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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.
This episode was originally published May 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
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
Nile 2:51:32
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.
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
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