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We pore over the first Wacken announcement looking for festival clues for 2024, debate the worth of rock's various one hit wonders, and learn some mad stats about AC/DC's setlists.
Releases:
The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Urne - A Feast on Sorrow
Caskets - Reflections
Kataklysm - Goliath
Werewolves - My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me
Slugchild - Wounds Untold
Wacken caps its attendees early, Marmozets tease a return, Skindred announce their first Wembley show, and we poke the bands sitting on albums for too long. The return of Toolwatch?
Releases:
Teenage Wrist - Still Love
Skindred - Smile
Mammoth WVH - Mammoth II
Humanity’s Last Breath - Ashen
An Autumn for Crippled Children - Closure
TNM's Barbenheimer musical double bill moments, Roger Waters re-records Dark Side of the Moon like a mumbling lunatic, and as the aliens are confirmed here we pick our albums to try to communicate with them.
Releases:
Greta van Fleet - Starcatcher
As December Falls - Join the Club
James and the Cold Gun - James and the Cold Gun
Oxbow - Love’s Holiday
Mizmor - Prosaic
Agriculture - Agriculture
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium
Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes
Mutoid Man - Mutants
The Sun’s Journey Through the Night - Wordless
Sevendust - Truth Killer
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Slaughter On First Avenue
We spotlight a bunch of underground acts and fresh faces as we review new albums from Blackbraid, Mutoid Man, Torture Rack, Outer Heaven, Calligram, The Sun's Journey Through the Night, Temple of Angels, and Home is Where.
Apologies for the lower quality microphone recording as Elliot calls in, we'll be back to full capacity in no time.
Blackbraid 32:21
Mutoid Man 48:00
Torture Rack 56:20
Outer Heaven 1:05:06
Calligram 1:13:14
The Sun’s Journey Through the Night 1:20:53
Temple of Angels 1:29:59
Home is Where 1:40:55
The Ghost Inside make a stylistic shift and there's new album announcements from everybody, but it's all about the potential activity going on in the Creed camp as we wait with arms wide open.
Releases:
Voyager - Fearless In Love
Evile - The Unknown
Cavalera Conspiracy - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation
Eleine - We Shall Remain
Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit
Calligram - Position | Momentum
Chamber - A Love to Kill For
End Reign - The Way of All Flesh is Decay
Deitus - Irreversible
Paramore add to the Taylor Swift ticket buying crisis, Lil Uzi Vert drops collabs with Bring Me the Horizon and Babymetal on unsuspecting hip-hop listeners, and Iron Maiden's Future Past tour hits the UK.
Releases:
Will Haven - VII
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
Fen - Monuments to Absence
Astral Tomb - Total Spiritual Death
Bloodbound - Tales from the North
The Raven Age - Blood Omen
Better Lovers - God Made Me An Animal
We return to Outbreak Fest to see how the UK's biggest hardcore fest with sets from Code Orange, Converge & more integrates huge hip-hop acts into its bill for one of the now most innovative and genre-experimental weekends in the heavy music calendar.
Releases:
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
Royal Thunder - Rebuilding the Mountain
Creeping Death - Boundless Domain
Sunami - Sunami
Vulture Industries - Ghosts from the Past
Home is Where - The Whaler
Saturnus - The Storm Within
Thy Catafalque - Alföld
Swans - The Beggar
Trophy Eyes - Suicide and Sunshine
Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun
Burner - It All Returns to Nothing
Tsjuder - Helvegr
Xasthur - Inevitably Dark
Ebony Pendant - Ebony Pendant
Wilt - Huginn
Loma Prieta - Last
Static Abyss - Aborted From Reality
Coffin Mulch - Spectral Intercession
Grotesqueries - Vile Crematory
Khanate - To Be Cruel
Divide and Dissolve - Systemic
We close the year's Album Club packs with the last time Tom DeLonge returned to Blink-182 with Neighborhoods, the returning Heck's Instructions, Anaal Nathrakh releasing the most venomous metal record ever made The Codex Necro, and remembering the time Christopher Lee made heavy metal records about Charlemagne and shed the blood of the Saxon men.
This episode was originally published November 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
Avenged Sevenfold make the most daring and unhinged album of their generation, in a review episode colossus with new works from Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Rancid, Pupil Slicer, Vexed, Godflesh, & PONY.
Avenged Sevenfold 9:21
Foo Fighters 1:14:53
Queens of the Stone Age 1:37:15
Rancid 1:59:05
Pupil Slicer 2:09:30
Vexed 2:27:49
Godflesh 2:39:32
PONY 2:54:09
Fresh off one of the biggest weekends in UK rock festival history: the 20th anniversary Download Festival review, the full experience four day event featuring headlining sets from Slipknot, two unique Metallica sets, and a long-awaited graduation for Bring Me the Horizon.
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