The Review Crew: January 4, 2025...Our 2nd Season Celebration!

[@jeffkelty6636]

So glad to have The Review Crew return! Love this program. I must tip my hat to Karen for mentioning Jesus Lizard. Great band and a welcome surprise to have a new album. Likely the first time this band has been spotlighted on SoT! Thanks to all. Jamie, what a great job!

[@bradjackson4595]

Great show and discussion as always everyone! Congrats Jamie on a 2nd year!

[@ScottBerry-yn8rw]

Great show lady and gents. I also remember hearing about Jesus Lizard back in the 90’s, but never heard an album or song. I’ll give this one a listen. Sounds like it could be up my alley.

[@garyjoyce2160]

Great great show again. Hard work. Jamie. Pete says it . Thanks for shoutout” nice 👍 💯

[@ericdinse5047]

Great show ! Great discussion !

[@ykmgeedee]

Esteemed panel indeed! Appreciate you all. The Jesus Lizard reminds me of a baseball player named Jesus Lizardo.

[@christophercoles4401]

Great to see the Magick Potion album discussed again! It's one of my Top Ten favorite albums of 2024. Every SoT viewer NEEDS to hear this record!

[@iceclimbers22]

I need to give it another chance. I listened once cause it should be right up my alley, but it didn’t move me for some reason. Don’t know if I wasn’t in the right frame of mind or what.

[@christophercoles4401]

@iceclimbers22 There were a couple of albums this past year that I felt the same way about, and I grew to like them. Sometimes it's your frame of mind, but some albums are just growers.

[@srobbins1973]

I gave this a listen but it's just not my cup of tea,

[@StaggerMcTipsy]

Check out Mos Generator.

[@christophercoles4401]

@StaggerMcTipsy Will do. Thanks for the tip.

[@TAsh-s9r]

I have both Magick Potion and Loud Lion. I can't recommend them enough!

[@thomaswery3087]

I saw Leslie West back in the 70's backing up Queen along with Cheap Trick.I don't even know if Cheap Trick had an album out yet.It was in midwest

[@markfurru3368]

I can't really review anything new right now, but are a handful of albums I got to hear and enjoy within the last couple of weeks of the year. There are two that Pete mentioned on here that I decided to check out and ended up digging: Rifflord and Magick Potion. I also finally heard Brat from Charlie XCX, What Now from Brittany Howard, and Happiness Bastards from The Black Crowes. All great stuff!

[@guillermomaldonado6277]

Congrats on the second season and here's to many more!! 🍺🍺🤘

[@scottmcgregor4829]

I agree. With karen and grant there is more great music being created by young musicians than ever from all over the world, the delivery system of music has changed. There are great bands on KZbin that we can listen to for free., in avery genre of music. They would be thrilled just to have people listen and drop a like on their video.these are young guys that are playing the music that they love. That we love. I'm quoting Pete pardo.

[@lazarossamaras4427]

Welcome back for season 2 and Happy New year!!! 1000mods, a great album and the guys are from my neighbouring town. They have their own studio and great following here in Greece. Magic Potion is a must have. Have to listen to Echoverse, and Echolyn.

[@ericporter344]

Hope you enjoy the recommendations

[@jimmypage2843]

Echoverse has a couple guys from the Prog Report on their release. The drummer is an Orthodontist!

[@Rabant777]

I saw Mountain on that UK tour in 2005. The inclusion of too many Cream songs distracted from it being a great show, but I got to meet Leslie and Corky after the show. As a Frehley fan I wanted a chat with Richie but he didn't come out. Jesus Lizard are in the UK this week. I tried to get tickets to the show local to me but it's been sold out for quite a while.

[@spiralarchitectfr]

Great show as usual! Thanks for your hard work. Fun fact about 1000 mods . They come from a place in Greece that is called Chiliomodi and Chilia (χίλια) means 1000 in Greek

[@jonathancilley9450]

Speaking of Krokus...My absolute favorite Krokus album is Heart Attack from 1988. Highly underrated and did absolutely nothing commercially. They were playin' for the MCA, so there you go. I think it is their last album with most of their classic line-up. I love it!

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Happy anniversary going into year number two 👍🏻🤠

[@StaggerMcTipsy]

Check out the band Mos Generator. They were doing music in the style of Magick Potion, 25 years ago.

[@kitoyobeni1]

Jamie, the first Storace album was just re-released with a bonus live disc. I like the new one, now need to get the first one on order.

[@FinalBaton]

I had missed the new Jesus Lizard album! Gotta listen to that. Yeah not easy to describe their music.

[@paulh6673]

The Jesus Lizard is a great pick from Karen. A long-time fave band of mine. They're one of the best 'units' of all-time. I'm talking Led Zep level of rhythm section, frontman, genius guitarist and so on. Not as...palatable, perhaps, but once you're in, you're in. Goat and Liar are the real classics, but this new one is amazing too.

[@christophercoles4401]

Ursa Minor - Silver Bullets Freaky Wildness - Immeasurable Heaven Desert Suns - Edge Of The Sky Stone Disciple - The Wanderer

[@brandonbelt5055]

Noise Rock is the genre of The Jesus Lizard. Seeing them again in May. If you're a fan of Noise Rock or Sludge Metal, check out Chat Pile's new album 'Cool World'.

[@nicholasscott7860]

Jaime love the show. I only started listening to power metal and progressive metal because of the channel. Keep the reviews coming

[@Fastnbulbous1969]

I love that Karen featured The Jesus Lizard on this channel. Honestly most SoT followers would not like them, but I love 'em, saw them live a dozen times from '90 to '94, and a couple reunion shows since. I'd describe them as post-hardcore noise with a killer rhythm section and arty post-punk guitar influenced by Rowland S. Howard (The Birthday Party, Crime & the City Solution, These Immortal Souls). Some fans of Faith No More/Fantomas might possibly be open to them, but for others they're primarily a live experience. I'd say by far Goat (1991) is the place to start. Here's my blurb: Normally I would never expect a noise rock band who’s reputation was based on a slavering feral energy, to return to their original glory 26 years after their last album. Iggy Pop could pull it off live, but the two 21st century Stooges albums were disappointingly ordinary garage rock. Nick Cave has too much damn sense, or perhaps a desire to preserve his dignity, to ever consider attempting revisiting The Birthday Party again. And yet, I was hopeful, based on a couple of their live reunions I witnessed over the past decade. And sure enough, Rack kicks the living shit out of the band’s two Capital albums from the late 90s, and serves as a proper follow-up to Down (1994). More often than not the pace is slow and menacing, which the band always used as a tension-and-release technique. While they don’t match the brutal brilliance of Goat (1991) and Liar (1992), I’d like to think Steve Albini is smiling, from hell (where he knows everyone), and nodding his approval. Magick Potion was bubbling under in my list. I was impressed by the sonics, but on the other hand, bands like Radio Moscow and Smokey Mirror have done this kind of thing quite well before. Magick Potion, formerly known as Head, really nail the sonics like no one else though. I'll feature a band from Austin that doesn't get enough attention, even though it's something a TON of SoT folks would love: Transit Method - Othervoid (Brutal Panda) From the cover art you’d think the fifth album from Austin’s Transit Method was a progressive death metal album. The fact that they actually have roots in both grunge and prog (think Skin Yard, Love Battery, The Fluid and mid-period Die Kreuzen mixed with the proggy alt rock of locals …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead) appeals to me a lot because while I like 70s prog, I just can’t get past the slick production of most modern prog and prog metal. But bands that rough it up with a bit of greasy garage punk, and grunge, like The Fierce & the Dead, Crown Lands and Mondo Drag, I’m all in. While the production has gotten incrementally cleaner and more accomplished on The Madness (2020) and this one, the prog metal retains just enough grungy flavor to keep them from sounding like hundreds of other stoner metal/heavy psych bands lumbering about the rock landscape. Here's a few of my recent discoveries over the holidaze: Plantoid - Terrapath (Bella Union) Psych Prog, Prog, Jazz-Rock, Space Rock from the UK. On Bandcamp. Iotunn - Kinship (Metal Blade) Danish Prog Metal, Death Metal and even some Power Metal. RIYL the recent Opeth. Sean Ono Lennon - Asterisms (Tzadik) Instrumental Psych, Jazz Fusion and Psych Prog with a killer band for John Zorn's label. MesaVerde - All is Well (Apollon) Norwegian Prog and Art Rock.

[@joebrezel]

*Grant* I was thinking Goat by Jesus Lizard before Karen said it, & changed to their latest. I love their entire discography. So, just go with Karen. And, I'd move on to Goat after that. 👍🏽✌🏽🤘🏽

[@matsetizar65]

Valley of the Sun is great but sadly their latest didn’t grab me. Love to hear what you think Jamie.

[@RustyfaetheShire]

Witchpit - Forever Spoken, excellent sludge, Jamie and Karen would love it. Electric Wizard - Black Magick Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1, fantastic live album, recorded in the studio, well worth a listen

[@RekkidTalk]

I only own Headhunter and I feel that is Just Enough Krokus.

[@noohoozfurra]

@ericporter Holy smokes Eric...PTF...epic stuff. Had no clue about these guys, but now I do! Listening as I type and doing some more research on Progarchives. How do you explain what's going on?!? 🤯 Who needs geetar?!?Splendid recommendation buddy. Expect nothing less from Uncle Ken and yourself... 👏👏👏

[@ericporter344]

Thanks man, I just fell in love with that violin, and bought all 3 discs Ken had in stock. Thanks to Ken for tipping me about them! Enjoy

[@noohoozfurra]

@ericporter344 Most certainly am. Meant to say, I think a strange lil' intervention by serendipity took place. Yesterday, for no particular reason, I thought I'd check up on the splendid Geoffrey Richardson, who amongst other things, has been the strings man with Caravan for many a year. Quite a character, on and off stage. Now he is much more a viola player, so I Iistened to some very enjoyable solo stuff, only for your violin recommendation to turn up the following day. It's probably just an attempt to level out the flute recommendations from Chris on the last ITPS round up... 😄

[@ericdinse5047]

I am now stoked to listen to Krokus

[@toneman8478]

Slade Alive 1972!!

[@franciskocher200]

Nice video...😃👍🤘

[@independenceltd.]

Astral Doors - The End of It All (8/10) The Electric Mud - Ashes and Bone (8/10) High Reeper - Renewed By Death (8/10) Opeth - The Last Will and Testament (7.5/10)

[@Frank-ut4oc]

opeth for me it s a 9. 5 on 10

[@independenceltd.]

@@Frank-ut4oc i've seen some people have it even higher than that.

[@Fantomassexybeast]

@@Frank-ut4oc 9.75 for me 😀

[@kevinm5957]

Krokus fan here as well Jaime. I have to disagree with you about one point. Krokus is not glam metal at all. They started in the mid 70’s and you can say their album The Blitz is approaching the sound of glam, but it’s just a stray into the commercial side trying to get radio play.

[@mudshark6666]

Jesus Lizard are hardcore. Remind me of No Means No. Great live band.

[@inmyhouse11]

Can never have enough Krokus

[@brianheason1272]

First single from progessive stoner/metal Greek band Calyces new album: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmm4on-be9p_mc0