 Here we go. We are alive on the metal voice Alan. It's it's just I can't believe it. The year has gone by And we are ready much much much anticipated. I mean every year. It's the show that gets the most requests What is gonna be the top 10 of 2021? And we've got an early start Jimmy wanted to get an early start on this December 1st live Well, it's let me let me explain. It's gonna be all dressed up. That's part way right now. This is fair That's it. I got my suit on got my metal for sure. I got it. Just I just got a dry cleaned There you go. Yeah, that's it. We I don't have a tuxedo. So this is a Canadian tuxedo as we called them jeans and a t-shirt Starting a little early Neil Turbin will be joining us and about 20 minutes and He's gonna give us his top picks or pick of the year But in the meantime, you and I my friend, we're gonna count them down But first before we count them down Uh, what what is this? What does this all mean at the end of the day? This is what it means So that's it. What's what's hiding in jimmy's nets this this year. That's it the big walnut the great net Nothing could be more prestigious Than receiving a little voice the metal voice not Nothing could be more prestigious than this You know, you have the Oscars a little man there You have the Grammys with the uh, whatever they call it And you have a big net at the one metal voice. All right. Here we go. Let's start things off. Just everybody knows This is the countdown. We're going from Six, sorry it's from 10 to six. I see jeff tate has joined us Look Hey jeff, what's going on? All right. So between 12 To six That's the number and next week. We're gonna 12 to six a 10 10 10 jeff tate threw me off Between 10 your thing this is we do this every year and you get completely screwed up on the number So we're going to go 10 to six and then do a two. It's a two-parter too far too far We'll do five to one next week just to just to draw to maximize the drama All right starting off with the people who passed away this year. I'm just going to read them out quickly Of course, we had the the one and only I'm going to find it here marcia zazula Jim they can't all be one and only and by the way Well, you know, we'll we'll leave the one and only for her today, right? Every interview with everybody all year long the one and only They're they're the one and only people so january 10th marcia zazula co-founder of mega force records died of cancer at 68 years old a very sad passing before we had you know Metallica, I mean these these are the people who brought metallica her and johnny brought metallica and you know The anthrax guys the over kills the testaments and you know, they're responsible for so much music Of our youth. So we wanted to pay respects to marcia who passed away in 2021 Also, we had tim bogart. I'm going to run through these tim bogart from cactus the little fudge Died at jeff back darmen a piece. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely january 13th at 76 years old johnny solinger from skid row died of a liver failure at 55 jeff labar cinderella Died for that was a surprise. Yeah. Yeah at 50 something years old That was a real shocker and of course probably the another real sad one was mike howell metal church Died at the age of 55 and of course joey jordison From slit not slipknot or used to be the drummer slipknot and Last but not least October 29th malcom down down dome music journalist author You know credited credited for the inventing the term thrash metal Died at the age of 66. I got a few of his books here actually. Yeah Some more All right, let's get out of jump. All right, let's get at it and rest in peace to all the There was many many more but i'm not you know can't read them all right So there we go. All right. You want to start things off with your number 10? You go ahead. You go ahead. You sure? Hey, yeah Number let's count them down now and these this is the list counting down number 10 number 10 Thor look at that Thor alliance What can I tell you about alliance so many things I could tell you about alliance? You know, it's a 27th album 27 27th album about there's a whole bunch of them. There's a lot of few greats. It's there too 67 minutes long featuring You know ross the boss chris holmes john gallagher john gallagher from raven A striker dan cleary from a striker a neil turban was going to be on the show uh Sean peck from death dealer and Who else was on it so many more cast of thousands of thousands of guests What can I say about this album? You know alan these are the kind of albums that make me happy, you know melodic hooky short sweet songs not too hard on the brain in terms of lyrics just well written metal-ish hard rock borderline songs And you know what I've always enjoyed listening to a thor album. It makes me happy A very well produced album and I don't know you have anything else to say And it was a fun listen great backing vocals Thor you know with all the Norse mythology Um, and yeah, it was a fun listen. Yeah, that's off to the guys. I can ted genolecchi tom matt hamilton Joel label and uh kevin stewart swain for you know being his backup band and helping him write the album and so many more other people helped All right alan let's get to your Number 10 You ready? Yeah, boom There it is. I'm going with crystal viper viper. Sorry the cult in all these uh polish band been listening to them since uh 2010 legend legend release And I can't believe it's already been a decade But I mean this production this album is chalk and cheese compared to what uh, you know They went that album first came out legends back in 2010. So the the band's really matured It's a great album a great concept album and a great production overall. So And jimmy for you There's a bonus song It's a king diamond cover of welcome home with guest guitarist and the la rock himself on the bonus Song on the cult welcome home welcome home. Yeah, martha gaverill and the boys Great job for another album. So people are saying where's neil neil will be on shortly Gabe says hello jimmy and alan michael what's all that matters Music is our escape and jeff tate has anybody ever heard of camlot or epica gotta check them out. Okay. Thanks jeff Thanks, jeff. You've got a few camlot albums and an epica album as well. Yeah. Yeah. All right, boy number nine hold on Hold on. I haven't cut problems here Okay You ready number nine Oh, man. I'm having some problems here. Boom david reese blacklist utopia Here's a guy You know alan this guy keeps cranking them out Non stop. I mean, I don't even know how many So many ideas and and always consistent David reese has always been consistent. I don't know how many albums he has how many projects he's done But one thing is for certain He writes good great songs He's always consistent and it's not like there's a whole bunch of filler on the on album. It's solid through and through I think uh one of his sainted sainted Sinners not saints and sinners can get a lot of people excited with the rick hughes band And when we mentioned sainted sinners like one of those on Made my top ten years ago and like you said He's releasing some of the most enjoyable and consistent albums of his career in the last couple of years. So yeah, yeah Yeah, so there you go. So hats off to david reese blacklist utopia a lot of great songs consistent Consistence. All right. So let's do this. Let's do yours Number nine. You ready? Yeah boom Orton og and final days. I love these concept albums from these guys gunman actually made my top ten list years ago And this is a follow-up concept album and and you know what it's it could have gone higher I think but it was just there some songs are too poppy almost. So it's uh, very interesting on the list too but the synths are Always fun, but there's a few songs that it's almost too poppy And and another great concept album. So, uh, I love these guys and I'm glad they made the top 10 list again this year All right. All right. So where do we go now? We're almost done, Alan We're almost done. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go top 10. We don't what do we add eight? Eight already eight and just so everybody was just tuning in now. I just want to show everybody This is what it's all about This is what it's all about the great and it's this you know, a lot of people say how big is this the nut? It's a big nut. It's it's you know, it's not like this little tiny nut and you like zoom in No, it's it's actually a very big that it's a size. It's bigger than my head It's bigger than my head there. You should have done a t-shirt All right, here we go number eight. So what we're doing is We're we're I'm giving my 10 ounce giving his 10, but there is some overlap and we're gonna have the same 10s and 9s or 6s or 5s. Here we go. This is one I don't know. I like things that sound different, you know, I I quite enjoy bands that sort of A little obscure and here it is Agent steel no other gods before me. Here's a band that sort of you know on and off Had two albums back in the day back in the 80s, you know, a couple of reunions Fewer albums and today they crank out this new album. Yeah, the the recording is a little raw Could have been a little bit better, but those helium vocals, man, just Blasting away Yeah, yeah, that's right, and I mean, yes, yes, it's not the original band from there. They're the start But you know what? Space and aliens is always the theme with agent steel Songs like trespasser the devil's greatest trick. I mean he's singing in spanish on the incident I don't know. There's always an eerie feel like An invasion is eminent Did you take a listen to it? Yeah, the music took me right back to 86 and once I heard them singing there So this is right up jimmy's alley with the high high high vocals almost the king diamond range So I wasn't surprised this made the list for you. So yeah, well, you know what go pick it up And allen let's take a look to see if there's any comments here but a being In my opinion sylvain is saying in my opinion except To me to die to me to die is the best album of the year bruce the most coveted album Sorry coveted award in music and there it is. I will show it again I polished the grammy's forget the junos forget the british music awards. This is what it's all about right here the nut All right, allen ready here we go number number eight for myself Okay, go boom voodoo circles locked and loaded been listening to these guys for years And they've got back to the original one of the original Groups one of the original members have come back Formations I should say You know, you've got david redman. I love this guy from pink pink queen 69 matt sinners on bass and There's just something about this This particular lineup and the music. I mean this is as close as we're going to get to a white snake album this year And just it covers everything you've got the ballads that are like from the 80s You've got some really great riffs great musicianship and more importantly great production So I'm going with voodoo circles locked and loaded All right, and josh was saying yes to agent steel Yes to agent steel air is saying so far I haven't any of these albums so the gloves Gives me some time new to check out so it gives me not gov's it gives me John is saying I agree except too mean to die is also best album of 2021 in my opinion There you go. What will happen? We don't know. We don't know what's going to happen. We just don't know Well, I saw the show is all about trying to introduce people to Funny enough alan there are some there actually are some other Let's say websites where they've unleashed their lists And these massive huge websites, you know nothing compared to the metal voice And I couldn't name you one album. I didn't know one album on those lists. I have no idea where they are Either i'm getting really old or they really have bad taste. That's how I look at it It might be guilty of the same thing there, too Yeah, all right Okay, here we go What do we have number seven? Is it me? Yeah, okay. Here we go boom Mastodon hushed and grim Wow, what can you say about this album? This is like their eight studio album 90 minutes of music Two cds worth a double album kind of like the iron maiden one that came out Four years since their last album Wow, you're getting so many styles in there and I got to tell you something when I bought this album And where is it? Beautiful album cover by the way here it is Look at it. Look at how grim it is. Look how grim it is I put it on and there was just so much to absorb. I didn't really like it on the first listen because it was just too friggin much Took multiple Yeah, so you got like maybe nod to allison chains pink floyd Stoner rock sludge rock whatever you want to call it doomy grimy And the voices, you know, there's there all the all the guys are singing at once It's it's it's sort of like very dynamic as they sing in unison You know, like sometimes you don't realize that it's it's you know, it's it's four guys But it's actually it sounds like one, you know united So I thought it was really cool great album. I think everybody should go pick that one out That was my offer your list that you gave me. This was my favorite as well. Yeah, so Thor was not on your list Thor didn't didn't cut it this year. It is. Here's Thor right here Go pick it up. Look at that beautiful album cover by the way You've got to read some of the titles of the songs off of that jim. They're great titles. Yes I can't read them right now We need muscle rock with john gallagher The ultimate alliance Oh to Odin We will fight forever that deals things on that because we are the strong. Did you hear because we are the strong? It's got like a bagpipe sort of like acdc You know a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll queen of the spiders bounty hunter For Thor versus the juggernaut. That's what Sean there you go. There it is Oh a comment from jeff tate Should I read it themselves? Have you heard that awesome mongolian band called the who? Alan's actually made the number one on top 10 list a couple of years ago was my number one album of the year I love those guys. They did something with lizzie hail. I think this year. Yeah, there's a tour last year Time for time flies. I think like opening up for somebody somebody somewhere The who okay, here we go. All right. So what are we at? Okay, we're at number eight for my sorry number seven for myself They're listening to these guys since their debut album came out nas faratu. We're going to bloodbound creatures of the dark realm Um, this is the closest thing to an edgy album I think we're gonna get this year and I love ed guy Wonder what the wonder what those guys are doing Be quiet. Toby. He's been quiet. Anyway back to bloodbound Uh, I love everything they do. I've got all their albums starting, you know, right from nas faratu And it's almost a different band at this point much more mature writing Uh, there's just a gut a whole field album number nine for them and There's a lot going on and the songs is so well constructed great vocals great guitars Uh, and again, it's just a thoroughly enjoyable listen bloodbound if you don't know them check them out It's really worthwhile. All right. All right. So bloodbound to me. It sounds like Aventasia meets sabaton Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah power metal You know, I noticed you you're really into the german this this year. It's very power metal from europe that you're you're really pushing towards this year That's where your taste is gone. Could be that's you know, uh, poland, you know, poland crystal viper german Right under circle and I agree. I agree gunman was a much stronger. Um, there's a comment that Gunman was a better album. I agree, but I thought I thought final days married into to make our top 10. So Jump to the comments fast fast Gabriel's saying flotsam and jetsam akutra sacred oath top three for me And uh, there we go sleep betrays me killer artwork and jeff tates saying awesome. We're doing a good job. Thanks jeff We'll see uh, and chris. We'll see if any of those albums make the top, uh, top five there chris is saying check out king buffalo for some next level heavy psych music And jeff tate is saying europe is pretty wild. I guess jeff's touring there right now in europe All right, okay, here we go james number six number six Number six. Okay, here we go You know what? I have the arm here somewhere That's over there. I won't go at it. All right, here we go blaze baylee Thank you. Thank you. Thank you war within me. Wow great production great artwork great album Look, if you notice like the graphics, you know, you have like tesla and his brain there You have the black hole up there in the top right corner. You have the fighter jets The 303s or I think there was a 30 threes And just basically, you know brilliant album work artwork And the songs, you know, it's at the end of the day. It's all about the songs um Todd letoria is commenting watching your show that cannot be the gt for real No, Todd Todd's watching I got the shirt finally Todd. I finally got it. Thanks You picked it up from my house. It was just sitting in the front door for a long time Todd this is what it's all about All about the nut and what's inside is actually the top album. Okay top two albums or maybe the top album Okay, here we go. No Are you going oh, yeah blaze baylee you're gonna still finish with really or what? I don't know what i'm saying. Hey, I mean blaze baylee go ahead. I know you're a huge fan Yeah, you're a huge fan. It makes your list everything you release makes your list But you know, it could be argued that uh, you know his output is maybe better than maidens throughout that time This is the album. He should have made with iron maiden. It sort of fits in his register You know, he's not trying to reach Like the songs aren't written for bruce dickinson where he can't reach their vocally, but he's boom right in the pocket Uh, this should have been an iron maiden album if this if iron maiden was supposed to make an album This should have been the the album that he made with them and I noticed there's an an uptick Is that the good word uptick in production? From his last his last two three albums like the production is really solid very nice very spaced well well made Hats off to chris appleton for co-writing and producing of course This is we were able to interview them earlier this year. That was a great great to hear from both of them Yep, classic british heavy metal and the songs that stood out stood out for me. Uh, pull yourself up, you know Not pull-ups, but pull yourself up 303 has got a sabaton kind of feel war within me another great song 18 flights, which is very Saxon-like ish, right? Uh, the dream of alan turing I don't know man. The whole album is just And I kind of like that he broke away from the concept albums You know, it's a nice little breather right three concept albums in a row With the same story, you know, you need to sort of break away from that and just focus on the music and the short quick Heavy metal songs. That's pretty much just waiting for the we're waiting for the book now All right, so jeff tate get this jeff tate Show your shirt show your shirt for second alan show your shirt jeff tate Loves toddler torii. He thinks he's a great singer. That's what jeff tate just wrote. If you just wrote it, it must be true Must be true. Yeah. Yeah. Gabe is saying great album by blaze John saying soundtrack of my life is also a decent blaze lp Yeah soundtrack of my life is great jeff tate is saying fates warning is still around so i'm thankful for that Fates warning, yeah, we love fates warning All right So we're going to my number six All right, and dream theaters A view from the top of the world and our james librae interview broke the internet With the revelation That while the other members of the band were playing pool and darts in the other room He was approached to replace bruce nickinson and iron maiden That went around the world That was a revelation for us during the interview When we were in to bring about this very album And it's got everything you want from dream theater. The title track is an absolute masterpiece i've listened to it since It just it's got everything you want from dream theater one song 20 minutes long and it seems like it's only eight So a great album and if you love dream theater, you will not be disappointed as far as i'm concerned Yeah, yeah, i agree with you man. We did that interview with james librae and I was just always thinking in the back of my head Did they ever ask him? Did they ever ask him to join iron maiden? They never if they asked him on the court on the side of our lando's question Yeah, it was our lando's question. That's great. That's right. It was our lando's question Good memory question. Good memory. Good question lando Another member of the metal boys team the family 20 minutes. Wow. I got to check it out What's there we go? So we got so we're counting it down number 10 store and crystal viper Number nine david reese and orton ogan number seven eight was agent steel and voodoo circle number seven is a mastodon And bloodbound and number six blaze bailey and dream theater. So that leaves us five To one we're just waiting for neal right now. We're waiting for neal Neal's having some technical issues. We're waiting for him to jump on and tell us what he thinks Neal's got a list. I'm sure he's got a list And checking it twice. All right, so By the way, we're getting a message from toddlatori and he says thank you alan. Thank you for wearing my t-shirt All right, so we're waiting for neal Four minutes. He's gonna jump on and in the meantime I want to ask everybody this I'm going back to the lists Do you agree with crystal viper? orton ogan voodoo circle bloodbound dream theater blaze bailey thor and who else did we have? david reese an agent Steel do you agree with those choices gave real martin not only did have a crystal viper album But she also released the the metal queen covers album Yeah, yeah, she's been around for like 50 50 lady 15 years. You know, she she sounds a lot like doro pash Do you find I if you listen to that cover of welcome home king diamond cover She sounds like king diamond. She really went for it and hit those high notes. So Yeah, she's uh, I guess pulled the biggest polish export. She plays guitar too. That's what people forget She's not just like the front woman, right? She's like the guitarist and the front woman So hats off to her. She keeps cranking the show There's a few surprises. I mean There's a few others that could have made the list, but This is what it's our show. That's what we decided to go with. All right. So we've got minimal rules So there's a minimal josh was saying you need manual animals a new one armageddon It's like early halford solo albums on speed But that's agent steel Veromatic saying agent steel is solid. The sonic overlords is good. Let me like It sounds like helium like I'm not it doesn't sound like king diamond. It sounds like Speed metal thrash and helium vocals. That's agent steel. I was I thought I was pretty impressed by it I don't know. I thought it was a good comeback, you know for all these years I like the UFO angle too Like the UFO angle to me is the angle. All right, john blaze belly blaze bailey Definitely deserves to be on the list. Everything is ever released since being out of r&b and has been very consistent. Agreed Tommy boy Hi, jimmy and allen interesting choices As we wait for neil turbin to join And don't forget guys we still have One to five could have done them all today allen 10 to six. So we could have done them all today I'm sure maybe maybe some of your suggestions are are already chosen and they're just waiting to be Launched Yep on the next show. So yeah, so to your look allen bloodbound Are awesome. Whatever I love those guys. They blow me away And every new album Yeah, you know, you could say that you know every album sounds similar But that's what I love about them. They're they're just great. Well, if it sounds great Why do you want to make sound or something else? There's a there's a great orchestral openings to a lot of their songs They got a nice work a simple synthesizers and of course the vocals are fantastic. So If you don't know bloodbound, definitely check them out. Look at as joshua agent steel is one of my number one for sure The mid break and veterans of disaster best moment and at the end of veterans of disaster That's like friggin phenomenal Oh the three tremors and not the three tenors has been in my rotation since the release Did you hear that one allen? We got some promos on that. No, it's a lot of screener man ripper owens shan peck And uh, I just my knee his name escapes me Who's the third singer shan peck ripper owens and as we wait for neil turban I think haven't you interviewed the third member? Yeah. Yeah, what's his name from uh Jack pens are harry harry cocklin. That's right. Tom You're on the ball today. We're not but you're on the ball All right, but how many years have we been doing these top 10 lists now? Too many years too many years my friend tom. Give us your top three. Give me your top three tom top three Let me guess them Oh, jeff tate says tim owens is an excellent singer Jeff tate likes tim ripper owens. That's he likes singers All right, look we're past the five minute mark here. Where's neil? So what else going on allen? Did you see that iron maidens coming? What else is going on? What are you? What are you having for supper later? I ate already I did Swedish meatballs Yeah, it was uh, you wanted to do uh, but nothing compared to 20 top 10 You should have done all of them today We could have done five and five There's a strong year. I don't know if it's the strongest year we've done He's a middle of the road year it's an interesting year because There wasn't a lot of touring at the beginning of the year and now there is right But there's been a lot of material being released. I guess everybody's stuck at home or we're stuck at home and they're writing and writing and recording and There's just all this music and it's a lot of music. I mean when you really really think about it I mean, of course not as much as all the other years, but still A lot of music All right a lot unfortunately a lot of the shows are being postponed in europe and uh, maybe here Mm-hmm. There's certainly extent, okay but uh Bar main's coming They're coming iron maiden's coming. Yeah to where to a canada united states Really? Oh, you didn't see you. Where were you today? I was busy making the list All right metal music from across the world wish it was primal fear instead of Trivian That'll be on tour with maiden and also but oh within temptations actually opening up for iron maiden They're not coming to munch. Oh, I will fear That if you want it, you know, we have an unwritten rule on our top 10 list. They released a great kind of best of album Which was absolutely fantastic But we kind of this unwritten rule the greatest hits and best ofs and live albums Don't make the list. They we really focus on studio albums. It's primal fear did a great album this year kind of a History, you know the best of and it was a fantastic album. So I'm a big love love primal fear Aks of the ones I've listened to lucifer for Joel Hockestra Running games robin mccully standing on the I can't pronounce what he wrote there. I'm seeing bruce dickinson spoke well We had we had black swan this year right with Robin mccully and robin mccully solo album. Yeah, yeah So he's been busy as well. Yeah. Yeah Okay All right, we should have done all 10 today We could have done a lot of than this Just do we can still do all 10 if you want Well, I don't have the graphics also rands. You want to talk about also rands? I mean what's that? You know what what numbers, you know albums that didn't quite make it Oh, okay. Yeah, sure Go Go ahead. How'd it go? All right, again, I'm gonna get criticized but I mean I love this band the treatment We did our first show of upcoming bands decades ago And they're still recording albums. I think it's waiting for luck. I think it's called I love that album. It's it's a you know, and uh, I think What was it in glorious in glorious we will write I think it's called they were great. What a singer I love that guy saying And who just mentioned that there was one that somebody just mentioned I thought was really good too Could have could have made the list Black swan there was the end machine as well, but I didn't think that was as strong as the first one Mm-hmm And on fire, you know, they're they're known as a metal group It wasn't a metal album. It was more an acoustic album But they did a great great trick Re-inventing these older songs by introducing like you they'll be playing the song you hear like Deep purple riff or you're here Whole lot of love riff from led zeppelin So it was nice to kind of tie that all in and see that's why it's called roots I guess some of these songs they take you back to the music they were listening to I thought that was very interesting concept Introducing these older songs into their their newer newer songs You know what album that I had on the list, but I removed and I go I don't know It was a running wild blood on blood I do like them I found the the maybe the mix was a little tough But it is a good album. It is definitely a good album. Oh, here we go Neil And notice the graphics are all screwed up here. Now. They should work. There we go Neil Turbin Cut him off guard. I cut him off guard, Alan Hey, there's Neil. You see what I did. I completely cut him off guard I go come on. I go we're gonna have a blab fest me and Alan We're not gonna be able to stop talking They mean while we're just Yeah, man, where have you been? Where you guys been? Where have I been? Neil we're going through our list Awesome. All right, and I know you got your top albums of the year and just so you know where we're at We picked crystal viper Ordon organ Do I pronounce that right Voodoo circle Bloodbound Dream theater and of course Thor what you appeared on right? We're just doing 10 to 6 here, Neil four Reese Blacks blacklist utopia Agent steel from LA, you know the the UFO guys I know there's a lot of craziness happening over there with John Cirrus And mastodon Blaze Bailey so those were our picks me and Alan leading up to number six. So you tell us Neil What your picks are this year? My picks are going to be interesting because it was a quite a uh unusual year And uh, so I've got some unusual picks. How's that? To say the least and um I just wanted to uh mention a couple of those bands since little albums because they're um some unique sounding albums to me and I think Part of it is rooted in the old school, you know, kind of the the new wave of British heavy metal kind of a The retro or the revisited sound of metal bands. Do you know how they pronounce that? It's metal metal metal heavy metal Go ahead. Sorry That's all right. It's okay. And um, you know when I was coming up in the metal scene A few eons ago, I would say that um some of the bands that were big influences I mean just to kind of start it with that would be your bands like motorhead and venom and um Angel witch and bands of that nature really early on for me and um Of course the mainstream bands, you know, we can't deny those We know the names, you know, the Judas priests and the black Sabbaths and you know, the rainbows and the d.o.'s and Iron maidens and so forth, but I think on the more underground stuff and of course iron maiden would have been more underground but still at the top of the underground at that point so Motorhead was still I would say they're pretty much Not underground they were mainstream, but they were big in the underground as well in the punk scene So I think that um, you know taking that into account and kind of revisiting that concept. I mean Straight away. I I know when you asked me jimmy. What are your top picks? I would have said if the album if they would have had an album this year that was new songs I would have said fates warning because But we're not doing what we wanted to They're sounding really good So but they don't have an album for me to put in the top 10 here So I'm going to pick a few bands that are underground and give them give them some real props because these bands have been working hard and um, you know, they deserve the attention one of them is uh The band be witcher Yeah, they're pretty good And I know you just uh, I just mentioned, you know, these bands to you today, but curts be thy kingdom. Yeah. Yeah and um, they're they're pretty fantastic and You know band out of portland, or organ And they've got a couple of videos that you guys could check out one is called electric phantoms, which I really like It's got that, uh, you know to me A bit of a motorhead venom vibe going on as well as valley of the ravens Those are the videos they have but of course, you know the deeper cuts on the album And they're a century media band, I believe and also another great band from California, it's the son of bill church from montrose And that would be a band called haunt Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, and they're they're an awesome band as well And um, I just wanted to give them, you know, it's kind of a tie really a toss up for me because you know neither one of these bands or bands where you know, like the singer is my vocal influence, but it's You know just the sound of the band is really something that I can really get into I really, um You know think that when people say, oh, there's nothing good that's coming out. That's new There's nothing good at all Well, you know, yeah, if you listen to the same Old stuff nothing, you don't let your ears. You're not open-minded to new things. I mean, there's bands that are Old bands that are coming out with great new material as well So I think the creative cycle out there the creative process for bands is still strong and humming along Obviously we're in challenging challenging times globally, but I think You know these new bands they're hungry. They're young. They're they're Coming, you know, they're influenced with great metal influences and here's a couple of great bands, you know B. Witcher and haunts and I think those albums and B. Witcher it reminds me of There's harsh vocals, which is not But the music sounds like kind of like old rush sometimes I don't know if that that makes sense Yeah, they're they're uh There's a progressive element there There's a progressive or a technical factor in that and and I think uh You know a lot of thought went into the songs. I mean, they're they're a band that's definitely, you know Up and coming and exciting out there to know about and On the scene and you know, they're touring right now I believe haunt is also doing the same. They're out there, you know hitting it as well Show us your shirt. You know, show us your shirt Hey, look at that Fist full of metal. Yeah, I had to wear it one time It's all good. So you could pick up those shirts. You could buy those shirts, right? Yeah, well, you know, they'd have to DM me directly on social media and I can send it out We're not on an actual storefront or something But it's okay. There's limited edition of them But you know, it's a good Christmas item or a holiday item. That's right Hanukkah Hanukkah just around the corner Current holiday Yep, and I also wanted to include another band in a three-way tie because it's not just two bands For for my top pick of album of the year now this band has been a band that's been working hard for many years and You know because of their sound because of the trends, you know, they haven't always been Let's say the the band that was with the end crowd because you know, there was the thrash crowd there was the grunge times there was the You know the classic traditional metal times and this band's always been You know great songwriters in my opinion and also very consistent album to album and never boring never the same old same old and You know this time around they they have some pretty amazing videos even the lyric video You know, you expect just some black and white lyrics on a screen and the lyric video they have for You know going to Sin City is pretty pretty phenomenal for a lyric video, but the band Uh Put out an album called all the right noises thunder. Oh thunder old band. Yeah, and they're Still consistent, you know, they surprise me each time and you know, they're not big here They're not big in the in north america Yeah, they don't like to tour. I guess out of the european Area so much, but they they they did monsters rock cruise Alan, have you heard of the thunder? They've been around forever, right? Yeah. Yeah, they've been around forever. Yeah Yeah, fantastic band and um, you know, I just had to give them credit where credit's due. I mean great great songs great album and You know, it might be more on the hard rock side of metal But I think uh, you know, you want really well crafted well thought out songs, you know very solid very, you know really amazing amazing bands, you know all all throughout I mean just Uh luke moorley, banny bows and the band Um, you know fantastic, you know delivery on this album But I think they're like the uk's april wine I would say they're more like, uh, you know a modern version. That's a combination of maybe What bad company might have been if they were more metal. That's probably yeah, you're probably more right there. Yeah And uh, I think uh equivalent from the u.s. Would have been giant Oh giant too. Yeah, that's a great band. Yeah, who is releasing new songs as well without the dan huff Yeah, so, uh, the witcher and and haunt on just fantastic, you know Super metal bands I think the thing about haunt is that's interesting as the vocals are not your typical You know, it's more of like a punk rock vocal or more not not so much like, uh Sex pistols punk rock and that respect but more of a more modern punk rock type of sound So I think it's it's unique because they they've combined that masterfully with You know an nwo bhm kind of sound to their music. So they're definitely kind of angel witch meets you know this This newer punk vocal style and melodic, you know, so you can really you know good songwriting and you know Obviously, there's a mantra influence in there somewhere because Who's the dad and then uh with b witcher, you know, just aggressive and go for the throat, you know, they're you're killing it and thunder absolutely An overlooked band in many circles, but I think uh, you know, if you've seen them like I have, uh, you know during their Christmas shows that they put on over there in the mid in the black country And in other places in london amazing band and great guys And um, you know, just love the thin lizzie vibe thin lizzie vibe too. Yeah, the thin lizzie evolves there as well And of course they actually had scott gorem play with them. Yeah recently. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah The last couple years that's that's neil's picks there right there. And by the way There's always new stuff to listen to neil always has some interesting groups And I want to give one honorable mention band that's oh another one go ahead That's not on the it's not on the metal It's not a metal band, but The fact is that, you know, there's there's blues music and classical music and other forms of music r&b It all influences metal it all influences rock and roll and it is to found, you know, the foundations the The key the key elements that that form rock and roll Plastic rock hard rock heavy metal, you know extreme metal So I want to give a honorable mention to a band that you probably would not hear about on the metal voice had it not been for my Pushing this forward the anticipation Yeah, I have to I have to share, you know, go ahead It's a band out of wisconsin And they're yeah, they're on the billboard charts. They're kind of breaking it loose in europe and in the states and The band actually has music on their album that sounds like it could be on the last acdc album or the last few They have music on their riffs that are just like home runs, you know, just incredible Musicianship and the band is called altered five blues band a five blues band and they are There's a song on there Called guilty of a good time. So you can listen to that riff and tell me that You know, why didn't acdc Play that one in case it's it's got some great, you know great biting Feel to it and it's just a great, you know great style Of course, it's not metal, but it is something that you know We want to we want to grab top albums and it's a top album But it's not a metal album, but you know check it out. See if you like it and I love it. So and those are some of the albums. I love. I also love You guys, you know the picks that you guys have of course blaze Bailey Thor, you know without a doubt You know, I don't want to be in Neil Turman's on the Thor album I want to be impartial and not say, oh here's we will rock forever I mean, I will fight forever. Sorry. Yeah, do a great vocal on this great Come up and it was a pleasure working with the Thor with john michael Thor and kevin stewart swain and Everybody on the track and on that Project and also, you know death writers had a a single that came out Let's put it on the list It's a great song. It's a great song. How did you hear it? Just to mention it, you know, did you hear it? Did you hear death writers? Neil's a band? Yeah, Jonas Hornqvist. Yeah. Yeah I got some homework to do every time Neil's on I got homework to do after you Such good suggestions. I'm gonna write out a list all of that Yeah, Jonas Hornqvist Richard sforg um Matt Thompson and andy larrock from king diamond, of course andy produced the song and um and matt thompson plays drums on it and I'm not submitting it for a top pick or anything because that would be not impartial top single top single of 2021 Yeah, right. I just think I mentioned it because because you're asking me but yeah I think it's something that people can brag. Can you imagine if we did a show the top song There's the top song of 2021. Can you imagine the? Controversy the comments the list would be like 6,000 songs probably Yes Yes, there's there's a lot There's so many albums that came out in 2021. I mean, I think people had a lot of time to uh put out some records and So are we getting close to finishing that solo album or that death writers album any any news? No, I wish I could say yes, but you know, it's uh, you know, there's there's many things in the On the stove and many things that we're working on. I mean, I just got done doing some shows with team otolki. Oh, yeah Oh, really? Yeah, we did shows in la and It was his first time back in the u.s. Since uh, I think 2006. Mm-hmm. Let's try to various and I actually saw Some shows that he played this year. So it was kind of ironic to say the least to be on stage with them Singing those same songs. Yeah, and um, and in my band, you know, neil turban eastlose. We also co-headline The same shows so that was really a lot of fun We're doing a christmas show by the way, and uh Place called tiki bar in december 17. Oh, we still have a tiki bar here, right? I'll Let's have a tiki bar. What's the base up? and it benefits uh um We uh, it's a condo now It's a condo building now the tiki bar more heroes for for vets and boaters for vets more heroes on water It's a benefit show All right, all right So there we go. I like your background. You know, I was like, I love it. I love way our top 10 album is like really a top 30 album well It's okay me now and we're stretching for time as we were waiting for you We got 10 or neil's got like five and we're up to like about 25 different hours on the top That's what we do. That's how we do it. That's the way we roll on the metal thing. It's like tootsie pop drops. You can't eat just Yeah, yep, that's it guys. So lots of great comments And we're anxious to see if all these comments were everybody's throwing out names if they're gonna make the top Five we haven't revealed that neil. We haven't really revealed five to one. We're just gonna hold off for a week We're gonna hold we're gonna put it on ice You know, I was thinking my head maybe we should just do it now. You know what? No, we're not gonna do it now We're gonna wait. What's in the walnut though? What's gonna build the anticipation? Oh, man This is a massive it's in here actually the actually the number one is in here I usually put cables in here like for my tv and stuff, but I took them out spoiler alert spoiler alert It's a consensus The number one album is a consensus between jimmy and I and it's inside the nut It's inside the nuts and that you can there you go jimmy You can lease out that walnut to bands that are touring in california and canada and other states that are green This is the holiest. Look at this. I polished it today. You can fill it with green and they could go green On the road your walnuts. It's beautiful. Isn't it? It's a beautiful piece of art Look at that beautiful What we should do is what bands come to town like at least the archers make them touch them The nut they cross another band on the road they give them the nut and then after a year We find out who's got the nut Exactly you might not get it back. It might end up like uh paul mccartney's original base Didn't anvil have an anvil that they brought around with them everywhere alan Yeah, they've had and somebody stole the anvil. Isn't that what it looks like somebody stole the Imagine stealing an anvil like how do you steal an anvil? Those things are heavy So thank you. All right. I think that's it. That's a wrap. Oh, Todd Latorey says hi, uh, neil Todd he texted me to tell you He texted me to tell you does he have any last comments? Hmm Well, we'll have to get taught on for the the top five We got neil on now. We get taught on for the top five. See what he comes up with Todd had a great album come out uh in 2021. Yep. Yep. Well, we can't talk about that We can't talk about that right now. No, we don't know we don't know Did it make the top 10 list? We'll have taught on is give us his top album Of 2021 and we'll see if Todd Latorey's album made our five-to-one list. I don't know. I don't know alan You know that neil this how we're gonna end off the show me and alan All day and all week. We've been emailing each other. What's almond almond? Change this change that one Even Like now it's about six it's 649 right now But from one o'clock to two to three things have been changing graphics have been changing. It's a big show It's a very it's a huge moment in metal voice The fans want to know the fans just want to know. All right guys That's it. Did your picks change at all? Did your picks? Did you have new ones or? Oh, we're changing them constantly. We just can't make a problem. It's a very scientific approach We have so is there a number one that changed or was it the top three? No, no It's the 10 to 6 that was but once you change the 10 to 6 you change to 5 to 1 You know, so it's this complex thing, right? It's like a tree, you know, it's a house like it's built But anyways, okay. All right guys exciting to be here and thanks for for having me on and uh, yeah, we uh Definitely think there's some great music still being put out by great metal bands and up and coming metal bands and I think people should uh, you know check it out these these bands we're talking about because uh you know, they're doing great and It's just a matter of word of mouth, you know, put it out there get the word out and You know, what I'm seeing out there. I mentioned this earlier. Jimmy is that I'm seeing um, a lot of the publications out there and I won't name names because you know You know that can ruffle feathers and all Neil sing us out Neil. Is there is that a guitar for real there next to you? Or Sing us out. Sing us out with the song Sing us out with a song No, no, I see his guitar. I'm just getting ideas here to grab your guitar and Neil's Neil's very spontaneous Well, that's true Grab your guitar All right, if jimmy's asking i'm doing it, but it's not gonna sound great because i'm not Like then and I have an acoustic right in front of me. It's all good. It's all good. But one minute one minute That one that you're looking at that wrench. I mean It's got heavy strings on it. So I'd have to tune it and I won't this one We hope it's in tune this one right here. That's it. That's it That's it But you know You asked me to jump in I'll jump in why not Wow It's a treat Neil turbid live on a metal voice You know what? Oh boy just scripts with something up here. Oh, that's crazy, man I'm not even in tune because I know I'm not but Good thing I have a tuner on board Yep There's nothing worse than uh Starting the race when your fire is off the car. Okay, here we go tune it up All right All right for those of you who've actually watched the whole show. Where's Todd There's Todd. Let's hurry Todd Todd is all I Todd you're gonna be on next week So you have one week to think of one or two albums that you really enjoyed this year 2021 You will be on next week Todd. Do not make any plans any tour schedules. Please postpone Cancellate postpone is the right word postpone is the right word This is the top 10. This is the most watched Event of the year. All right. Now, Ludis live On the metal voice with the metal voice Neil turban putting me on the spot and I hope I remember the chords All right, there you go. Let her rip. Let her rip Okay Okay, that's great Neil Yeah, I gotta remember the lyrics and uh be able to put it on the spot. So I'm gonna pick a different one just because uh And I'll tell Alan this very quickly before Neil starts when I was at NAMM now It's been almost what two years since I saw Neil at NAMM He was at a booth And it was I can't remember what the brand name was Neil I don't remember whatever anyways, he was at a booth with his buddy, uh Angelo Batillo, right? Michael Angelo Batillo He was at a booth there and Neil was doing a soul song At NAMM at and he was phenomenal late breaking news. Jim and I turned to every late breaking news Todd Latore gave us the thumbs up. He will participate in the top five We have confirmation All right Send the doc you signed to be signed. Go ahead Neil You're gonna sing this out here text messages. Don't worry about it That was a song written by prince Made famous by shanado connor and reworked by neil turban. Neil. You're a phenomenal talent. Thank you so much for doing that, man Guys tune in. I mean, but I still had a step up and I hopefully didn't embarrass myself You know what I wouldn't ask you to step up if I didn't know you could deliver. That's all I know I know you could deliver on the spot. Don't forget to tune in for the top five from 2021 With special guest dawg Latore. What's he gonna pick? All right guys. He gonna pick Thanks, Neil