 voice. And Alan, for the first time, we grab somebody from war. It's Blothar himself. This is a first here on the metal voice, Blothar himself. That's right. The berserker Blothar here in my and on a conforterous with beautiful orange drapes. You know what, there's a new album, the new Dark Ages, it's gonna be released June the 30th, June, sorry, June 3rd. Yep. You know, I'm gonna be really fantastic. But first, I just quick overview of who Gore is for the people out there who don't understand who these war, warrior species are. Just give us a quick overview. Well, war is a group of intergalactic warriors who were banished. You know, I mean, basically think of F troop in space. Nobody's nobody's listening to you as old enough to know what the hell that means. I'm barely old enough to know what it means. But basically, it's just a bunch of clowns that can't do anything right. And so we were banished to this planet by our Supreme Commander and charged with I mean, ostensibly, the mission was, you know, take things over. But then, of course, when we got here, there's no but nothing here, but dinosaurs and proto humans running around. So we started screwing things up to the point that he wound up having to entomb us on ice before we managed to destroy the entire planet. And that's where we've that's where we've been until until the glam rockers using hairspray during the 80s melted the ozone layer and then you know, we wound up waking up. So what about the bovine flatulence that also contributed bovine flatulence, you're right, you're right. All right. So but the interesting thing is not only are you guys, you know, outcast of your own sort of civilization, but you managed to record music. We do. Yes. I mean, that was part of the plan, you know, scoby, excuse me. Sleazy P martini, who was the manager of guai, he discovered us in our Antarctic and layer and he took one look at us and he was thinking to himself, how can I make money off of these guys? And he thought, well, I'll turn him into a rock band, you know, that they look stupid enough to be a rock band. And so that's that's what we did. We became he sat us in front of course, back then in the mid 80s, it was MTV, you know, and professional wrestling. And we learned how to speak English. And then the next thing you know, we were rock stars. There you go. Simple as that. Are you are you guys COVID resistant? Well, I mean, we're COVID compliant at this point. Yeah, I mean, I mean, we definitely are immune to the disease, that's for sure. We couldn't afford I mean, you know, and the truth of the matter is that it was us. We're the ones who did it. Of course, we started this by by you sneezed on a bat, and then somebody ate a bat. Is that was that the story I heard about? Well, I mean, that's what they say. But it was actually pangolin sex that that sex with pangolin. That's that's what did it. That's how it tread. It jumped to guar and then guar gave it to the humans. All right, we couldn't afford COVID 20. So we only got a 19 you can't drive a 20 off the lot. Let me tell you. So what why are we in the new dark ages? Let's get straight to it. Well, I don't know whether the why we're there, but somehow I think that's exactly where we are. Humanity has managed to if you look at the sorts of situations that exist in the world, this crisis of truth and humanity really turning on itself. These conditions spawned by a by an ever increasing technology. You know, these are all things that that happened during the dark ages. The sort of and at least part of it came from recognizing some of the language that that groups like QAnon were using when they're talking about conspiracy theories and about Adrina Chrome and, you know, baby killing and all of these things. It sounded really sounded like something guar should be involved. But but certainly it was, you know, I mean, I recognize that rhetoric. Wow, you know, that's that's the way that they would attack Jewish people during the Middle Ages, right? I mean, this is these are some of the same ideas that have been holding humans back for centuries. And it really does look and it ironically, you know, these are spawned by at least in part by by technology by humans gaining access. And you would think that by now humans would just be a big floating brain with no arms or legs that blissfully exists in a state of absolute peace and spiritual harmony. But that's that's not where technology has put us. It's more blood and guts. And, you know, it's kind of predictable. I mean, it's been trending that way for an awfully long time. Is the whole Go ahead, sorry. We're cursed. We can't learn from history, it seems. And we're cursed to repeat it. Are humans the smartest species on the planet? No, absolutely. Of course not. I mean, you know, cows are far more intelligent than humans. I mean, just look at how how other creatures, you know, look at their bearing the things that they're interested in what's important. You know, I mean, do you think that we're smarter than dolphins? I think dolphins look at us and say, What a bunch of fucking dumb asses look at them. They're running around. We sit out here and swim all day and eat fish. That's it. That's our job. We swim, we eat fish. The humans, they're trying to get jobs, they're paying bills. They're driving cars, they're fucking up the entire world. You know, I mean, who's smarter in that situation? I'd go with the dolphins. I vote for the dolphins as well. Like I'm hearing a lot of and you know, you know, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm hearing a lot of sabotage. I'm hearing Alice Cooper. I'm hearing even hints of quiet riots sometimes in the music. I mean, and sometimes even your hints of voivod. So I mean, this is a very diverse record that Eugorians have put together. So maybe you want to speak to sort of the musical aspect and the influences on this album just to give people give people an idea what this album sounds like musically. Well, I mean, one thing that it sounds like to me, it sounds like a record that needed to be made right now, right? I mean, there's two, you put these records on, it feels like they all sound the same. Bands are very into repeating themselves in a lot of ways. And then and and the change is like you read these interviews with the bands and it's like they act like what they've done is so revolutionary. It's like, oh, you've changed some slight thing, right? Like, but pretty much it's the same, the same thing. Goa actually is very liberated. And that we don't have to make the same record over and over again. And yeah, I mean, you know, we use a lot of tritones on in some songs, which is sort of the mark of the Voivod, I suppose. And Voivod, you know, they're like us, they're a band from outer space. We definitely feel a kinship with them. Apparently, that's what space sounds like is lots and lots of tritones, tritones and semitones and odd time signatures. But no, I mean, in some sense, we wanted to have I think that comes out of having some songs that we wanted to sound mechanical. And that's that's what we did the songs that are supposed to sort of reflect technology and definitely a theme that Voivod would deal with themselves. And then, you know, also, we wanted to have songs that captured the just a, you know, almost an Alice Cooper feel, right? Like, and that we that were varied enough, you know, that that that it would satisfy us as musicians. I mean, that's what we're interested in doing. I think that, you know, this way madness lies, if you spend your time trying to do what you think people want you to do. I think you have to do what you want to do. I mean, at this point, making 15 records, it's a fair question why Gore makes records at all, right? Well, I mean, the answer to that is that we're not done. We've got things to say. And I think that this record shows that there are things we can teach, right, even other bands. I mean, this is a band that has never gotten its due musically. The great Mike Gitter from the old rock and roll magazine cream, back in the day, once told me, Well, you know, Guar has quietly been making really good albums for many years. And I was like, I don't know if that's an insult or a compliment, Mike. But I think I think he's absolutely right. And, you know, I also think that one thing about this record is that having a voice on it that is odorous, odorous is very polarizing sort of approach to music. Just everybody, you know, just remembers that odor has died 2014, right? Yeah, 2014. Yeah. Do you find that people have finally got over that hump and have accepted that Blothard now is the king of the jungle? I don't know. I mean, we don't we don't really care. I mean, it's like, it should people still ascribe, you know, I mean, you do hear people that don't write. I mean, there's people that still I mean, you look, you ask me, I love Bond Scott. But Brian does a pretty damn good job holding it down, right? And I'm never going to stop loving Bond Scott. I feel like that's that's the way you know, some people feel about it. And, you know, I mean, we have have the luxury of being able to keep going because Guar is a band that's the project of a lot of effort by a lot of different people. It's an ensemble effort. And and it was always that. So it and and odorous, you know, to us who were there from the beginning, odorous wasn't the original singer of war. There were at least two singers before him. So it's a project that that that we've all been part of for a very long time and that we watched grow and that we understand. And like I said, I mean, as long as we're having fun, and we feel like we have something to say, who cares if they accept it or not? But that's the true spirit of war, right? Right, by and large, I think that I think that that they have, I think that you get, you know, there's always going to be people who don't people who can't. But we just keep going. And if you come to a Guar show, I think you get exactly what you what you always got, which is a great rock and roll band doing crazy stuff on stage. And I'm going to tell you something, Glothar, me and Alan, we were discussing, you know, the album before we go, wow, this is pretty good. I mean, this, I would say as a guy who's sort of followed the band over the years, this is probably and I think it's one of your best albums, you know, it's on par with your other great albums. That's what I'm trying to say. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm an earthling to a Gaurian. This is what I'm telling you. Yes, yes, yes. Well, I really appreciate it. And I know you want to eradicate our species, despite all that, I'm okay. Well, it's hard for me to want to eradicate a couple dudes like you, you know, wearing your glasses. Old metal dudes. Come on. I think I share a kinship with you. There you go. Hey, the new Dark Ages, I'm just trying to let me start with, I'm a big fan of titties, but I'm just trying to find a correlation of getting the titties out and the world has gone to spit, you know, what's the role of social media in the new Dark Ages? Well, I mean, first of all, that song in particular, you know, if the blood of God's was one of the themes on that record, which is the record we did before this one was humanity really struggling, I mean, war really struggling to keep up with humanity, which had become so just violent and so unpredictable. It's like, you know, I mean, when you were cutting off someone's head used to mean something. Now you turn it on you turn on the TV and you can see it right in real life. And so how can how can you really keep up with it? And this record is more like, we just gave up and we're like, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna call out what's going on, but we're just gonna kick up our feet. And that's what that moment is in that song, the New Dark Ages, get your titties out and put them on the glass. You know, it's just Guar kicking our feet up and watching the world burn in a sense. And that's really more of the attitude that's on that's on this record. As far as the question, you also had a question in there about the role of social media in today's New Dark Ages. Well, I mean, certainly the role of information is that while it's a great irony that while there is so much more information at hand, there is such little knowledge that's coming out in the world right now. Or people people seem to lack knowledge, people seem to lack wisdom, although they have a lot of access to information. And you know, so that's certainly, that's So you're talking about fake news and filtered news, that what you're saying there's a, are you exposing that? Well, I mean, I'm exposing myself to be honest. But yeah, absolutely. I mean, in a sense, that's what we're doing. I'm moving with you now. We're walking. Yes. I see that your cave in Antarctica is very nice. Yeah, isn't that isn't that nice? The Antarctica fortress? Quite lovely. What about the stocking? Because my my computer is dying here. So okay, let's see. There we go. What about there's a documentary? Was it has it been finished? Where are you with that? I'm not even sure. Well, the documentary is actually finished. And it's, I think it's going through a final edit here and there. But by and large, it's done. And I think that people are going to love it. You know, it's, it's guar at our glorious and it really explains a lot about the band about the human side of guar, which believe it or not does exist, right? War does. We do have human thralls who busily produced this album or not this album, but every album and every guar show. And that's very much what what the documentary is is it covers that story, which in a lot of ways is the most interesting story when it comes to guar. I mean, we were a band that tells stories. But the real side of it was always fascinating. And there really is nothing like it. There's nothing like what guar puts on stage. But there's also nothing like the organization that makes it. And I mean, I can't find anything. And I was trained to look for things like this, right? Like my human thrall is an academic. One of the things we do is, you know, find something like this, so you can grab a hold of it and understand and explain it. I can't find anything that that's like guar. So you know, is there a release date? Like is there a plan release date tentative release? There is. Yeah, it's coming out right around the album right around the same time as the album a little bit later. But it'll be out. I can't remember the exact date. I don't think it's September. I think it's July that it comes out. And is it what kind of format are we looking at DVD? Is it on the streaming service? It's going to be there's some there's a big announcement that's coming about how it will be available streaming, but it's not not yet. I don't think we can talk about that yet. But it's going to have at least somewhat of a theatrical release. I think it might might wind up playing at cinema draft houses and things like that as well. And also, there is a streaming release of it that's going to be a pretty big deal. And we're very excited about it. Besides cheese pizza, what role does karma play in blood liable? Karma. Well, karma. Well, I mean, you know, pretty a pretty big one. I mean, that's really guar. You know, we talked about earlier in the middle, the middle ages, the dark ages of black and and some of the ideas that are reflected in the song blood liable. Certainly, I think that that that looking at the way things have happened, the way that that that humans sort of assign escape goat. We really wanted to write a song that looks at that plus it's just fascinating, right? The shit that humans believe. The idea that, you know, it's somehow, I mean, I understand why it's attractive. Yes, the world isn't waking up and going to your bullshit job. The world is actually a world where people are mysterious predators. And there's like, you know, there's a where Hillary Clinton is ripping off somebody's face and wearing it. That's the real truth. You know, I mean, what, what a load of shit. And so I mean, like I said, I mean, it sounds exactly like something war should be involved in. If somebody's wearing a baby's face, it's going to be me and the Pope. Let me ask you this. Given the fact that you're not human, does that give you a sort of extra perspective that you can share with the world that you couldn't if you were human? I think so. I think absolutely that war is allowed to say some things that, you know, and that that that theme makes an appearance on the on the record to that. I mean, certainly, humans have gotten more and more restrictive in their freedom of expression. And war really stakes a claim. And in a sense, being aliens from outer space, I think that we're allowed some leeway to say some things that other people aren't. And we intend to use that very irresponsibly. I can promise you that. Whatever it does afford us perspective. Yes, I think so. So somebody gets on the stage at a goer show and then wants to Will Smith you what, what do you do? What's the going to be the turnout? I'm gonna pants them, you know, if Will Smith came up to me and smack me in the face and I would pull his pants right down right there. Just drop him to his ankles. And then I bend him over and introduce him to one of my four weeners. What about working with Lizzie Hill on this? I think you're it's the cutter, right? Yeah, the color like, you know, female species and goreans like, what was that? What was that? I mean, you know, this is a song that is kind of risky topic wise, right? This is not, believe it or not. This is this. This is a fine line from war to walk. But we wanted to do it. I mean, you know, we want to and we wanted to have a voice on this record that was not our voice, especially in this song, it felt important to have someone a who can actually sing her ass off, which Lizzie certainly can do. And we knew we knew Lizzie we share a management company. We also share. She's done some some interviews for us and things like that on our web series that we did. And she's just a great talent. And she's a wonderful person who loves Guar. So we thought to ourselves, you know, let's let's we need somebody to sing the part of the cutter. Who better to do it than Lizzie Hale. And she did a wonderful job. Yeah, she's a great singer. She's a great singer. I also hear some maiden in Berserker mode. Oh, here a little bit of those harmonies, those guitar harmonies happening. Yeah, I mean, is Arjen Maiden like is Eddie sort of like someone you look up to? Well, I mean, Eddie, yes. Steve Harris is an old lady basically, like, I mean, they all are just a bunch of British old women at this point. But, or at least that's how they act, right? I'm just kidding. I mean, you know, but but but it is very, very odd to me that Steve Harris, I love Iron Maiden. It always bothered me that Steve Harris has such a problem with punk rock for some reason. Especially when you can obviously hear it in some of what they're doing around the killer's era. But you know, Iron Maiden's a band that I think that you can hear it more than in the than in the guitars, I think it's in the bass guitar as well. You know, Steve Harris is a big influence on Bois. And whether he likes it or not, and he probably doesn't like it. Matty, time we have left him. Yeah, yeah, sure. We can wrap it up. Is there anything blotard that you want to tell humanity? Well, you know, first of all, I want to apologize to Steve Harris. I didn't mean to call you an old lady. It's just that you kind of look like one and you drink tea. So I don't know. But as a pint from down in it. Yeah, yeah, maybe he does. You're right. No, I you know, you know, we love we love Iron Maiden. We love Ronnie James Dio. We love heavy metal. That's the greatest thing that humanity ever gave the world is this music. So we're happy to be a part of it. Or miserable to be a part of it as the case may be. Happily miserable to be making humans happy and miserable. Well, just one last question to end on Johnny Depp or Amber Heard. Well, you know, I like Johnny Depp. I certainly like his attitude. I like the way he mumbles and has an unrecognizable accent that's impossible to place. Really just talks like Jack Sparrow all the time now. But anybody who takes a dump in the bed is okay by me. So I'm gonna go with Amber Heard. All right, Bruce Dickinson or Paul Diano? Paul Diano. Come on. I mean, there's no question. I know he's like a roofer in South London now. But come on. What a great what a great voice and the hair up in nails. That's probably why Harris was so aggro about punk rock. All right, that's it. All right, blah, gore. The new Dark Ages June 3 2022 expecting the documentary, which I'm literally looking forward to a tour. You guys are going on tour. Maybe you want to just plug that quickly? Well, yeah, yeah, I mean, we're gonna be out with it. We've got a wrestling show coming up where we're gonna take on the tag team of the Prime Minister of China and and Vladimir Putin. So that's exciting. We're gonna put up a wrestling ring on stage, play some rock and roll and wrestle. And then we also have after that, when we do the touring for the album, you're gonna see all of this. I mean, one thing we didn't talk about is that the album is paired with a graphic novel on C2. And it's kind of the first time that we've done that. I mean, war has put out a lot of comics. But we've never put out an album in a comic basically at the same time and had them go together. I mean, every gore record is a is a concept record. But this one may be more so than most because it follows that narrative. And then people are going to see some of that narrative on stage when they come see the band perform live. So a lot of the characters out of the novel and out of the record will be there. And it's going to be, you know, really the biggest show, certainly the most expensive show that we've ever done. So it'll be it'll be fun to watch. All right. And we're in Canada. Any final thoughts before our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? You know, he's so cute, isn't he? I mean, he's really like, you know, I Justin Bieber. I mean, he's just adorable. I mean, as far as world leaders go, I just want to pinch his little eye. He's so cute. But I don't know. I mean, Canada, it was a long time before I figured out that it wasn't just one big ugly state. I thought it was just a state like bigger than Texas. But now I understand that it's not it's its own country. And it should start acting like it damn it and it should and frankly, the wall should be built between the United States and Canada, because that's who should be coming over our borders. That's who we want it. Come on Canada invade. What I'm hoping is that Canada will literally launch an attack on the United States and take over the whole place. That would be great, wouldn't it? Tim Hortons everywhere. That's our guest Blothar from war. Thank you so much for being on the show. No problem.