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Matt and Blake discuss Mike Portnoy's return to Dream Theater. Do they need money? Will it make their next album good? We may never know.

Episode 72 - Matt and Blake suffer through 43 different covers of Toto's seminal hit Africa and try to come up with criteria such that this never happens again

Episode 71 - Matt and Blake discuss how quickly Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) starts acting like Kiko Loureiro (ex-Angra) isn't coming back from his personal time off, because fill in guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari (Wintersun) is probably cheaperWe also see what Angra and Edu Falaschi are up to these days.

Full review of Fellowship's album Saberlight Chronicles as well as reactions to some of Fellowship's music videos.For fans of Dragonforce and Rhapsody who want something less good than those bands, but from musicians who still believe in themselves or whatever.We also discuss Ty Christian's cover of their song "Glint". Ty is the lead singer of Lords of the Trident who host Mad With Power Fest which Fellowship is headlining in 2024.

Matt and Blake review Mad With Power Fest VI. America's nerdiest and possibly largest power metal festival. For fans of ProgPower, video games and metal about video games. Notable bands this year include Unleash the Archers, Seven Spires, Lords of the Trident, Wilderun, Powerglove and Seven Kingdoms

Devin Townsend tells Beato, JP and Tosin that metal is about sensitivity and its a color and how his million dollar symphony about dicks is now about butterflies but probably cost so much 'cause he needs Mike Keneally to translate his insane ramblings to the orchestral musicians.

Watched Devin Townsend's weird toilet commercial for his new signature picks from Attakpik. They're super weird and IMO sound real bad.

Matt, Rich and Dewey discuss Metal Lords, the Netflix movie by Game of Thrones writers DB Weiss and David Benioff

We apply wokeness ideas to some old (very good) songs, for mostly humor related purposes Queensryche - "Empire" Toto - "Goodbye Girl" George Benson - "Turn Your Love Around"

We're back with production setup 3.0 and our first metal show review of 2018 (plus bonus: we actually went to see some rasslin')

Dream Theater's Images & Words & Beyond Children of Bodom's Down & Dirty 20 Years (aka nothing later than Hate Crew)  

Cash Me Outside Girl Danielle Bregoli signed to Atlantic Records as Bhad Bhabie, releases single "These Heaux" Jake Paul, YouTuber and ex-Disney hits #1 on iTunes w/"Everyday Bro"

YMIB 61 - ProgPowerUSA XVIII Debrief w/Rich Serenity, Orphaned Land, Twilight Force, Vanden Plas, between the Buried and Me, Daydream XI, Distorted Harmony, Lords of Black, Angel Dust, Myrath, Mike Portnoy's Shattered Fortress, Seven Spires, DynaZty, Snowy Shaw, Amaranthe  

Jamie returns and of course... we talk about Djent! Jamie finally starts to warm up to Meshuggah and we talk about what's happening with djent and djent-adjacent bands. Twelve Foot Ninja Lattermath Voyager Pangea Helix vs Axe FX Why Drop C is the dumbest of all tunings John Petrucci getting an 8 string Brought to you by Whiskey

Yngwie Fires All Singers Forever (because they all quit) freeing up Jeff Scott Soto for... Sons of Apollo with Mike Portnoy, Billy Sheehan, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and Derek Sherinian Which may leave Art of Anarchy without Ron Thal, but its ok 'cause they still have SCOTT STAPP  

We went to a "Metal on Vinyl" discussion panel sponsored by Metal Injection / Metal Sucks at the Sonos Music Store in Soho Related opinions on vinyl and the music industry from Steve Lukather and Michael McDonald Plus the aftermath of the Gathering of the Juggaloes #physicalmusicdiscs  

Trade shows and metal shows...  

We watch the Gathering of the Juggalos 2017 Announcement Video Plus Metal as a Fashion Statement (re: Loudwire) and Rich tours all the guitar stores in NYC.  

We "Witnessed" Katy Perry's new album in its entirety, even though it only has 3-4 Max Martin songs on it, and we explore her new wokeness.

We saw Evergrey, Seven Kingdoms and Need at Webster Hall. Plus we breakdown 12tone's breakdown of Black Hole Sun.