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Another UK live event hits with Cosmic Void Festival and Cirith Ungol's UK date on their final tour, Iron Maiden announce their huge 50th anniversary tour, The Cure start to finally tease new music, and there's the unfortunate Jane's Addiction punch-up implosion to deal with.
Releases:
Nightwish - Yesterwynde
Unto Others - Never, Neverland
Vended - Vended
Crimson Veil - Hex
Charlotte Wessels - The Obsession
Kublai Khan TX - Exhibition of Prowess
Regional Justice Center - Freedom Sweet Freedom
Giant Walker - Silhouettes
Alunah - Fever Dream
Demon Head - Through Holes Shine the Stars
Dungeon Crawl - Maze Controller
Glacial Tomb - Lightless Expanse
Coffin Rot - Dreams of the Disturbed
Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
Mork - Syv
Dreamless Veil - Every Limb of the Flood
Esoctrilihum - Döth-Derniàlh
Deathless Void - The Voluptuous Fire of Sin -
We take a trip to No Play Festival to see SeeYouSpaceCowboy and a day of UK hardcore bands, and follow up on last week's Linkin Park announcement with, well... all of that. Not the conversation we imagined having last time.
Releases:
Pyrrhon - Exhaust
Man’s Gin - The Reprobate
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
Cursive - Devourer
Nada Surf - Moon Mirror
Chastity - Chastity
Zetra - Zetra
Oceans of Slumber - Where Gods Fear to Speak
Satan - Songs In Crimson
Wolfbrigade - Life Knife Death
Slomosa - Tundra Rock
Torus - Torus
Dale Crover - Glossolalia
Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
Trelldom - …by the Shadows…
Taur-im-Duinath - Verso casa
NightWraith - Divergence -
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The fruits of Linkin Park's rollout emerge with all of the details of their reunion and return, Slam Dunk leads with its first announcements for 2025, there's trouble in the W.A.S.P. camp, and there's a live report from NWOBHM cult legends Satan.
Releases:
Rat Lord - Blazed in the Northern Sky
Enumclaw - Home In Another Life
Boston Manor - Sundiver
40 Watt Sun - Little Weight
Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa
Aluk Todolo - LUX
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
Helvetets Port - Warlords
God is an Astronaut - Embers
God Dethroned - The Judas Paradox
PeelingFlesh - The G Code
Bodysnatcher - Vile Conduct
Laura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals - Give An Inch -
Album Clubs kick off with an EP that set it all alight with Nine Inch Nails' Broken, Baroness make modern rock's great double album Yellow & Green, The Hotelier hit an emo revival high Home, Like Noplace Is There, and Satyricon take black'n'roll to the mainstream with Now, Diabolical.
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The big reunion the world was apparently waiting happens with Oasis, but it was nearly two in week with Deryck Whibley finding himself at the centre of a storm of confusion, plus talk on the comedy metal albums we actually like.
Releases:
Stand Atlantic - Was Here
Simone Simons - Vermillion
Within the Ruins - Phenomena II
Uniform - American Standard
Melt-Banana - 3+5
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire
Koldbrann - Ingen Skansel
Gravenoire - Devant La Porte Des Etoiles
Black Birch - Black Birch
Demiser - Slave to the Scythe
Nil / Castle of the Winds - Bastard Sons of Tyranny
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum XX
Wintersun - Time II
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
Leprous - Melodies of Atonement
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God
Thrown - Excessive Guilt
Oceano - Living Chaos
Satan’s Satyrs - After Dark
Phaëthon - Wielder of the Steel
Teeth - The Will of Hate
Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Deceased - Children of the Morgue
Concrete Winds - Concrete Winds
Avmakt - Satanic Inversion of…
Copse - MMXXIV
Cutdown - To the Grave
Chelsea Wolfe - Undone
Hellripper - Fork-Tongued Messiah -
Actual mythical albums lead this month's album reviews, as we discuss the actually real Wintersun album Time II, the comeback of Nails, Zeal & Ardor, Twin Atlantic, Four Year Strong, Leprous, & Nile.
Wintersun 40:06
Nails 1:21:18
Zeal & Ardor 1:50:16
Twin Atlantic 2:06:28
Four Year Strong 2:24:22
Leprous 2:37:44
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We're back for our annual report from Bloodstock Festival where Opeth, Architects, & Amon Amarth headlined atop Malevolence, Clutch, Satyricon, Whitechapel, Hatebreed, Green Lung, & plenty more.
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Aerosmith unceremoniously call it a day, OPETH HAVE GROWLZ AGAIN, and we discuss the most disgusting things we've witnessed at festivals and have a conversation on the ethics of using depictions of real death on album artwork.
Releases:
Twin Atlantic - Meltdown
Four Year Strong - Analysis Paralysis
Dune Rats - If It Sucks, Turn It Up
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741
Oso Oso - Life Till Bones
Fucked Up - Another Day
Destroy Boys - Funeral Soundtrack #4
Mushroomhead - Call the Devil
HammerFall - Avenge the Fallen
And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna
Kurokuma - Of Amber and Sand
Tendrils - Long Dead
Mamaleek - Vida Blue
Fulci - Duck Face Killings
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Malodorous - The Carrion Recoil
Viscera Infest - Teratoma
In Aphelion - Reaperdawn
Heilung - Lifa Iotungard: Live at Red Rocks Ampitheatre -
Gojira make history with their absolutely insane Olympics performance, there's a massive stream of singles from Undeath, Better Lovers, High Vis, Jinjer, Oranssi Pazuzu, Jerry Cantrell, & more, and Sam talks about Bruce Springsteen again.
Releases:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mori Mei
Anberlin - Vega
Blues Pills - Birthday
Barbarian Hermit - Mean Sugar
Shadow Knell - Shadow Knell
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited
Footballhead - Before I Die
Poison Ruin - Confrere
Calderum - Desecration of the Bastille -
We are joined by drummer and vocalist Alasdair Dunn of experimental black metallers Ashenspire to blow the doors open with one of our most eclectic Album Roulettes with dance-noise, abstract hip-hop, discussion of the true ethos of post-black metal, and tips on getting into jazz as a metal fan.
Ed Scissor & Lamplighter - Tell Them It's Winter
CIVIL ELEGIES - Combat
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
DoomCannon - Renaissance -
A hyperspeed Hyperblast with Rou Reynolds joining the War of the Worlds cast, and the first returning track from the original Jane's Addiction line-up.
Releases:
Orange Goblin - Science, Not Fiction
Deep Purple - =1
Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse - Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse
Uprising - III
Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked
Dream Evil - Metal Gods
Harvestmen - Triptych: Part Two
State Faults - Children of the Moon
Wormwitch - Wormwitch
ColdCell - Age of Unreason
Mayhemic - Toba
Void Witch - Horripilating Presence
Kaonashi - A Second Chance at Forever: The Brilliant Lies from Casey Diamond
Ghost - Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) -
The week Tenacious D implode in the least predictable circumstances, TNM reviews and gives judgement on albums from Scene Queen, Speed, Crossfaith, 200 Stab Wounds, Ulcerate, Crypt Sermon, & Blind Girls.
Scene Queen 18:55
Speed 51:00
Crossfaith 1:03:30
200 Stab Wounds 1:22:57
Ulcerate 1:41:53
Crypt Sermon 2:03:52
Blind Girls 2:15:14 -
AC/DC hit Wembley Stadium, Palm Reader bid farewell, while also giving us new music from new band Vower. We get one of the year's more questionable covers, and get misty-eyed over closed venues from years past.
Releases:
Speed - Only One Mode
Graphic Nature - Who Are You When No One is Watching?
In Hearts Wake - Incarnation
The Home Team - The Crucible of Life
Mr. Big - Ten
Webbed Wing - Vol. III
Werewolves - Die for Us
Sissy Spacek - Diaphonous
Seth - La France des maudits
Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating
Totengott - Beyond the Veil
Skelethal - Within Corrosive Continuums
King 810 - Under the Black Rainbow -
Outbreak Festival goes outdoors for an even bigger event, with sets from Have Heart, Basement, American Football, Thursday, Balance and Composure, The Hotelier, Poison the Well, & more.
Releases:
Scene Queen - Hot Singles In Your Area
Crossfaith - ARK
200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures
Anvil - One and Only
Wraith - Fueled by Fear
Love Letter - Everyone Wants Something Beautiful
Pijn - On Low Beams of Hope
Limbonic Art - Opus Daemoniacal
Enter Shikari - Dancing on the Frontline
Visions of Atlantis - Pirates II - Armada
Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear
Wormed - Omegon
Vulvodynia - Entabeni
Krallice - Inorganic Rites
Xasthur - Disharmonic Variations -
We catch up to give our take on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Nex Gen, albums from The Story So Far, Joey Valance & Brae, Candy, Umbra Vitae, Rotting Christ, & Julie Christmas, and take a trip to the movies for Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now film.
Ghost 1:59
Bring Me the Horizon 31:08
The Story So Far 1:15:50
Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47
Candy 1:43:00
Umbra Vitae 1:53:47
Rotting Christ 2:05:56
Julie Christmas 2:20:37 -
A huge live music summer continues with gigs galore but also the reports of drama, mismanagement, and poisoning coming out of Download Festival 2024.
Releases:
The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear
Wage War - Stigma
Kittie - Fire
Alcest - Les Chants De l’Aurore
earthtone9 - In Resonance Nexus
Foreign Hands - What’s Left Unsaid
Calcine - Common Love Common Nausea
The Dangerous Summer - Gravity
Sumac - The Healer
Portrait - The Host
Hyperdontia - Harvest of Malevolence
Sarke - Endo Feight
Kvaen - The Formless Fires
Cavalera Conspiracy - Schizophrenia
Black Veil Brides - Bleeders -
The season of the big rock shows begins with Paramore supporting at The Eras Tour, double Metallica, Weezer + Pumpkins, as well as tonnes of new singles including big returns for Nails and The Black Dahlia Murder, and discussion of the Barclay's Boycott at Download Festival.
Releases:
Black Country Communion - V
The Early November - Self-Titled
Fu Manchu - The Return of Tomorrow
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Lucifer’s Hammer - Be and Exist
Rezn - Burden
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
Downfall of Mankind - Purgatory
Malignancy - …Discontinued
Embryonic Autopsy - Origins of the Deformed
Groin - Paid In Flesh
Fellwarden - Legend: Forged In Defiance -
After last week's trip to Slam Dunk, we hop to the other side of the UK festival spectrum to the upcoming black metal event Fortress Festival, headlined by Triptykon and Wolves in the Throne Room and setting black metal at the beach.
Releases:
Bon Jovi - Forever
Royal Republic - LoveCop
Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2
Evergrey - Theories of Emptiness
Joey Valance & Brae - No Hands
Sect - Plagues Upon Plagues
Candy - It’s Inside You
Umbra Vitae - Light of Death
Severe Torture - Torn from the Jaws of Death
Torturers’ Lobby - Deadened Nerves
Dysrhythmia - Coffin of Conviction
Hippotraktor - Stasis
Gurt - Satan Etc
Ernte - Weltenzerstorer -
We take a trip to 2024's Slam Dunk event, and Nile come out with the song title of the year.
Releases:
Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou
Spiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell
Thou - Umbilical
CHVE - Kalvarie
Four Stroke Baron - Data Diamond
The Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception
Rhapsody of Fire - Challenge the Wind
Saltatio Mortis - Finsterwacht
Cloven Hoof - Heathen Cross
Bad Nerves - Still Nervous
Bad Breeding - Contempt
Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher
Troops of Doom - A Mass to the Grotesque
Shrapnel - In Gravity
House by the Cemetery - The Mortuary Hauntings
Haunted Plasma - I
Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt
Wormwood - The Star
Graywave - Dancing in the Dust
Exodus - British Disaster: The Battle of ‘89 (Live at the Astoria)
Black Sabbath - Anno Domini 1989-1995 -
Def Leppard signal the dawn of the pop metal age with Pyromania, we evaluate if Fightstar's Grand Unification holds up, Comeback Kid make a modern hardcore classic Wake the Dead, and Autopsy set a bar for freakish death metal Mental Funeral.
This episode was originally published April 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal. - Visa fler