead Daisy's for myself, trying to listen to the records live, there's a different story, but just the records, the music is, I don't know, it's a little hard for me, difficult. But now I'm listening with Glenn Hughes, and it's nothing to do with, you know, they've always had this rotating lineup, right? I call it the minuto lineup. Yeah, which makes it so interesting, right? You never know, John Carabi did a great job, I just loved him in the band, but it's just, there's something about the music I couldn't do. It wasn't giving me the old thrill, as we could say here, you know, but now with Glenn Hughes, I mean, specifically this album. What a mother. This is a crazy album. You know what you said right before we started this? It reminds you of Glenn Hughes' solo album, Resonate, right? The last one he did, what was it, like three, four years now, right? Yeah, it's Time Flies, it might be a longer, you know. Which was a great studio album, great, the voice, the freak of nature on the vocals. This guy can sing, man. But he's the voice of rock, right? He's the voice of rock. Look, it's funny how, you know, you've got two-thirds of Revolution Saints is in the dead days, right? Dean and Doug. And just by adding one element, it changes the whole dynamic, right? They just Glenn Hughes. And I have to assume that Glenn, you know, Glenn's a pretty active guy. Some would say hyperactive, right, including himself. And I mean, I think he's got a presence. And like you said, the voice, that whatever he does, right? Because I've listened to him with Voodoo Hill, you know. Communion there, what was it called? Solo stuff. And he did his little tour with Doug years ago, going around the different bars. His solo stuff, I mean, and he's got a presence. Like he's a Black Country community. That's the one, the Black Country community. You know, where, ver ver pas, as we say in French, without even him probably trying to do it, he probably takes over the whole project, right? Because this is just the pure talent. So that's what I took away from this album. It's like, man, you know, and even the press releases, they're really focusing on the addition of Glenn to the band, right? Yeah. And so, you know, just the great opener, Holy Ground, Shake the Memory. I mean, not only the voice, like you said, I believe, but the bass playing. Holy cow, the bass playing. You know, it's this wall of sound, right? The guitar is downtuned and heavy, heavy blues. That's what it is. It's heavy blues with that voice, that voice. Yeah, no. And then, you know, the second song, like no other bass line, you know, he teases everybody with the reference to Medusa, which was the huge trapeze song from this past, right? So, and then, you know, Come Alive, that's the one I think might be a leftover from Resonate. I mean, it's just, you know, I'm not taking away from the guitar playing or the drums at all. It's just that that one really takes me right back to that album. So bustle and flow. I'm like you. I like Karabi, but I think Glenn Hughes just takes it to another level. Yeah, the song My Fate. I mean, that one, that sounds like it's what he did with Tony Ioni with Fuse, you know. Yeah, it was the Fuse session, so or the Depth Sessions, I said, even. So, you know, that there's that's one that sounds from that era. So the first signal was unspoken, you know, and that's probably for me, that's probably the most dead daisies sound historically sounding track. That's a good point. It's unspoken, which was the first signal, right? 30 days in a hole in another great track. That's a humble pie cover and little known fact, Clem Clemson, who was part of Humber Pie and that did that 30 days in the hole, the cover, he was targeted to replace Richie Blackmore before Tommy Boland. And the fact that when he came in, Glenn Hughes was there during that period, of course, and when Clem Clemson came in, he thought he had the gig. He actually thought he had it because of the management deep purple, I guess. Somebody intuition kind of told them that you've got the gig. Don't worry about it. So there was no rehearsal or his audition was no flash power. And that's why they didn't they didn't finally chose him. They went with Tommy Boland. So and Rory Gallagher was a name that was thrown out at that time, too. That would have been interesting to him, replacing Blackmore. So yeah, but it's a great cover, great cover, and then Far Away. Far Away is another one. For me, the longest track on the album, that's what I love about this. Wow, man, Far Away, the last track, Epic. Yeah. And again, he sings about waterfalls like he did in voodoo hills. And this is this is this Glenn's thing like rainbows was Dio's thing. You know, now in the waterfalls, it's kind of Glenn's thing. So but but what I love about this, besides that last track, which is Far Aways, these three minute songs, right? It's finally a band that knows how to get everything in the three minutes and 30 and say what they had to say and get out to the next song. I mean, I just love that. I don't mind some of the prog stuff that we go and visit from time to time. But Matt, it's great to hear a band that just does the three minutes to historical three minute rock and roll songs and moves on to the next. I would call it heavy metal blues, boogie, you know, like a little bit of a groove there, right? There's there's definitely a groove in all the tracks. And I guess anything Glenn Hughes touches has a groove, usually. Yeah, that's that's a very that's an understatement for sure. Yeah, yeah, that's his background, right? He's always been more Stevie Wonder than Rob Halford, right? So that's was his background. And, you know, come taste the band with The Purple's last album with with that line up. So so he got a lot of the criticism for it, you know, and even though he said, look, man, everybody has the equal amount of input. If they didn't like it, they could have easily spoken up. But because of that kind of music that they were listening to, it fell on Glenn's the blame fell on Glenn's shoulders and fairly or unfairly. So the right, you're right. That's always been his his groove, his background, his feel and definitely what he brings to each and every project. So so the good news is we're going to be talking to Glenn and Doug Aldrich. Sometime next week. So that's cool. Yeah. Fingers crossed, I mean, things can just go things can always change smoke, you know, but we could ask them more about this album, more about the making of this album, you know, of how he came into the picture. Some cool stuff. Maybe if you guys ask us some questions, we could ask him them some questions. They're cool enough. The only current the only member that's been sort of solid in this whole band is David Lowry, right? Lowry. Lowry, that's right. He's basically Lowry. Yeah, he's the only guy who's actually he's sort of like the main person, the main guy sort of bring and I mean, he's bringing in the talented credit to him and for bringing all that talent over the years into this band. John Carrabby, a lot of people like you saw him and they just, you know, his version of the band was was great. And, you know, Glenn is taking it to a next level. And well, if I could just add to that, Jim, I mean, look, Marco Mendoza, who we saw live in that version, he's a monster of a bass player, too. And again, Glenn just, I don't know. I don't know how to describe it. He just brings it, like you said, to another level because Marco, I mean, I, you know, I got him from some John Sykes solo albums. I got him with the Tin Lizzie album, you know, with Blue Murder, second album, he played on that as well. So he's a monster bass player. But it's just, I guess it comes down to feel. I mean, it's just something that seems to click with Glenn being in this band. It just seems to click. Hopefully they'll be able to keep this line of Glenn. Yeah, he's a revolving musician. Just seems like, you know, in and out of lineups here. But hopefully this one will last. So I guess the big question, Jim, for you, out of a scale of one to ten, and what that's a number in your head. You know what, it's very fresh to this album. But my first impressions, you know, definitely, you know, like, sort of like eight around there, you know, definitely up there, you know, it definitely, you know, the production is spot on. The songs are in and out, like you said, three minutes in and out, except for the last track, which is classic. The vocals are incredible. Well, yeah, blues, groove, soul, it's all there. You know, if you like, how's this? If you love the Dead Daisies, you're going to love this. If you love Glenn Hughes, you're going to love this. So that's what I'll leave it at. I give it a solid nine and a half out of ten. This could be a record of the year, honestly. I mean, there's a few I've been listening to. They haven't been released yet. Voodoo Circles, new albums, pretty good. And but except as we interview right next, which we'll get into soon enough. But this one, man, this is early in the year. This is the one to beat as far as I'm concerned. And that's the one everybody else will be measuring up to in my estimation. The bar is there. All right, let's switch gears to mean to die. Accept. Oh, accept. Yeah. 16th Studio Album, going to be released on Nuclear Blast, January the 15th. Yeah, look at this, Alan. Total time on this album is 52 minutes and 11 seconds. It's a long album. It's definitely a long album. All right. What are your thoughts? First of all, the artwork. What do you think about the artwork? Sorry? The artwork. That snake. Too mean to die. I mean, you know, we we were lucky enough to interview Wolf a couple of weeks ago or maybe a month ago, time flies and we got into the songs at that point. Too mean to die, like he said, that's, you know, where the where the metal warriors would survive through it all. And again, this is, you know, Wolf's the only one from the early days that's left. Yeah. But what I took away from this, and I had mentioned it during our interview, was if you told me Wolf did all the guitars on this and they're down to one guitar band, I believe, you know, although Philip Shouse did some solos. Wolf said, I mean, this is this is Wolf's band. It's the way that I think naturally progressed throughout the decades. Everybody kind of deferred to Wolf and his vision, including Peter, who's no longer with the group. So he kind of went over to the Udo camp in a way, right? A little bit, right? Yeah. So again, a lot of good songs on here. But that's that's my one. John, John, saying to you, yes, you guys. Hello there, hey, hello there. I'll let you take over the Greek. You're much better than me. That's for sure. Yeah, so that Johnny. All right. But I mean, if you look, my favorite songs offered there is definitely overnight sensation written for the YouTube generation and the best is yet to come, which was we found out was Wolf's Wolf's motto. They always think it's the best show and the best album still to come. So how do we sleep is the social commentary song that Mark Camilo is famous for? Yep. Samson Adelaia, like I said, I've done an Arabic feel and it's an instrumental symphony of pain. He throws in a little Beethoven's Beethoven and the struggle and tragedy of Beethoven. And the evening classical, you always love talking about Wolf's classical influence and actually the old to joy Beethoven's piece incorporated in a lot of the solo ring in that song, too. So. So all right. So we have we have OK, zombie for me, it's like zombie apocalypse, too mean to die. These are like classic except tunes. The Undertaker is probably the best song on the album, Hands Down. And yeah, there's a lot of neoclassical stuff going on and you're hearing the typical except. So in the Mark Tornillo years, where would you place this album? Well, everyone's a bit different. You know, you and I, we love each and every except album. Some of them are saying, oh, it's it's except. It's what we come to to expect. This one's, you know, I went back and watched our interview and there was a talk of this one, having a lot more variation on it, which you listen to it again, I think is true. But I mean, I can't choose one over the other because each one is like, you know, you know, blood of nations started at all. That's still a very strong album. But, you know, you got stampede, you got the rise of chaos. I mean, there's, you know, there's a lot of good work there. I would say this would be I would for me, it'd be Stalingrad and then it would be this one. Out of the Tornillo era, Tornillo era, right? I don't want to go up against because it's probably not comparing apples to apples. But from comparing apples to apples, I would say this comes after Stalingrad. A lot of people, blood of nations, they think that's their favorite. But I would for me, it's Stalingrad and then this one. That's how I kind of liked it better than the other two. I mean, every album I listen to, you know, comes out, you listen to heck out of it, right? And then we go and we visit it and you're like, oh, this one's this one's good. This one's just as strong as the last one in it. So so, you know, maybe down the road, their next albums will be saying those are the strongest ones. So, you know, but from all these songs, what do you think? Which songs do you think will stay in their set list in the next decade? I'd have to go with two means to die, right? And overnight sensation. I know Wolf was mentioning he that would be a great great song to play live. He thinks that's going to be a strong song to moving forward. So again, I mean, you know, the Undertaker, I think that'll live on in the accept set list for four years to come. Could very well be. It's it's not one of my favorites on the album, but really the undertaker. No, but, you know, I mean, I still can't get pandemic for obviously reasons out of my head, right? So. OK, but again, it's just the musicianship, the production, Mark's voice, Mark's lyrics, which I'm assuming he's writing. It's everything we can expect from an example. I think this I would recommend everybody going out and purchasing it on January 15th. If I was like, OK, right. How about this? If you take Udo's album, which you put in your top 10 of the year, right, top five, I guess. And you compare this album, like which one would you prefer more? I think I prefer this one a lot more. Then who? Then Udo's last album. I really like the last. I like it, too. But I think I prefer this one. Now you're talking to one with the orchestra. There is a last one. OK, sorry, let's let me let me clarify. Udo's last album, studio album, we are one. It's we are one, right? Yes. His last album compared to this album. Well, I don't know why, A, why we're doing a comparison. Why not? B, you know, it's a completely different beast. You know, he is an orchestra piece, you know, written music, written for orchestra and and the band. So it's kind of a completely different concept compared to your high standard. But it's sort of like the same family, right? I mean, Udo and Wolf, the same family. I was I would say I was pleasantly surprised with the album. I thought it would sort of get I thought it would get more generic, like the last time kind of got generic for me. And I thought this one would be more generic. But the you know, that song, Life's a Bitch, the single that he released eight months ago, that wasn't included on this album. Or you're a bitch. What was it called? Guys, somebody out there like the Life's a Bitch. Isn't that a Raven album? No, no, no, no. And everybody out there who's who's oh, John, just sorry. Not John. I just got my metal voice t-shirt. Yes, I sent it out the other day. Hold on a sec. Everybody remind me that single except had something with let me see. Hold on, except you're a bitch. Life's a bitch. A camera son of a bitch. No, it's not son of a bitch. Oh, that's the X members. Life's a bitch. That's great. It was Life's a bitch. That's what it was. And that song, which was a single about eight months ago, was not on this album, which was kind of shocked because I really dug that song. That's a lot of effort for I really dug that song. All right, let's move on, Alan. Okay. So bottom line is it's a really good album. Pick it up when it comes out. If you like except you're going to love this album. It's as simple as that. I mean, and I don't think they're getting generic at all. Jim, I think every album stands on its own. Some, yeah, some might be stronger than others. That's like any band. But I think except always had a very high quality. Each and every album is an eight or nine out of 10 as far as I'm concerned. To me, it's a lot of people say, oh, you guys, you only review stuff and give it high marks. It's because we only really review stuff that we like. So we're basically just commenting on stuff, things that we like. That's what it comes down to, right? Because stuff we really hate, we're not going to bother with. Yeah, I mean, that's what it comes down to. We're celebrating the new releases. That's what it really comes down to. That's all we're doing. All right, Andrew got a shirt that I sent him out the other day while I was pretty fast. Andrew's in Toronto, so I would think that the shirt will get there quickly. Enjoy your metal voice shirt. Siegel, Germany metal. Yeah, Witte, what can you say? Except is Germany metal. All right, here we go. Next album. Speaking of Germany. Yeah, here we go. We're going to another Teutonic guitar player. Guitar player? Guitar master, we'll call it. Really, honestly, yeah. I have to admit. Immortal. Michael Shanker group, Immortal. You know, again, you and I spoke with this yesterday, Jim, back in the day, they really wind my clock, you know, a lot of Michael Shanker stuff. Looking back, I was able to pick up a lot of it as a used record store vinyl. I got his whole collection. Went back and revisited and liked a lot of stuff. I liked the McCauley Shanker. I had a few CDs of them. I enjoyed them. But man, ever since Michael's come back, you know, with the festival of the Michael Shanker group, you know, with Resurrection and Revival, I mean, you and I, I think that made my top 10 list a couple of years ago. And then we had the pleasure of seeing them live, which was just like three hours. He never left the stage. It was a sight to behold, right? Different cast of characters this time around. Different cast of characters. And I think it was the right move. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we can get into, I mean, just the first song Drill to Kill, which was Ralph Sheeper's from Primal Fear, another band that you and I enjoyed over the years. He does a great job. That's what a way to start an album, man. You know, just... That was the first single, right? Or was it Devil's Love? That's the first song on the album. But that was the first single, right? Like you released it as a video, I think. So you got him. They've got Ralph Sheeper's, I should say. And Joe Lynn Turner actually does a couple of songs on here. Yeah, and Michael Voss is producer, does some songs, as well as... Rodney Romero. Robin McCauley does In Search of Peace of Mind and Rodney Romero, of course, yes. Brazilian Rodney Romero, who sounds very deoist. See, and that's it. Rodney, I mean, you did a great interview with Michael recently. I had the pleasure of watching it. And again, Rodney Romero, you say he could sing anything. That's why he was, you know, obviously, you went to play with Archie Blackmore because he could do the deo years, he could do the grand bonnet years, he could do the Joe Lynn Turner years. But for me, this guy, A, he's risks being overexposed because he's playing on everything, including his own band, right? The Lords of Black is his band, I believe, so. Yeah, I think so, yeah. So he's almost a little overexposed. And then there's always the risk like Jorn Landy was accused of, you know, he's just a Coverdale sound alike. So he's at the risk of always being always a deo sound or sound alike. The guy's got an amazing voice. But I don't know if he's found his own voice. You know what I mean? So when I hear stuff like on this album, it's like, okay, that's Romero, but is it really Romero? Who's he pretending to be on that song? You know, it's just my feeling. What I struggle with with Ronnie Romero, an incredible singer, don't get me wrong. It's just what's his true voice? Because he's, you know, like you said, that's his deo-influenced song and that's his rainbow-influenced song. You know, going back to the interview that I did with Michael, it's interesting when he said that everybody from Blackmore's band like Rainbow has passed from him to Michael Shanker. So basically all the same characters with the exception of Ralph Sheepers, right? Who hasn't? Joel Linterner, sorry. Graham Bonnet. Graham Bonnet, Ronnie Romero. I mean, the cast of characters have seemed to pass from one artist to the other. Of course there are exceptions. And that's why I like about the song. He changes it up just a little bit. You know? Yeah, I mean, after the rain, that could be a Blackmore's night song, right? I mean, it's got that medieval feel to it to start off the song and yeah, it's funny, I mean, even Michael brought up the path between Richie Blackmore and his careers and how they're kind of, you know, going along at this point. And then he even gets into more detail, Shanker. And he says, well, you know, I was called up to replace Blackmore in purple back in the day, right? Before, yeah. So there we go. I mean, the connections are all there, right? They use the same, well, not all the same, but many of the same. We're talking in the 90s after the second, after Perfect Strangers and House of Blue Light. Those years, battle rages on. I mean, that's when Michael was asked to come in and according to the deal, a deep purple biography I read, that Michael came in with a superstar attitude and they're all like, what is this going on? That's what Joe Satriani had played with them and a few other guys and while they were still looking for a permanent edition, which they found in Neil Morris. K-Man goes, Ronnie James, the deal never sang with Michael Shanker, but I guess if he was alive, he would have. You wanna guess it on the song, right? But Ronnie Romero sounds like deal, so that's kind of why they put him there because deal isn't around. So they need somebody who sounds like it, right? The Queen of Thorns and Roses. I think that's the best song that the Smithereens never wrote, so that's got that kind of feel. I'm listening to her. That's right. And then my favorite on the album is Sangria Mottes. I think that's a great album, good songs. My favorite, and that's Joel La Turner who's singing that song. Here's my favorite song. We guess it's my favorite song. It's Lonesome Crow in Search of Peace of Mind. First of all, that is the best song on Lonesome Crow, one of the greatest Scorpions albums, Hands Down. And then they take that classic song and it's amazing that song. It's like in two pieces really, the intro and then sort of like it changes completely and it gets all psychedelic and a great song. I'm happy he revisited that song. And he's got Ronnie Romero, Gary Barton, Doogie White and Robin Macaulay singing on that song so that there's a combination of everybody on that. And they do a great job. I think that's a really cool idea. And he of course, he slams his brother, Rudolph for not participating musically on that album. But of course, you know, he's got to always get that dig in there. Yeah, I was hoping that relationship wouldn't be repaired because it wasn't a question. I was scared to ask that question now. I was scared to ask that question. Like five or six years now. Cause every time I ask him that question, I go, so how are you and brother? Are you and your brother okay now? And he'll just go, no, you don't understand. You don't understand. But people are taking your name off of songs. I mean, that's always a little bit of a touchy subject, right? But you know what? He seems to have been better with his brother now. So I'm happy about that there. They're getting along. Always a pleasure talking to Michael Schenker. This guy is so interesting person to talk to. Let's see. Did David Coverdale ever perform with Michael Schenker? Not to my knowledge. No, no. Yeah, I've never thought of Jorn as sounding too much like Coverdale. I love Jorn's voice. He does a great job of singing everything he loves. I love Jorn Landy. Jorn, remember that pronunciation issue? He was in company of states. And that's what he was being criticized for, right? There was a lot of, and again, he was trying to sound like Coverdale at that point. His solo work, I don't find he sounds at all like Coverdale. He's ended the stuff he's done with Aventasia. It's really his voice. And he's such an effortless singer. When I saw him play with Aventasia, I mean, it's like he's not even opening his mouth. You know, it just comes out that natural. But that was the criticism of the time. When you interviewed him, weren't you sort of like trying to pronounce his name properly? I asked him how he pronounced, because you and I had a bet. You kept saying it was Jorn with the J and I was like, it's Jorn with the Y. And he says it's actually pronounced On Landy. On. So I got criticized. I got crucified on the internet because I did it the way he said to do it. But, you know, it's like a lot of things that people, like it's Neil Pert. But everybody says Neil Pert. So if you say Pert, like he says in his book. I just take the Pert, I'm fed up. Everybody says, oh, it's Neil Pert, it's Neil Pert. Okay, so you just go with what's been accepted. So that's what he told me. Because you and I had a bet going and he said, well, it's actually neither, neither it's really this. So. You are. Metal band says Inheritance from Lonesome Crow has some excellent solo work from Shankar on it. Absolutely. The whole album is phenomenal. But did you, you said, you just say that that's the best, my hands down, the best Scorpions album. One of the best Scorpions album. Okay. The Lonesome Crow. I have it on CD. I have it on album. I have it on cassette. Okay. Oh, that's your thing. There's not a lot of lyrics on that album. There's not a lot of lyrics. There's a lot of Ooz and Oz because it can't speak English yet. But I love it. Shankar's, Shankar's 15 years old. 15, 16 years old. I know. Wow. You're listening to something. I can't believe a 15 year old or a 16 year old is doing this album. You know, if you want to talk about how many guitarists he's influenced over the years, I mean, you know, lips from Anvils like this was, this is his guitar God, right? And he was doing stuff with the classical influences that not so many people were doing at such a young age or a real prodigy, right? So Michael was a real prodigy. Alan, K-man wants to know, what's your favorite songs from the new Shankar album? My favorite songs off the new album is definitely Sangria Motte. I would go with it. Drill to kill. I think those are the two, for me, the strongest, but there's a lot of Devils Daughters, another good song. You know, I like the ballad. So I think after the rain is great, I do like the Ralph Sheepers was a great idea. Really. And don't die on me now, which is a Joel and Turner. He does a great job on it, too. I think the Ronnie Romero stuff sounds a little too sort of like I'm trying to do deal, but the people who love Ronnie will love the songs, right? And of course, search a piece of it. Yeah, those I have to say, those are some of my least favorite. There's a strong album regardless. And again, everything that Michael's done since Michael Shankar Fest, I think it's really great. You know, he keeps reinventing himself. And what he did, now he's going back to sort of was Michael Shankar. Oh, sorry. It was MSG, Michael Shankar, Macaulay, right? Macaulay Shankar. Macaulay Shankar group, right? Then he went to Michael Shankar Fest and now he's back to MSG. Full circle, Jim. Full circle. Full circle. So he's just coming around. With a few UFO reunions thrown in in the middle there. And I guess he's kind of, you know, since he keeps changing characters, he figures, okay, why not? I remember he told us a long time ago we'd like Klaus from Scorpions to sort of guest vocal. But that would have been cool. That would have been very cool, but I guess that never happened. I mean, he got back with Herman and Francis from the Scorpions Hey Days and a few tours of Doogie White. They were the rhythm section. So, yeah. With Uli John Roth too, right? At one point he actually did a few show dates with Uli John Roth. Oh, could be. Back in the day, I could be wrong about that. I think it was him. And then Frank Moreno did a few dates with Uli John Roth too, but that's another story right there. But they were, you know, that famous album, the Shanker Brothers album that they were supposed to come up with. You know, that was the talk of the town a decade ago. I guess that's probably, if it was never released, it might not, it might never be released. But that was something that a lot of people weren't looking forward to as well, so. All right. So there you have it, I guess. Is there anything else? So it's a three, three, three, three for one tonight, so. It's a three for one, look at that. So two mean to die, accept. Gonna come out January 15th, nuclear blast. I think it's a really cool album. What do you think about the new guys? How do you pronounce it? Ui Lewis, Lewis. Ui Lewis? Is that how you pronounce it? It's kind of like QI Lewis. Ui, Ui Lulis, yes? Ui Lulis. We're going back to accept. What are you doing here? Next thing, what do you think about the new guys and accept, are they fitting in? Hey man, you know, if you told me Wolf played all the instruments, I'd believe you, you know? I mean, I don't have, I can't say they're fantastic or they're the worst, I mean, I have no opinion it's. Immortal coming out? You know, after, you know, look, if I can just, Steve, you know, Stephen Kaufman, Peter, they kind of had their own feel and they kind of, you know, but I'm not, I'm not getting that anymore, you know? Even when Herman Frank was in the version that reunited with Mark, you know, from Blood of Nations. Yeah, he was the guitar player like he always was, but there's a reason why they went through a four piece at one point, right? So live might've been missing something, but you've told me that Wolf recorded all the songs. Like I said, on this album, I believe you, all the guitar parts, I believe you, so. You know what I did like about Michael Shanker's album is the first song, and I forgot to mention this, Derek Chirinian, he plays keys. He does a keyboard solo and sort of simultaneous with Michael Shanker's, they're sort of doing trade-offs. Keyboard solo to guitar solo. You know, I thought that was really cool. And of course, Ralph does an incredible job singing. So that was a good mention there for Derek Chirinian. Who does a great job? Also, you can hear him at Night of the Dead. It's really a drum heavy song, you know, a lot of double bass drums, but he's a lot of interesting stuff. Derek's doing a lot of interesting stuff on keyboard. I'm going to assume it's him. It could be Steve Mann as well, right? So that goes back to Mike McCauley Shanker days. And the last album. Actually, the guy that wrote his, you know, the biggest hit, right? Yep, yep. Any more, what is it? Anytime. All right, The Dead Daisies, Holy Ground, January 22nd. There you go, Alan's favorite album of the year, and the year just started. Yeah, I have to say it's going to be the one to beat for 2021. And that's the problem, isn't it, Alan? Like an album comes out, like right at the beginning of the year, and everybody forgets about that album. And we did our top 10 list, just to sidetrack everything here. We did our top 10 list. And I just realized Anvil came out with an album right at the beginning of the year, and I completely forgot about it. I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, legal at last. Yeah, legal at last. But it was because it was so early in the year, I forgot it was at least that year. See, I'm the opposite. I choose my strong albums at the beginning of the year, if I find one. Right, if it is one I really like. And then I'll measure everything up to compare to that. So I don't forget it because everything else is measured up to it. Tell everybody about the dates you used to write when you get your albums. You buy your albums, you used to write little dates of the diary of... Yeah, every time I bought an album, I'd go home and write this is the day I bought this album, this album, this album. Dear diary, I bought somewhere in time, 1986, blah, blah, blah, right? Yeah, I wasn't really that in-depth, Jim. And they were the album with the date, that's all. I told Linda she was laughing. All right, man. All right, we will talk soon. That's it, that's it, wrap it, it's a wrap. That's a wrap. It's a wrap, thanks for tuning in and looking forward to trying to, hopefully things happen in life, but man, if we can get Doug and Glenn on the old Metal Voice show next week to talk about this unbelievable album. I mean, everybody should tune in, keep posted, keep watching and hopefully it'll happen. So far, so far. We're heading in the right direction for a Glenn Hughes interview, but you never know, you never know. All right. Stay well, stay safe and checking out the Metal Voice.