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Iron Maiden are tickling our tastebuds with their online teaser campaign, At the Gates' masterfully strange new album tops reviews along with Urne and Pt. 2 of The Hell's Joris saga, and with the announcement of its sequel Album Club is Between the Buried and Me's demented prog classic Colors.
Perran is joined by friend of the podcast Mitch Harrod for a review of Download Pilot, the first rock festival to return after the COVID-19 pandemic, to discuss what a festival is like after COVID and of course the bands who won the weekend.
Metallica's Blacklist looks mental and prompts talk of the best remasters, reviews of new Beartooth, Helloween, and Amenra records, and Album Club is the progressive post-hardcore immersion of Thrice's Vheissu.
Perran and Alec topline the crazy Hellfest news, new songs from Machine Head, Unto Others & more, Fear Factory, Hacktivist and Bossk are in reviews, and Album Club looks at the MySpace moment and surviving status as a heavy music landmark of Job for a Cowboy's Doom EP.
It's the arrival week of AFI's Bodies along with new Deafheaven and Poppy in news, Go Ahead and Die and Wristmeetrazor reviews, talk on the best albums not streaming, and Album Club is Alice Cooper's career-reviving crack at making glam spooky with Trash.
We discuss Download Pilot, genre purity, and fictional universes, reviews are of Rise Against, Red Fang's noisy new record and Boss Keloid's odd prog, and Album Club is on one of the most individual metal bands of the 2000s with Nevermore's This Godless Endeavour.
New music from Turnstile, Times of Grace & more, the news that David Ellefson is out of Megadeth, and it's a bumper reviews week racing from punk to black metal to darkwave to deathcore with Noctule, Perturbator, Kaonashi, Fiddlehead, Dödsrit and Mental Cruelty.
UK metal upstarts Vexed, The Devil Wears Prada's Zombie II and Jess & the Ancient Ones are reviewed, there's new Green Day and discussion of how music livestreams might persevere, and an extended edition Album Club goes into Entombed's debut classic Left Hand Path.
Reviews plug into the scene with SeeYouSpaceCowboy and If I Die First's split, Manchester Orchestra and Bala, questions on affectionate blind spots for insufferable artists, and Album Club is Slash's rock jukebox with his first solo album.
TNM glams up for a review of the legend Van Weezer, plus Salem II and Evile, questions hair metal's legacy in rock's mainstream credibility and what it means to be dated, and examines another insane glam genre crossover with Blessed by a Broken Heart's Pedal to the Metal.
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