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It's an episode of heavy live music logistics, with Depeche Mode, Iron Maiden and While She Sleeps all announcing massive shows, a trip to Behemoth and Arch Enemy's co-headlining European Siege tour, and Rammstein shake up the board with their legal action against resale giant Viagogo.
Releases:
Acid Witch - Rot Among Us
Melvins - Bad Moon Rising
Lamb of God - Omens
Wednesday 13 - Horrifier
Vukovi - Nula
A.A. Williams - As the Moon Rests
Bush - The Art of Survival
Counterparts - A Eulogy for Those Still Here
Get the Shot - Merciless Destruction
Armed for Apocalypse - Ritual Violence
Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
Cloud Rat - Threshold
The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory
Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration
Languish - Feeding the Flames of Annihilation
Aenaon - Mnemosyne
De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue
Queensrÿche - Digital Noise Alliance
Fucked Up - Oberon
Ancst - Zorn
One more massive record this month comes from Slipknot with this week's Hyperblasts holding our review of The End, So Far, the record that sees the band double down on dark experimentation and churning gloom for the discerning maggots.
Releases:
Gaerea - Mirage
KEN Mode - Null
Daufødt - Aromaterapi
Kid Kapichi - Here’s What You Could Have Won
Stratovarius - Survive
Venom Inc. - There’s Only Black
Razor - Cycle of Contempt
Frayle - Skin & Sorrow
Gutvoid - Durance of Lightless Horizons
Live Burial - My Head as Tribute
Lostalone - The Warring Twenties
Drowning Pool - Strike a Nerve
Lost Society - If the Sky Came Down
Tankard - Pavlov’s Dawgs
Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
Stake - Love, Death and Decay
Off! - Free LSD
No Sun - In the Interim
ColdWorld - Isolation
Strigoi - Viscera
Godeater - Vespera
Darkest Era - Wither on the Vine
Escuela Grind - Memory Theater
Autophagy - Bacteriophage
Sammy Hagar and the Circle - Crazy Times
Dropkick Murphys - This Machine Still Kills Fascists
Slipknot - The End, So Far
It's the review motherlode from 2022's biggest month, with Parkway Drive, The Callous Daoboys, Megadeth, Behemoth, Clutch, Electric Callboy, Sumerlands, and The Wonder Years albums giving us disagreements, ethical discussions, huge tunes, and "ready spaghetti".
Parkway Drive 28:20
The Callous Daoboys 1:04:45
Megadeth 1:25:17
Behemoth 1:49:50
Clutch 2:19:25
Electric Callboy 2:32:11
Sumerlands 2:56:37
The Wonder Years 3:08:57
For March Album Clubs, time thaws on Judas Priest's poptastic Turbo, doesn't on The Rasmus' school disco goth with Dead Letters, there's Turbonegro's Scandipunk watershed Apocalypse Dudes, and Celtic Frost make metal's most revolutionary ever statement with Into the Pandemonium.
This episode was originally published March 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
A bumper live reviews pack checks out Machine Head and Amon Amarth's Vikings & Lionhearts tour, Blood Command, and The Xcerts, as well as a consideration of the reviewer mindset, and The Black Dahlia Murder looking to continue on.
Releases:
Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvrum
Clutch - Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
Sumerlands - Dreamkiller
No Devotion - No Oblivion
Blaqk Audio - Trop d’amour
Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
Suede - Autofiction
Destrage - So Much. Too Much.
The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay
Mindforce - New Lords
The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
Spiritus Mortis - The Great Seal
Tribal Gaze - The Nine Choirs
Mortuous - Upon Desolation
Innumerable Forms - Philosophical Collapse
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Wolfheart - King of the Abyss
Irist - Gloria
Sam joined Perran for an impromptu weekend at the first and last UK Deathfest, in a week that also saw the first Taylor Hawkins tribute show, Fat Mike hinting that NOFX will be calling it quits, and Darkthrone continually topping their own album announcements like the kings they are.
Releases:
Parkway Drive - Darker Still
Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
Stray From the Path - Euthanasia
Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest
Revocation - Netherheaven
Electric Callboy - Tekkno
Tallah - The Generation of Danger
I Am - Eternal Steel
Demon Hunter - Exile
Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed
Armor for Sleep - The Rain Museum
Afghan Wigs - How Do You Burn?
Flogging Molly - Anthem
Fallujah - Empyrean
Crippled Black Phoenix - Banefyre
Valborg - Der Alte
This week's Hyperblasts holds the much heralded review of Muse's further dive into lunacy Will of the People. Conversely there is the much more serious and important discussion around the news concerning Neurosis this week.
Releases:
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying… and the Dead!
Blind Guardian - The God Machine
The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist
Miss May I - Curse of Existence
156/Silence - Narrative
Vermin Womb - Retaliation
The Hu - Rumble of Thunder
Carnal Ruin - Soulless I Remain
State of You - State of You
Some big summer album reviews with the massive return of Machine Head, The Interrupters, a melodeath barrage with Amon Amarth, The Halo Effect, and Arch Enemy, Sigh, and Thoughtcrimes, as well a new Botch song after 20 years that people were very normal about.
Machine Head 26:42
The Interrupters 55:06
Amon Amarth 1:11:23
The Halo Effect 1:31:50
Arch Enemy 1:41:30
Sigh 1:52:41
Thoughtcrimes 2:06:03
Album Club Pack returns for Round 2, landing a hard rocking grunge classic in Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, The Defiled's independent industrial metalcore debut Grave Times, a 2010s alt rock cornerstone in Basement's Colourmeinkindness, and an extreme metal Valentine's Day special on Bloodbath's Nightmares Made Flesh.
This episode was originally published February 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
A lot later than intended due to the small matter of needing a whole new microphone, but finally the That's Not Metal review of Bloodstock Festival 2022 is here! Perran is joined by Elliot Paisley to talk the UK heavy metal event headlined by Behemoth, Mercyful Fate, and Lamb of God.
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