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Sam and Perran sit down to talk about Knocked Loose's recent massive headline tour in the UK bringing Basement, Harms Way, & Pest Control into massive Academy venues, as well as Powerwolf announcing a UK arena and Download booking the Vengaboys, and a mega end of month release round-up.
Releases:
Ophicvs - Steel Beast
Cradle of Filth - The Screaming of the Valkyries
Bloodywood - Nu Delhi
Lordi - Limited Deadition
Secret Cutter - ///
Stormo - Tagli/Talee
Ursa - Call of the Infinite
Noisepicker - The Earth Will Swallow the Sun
Gates to Hell - Death Comes to All
Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal
Rancid Cadaver - Mortality Denied
Rothadás - Töviskert… a kísértés örök érzete… lidércharang
Iron Form - Cut From Cold Blood
anvilchandelier - anvilchandelier
heavenscoldhands - heavenscoldhands
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Underoath - The Place After This One
Memphis May Fire - Shapeshifter
Arch Enemy - Blood Dynasty
Alien Weaponry - Te Rā
The Darkness - Dreams On Toast
Backxwash - Only Dust Remains
Jivebomb - Ethereal
Doomsday - Never Known Peace
The Warriors - Burn Yourself Alive
Forlorn - Aether
Savage Master - Dark & Dangerous
Lady Beast - The Inner Alchemist
Seven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star Pt.2
Cult of Fire - The One, Who is Made of Smoke
Teitanblood - From the Visceral Abyss
Lucifer’s Child - The Illuminant
Urn - Demon Steel
Amenra - De Toorn / With Fang and Claw
Wallows - More
Satsuma - this is my outside voice
Silent Planet / Invent Animate - Bloom In Heaven
In our new reviews show we stop to take stock of the state of some of our most popular heavy bands with Architects, Spiritbox, & A Day to Remember, as well as Whitechapel, Spiritworld, Warbringer, Imperial Triumphant, & Rwake. More hardcore bands imploding over idiocy too.
Architects 27:10
Spiritbox 1:05:56
A Day to Remember 1:30:17
Whitechapel 1:46:14
Spiritworld 2:08:37
Warbringer 2:25:29
Imperial Triumphant 2:39:08
Rwake 3:03:49
Napalm Death's 2025 edition of the Campaign for Musical Destruction (Bollocks) rolls around, Tool are being sued by their fans over setlist controversy, and we give our take on the ground-shaking moment when a member of Mastodon departs the band.
Releases:
Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe
Steven Wilson - The Overview
clipping. - Dead Channel Sky
Warbringer - Wrath and Ruin
Nite - Cult of the Serpent Sun
Rwake - The Return of Magic
The Body / Intensive Care - Was I Good Enough?
Wombbath - Beyond the Abyss
Warhammer - Total Maniac
Red Fang - Deep Cuts
Earth Crisis / Integrity Split
We really cover ground on this one: prog goes pop on Rush's Power Windows, 2010s Britrock goes horribly wrong when The Blackout Start the Party, American Football reinvent emo on LP1, and black metal's most comforting album in Agalloch's The Mantle.
This episode was originally published February 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
Ghost unveil all things Skeletá, Slayer add yet another mega-show onto the UK summer, and Bobby Liebling is being seen by more people than should ever see Bobby Liebling.
Releases:
Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between
Oversize - Vital Signs
Cloakroom - Last Leg of the Human Table
Avantasia - Here Be Dragons
Dirkschneider - Balls to the Wall Reloaded
Stress Test - Stress Test
Havukruunu - Tavastland
Grima - Nightside
Effluence - Pianistic Dismemberment
Sleep Paralysis - Sleep Paralysis
Grave Infestation - Carnage Gathers
Sepulchral Voice - Crimson Moon Evocations
Ritual Ascension - Profanation
Scimitar - Scimitarium I
Hail Conjurer - Order of Disgrace
Tubal Cain - Slime Abyss
Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea
Whitechapel - Hymns In Dissonance
The Wildhearts - Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts
Raging Speedhorn - Night Wolf
Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant
Destruction - Birth of Malice
Guiltless - Teeth to Sky
Ingrown - Idaho
Staticlone - Better Living Through Static Visions
This Gift is a Curse - Heir
Dawn of Ouroboros - Bioluminescence
Cryptosis - Celestial Death
Whipstriker - Cry of Extinction
Reconciler - Three Songs
Rootbrain - Mother Tomb
Sunami/Pain of Truth - Coast to Coast Split
Death Pulsation - Demo
We close out February with reviews of some of our boldest and sloppiest with Killswitch Engage, Bleeding Through, Winona Fighter, Pissgrave, Vacuous, & Gràb, Green Lung & Unto Others' recent Heathen Neverland trip across Europe, and yes, Sam finally reviews a Dream Theater album.
Killswitch Engage 40:37
Bleeding Through 1:06:01
Dream Theater 1:31:51
Winona Fighter 1:56:08
Pissgrave 2:10:38
Vacuous 2:31:42
Gràb 2:43:22
There's reports from High Vis and Tribulation both hitting headline tours around the UK, A Day to Remember bring news of their surprise album and its promised big ole volumes, and Parkway Drive stake a claim on the Sydney Opera House.
Releases:
Killswitch Engage - This Consequence
Silverstein - Antibloom
Anxious - Bambi
To Obey a Tyrant - Frigore Inferni
Wren - Black Rain Falls
Hirax - Faster Than Death
Morax - The Amulet
Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness
Gràb - Kremess
Abduction - Existentialismus
God Complex - He Watches In Silence
Spy - Seen Enough
letlive. finally break the seal on their UK return dates, Death Grips seem to disband again, and there's questions on the misconceptions that surround some of rock's most underrated, misunderstood bands.
Releases:
Bleeding Through - Nine
Lacuna Coil - Sleepless Empire
Love is Noise - To live in a different way
Winona Fighter - My Apologies to the Chef
The Nightmares - Fire In Heaven
Hangman’s Chair - Saddiction
Pothamus - Abur
Mantar - Post Apocalyptic Depression
Savage Lands - Army of the Trees
Fell Omen - Invaded by a Dark Spirit
Church Tongue - You’ll Know It Was Me
Final Resting Place - Bound by Affliction
Lacerated - Lacerated
A bumper edition of Hyperblasts sees Trivium & Bullet for My Valentine embark on the Poisoned Ascendancy tour, Cattle Decapitation & Shadow of Intent also co-headline, Gojira win a Grammy, Courtney LaPlante wins the Grammys, and oh yeah Black Sabbath?! Lot to cover in this one.
Releases:
Dream Theater - Parasomnia
Jinjer - Duel
Marko Hietala - Roses from the Deep
Majestica - Power Train
Obscura - A Sonication
Phrenelith - Ashen Womb
16 - Guides for the Misguided
Morast - Fentanyl
Saor - Amidst the Ruins
Ereb Altor - Hälsingemörker
Unreqvited - A Pathway to the Moon
Some of 2025's first heavy hitting singles arrive all at once from Deafheaven, Behemoth, Poison the Well, & also Bring Me the Horizon cover Wonderwall for some reason.
Releases:
Dax Riggs - 7 Songs for Spiders
Vukovi - My God Has Got a Gun
Century - Sign of the Storm
Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil and the Dead
Negative 13 - Recover What You Can
Harakiri for the Sky - Scorched Earth
Sunrot - Passages
The Night Flight Orchestra - Give Us the Moon
Grief Ritual - Collapse
L.S. Dunes - Violet
Tayne - Love
Great American Ghost - Tragedy of the Commons
The Hellacopters - Overdriver
Pentagram - Lightning in a Bottle
Jonathan Hultén - Eyes of the Living Night
Revenge - Violation.Strife.Abominate
Scrüda - Fury Among Ruins
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