Sep 24, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 16 segments
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Sam DignamHostMark SandersonHostLet us move into the real news that we had to talk about on Hyperblasts, and we have to start somberly again, because it's been one of those periods where we've had these before, we've spoken about having these periods before, but particularly the worlds of punk and hardcore.
have been uh struck by a lot of loss in the last handful of of weeks and months even we are still here reeling from the loss of andy williams formerly of every time i die um last week i spoke about uh magnus anderson the drummer from this fear and this week uh another titan really of that whole musical universe did also leave us in chad gilbert the uh guitarist and one of the primary songwriters uh producer extraordinaire even in many cases all this stuff we're gonna wax as much you know lyrically as we can um in just a second but uh of newfound glory chad gilbert passing away after a quite lengthy protracted uh battle with cancer we know that he'd been sick for um a good number of years at this point um but the news that chad left us and passed away is another one of those moments where someone who in their own way right like newfound glory um one of the most beloved bands ever in pop-punk, really, without necessarily being the biggest, right? Like, they weren't a Blink-182, you know, arena festival headline or whatever it may be, but it feels like if you could almost cut to the heart of the entire pop-punk scene and go, what is the band that is the heart of that scene, right? Like, is the flag-carrying musical centre of the universe so much? You Found Glory could be that band, and...
We are talking about someone who really, particularly, you know, Chad being such a musical driving force in Newfound Glory, one of the chief architects of the entirety of what, you know, the following 25 years of pop punk turned out to be.
Yeah, like, I would argue he's one of the most important figures in punk rock in the 21st century.
Newfound Glory in general, but him as sort of the driving force of Newfound Glory, changed what pop punk is.
You know, you hear a new pop punk band, you're going to hear Newfound Glory in them.
There's going to be breakdowns, there's going to be a bit of a hardcore influence.
Even more so than, like... green day you hear more newfound glory in modern pop punk than you do green day it's just like you can't overstate what they did to pop punk and and like by bringing in hardcore elements, by bringing in beatdowns, by, like, making the riffs crunchier and harder while still retaining that pop thing, I would argue he brought hardcore to a new audience.
And, like... and personally like one of my favorite songwriters of all time like i love newfound glory more than anything like my favorite band basically and so much of that is chat so much of it is like the sub drop in better off dead they're like just the riff in all about her like the crunch the bounce the swing that's all chat and that's what makes newfound glory so special you know
Yeah, I mean, to the point that I know that you just said that you hear more newfound glory in contemporary pop-punk bands than you do even the giants who made pop-punk a thing in the 90s, right? Like Green Day and The Offspring and so on.
Some of the portions where pop punk has gotten really bad in the last 15, 20 years are kind of when Chad Gilbert's tenets, if you like, have held less sway.
The edge and the genuine Punk bassist that are bound like Newfound Glory Even at their poppiest who they absolutely are They are like the definition of a sunny day Pop punk band right but even In that sense they had that and when Chad Gilbert's influence was Less apparent is kind of when pop punk got really bad um you could probably say that like the last golden era of pop punk um in you know let's say the kind of the late noughties into the early 2010s um is the period where Chad Gilbert was the most influential figure because you know talking about production work um a day to remember right like a day to remember you could argue at their prime, you know, at their peak, maybe the last, like, truly classic pop-punk band.
I don't know, that's up for debate for someone, but, you know, his... uh influence on them not only in the fact that you know they were clearly a pop punk band who brought in more than anyone you know metalcore and beatdowns and stuff like that but like literally producing their albums right and i think i'm right in saying that he produced the run of you know homesick what separates me from you and common courtesy and like that's like that's clearly the best period of their band right like whichever one of those records might be your favorite like those are their three best records um and chad gilbert being you know the guiding light for that like i said that the last the last time when pop punk as a genre was really great is when chad gilbert was sort of the the guru of it
yeah i mean that's what i was going to get onto is is when you say like all the best problems with chad gilbert it's because he's not influenced the bands now and and like the very few bands like koyo or no pressure which are like they're the only ones who are kind of again bringing in that kind of element of pop punk they're the only good ones offering right now It was the 2010s, it was the Wonder Years, it was Neck Deep.
Again, I'm not the biggest Neck Deep fan, but them having that hardcore sort of like, Bounce Pop Punk is four years strong, a day to remember.
That era of bands was the last time Pop Punk was like, you could say genuinely brilliant and like defining stuff.
And those bands were all coming from the school of chad gilbert and and again like newfound glory was still they were still releasing good records at that time and i think that's things they could keep they could keep up the the sort of contemporary bands of that moment but still also be looked at as the as the key influential figure and even again where pop punk has gone down the shitter newfound glory in the late years was still one of the few bands you could still kind of rely on of the old guard to still turn up and do it and that is that edge that Chad Gill brings and it's that perfect thing because vocally they are maybe one of the most grating pop punk bands ever that if you didn't have a musical backing like what they had I don't think Newfoundland would be listenable to a lot of people but because you have that crunch that bounce and all of that it does make that sugary sweet pop punk vocal so much more palatable and again for me he is someone whose influence reaches so beyond pop punk again Producing the albums that I got into.
Let us move into the real news that we had to talk about on Hyperblasts, and we have to start somberly again, because it's been one of those periods where we've had these before, we've spoken about having these periods before, but particularly the worlds of punk and hardcore.
have been uh struck by a lot of loss in the last handful of of weeks and months even we are still here reeling from the loss of andy williams formerly of every time i die um last week i spoke about uh magnus anderson the drummer from this fear and this week uh another titan really of that whole musical universe did also leave us in chad gilbert the uh guitarist and one of the primary songwriters uh producer extraordinaire even in many cases all this stuff we're gonna wax as much you know lyrically as we can um in just a second but uh of newfound glory chad gilbert passing away after a quite lengthy protracted uh battle with cancer we know that he'd been sick for um a good number of years at this point um but the news that chad left us and passed away is another one of those moments where someone who in their own way right like newfound glory um one of the most beloved bands ever in pop-punk, really, without necessarily being the biggest, right? Like, they weren't a Blink-182, you know, arena festival headline or whatever it may be, but it feels like if you could almost cut to the heart of the entire pop-punk scene and go, what is the band that is the heart of that scene, right? Like, is the flag-carrying musical centre of the universe so much? You Found Glory could be that band, and...
We are talking about someone who really, particularly, you know, Chad being such a musical driving force in Newfound Glory, one of the chief architects of the entirety of what, you know, the following 25 years of pop punk turned out to be.
Yeah, like, I would argue he's one of the most important figures in punk rock in the 21st century.
Newfound Glory in general, but him as sort of the driving force of Newfound Glory, changed what pop punk is.
You know, you hear a new pop punk band, you're going to hear Newfound Glory in them.
There's going to be breakdowns, there's going to be a bit of a hardcore influence.
Even more so than, like... green day you hear more newfound glory in modern pop punk than you do green day it's just like you can't overstate what they did to pop punk and and like by bringing in hardcore elements, by bringing in beatdowns, by, like, making the riffs crunchier and harder while still retaining that pop thing, I would argue he brought hardcore to a new audience.
And, like... and personally like one of my favorite songwriters of all time like i love newfound glory more than anything like my favorite band basically and so much of that is chat so much of it is like the sub drop in better off dead they're like just the riff in all about her like the crunch the bounce the swing that's all chat and that's what makes newfound glory so special you know
Yeah, I mean, to the point that I know that you just said that you hear more newfound glory in contemporary pop-punk bands than you do even the giants who made pop-punk a thing in the 90s, right? Like Green Day and The Offspring and so on.
Some of the portions where pop punk has gotten really bad in the last 15, 20 years are kind of when Chad Gilbert's tenets, if you like, have held less sway.
The edge and the genuine Punk bassist that are bound like Newfound Glory Even at their poppiest who they absolutely are They are like the definition of a sunny day Pop punk band right but even In that sense they had that and when Chad Gilbert's influence was Less apparent is kind of when pop punk got really bad um you could probably say that like the last golden era of pop punk um in you know let's say the kind of the late noughties into the early 2010s um is the period where Chad Gilbert was the most influential figure because you know talking about production work um a day to remember right like a day to remember you could argue at their prime, you know, at their peak, maybe the last, like, truly classic pop-punk band.
I don't know, that's up for debate for someone, but, you know, his... uh influence on them not only in the fact that you know they were clearly a pop punk band who brought in more than anyone you know metalcore and beatdowns and stuff like that but like literally producing their albums right and i think i'm right in saying that he produced the run of you know homesick what separates me from you and common courtesy and like that's like that's clearly the best period of their band right like whichever one of those records might be your favorite like those are their three best records um and chad gilbert being you know the guiding light for that like i said that the last the last time when pop punk as a genre was really great is when chad gilbert was sort of the the guru of it
yeah i mean that's what i was going to get onto is is when you say like all the best problems with chad gilbert it's because he's not influenced the bands now and and like the very few bands like koyo or no pressure which are like they're the only ones who are kind of again bringing in that kind of element of pop punk they're the only good ones offering right now It was the 2010s, it was the Wonder Years, it was Neck Deep.
Again, I'm not the biggest Neck Deep fan, but them having that hardcore sort of like, Bounce Pop Punk is four years strong, a day to remember.
That era of bands was the last time Pop Punk was like, you could say genuinely brilliant and like defining stuff.
And those bands were all coming from the school of chad gilbert and and again like newfound glory was still they were still releasing good records at that time and i think that's things they could keep they could keep up the the sort of contemporary bands of that moment but still also be looked at as the as the key influential figure and even again where pop punk has gone down the shitter newfound glory in the late years was still one of the few bands you could still kind of rely on of the old guard to still turn up and do it and that is that edge that Chad Gill brings and it's that perfect thing because vocally they are maybe one of the most grating pop punk bands ever that if you didn't have a musical backing like what they had I don't think Newfoundland would be listenable to a lot of people but because you have that crunch that bounce and all of that it does make that sugary sweet pop punk vocal so much more palatable and again for me he is someone whose influence reaches so beyond pop punk again Producing the albums that I got into.
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