We cover a lot of things in this one. And it is quite a long episode. It has been a while between episodes and a fair bit has happened in between with Nicko's retirement, Paul Dianno's passing, Solstafir, Opeth and Tribulation all with new albums that have elicited a range of opinions.

Ray mentions that Tarot are playing more shows as part of the album launch tour, but it appears that he may well have made that up. Follow Tarot on socials to stay in the loop though https://www.instagram.com/tarottasmania/

Episode playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1WgRLFi1JQDGefBRW5fKWA?si=cbe4d31705434916

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Its Halloween next week so we thought we'd celebrate with some Helloween and Keep of the Seven Keys Part 1 and Part 2, as the first installment in what is becoming a series of first installments. This one we are calling Jewels of the Crown. Excellent heavy metal albums, that are probably appropriately rated, but we'll talk about them anyway because we love them.

Also discussed:

Austere - Beneath the Threshold and their upcoming Aus tour with Harakiri For the Sky courtesy of Your Mate Bookings https://www.yourmatebookings.com/uncategorized/3318/

Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N4rLtjPzH0

Grand Magus - Sunraven

Halford - Resurrection

Ray's experience at Essence Festival

Phil talks Glenn Hughes and Black Jesus (separate gigs)

The playlist of things we've been listening to continues to grow and become more and more eclectic, so enjoy that here

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Steel Assassins is almost upon us again. The yearly heavy metal festival held in Sydney by Dave Balfour at Metal Evilution. Get your tickets and be there in Nov 8 and 9 at The Bridge in Sydney

tickets

Episode playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HK4ImHg24QMEXbE1bbnTI?si=N3dYpGBcR7uROs-9ZBCs7g&pi=a-KvScuGkCT6On

Also discussed

• The quite heartwarming story of Phil's introduction to Deep Purple's Burn and the upcoming Glenn Hughes tour
• Anthrax's Fistful of Metal being a pretty good amount of metal
• The 'big 4' having not great album covers for their first albums
• Blacksound Records has a physical location coming site
• Silent Knight and Valhalore (apologies for Ray mispronouncing that one, if you had to read his handwriting you'd know why) have been added as the supports for Hammerfall's upcoming Australian tour
• Grand Magus - pure heavy metal with a new album Sun Raven coming out Oct 18

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