I think- Did you hear okay? Yeah, I can hear you good. I can hear you good. Here we are, live on The Metal Voice today. Again, part two of our show, top 10, the greatest albums of 2021. Of course, Todd LaTorre will be joining us shortly. Everybody, thank you for tuning in. You didn't get dressed up. This is a spacious occasion, Jim. I did, I did. No, no, no, Alan, I did. Oh, okay, I'm sure. I did, you just didn't see because the black, the shirt. And this is my new Gus G shirt, by the way, everybody. And what shirt are you wearing, Alan? Well, I can't tell you, it's a surprise. Okay, you'll tell us later. And again, everybody, just so you know, this is what we're talking about. Alan? It's all about the night. It's all about the night. Polished my night today. Little too much information. Let's just, let's just recap, Jim, because people are writing in, they might have missed the first show. Okay, go. So it will go from 10 to six, and then, of course, today's show, five to one. So it was Crystal Viper. The cult, yeah. Thor Alliance, which came in at number 10. Number nine was Ordon Organ, with Final Days, and David Reese, Blacklist Utopia, was Jim's choice for number nine. Number eight was Voodoo Circle, Locked and Loaded, and then Agent Steel, No Other Gods Before Me. Number seven, Bloodbound, Creatures of the Dark Realm, and Jim Cho's Mastodon. And Grim. And then coming in at number six, I chose Dream Theatres of You from the Top of the World, and Jimmy went with Blaze Bailey, and his fame wore within me. So now we're going from five to one. Five to one. We're gonna also get Todd Latoury's top three in the process. Yeah, it's a bonus. But before we begin. The Ultraman's last week, last time, when you got the Ultraman's top three or five, or I lost count after a while, now we got Todd's top three. Neil Turbin's top 20. It's my top 20. Yeah, Neil also sang Acoustic, so if you wanna hear a little acoustic bit, just go back to the first episode of part one. All right, first things first, Alan. Before we begin the show today, you know, a very sad passing of a friend, a mutual friend of ours, and I'm gonna put the picture here. You maybe wanna speak to it early first.  If you were watching the show, you've heard of Stiff Rod. Well, unfortunately, his sister Mona passed away today. Someone I've known since the age of 13. Jimmy and his wife, who are extremely well as well. A bit of a sad day here, so it's gonna be a little bit of a somber note to the show.  And it's just a sad day that she had passed, that we have learned of her passing earlier today, so. Yeah. We dedicate the show to Mona. We dedicate the show to Mona, and I've known Mona for eight, since I was 18, and my wife has known her since elementary school.  All right, and there we go. Again, to Mona. And it was just, so everybody knows, there was no conspiracies or anything like that. This is just a sad passing, that's it. There was no, I don't want people to start, you know, saying stuff. All right, let's talk about something more uplifting, and let's go to our top 10, or top five albums. And Alan, I guess I'll let you start things off with your number five. Well, a band, as you know, Jim, I've liked for a long, long time. We tried interviewing them once, but the air conditioner and the bus kind of destroyed the whole interview. Evergrey, I'm going with Evergrey Escape with the Phoenix.  Tom is a bit of a little bit of a dark guy. He's been, you know, in interviews, he's spoken quite frankly about it. Maybe it's because of the lyrical content. I don't know, but it's got everything you love about Evergrey. We're August Morn, that's a classic Evergrey sound. Stories is my personal fave. You've got the piano, his voice, the heartfelt, and there's even the beholder with James Lebray. We had the Jackson, earlier, just the whole soaring vocals, the runs that he does with James Lebray on that, it's just a great album, and I've chosen it for number five. All right, here's my number five, Alan. An album that was just recently released, if you can say that, Exodus Persona Non Grata. Wow. You know, a lot of people say Exodus, the first album was great, or, you know, the earlier stuff in their career was great. I personally think now they're sort of peaking in their artistic-ness. This is their 11th studio album released. The last one was in 2014. Wow, this great sound, thrash, aggressive, Zetros at his best. I don't know, I just think this is an overall thrash. This band is getting better as the years go by, just like Testament, in my opinion, is getting better as the years progress, so hats off to Exodus for number five. Alan, what you got for number four? An oldie but a goodie, except two mean to die. Coming in at number four, we were able to interview Wolf, and I would like to say Wolf and the boys, but really it's Wolf and the- Wolf. And the singer, I just- That's Mark. Mark, so hello. So, it's got the overnight sensations, got the pure 80s feel to it. Undertaker, you got the classic chance. Sucks to be you is kind of the blood of the nation's era. It's got everything you love about except, and again, just the regular, very high quality except album being released the earlier this year, and so my number four is two mean to die. All right, here's my number four. Uh-oh, uh-oh, KK is back. Sermons of the center. KK's priest, a lot of people argue.    And you know what's interesting about this album, and I have it right here. When I first got it, I go, ah, it was okay, but I find that the more times I listen to it, the more melodic it is to me, the more I, it's a grower. That's what it is, it's a grower. I listen to it over and over again. I find this better than a last priest album. I know a lot of people hate me for that, but I do. And people say that lyrics are really cheesy, but you know what? A lot of priest lyrics are cheesy anyways. This is a fun album. Don't, this is not no, you know, I gotta sit down and think about the lyrics too much. No, it's a fun melodic and ripper, rips on this album. A pity Lesbings wasn't on this album, but maybe next time he will be, all right? That's what he did before. The out-priest priest on that one. Oh man, look, hellfire thunderbolt, sermons of the center, sacramonte diablo, raise your fists, brothers on the road, and I love return of the sentinel and hail for the priest. Yeah, there's a lot of priests in there, but you know what? It's Kiki's priest. All right, we're gonna bring on Latore, Todd Latore. Let's bring him on. Let's admit him. Let's admit him. Number three to one. Here comes Todd Latore. Let's see. He's coming on. Yo. There's the man. First time on the, well, you've been on our show many, many times, but this is the first time. We didn't warn you about the suit. You have to sort of wear a jacket. Ah, I got a jimmy. It's like going to the Grammys. Yeah, right on. Yeah, cool. All right, so just to recap Todd, I'm not sure if you're paying attention or not before you got on. I wasn't. Okay, so we're gonna recap here for you. Okay. Alan chose Evergrey. Okay. What was the, I'm called again Alan. What's that? Evergrey, escape from the phoenix. Alan chose Evergrey, escape from the phoenix as five. I picked number five. I picked Exodus, persona non grata. Right on. I picked for number four. We picked, Alan picked accept to mean to die. Okay. He's a little thrown off there, but I see, okay. And then I picked for number four, KK's priest. So that leaves us with number three. What's it gonna be? I know it's the, I know what your number three is, but you tell us your number three first and then we'll tell you ours. Okay. My number three is a band called Nervosa. They are like a kind of death thrash. They're really brutal, like full guttural, all female band. My very good friend, Mia, plays bass with them. She played with Abath, which people might know from Immortal. And yeah, it's just a, it's a really kick-ass record. So the drummer is from Greece. Mia is from Italy and the vocalist and guitar player, I believe, are from Spain. But yeah, they're full-blown touring and really good band if you guys aren't familiar with them. This is a whole fresh new lineup, but their new album called Perpetual Chaos is a really great record. And in fact, Eric from Flotsam sang on that record with them. He did a cameo on the record. But yeah, it's just a really heavy, brutal-sounding record if you guys are into that, but I enjoy it. And that's my number three. It's death metal, right? It's got a lot of the death metal vocals, harsh. Yeah, the music is death thrash, but the vocals are, you know, all gutturals. It's not like singing, it's, that's- The music took, I listened to it thanks to you, Todd. And the music took me right back to the early, early like new album, you know, the very early, the first ones coming out during the new wave of British heavy metal in the early 80s, the guys like Axe Witch, you know, it really kind of gave me that feel to the music-wise. Okay, well, yeah, so if you guys aren't familiar with Nervosa, go check them out. Good, good. All right, Al, let's get your number three going there. My number three is Halloween. Oh my God, I lost the picture. Okay. That was a great album. I just love the interplay between all the vocalists, Andy Daris, Guy Hansen, and of course, Michael Keyscake. You know, at Halloween, they're one of the bands that's like every album is just consistent quality, you know, there's never really been a drop, I think as far as I'm concerned, and, you know, best times, I love that best time is one of my favorite, Skyfall, isn't it? Absolutely epic. I agree. And we had the chance to interview Michael Keyscake very early one morning, earlier this summer, and it was a great interview. And, yeah. Since I lost the graphic, it's really clear. It's a nice case here. Yeah, I love the album cover too. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, that's a nice, that's like their box set, I take it. Yeah, it's kind of like their box set. There wasn't really that many goodies on it, but still, nevertheless, it was a sort of box set, yes, yes. Yeah, that's a nice presentation. It looks clean. Yeah, it is. It's good. All right, here goes. My number three, you ready for this thud? Sure. You ready? Number three. Yeah. All right, here we go. Alan, show the shirt. Boom, baby. Nice. There it is. I love it. Are you familiar? Ah, nice. There it is. There it is. Oh, cool. There it is. So number three, we had it lower, but then I was listening to it this week and I go, you know what? It's got to go higher. So go Alan, Alan, stop the press. We're cheating. This, this, this both made, this Alan, both made both of our lists this year. Yeah. I'm pleasantly surprised. Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah. And we're not doing that because you're sort of like our friend and we have you on the show all the time. No, no, look. You got to give credit where credit is due.   That's one thing we don't do. I know.   What you do on this album is every song is different.  You've got all the different vocal styles and we just don't know what the next song is going to be. It's a different style. And that's what I found extremely interesting and it makes it for a great listen. You know, Alan texted me this week and he goes, Jimmy, man, Todd's album is really frigging good, man. That's great. And then he inspired me to re-listen to it because, you know, I haven't heard it for a while, right? And I go, Fred, man, it really is. And I'm going to speak to this.  Like it's just, just another, another world and vexed from the video that you made that just right on the tip of chaos, you know? It's, it's just, you know, you're working the vocals. You're, you're kind of, it's in the queen's right box, but it's still at the same time, you're a little more raw and more aggressive. And maybe you want to talk to the album though.  And, and one of the things that I really wanted to do was to be able to show different vocal styles because most, you know, a lot of bands and singers that you hear, they kind of have one sound or one sound that they're known for. And maybe they can do other stuff, but you just never get to hear that. So this allowed me to do a lot of different things.  And then a lot of bands aren't, you don't really hear like those good ballads like you used to. And so Crossroads to Insanity was just a way to, to, to have a dark, melodic, very pretty, but powerful ballad. And I, you know, I, I like to think that the record that we made is really something you really don't hear much of anymore. Maybe you say, oh, I hear this kind of guitar part, but it's usually over constant screaming the whole time. Or if you're hearing the power metal vocal style, it's pretty much just like this very typical power metal music. And I didn't want to have, I didn't want to be any one of those things. I wanted it to be facets of all of the things that we like about heavy metal. That's all that it was, was a love of, of what do I like? I love fight. I love Halford's Resurrection. That's one of my all time favorites. I love, you know, the Queen's Rite things and Crimson Glory things and, and Iron Maiden things. And it's just like, if the music called for that, I didn't want to be afraid to, to do, you know, okay, let me, let me do that. I'm going to sing like this because that's what that music makes me feel like the delivery should have. And so- That's what it is, that's what it is, Todd. You see this? This is the Great Walnut. That's a big nut you have there. This is a big nut. This is what it's all about, Todd. You're part of this now. You're part of the Great Nut. Okay. This is our award. This, we don't have the Oscars, little man, or the record player like the Grammys, we have the Big Nut. Okay. There you go. You're part of- Welcome. Welcome, Todd. Welcome. Yeah, thanks. That's what you're aiming for, Todd. It's a great success. You've got 100% grade on that one because that's exactly what you did and that's exactly why we love that album. Well, thank you very much to both of you. I'm, you know, I know that you got, you know, we have our differences and we do our top 10 stuff together and it's always fun. And there's certainly no pandering. And so I know that if you guys really didn't feel it was up to par for whatever list you guys have, I know that respectfully, you wouldn't have put it in.  And I would have told you- We wouldn't have given you the cold shoulder. No, no, no. Well, Todd, yeah, no, no. Todd, it's a great album, but you know, I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying.  And I think it's one of those records that are hopefully just gonna grow in time. And one day it'll be considered a classic metal album.  If you really remember going back, you took your phone and you go, guys, listen to this. That's how excited you were. You're playing the demos and it was just something new and exciting. And we've seen the development over the years of this album, you know, it come to fruition that is, right? So we're happy. Me and Alan always believe, you know, if someone really gives it their all and they really put something out great, we should recognize it, no matter how monster of an act they are or mid-level or whatever the case may be, right? Yeah. Yeah, well, thanks again. I really appreciate the acknowledgement and yeah, that's spectacular. All right, Alan. Let's go to Todd's number two now. Let's go to Todd's number two, which is the same as my number two, actually. Okay. But I'll let you see. So my number two album was Flotsam and Jetsam, Blood in the Water. Yep. And that was just a really unexpected listen. I didn't know what to expect really, but it was full force, you know, they definitely didn't hold back and Eric's voice is still prime and I just, I really enjoyed it. And it's tough because there's a lot of music that people were putting out and creating and it's hard to put a list together, especially when you're ranking them. I almost like to say, here's my top picks, but I can't put them in an order. It's really hard to put them in an order because Nervosa is nothing like Flotsam. So in their own right, they're just as great in their own kind of genre. They're not quite in the same subgenre. Yeah, for sure. But if we have to do a level thing here, that was my number two and it's a great record and I got to be on that when you guys were talking with your friend, the guitar player. Michael Gilbert and AK, it was you and me, actually, we talked to Flotsam. And yeah, they were telling us about the album. That's right. Look, blood in the, I mean, this is big wall of thrash sound, right? And the differentiator between Flotsam and all the other thrash bands out there is the vocals. It's always, it's the vocals. Not to say the music is not superior, it's just the vocals are just that good. And you know, the creative ideas, the songs, the lyrics, these guys are coming out, swinging hard. And that was my number two as well. So, Alan, what's your number two? Well, I just want to go back to that album. I mean, it's not something I would have exposed to myself, but I know Jimmy's a huge fan. And since it was a major list, I went back and listened to it. And again, four out of five stars. It for me was like a little bit of an armored St. Phil. It's got a masculine sound. If that makes any sense, you know, it's a meeting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a great listen. Thanks for putting that on the list, guys. Usually those thrash vocalists are never like of high level.  But when it comes to Flotsam, man, he's up there. He can do anything. All right. See, that's what's kind of nice and different. It don't get me wrong. I love. Yeah, it has its place. I love the vocals of your typical thrash. But when you listen to like vicious rumors, you know, those are very melodic. Singer Metal Church had a, you know, that singer kind of singing, but also had that other kind of delivery that's kind of more dominant in the thrash genre. But when you listen to the music of that Flotsam record, it's really heavy, but it's also very melodic. And then the vocal is kind of what changes it in that thrash sense. Absolutely, absolutely. All right. Speaking of great voices, Alan, you're number two. Night number two, I have to say, was my number one for almost the entire year. Okay, right up until a couple of weeks ago, this was gonna be my number one pick. The Dead Daisy's Holy Ground with none other than Glenn Hughes taking over on vocals and bass. We had a great interview with Doug and Glenn. It was one of the highlights for me and I'm doing the show for over a decade and having the voice of Rock himself on it. And it just got everything, just the bass playing like no other on bass line, just that song and the closer far away are two of the highlights. But it's got a completely different field than what the Dazies have done in the past. And it's just so heavy and just so good, the production and everything. It's, like I said, it was my number one. It got beat out in the last, in the ninth minute and you are celebrating the number two on my list of Dead Daisy's Holy Ground. All right. Okay. Now we're gonna go to talk about the number one. Actually, we played with the Dead Daisy's at, oh God, what's the big festival in Belgium? Grass Pop. Okay. Grass Pop. We played, that was when Mendoza was in it. It was the other line, the older lineup. Karabi was singing, but yep.  That guy, his voice, it just, it pisses me off. He's so good. He's just, he's just another level. He's like got the fountain, he's got the fountain of youth. I mean, he's aging so well.  Yeah, it's just a great outfit and I'm happy to see them having continued success for sure. One of our most famous interviews, right Alan was with the Dead Daisy's in Montreal and things are getting out of hand. Anyways, everybody could go and check that one out. All right, let's go to number one for Todd. Todd, your number one pick.  All right. That'll be your walnut. You can- So my number one pick, I'll say it like in the American English way is Angulus Apetrita. I think it's pronounced Angulus Apetrita. I'm pretty sure that's how they would say it. They are from Spain. They're like the number one band in Spain. They're huge there. This is their, they're actually the new record they put out. I stumbled across them from Zeus, our producer in Queens right, because he mixed and mastered this record that I'm talking about. And it's just a self-titled album. It's just the band name. But I believe this is their seventh record. And they're just, man, it's just killer stuff. If you like overkill, if you like that kind of groove and guitar, the singer plays guitar. They do great dual leads together. It's again, it's a very brutal thrash vocal delivery. But the grooves, the musicality of what they do, you could definitely hear some mega-death influence on the guitars, but just a killer band. And I always like to hear new stuff. And sometimes I'm like, yeah. And this was one that particularly caught my ear. And I've been listening to them a lot. And really great band, if you guys aren't aware of them. Yeah, I heard them. They were great. For me, it had a bit of a Pantera feel as well. Yes, yes. Okay, yeah, I could get a little bit of that. But they're, you know, they're doing really well. And like I say, they're huge in their home country. In fact, I remember I was talking with Zeus about them and he was telling me that Jamie from Hatebreed, I pretty sure it was this band that they were referring to was that like, I don't think Jamie quite knew who they were back then. He's like, every time we come here, like their build way higher than we are. And like, you know, he didn't know that they were that big of a deal. And it's like, well, yeah, this is their home country. They are the number one metal band in that country. They're gonna get top billing or higher billing than Hatebreed, even though Hatebreed's massive. But it's interesting how, you know, it's like maybe a Canadian band and then here comes a European band that might be perceived as much bigger. But in Canada, it's like, no, no, no. These, this is the Holy Grail. These guys are gonna be higher on the billing on a festival than the band you might think would be higher. But that's my number one pick, awesome band. I can actually type it in the chat here on your YouTube so that people can check it out. Todd, on another note, I heard you quit smoking. Yeah. Don't believe everything you hear. Thought you were gonna have like five of them. Okay. And Eric, it's funny cause whenever we go to Arizona, Eric from Flotsam will come out and we'll hang out. Or if I see him on tour, you know, like if we're playing a festival together, I'll go out to get a coffee or whatever and I'll see him there smoking and having a coffee.  He smokes all the time. Didn't Pavarotti smoke? I thought Pavarotti smoked his whole life. Till he died of lung cancer probably. Anyway, yeah, that's my number one. Maybe I shouldn't have brought that up. Okay. I thought it'd be a fun joke. That's all. Okay.  Okay. All right, everybody out there, give us your number one before we reveal what's inside. It's in here. It's in here. The number one's in here. It's been fermenting for at least a week. The security guards who bring the walnut to my house, they put it in there, they welded it together. Now I had to remove the welding and it's in here. Everybody give us your number one pick and we'll read them out before we reveal the last. Number one pick. So just to get, okay, we're going to recap since people are writing in. That's right. Number five today was Evergrey, Escape of the Phoenix. Jimmy had Exodus, Persona non-Gratis. Number four was Exceptumine to Die and Jimmy had Flotsam and Jets, sorry, had the KK Priest, Servants of the Center. Then Todd jumped on with number three, Nervosa, Perpetual Chaos. My number three was Halloween and Jim's was Todd LaTorre. That was number three. That was number three. My number two was Flotsam, yeah. Number two was Flotsam as well as Todd's. Mine was the Dead Daisy's Holy Ground. And then Todd's number one is Anglis Apetrida, self-titled album. And now we're going to number one, which was a consensus between Jim and I. So we agreed on the number one spot and it's inside the nut. So what are you seeing, Jim, what are some of the other? Well, I'm seeing what Demarcy's saying, three tremors I like just got it digging it, but was it your number one? Kevin's saying Rejoice in the Suffering is still my number one, Todd. Look at that, look at that. I got a lot of love, lot of love. Knuckle Dragon saying Exodus, AKS is saying the Dead Daisy's Holy Ground is probably my number one. Ring on your parade, smoke weed, not cigarettes. Somebody said, somebody said, demand a recount, Rejoice in the Suffering, number one, stop the steal. Stop the steal, stop the steal. Oh, that's too funny.  I hope that helps out Bruce, the little recap helped out Bruce because apparently he just got off work and he was wondering what he missed. So, TMC saying Maiden proved they were number one again. Accept, Sylvain says accept deserves number one. We put it as number four, Allen, is that what it was? Number four? It was up there. It was a last minute change. We added accept last minute just so everybody knows. Emos are going back and forth. Sleep betrays me with just Mike. Todd Latorre, number one again. There's a second, stop the steal, stop the steal. I think there's a lot of people out there think Todd Latorre's album should be number one. Did we get it wrong, Allen? Did we get it wrong? Yes, so many albums to listen to. We went back and revisited and when revisiting it, Todd's album jumped up tremendously in the rankings. That's right. All right, I'll take it. Gabriel says, Alcatraz, that would be his number one. Vix Praxit, Fall and Sun, The Wake of the Fall. Marcy says, number one, Rejoiced. Oh, look at this. You're third, number one. Then second, Tremors. Todd, you're getting a lot of number ones. A lot of number ones. We're very early with our list. So we're kind of destroying everybody. People's Choice Award. Yeah, yeah. Joshua is saying, Agent Steel, Manimal, I have not heard of Manminal. Accept, then on to others and then 1914. Have you heard 1914? No. Me neither. Alcatraz is a mixed bag, says AKS. Grace of God is a great track though. All right. Let's get to that. Should we do the honorable mentions before number one or not? Yeah, sure. Gojira. Okay, Gojira. That seems to be a popular choice in the comments as well last weekend this week. Not Gorilla, Gorjira. Gojira. Gojira, Alan, do you have another one that you'd like to mention? I think we, D. Snyder, when that came out, that was a pretty heavy album. A great follow up to his previous album. That's why they could have made it as well. Yeah, I have this band. They're Canadian, they're all female. They're called Bad Waitress, No Taste. And I didn't put on the list and I'll tell you why because they were a little more on the punk side and the alternative rock side, but I thought it was like a, it's a great album. And I like to see a young band, you know, try to get up there and do something. And I think they're gonna do some great things in the near future. So pick that up or have a listen, Bad Waitress, No Taste. Okay. Anybody else with some honorable mentions? No, we're good. My mind's a little blank at the moment, but I'm sure there's a ton of them. Well, there's an Udo. What about Udo, Alan? Was that one of your honorable game over that I make your honorable mentions? It was a good Udo album, but it didn't make one out. It just kind of fell off a little bit. D. Snyder, I would agree with you. No scars. Was it no scars? Was it called again? Leave a scar. Leave a scar. I thought it was that too. That's an honorable mention right there. Yeah. All right. You guys ready? All right. There was a problem this year, by the way. I just got to make sure it makes. Dang it, not here. I'm getting my nut. Hold on. There's a print in that. Typically we do this in person and now it's at my house and there's this sort of like procedure. He hands it off to me. Then I take it and then I open it and I reveal. So, but we can't do that now because we're virtual. So we have to do the process. I have to pretend. Alan, pretend like you're giving me the nut. Go. Go on that side. On that side. That's it. Oh, thank you, Alan. Okay. There we go. All right, there we go. All right, there we go. What? What? This is how it goes, Todd. So now the nut is here. I've opened it a little bit because it was very difficult to close. Is everybody ready for the top album of 2021? Drumroll, yeah. They get the drumroll, they're the drumroll. I will reveal it right now. Here it goes. I'm opening it up. I'm looking at it, making sure it is the right one. They didn't screw up at the security office. And here we go. Here it is. And this is the way it is. It's in Jitsu by Aron Maiden. All right. That's a great cover. It is a great cover. A great cover. A great album. Now, yeah, I get it. A lot of people saying, oh man, they came out with two discs. There's too much. Can't take it. Can't do much information. Over 80 minutes. Yeah. I mean, it's a bit of a grower. I heard the early singles and I'm like, ah, I made an okay. They're doing what they always did. But man, the back half of this album is, you know, we've got acoustic guitar intros. We've got soulful, soulful guitar solos. You know, the heavy metal community, that's something that we get criticized for. Where's the soul? Where's the emotion? Well, there's tons of them on the backside. Darkest Hour being my favorite song, not only the lyrics great, but it's, you know, you got the beat sounds at the beginning, the lyric of content. And you got, like I said, the soulful solos. Bruce's voice. I've struggled with the last beta now. I'm just like, here, stick him in a room and he has to out sing three guitars, drums in a bass and let him screech all he wants. I don't know if they changed the recording process, but it's like he's back in a range where he feels comfortable and it's just nice to hear him singing that way again. Yeah. I love it. I mean, his voice hasn't led up to me. It's still so rich and powerful and there probably isn't a better, I think, you know, Bruce Dickinson's energy on stage is unparalleled. You know, and then you have like that mysticism, coolness of Dio and how he would slowly move on a stage. The two opposites, but just both so amazing.  So I'm glad to see that they still are putting records out and they just announced the tour, which is awesome. You know, so yeah, congrats to them. And yeah, yeah. So Jutsu, to me, the song with that drum pattern, like you'd expect an ace is high to start off the album, but no, it's the call of war that starts off the album with those tribal drums at the beginning. And yeah, you're right, Alan, there's a little bit of country guitar there or blues or whatever you want to call it. And Bruce is singing in his range. And the topics are always, you know, interesting topics, you know, be it war, be introvert, or be it some sort of, you know, lost in a lost world or days of future pass or the time machine. There's always, you know, some sort of novel related theme to their songs, right? I don't know, I dig it. And they are who they are today and they fill up the stadiums and the arenas because of their performances, their consistency in music, maybe half the Iron Maiden tribe doesn't dig this, but the other half loves it. So I'm part of the- Hey, do you want to hear something funny? Sure. Did you ever play with Maiden on a tour? But go ahead. Queens right, Kaz, before I joined the band. So I personally have it. No, I've met Nico and Steve Harris before and but I've never met Bruce Dickinson or Dave Murray or Adrian Smith or, you know, I've never met them, but anyway. So what was the name of the song Days of Future Past? Yeah. What's it called? Days of Future Past, yeah. Okay, so years ago, Michael sent me a demo for a Queens right song and the working title was called Future's Past. And I thought, and then when I heard that, I was like, why does that sound so familiar? And that was a working title of a song that, you know, a title we didn't use, but it's kind of weird how you think, how many people would really name a song that? And it's pretty close. Anyway, I just found that kind of the irony of that. Yeah, in the Queens right camp, how do they, do they look up to Iron Maiden? They look up to Rush? Like, is Iron Maiden one of the bands that the guys in Queens right say, you know, that's like the standard of metal out there. I don't think that they look at a band and say that's the standard.   You know, they love Iron Maiden. They love Judas Priest. Basically that whole new wave of British heavy metal, Queens right guys love that stuff. And so, you know, I do too. So, I mean, but really, I mean, it's, they're the top, you know, they are, they are that top cream, you know, and it's interesting because you don't want to write records that sound the same, right? But at the same time, when you've written enough material that you end up having your sound, it's kind of this weird double-edged sword where you say, you know, if Iron Maiden wrote different sounding records, you'd be like, I don't really know what their sound is. There's some common threads in some of the stuff, but. Yeah. Iron Maiden, when you hear an Iron Maiden song before he even sings, you know it's Iron Maiden. How many bands can you really say that now? When you put on some of these satellite radio stations that are all about metal and you just hear the music and you're like, that could be a thousand bands. And then, and then you're like, that could be a thousand singers. I have no idea. Unless that singer has a very distinct tone, like Bobby Blitz from Overkill or Chuck Billy from Testament or, you know, Slayer, Tom Araya. Well, their music sounds like their music. They don't sound like anybody else, but my point is, Iron Maiden is the biggest band, them and Metallica are the biggest metal, rock metal bands in the world selling out arenas and stadiums. And they never really changed the formula. They know what they do, they excel at what they do.   And there's a lot to be said for that, because as a creative person, sometimes you say, you know what? I wanna do orchestration. I wanna do strings, I wanna do certain keyboard things or other things, voicings that are meant to color your music in a way that you never did before. And Iron Maiden, you don't hear that kind of stuff. I mean, they just have always stuck to their guns and, you know. They just do what they want, yeah. They just, yeah, they just do what they do. And I'm gonna show my shirt here. I'm gonna show my shirt here. And this is my honorable mention, and I should have submitted, this is Gusty. Gusty's new one. Oh, right on. Right, and look, look, official merch. It's like some sort of- What a great shirt. I'm part of like some sort of space cadet program with this. It's like that, great shirt. Look at that, look at that. It's the mallocas. It's the mallocas. Mallocas. Mallocas. Mallocas. Mallocas. And you know, I'm reading the comments. I agree with a lot of people, you know. This is far from the days where we'd be in line to get the first Maiden album. It took me months to go out and get it. I wasn't, you know, the first couple of singles. You're like, yeah, it's interesting. But, you know, but honestly, this is a grower. The more I listen to it, like I said, my number one all year long, but listening to Maiden, it's really, especially like I said, the last four songs really did it for me and pushed it into the number one slot. But I understand what people are saying. There's a lot of comments saying, hey, you know, Maiden, they're getting a little long into two, nothing too new there. Personally, I've been listening to the song all year, like since it's been released. It was not all year, but for this, the remainder of this year. And I just keep listening to it. And that means something. If you keep listening to something over and over again, just like Todd's album, you know, I've been putting it on since it's been released, you know, every month, once in a while, right? And it says a lot, you know, and there's some albums that were released that I really liked at the beginning of the year. And I wasn't too crazy about later on. So sometimes the excitement of a lot of release takes, you know, brings you to another level. Sometimes then you just drop again. Yeah. I think that a lot of the records that I like the most were albums that, at first listen, I wasn't completely blown away by. And then as of to love that album, you know, whatever album that would be. But a lot of my favorite ones were those albums that were growers that you listen again and you get something new. And I didn't feel bored with it. I felt entertained each time. And yeah, good point. Hey, totally off topic. I'm not trying to hijack your show here, but this guy twice is asked on the comments. TMC asked if I was going to release another solo record. So it's on there. Yes. Okay. Well, you got it. You got the first year official. Yes. We got the scoop as we like to say in the news business. Alan, we got the scoop. We got the exclusive. Todd Lattori, speak to that, please. I think I'm going to do, I think while Craig's already started writing ideas too, obviously I'm in the middle of Queen's Reich stuff and we'll be recording beginning of January. And so that's where everything will be. But once that's all done, I'll dig into my solo stuff. And then I think I might do maybe an EP of the melodic death black metal stuff that I was talking about. But the next record that I do with Rat Pack will be in the vein of kind of my first record, more of that classic, that style. So what kind of timeline are we looking at here? What kind of timeline? Like in a year from now, two years? I have no idea. My year is so booked right now. Next year is booked. And I hear you're on tour. I hear you're on tour. You're going on tour with the Judas Priest I hear. Correct. Hey, now we can not go down. Unexclusive. Unexclusive. Yeah, that's going to be sick, dude. We got about six weeks of touring as, you know, it's just us opening for Judas Priest. So I'm really excited and looking forward to that. And yeah, we have a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff happening that people don't know about and all good stuff. But should be a very solid, busy work year next year. So the first album is Rejoice in the Suffering. The second one is Despondent because of the jubilation. Wow. That's really cool. Now I just have to pick the right font for that. That's pretty good. I'm trying to.  Repeat that, Alan, repeat that. How are we going to squeeze it in? Oh, well, if you got Rejoice in the Suffering in there, you can get Despondent in the jubilation in there. That's good. I like that. We'll have like an orange. Okay.  Alan's a thinking man's man. Hey, that's good. We need more of that. All right. And there we go. That's it. The one last time I will show everybody. There it is. There's the walnut. The somewhat controversial picket, number one, it's surprisingly surprising. I mean, it's made it. I'm just glad they made another album. Yeah. I think everybody is. And here's the walnut. And now again, what will happen is the security team will come tomorrow morning to pick up the walnut and to bring it back to the giant tree where it comes from or the shrub. I don't know where walnuts come from, but I guess they come from sort of shrub or trees of some sort. Does anybody know? Alan, you're the thinking man. I saw it in a show recently, but I don't remember. Deep thoughts. Okay. It's not a shrub. It's not a shrub. It's a small tree, a walnut tree. I'm Roger the shrubber. Well, that's it, folks. That's it. We've done our 2020 album albums of the year. Todd, thank you so much for being on. It was a pleasure. Yeah, thanks for having me. Thanks for including my record and your last pick. Your number one was Angulus. Apatrida. Apatrida, apatrida, apatrida. Apatrida, yeah. Okay. Yep. And again, we will say, rest in peace to our friend Mona who passed away and a friend of me and Alan's and all the best to our family. And thank you everybody for joining in. And have yourself a great evening. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm gonna go record some final vocal. Yeah, man, good to see you. And that shirt is comfortable, isn't it? It's super soft. I love the feel. I gotta say, the Gus G shirt is just soft. It's just a soft. It's really nice and soft. Stand up. Let me see that shirt. Stand up. Mike or his? Yours.  Quantum leap. You see that? That's him. He's mad. That's a cool shirt. And you got the space cadet thing here, right? So that's a really cool shirt. Yeah. I'm digging it. After the show, he will have to the show. He was so happy.  I'm gonna send you a shirt. So I sent him a shirt. That's great. Yeah. That's very nice. Yeah. It was very nice. I need to go on his merch store and just buy one because I really, but I don't know if all that's coming from Europe or if that's probably just from probably, yeah. Greece. Greece. Greece. The Saloniki Greece. All right, guys. Okay.


O Tamu Shambha Shambha Shambha Shambha Shambha A thousand wishes That every wish Be done On your own Who has Listen to me Who knows The sun In the moon To hide a sheep On a holy pig We all We all Remember Yes On your own Only Every wish Be done Every wish Namaskaram to everyone. We see some frogs are calling out. It once happened. It once happened, a rabbit was romping around, springtime, you know, mad as a March Hare. But then he heard a frog making desperate calls as if there was a pandemic. So the rabbit went about investigating, where is he calling from? Then he found a hole in which the frog was sitting and then the rabbit asked, what are you doing in this hole? Why are you screaming? The frog said, I fell into this hole, I'm not able to get out. The rabbit said, just hold on, I will go get a ladder for you. So went out to procure a ladder, you know, ladders are not always simply available. You have to go search for it. Even in the yoga center, if you want a ladder, most of you don't know where to find a ladder. Because we don't want you to get on top of the roof, ladders are always kept in a certain way. So after some time he got the ladder and came back. But he found the frog was already sitting outside the hole. Then the rabbit asked, how did you get out? Well after you left, a snake came into the hole. So I got out. Just now I was talking to confederation of industrial groups in the country. Everybody's very apprehensive because these are not easy times for you to be running a business or an industry because always there are uncertainties in any large activity. But right now there are too many variables and too much uncertainty. So there are genuine problems on the ground of financial issues, human issues. In the sense you have your employees, thousands of them. If you pay them without work you will go bankrupt. If you don't pay them, their lives will get bad. They may not survive this month or two. But if you pay up all the money now, even if they come to work after this lockdown is over, whatever you manufacture, whatever it is, whether it's an automobile or phone or apparels or anything, for the market to come back, it may take months. It will. The lockdown will go away in a few weeks. But when we start working and producing, the market will be very hesitant for it to come back. It'll take time. So all these concerns, financial concerns, human concerns, variety of problems, loans that you have taken, the money that you owe to people, the EMIs, bank loans, various things, all this is worrying them a lot. So everybody, say you hear him. But this disruption, this massive disruption of all businesses, entire nation is going through a disruption, not just one nation, almost every nation. Unfortunately, in some nations, the fatality rate is going runaway number. United States unfortunately has crossed twenty thousand. The fatalities in the world has crossed hundred thousand. As I mentioned yesterday, a serious concern is that people who are infected, then tested negative are again testing positive. There are cases where, for example near Mysore, a certain pharmaceutical company received packages from China. Right now China is trying to revive itself after almost two-and-a-half months of lockdown. And they're blocking all the foreigners from coming as others were doing, blocking Chinese from coming, thinking it's in the rest of the world, not with them. But this person opened this package, within twenty-four hours he had some fever. Now in that industry, twenty people are infected, tested positive. So since then everybody is on a tizzy because everybody believed on a cardboard package, the virus will stay alive only for four to six hours. But this package left China seventy-two hours ago and still it infected them. We don't know whether it came from China or it passed through some other port or maybe it landed in Chennai or there it caught it. Nobody knows, nobody's able to trace this back. Whichever way, now the concerns are multiplying. With these concerns multiplying, people who have investments, people who have businesses and industries to run are deeply concerned and the geopolitical situations are changing rapidly. Who will come out on the tops has become a big question and many realignments are being made silently. How long it'll be silent, when it will burst forth on the surface, many, many, many issues. Human activity has become so complex, small disruptions would throw it off, but now this is a major disruption. But this is also a possibility, when there is a disruption, there is a possibility. So a snake has come into the hole, you will jump out of the hole somehow because your life depends on it. So this is a time for human beings to gear themselves to be in top gear. Everybody, whatever kind of activity we are doing, it's important you're in top gear because the way you were doing things in the past may not work in six months time. It just may not work. For a nation, for a large industry or business, small industries and businesses, individual enterprises and individual people and institutions. The way we have been functioning in the past, if the lockdown and the disruption stays for long enough, many of the things that we knew as instruments of success may be meaningless. In the next six months time it's possible, whether we will go that far or we will recover before that, our hope is we will recover before that. But it's very much possible. Nobody is ruling out the possibility anymore because nobody is able to predict. Now the Chinese scientists who've been studying this, now they are saying the distance that the virus can travel is thirteen feet, not two meters as they said in the beginning. There's not enough space in the world for seven point six billion people with thirteen feet between them all over the place. Most homes are not enough for four to five people that are in a family to maintain thirteen feet distance. And now they're saying on metal surfaces it may live much longer. Earlier they said up to twelve hours they can live. Now they're saying up to seventy-two hours they may be living. Currently on the floors of the hospital they have found where the virus infected patients are there. The floor of the hospital is a hotbed of infection. So all the medical personnel are wearing suits, protective gears, eyeglasses, but it seems it's their shoes which is carrying maximum virus infection outside in the world. But they're not changing their shoes. Currently they're staying in the shoes only a few people are changing shoes, all others are changing the suits and face masks and everything, but shoes are carrying everything. Like this every day they're coming up new things because this is a new thing. Nobody clearly knows exactly what. So as this information comes more confusion, more fear and more panic all over the place, how long is it going to last, is it going to completely destroy us, what's going to happen, yes for sure the way we've been doing business, the way we've been conducting many things, many aspects of it may, depending on how long it lasts, may come to an end. The way we've known things, what are our means of success, those means may be irrelevant in three to six months time, depending upon what it does, how many people it kills. Right now as far as we know, the only sure thing we know is that well some tiger has got it, some dogs have got it but they're saying they don't have enough infection to pass it on to somebody else, they have mild infections. So largely it is only the human being who is the carrier. So one thing we know for certain is maintaining enough distance, we can come out of this as a minor aberration to our generation, hundred thousand people is not very minor but considering what is the impending possibility of a calamity, hundred thousand people is considered minor in today's world, in today's situation rather. So now the snake has entered the hole, everybody needs to jump to their fullest capability.  This is the time of your life where the best in you has to come. As a human being, as a working person, as whatever jobs we are doing, whatever businesses we are doing, we must come out at our best because now the snake is in the hole. If you don't jump, that's the end of you. Well I'm not trying to draw a bleak picture. This is the reality in which we exist. Whether we will come out victorious, look back with pride how we came out of it or we will look back with total depressed disappointment of who we are and what has happened to us, simply depends on how much distance we maintain, thirteen feet. As we were looking at this end yesterday, this… this whole thing about instilling sense of competitiveness from a kindergarten child everywhere, I want to be number one, I want to be number one, this can be hugely damaging in a situation like this. This needs a very cohesive action, not a competitive action. A very cohesive action is needed from humanity right now. If we compete with each other, well both of us may go. That's how it is. So we have to unwind the silly education that's gone into your head that always you must be number one, number one, number one. You must also be the number one to go. Yes, sir.  This is very important that we unwind. This tension we have created in our head, we want to be number one.  They may eat up my food. Competition all the time, this has to go down. If we have to behave sensibly in a situation like this, this has to go down. In everything, people think they have to be one-up. This happened. Outside the labour ward, a few men were waiting because their wives were in labour in a major hospital. Shankaran Pillai also in the waiting, his wife also. So the nurse came out and went to a certain man and said, Sir, Mr. Thompson, you have a very healthy young boy born to you. So that man became very happy.  I came here ahead of him. You deliver a baby boy for him. I came here ahead of him. That's not how life works. So this is a good time for us to correct many things that we've been doing wrong as human societies. This is definitely a great time to do that. As I said yesterday, if all of us strive on all levels, physical, mental, emotional and in terms of our work, ten percent improvement if we do in these three, four weeks that we have, then whatever the situation comes our way, we will handle it to the best of our ability. This is all we can do as human beings. Are we handling everything to the best of our possibilities? Or are we crippled by our own thought, emotion, fear? You may call it fear, panic, this, that, tension.  When there is something important to do, will we use our hands to do that or will we slap ourselves in the face? That's all it means. That's all it means. So this is a time that everything we got must be used so that it benefits us and benefits the world in which we live. These are challenging times. Challenges make people rise. Some people will rise, some people will collapse. Unfortunately, this has been the reality. In today's world where the communication in the world is like never before, technologies which support us to make us into not like one human being, like every human being can do hundred people's work, when that kind of capabilities are there, we must ride this challenge, not be crushed by this. If you are a good wave rider, you dream would be a tsunami. Tsunami would not be a disaster in your mind. You would be dreaming of a tsunami to ride. That is if you're a very good wave rider. Now, I am not so good what to do, that's not the point. Everybody must be able to do their best. There are situations outside, there are impediments, challenges.  If you are not a challenge to yourself, rest we will handle to the best of our capabilities. This will in many ways bring humanity together, at least for the next few months. There is a certain cohesion, there is a certain level of cooperation and the world is thinking more as a world than as individual nations. All these things are happening in the world. We must use that to rise about this challenge. Hmm? Questions? This question is from Damian Cassiano. Dear Sadhguru. Is he an Italian? Sounds like. Dear Sadhguru, I find it much easier to see the wonder in the natural world than in humanity. How do I see the same wonder in human beings that I see in the peacock dancing? Well, it's a human being, right? No, no, I'm thinking if a bird is asking a question. Well, human beings don't have such a wonderful plume like the peacock. We don't have. We can put it on, you know? But it's just put on. It's not like a peacock's plume. So, it's easy to see wonder in things with which you don't have to share anything. You know, there is a whole culture growing in the world where people go about saying, I love the entire humanity, but I can't stand the next human being who's sitting here. It's very easy to love God, for example, because he never comes and sits at dinner table with you. Maybe you may take his name, but if he sits at the dinner, then there'll be problem. Because he never comes, even what you offer, you are very clear, only you get to eat it. Yes, yes. If he starts eating, the offerings will poof. I must tell you, this happened. This is a interfaith beggar's association. So, there are only three members, one Hindu beggar, one Christian beggar, one Islamic beggar. So, they said, you know, they're very religious, but because of their economic condition, they have to be together, otherwise they would fight. So, one day they met under a tree and then the Hindu beggar wanted to show that he is really a devotee. He said, see, every day whatever money and stuff, you know, generally the money that comes to me, which comes in the form of coins and various small denominations, I write a large ome, ome.  Whatever lands on the ome belongs to Shiva. Rest belongs to me. I am a real devotee. Ome is, you know, big tail and this one, this one, all that. The Muslim beggar said, I also do something similar, but for us the sacredness of the moon is in the first day moon, which is a thin sliver. I draw the picture of a, you know, the first day moon, then I throw the money. Whatever lands on the moon belongs to Allah, rest belongs to me. Then they ask the Christian beggar, what do you do? He said, I'll take all the money and throw it up. Whatever is his, he will keep it, rest like this. It's easy to love a wild bird, which is dancing, which is beautiful, because it doesn't ask anything of you. It doesn't even like you, actually. It doesn't think much of you. Have you seen how a peacock looks at you? It doesn't think much of you. So there's nothing you have to offer, there's nothing you have to do. You can just enjoy things long distance. This is why, you know, people are now full of love affairs going on on the Facebook, TikTok and whatever, Instagram and wherever, because you don't have to meet them. You don't have to share anything with them. You don't have to wait outside the bathroom when they're using it. You don't have to stand in a queue behind them. Nothing, instant everything. If you don't like it, you can turn it off and wipe out the account. So the peacock comes, dances, you love it, it will go away, no problem. You don't have to house it, do one thing, keep the peacock in your bedroom for three days. It will sit all over the place. And in the night con, it'll do very loud sound. People may not know this. Every day they're sitting on the roof of the place where I am, and pa-pa-pa-pa-pa, they'll start in the morning, okay?   That includes you. So don't make this, see we are talking about not having distinctions of race, religion, caste, creed, gender, lot of talk is going on about this. I'm telling you, don't even draw lines about the species, why? I love a monkey, but I can't love a human being. This means there's an evolutionary problem within you. I love the monkeys, but I can't stand the human beings. What does it mean? You don't like the evolution. So it looks fascinating, the one monkey jumps all over from branch to branch, fascinating. Just one day keep your window open in Shibapadam. A few monkeys entered your room, you're finished.  Now you come and say, ha ha my dear monkeys, what a job they've done. No, it won't work like that. So it's all right, at least you're enjoying the birds, it's good, it's a kind of a lobby called or mythologist, you enjoy the birds, study the birds or enjoy the birds. Bird watching, but the same birds if they enter your room, it's different. The problem with human beings is you encounter them everywhere, they're in your house, they're in your office, they're everywhere. They're not just dancing somewhere far away. If they were just dancing far away, you would love them also. The problem is you have to work with them, you have to live with them, you have to manage them every day, that's a problem. So I want you to understand this. Nothing wrong in you appreciating and loving a peacock dancing, perfectly fine. You must love him even when he's not dancing, that's fine. But the frog is saying, where is the snake? When they're peacocks, they eat up the snakes. Every few days I'm bringing snakes and leaving them in the garden, but these peacocks eat them up in no time, you like the peacocks. I also like them, but I would like some snakes also moving around, but they all get eaten up in no time. So it is easy to love when there is distance. See many people right now in this virus times, what are they complaining about? They're loud ones, they're cooped up with them in the house. Big trouble. Domestic violence has increased hundred, you know, hundred percent. Some people are saying, you know, some countries, all kinds of troubles. Everybody's asked seeking advice, what to do, how to manage this family. These are the same people you were missing because they were going to office every day. Why are you gone for so long? But now they're home and trouble. Distance is a wonderful thing. Death is a fantastic thing. See dead people are always loud by everybody, have you seen this? The moment they are dead, they've just suddenly become worship worthy. Why did you not worship them when they were alive?  Anywhere in the world they'll put them up and do this, put flowers, do whatever. Just because they're dead, when you're… when they were alive, you were not willing to do it. When they're dead, you're doing it. That means what? No, I don't want to say it, you know. When they were alive, you were struggling with them.  You're waiting probably? Not a good thing at all. So let's look at this carefully. Your problem is this, that you have a defined characteristic of your personality. You're looking for something which does not step on your persona. But human beings, you know, tch, not every human being respects your boundaries. They step on it inevitably. Some of them out of ignorance, some of them by intent like me, you know? Always by intent, stepping on your boundaries. So the moment somebody steps on your boundaries, you feel that person is a problem. If a peacock is outside your boundaries right now, it looks very beautiful. If it steps into your boundary, you will see him also as a big nuisance, yes you will. Whether it's a peacock or another bird or a monkey or a donkey or whatever, from far everything is nice. So right now there is a distance between you and these creatures. So you're enjoying it, enjoy that, nothing wrong with that. The important thing is, if you create a little distance between yourself and your own personality, you will see you will even enjoy yourself. And once you enjoy this person, you will see everybody is wonderful. Yes, you're not getting it. I'm saying once you enjoy this person, everybody seems fantastic. You can enjoy everybody because now you see people for who they are, not having some framework into which they must fit into, they don't fit into that. This is why in India we created characteristics of a god in such a way, it's impossible to accept that man if he was here. You know, a Krishna, a Rama or a Shiva, you cannot accept these people. Ask the ladies, will they accept a Rama as their husband in their life? They will not. Ask them, will they accept Krishna as their husband in their life? They won't, because it's too much trouble. But with six thousand years of distance, how wonderful they look, how fantastic. And Shiva, impossible man. Okay? Just anything and everything that you can think of, he is. So, this was… the character of a god was built like this so that if you can be really looking at him for all that he is and still absolutely accept him and look at him in a worshipful way, you will have… if you accept Shiva the way he is, you will have no issue with a single human being on the planet. So, you must do that.


Hey guys it's Missy! Thank you for watching! Today's tutorial is from a picture I posted on Instagram and many of you asked for tutorials so if you've been wanting to learn how to recreate this look then hopefully this video is helpful. If you haven't subscribed to my channel yet or if you're new make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on future videos and let's get started! With my part on the right side I'm going to start by picking up a section of hair on the left side of the part and divide it into three pieces for the braid. I'm going to cross the right strand over the middle then cross the left strand over the middle. Now I'm going to combine the middle and right strand together take a small piece from the right side and cross it over to the left pick up a new section and cross it over to the left side as well then I'm going to take a small piece from the left side cross it over to the right pick up a new section and cross it over to the right side. Now I'm going to do one stitch of the braid without adding in any new pieces so I'm taking a small piece from the right and crossing it over to the left then I'm taking a small piece from the left and crossing it over to the right then I'm going to cross a small piece from the right over to the left. Add a new section into the braid. Then I'm going to cross a piece from the left side over to the right. Pick up a new section and cross it over to the right side. Then I'm going to do one stitch of the braid without adding in any new pieces. So I'm taking a small piece from the right and crossing it over to the left. Then I'm taking a small piece from the left and crossing it over to the right. And I'm just going to repeat those steps, continuing the fishtail fringe braid until I've brought in hair from above my left ear.  Now I'm going to combine all of my hair together into a ponytail and tie it off at the hair band. Then I'm going to take a small piece from the ponytail, wrap it around the hair band, and secure it underneath with a bobby pin. Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, make sure to click the thumbs up. And if you want to see more ponytail hair styles, be sure to leave me a comment down below letting me know. Also, if you're new to my channel, make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on future videos. And I will see you next time.