Best Screensavers Podcasts (2025)

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TNM Albums of the Year 2025: Round 1 3:10:55

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8d ago3:10:55

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2025 Album of the Year time begins on That's Not Metal, with our first lists from Perran and Elliot celebrating everything from synth-punk to goth-doom, power-goregrind to jazz-death, post-metal to metalcore, legendary rock icons to grimy dungeon crust bands that this year gave us.By That's Not Metal

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Hyperblasts: A Blast of Bloody Valentine 45:21

18d ago45:21

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This week we've got reports from My Bloody Valentine's first shows since 2018 as we see one of the loudest bands in the world, reaction to Alissa White-Gluz being out of Arch Enemy, and we tell you how to get involved in our 2025 end of year shows. Releases: The Algorithm - Recursive Infinity The Pretty Wild - zero.point.genesis Danko Jones - Leo R…

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Vamping at the Disco 2:37:16

24d ago2:37:16

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2025's final reviews is a crazy bag of disco mania with Creeper's Sanguivore II, Pupil Slicer, Drain, Astronoid, Home Front, Lamp of Murmuur, and Master's Hammer, bid farewell to Svalbard on tour, a new single from Converge, and about half an hour before our record, doing cartwheels at the reunion of Black Breath. Creeper 31:51 Pupil Slicer 1:09:19…

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Damnation Festival 2025 Review 3:13:09

1M ago3:13:09

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The UK's biggest dedicated extreme music fest at Damnation Festival goes bigger than ever for its 20th anniversary with a bonkers two day line-up featuring Corrosion of Conformity, Napalm Death, Deafheaven, Perturbator, Anaal Nathrakh, Amenra, Warning, Wormrot, Castle Rat, and so many more to crack our skulls. Releases: Of Mice & Men - Another Mira…

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Hyperblasts: Monster Mashing Marmozets 1:15:19

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It's that week in November where every big festival announces their lineup so we assess the bills of Download, Outbreak, 2000 Trees, & Slam Dunk 2026, Turnstile come through Ally Pally, and finally one of the UK's great rock bands Marmozets return with first new music in over 8 years. Releases: Drain - …Is Your Friend Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork Astro…

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Hyperblasts: Halloween Hagar Horror 1:23:04

2M ago1:23:04

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For Halloween we take the time for some horror movie questions including our pitch for a 2025 Freddy vs Jason, discuss Dogma's fracturing and Megadeth choosing to cover Metallica on their final album, live trips to Common Thread and Igorrr with Imperial Triumphant, and there is a Hagar horror on the loose... Releases: Soulfly - Chama Mammoth - The …

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Post-Black Mahna Mahna 2:05:53

2M ago2:05:53

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With autumn chill in the air we plunge into a stacked October reviews bunch of new AFI, Thrice, Miltarie Gun, Conjurer, Perturbator, Sanguisugabogg, Tribal Gaze, & Agriculture. AFI 24:01 Thrice 47:28 Militarie Gun 59:04 Conjurer 1:11:12 Perturbator 1:23:08 Sanguisugabogg 1:33:37 Tribal Gaze 1:44:21 Agriculture 1:50:37…

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Hyperblasts: Parkway Incantation Take the World 1:16:43

2M ago1:16:43

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Perran and Mark catch up to talk about some of 2025's massive event tours with both Parkway Drive and Blood Incantation blazing trails to put on some of modern metal's most ambitious shows. Releases: All Time Low - Everyone’s Talking! Sabaton - Legends Battle Beast - Steelbound Militarie Gun - God Save the Gun Biohazard - Divided We Fall 84 Tigers …

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Hyperblasts: Quizzing with Megadave 1:03:36

2M ago1:03:36

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We're drowning in news with Oathbreaker and Rush both coming back, Alex Bent stepping out of Trivium, Bleeding Through & Darkest Hour hitting the UK, and a slew of new metal songs from Lamb of God, Ice Nine Kills, and Megadeth revealing their favourite game show. Releases: AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… Thrice - Horizons/West Orbit Culture - De…

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Album Club Pack October 2025: Damnation Special 2:07:40

2M ago2:07:40

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For this week's show Album Club returns with an eye once again on this year's Damnation Festival with Warning's monument of misery Watching from a Distance, Wormrot's early 10s grind detonation Dirge, Devil Sold His Soul's innovative post-metalcore A Fragile Hope, and Code's bizarro black metal genius on Resplendent Grotesque.…

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Hyperblasts: Biffy Clyro Futique and Dying Wish Flesh Stays Together Reviews 1:24:24

3M ago1:24:24

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This week we top up our last reviews show with Biffy Clyro's first album in four years Futique and Dying Wish's bleaker kind of metalcore Flesh Stays Together, along with a trip to Brighton's D.I.E. Fest and discussion of Watain's three year plan of disbandment. Releases: Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Paradise Lo…

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Under a Serpent Sun 2:19:51

3M ago2:19:51

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Lorna Shore, Fleshwater, Scorpion Milk, La Dispute, Modern Life is War, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, & Die Spitz albums get tackled, Jupiter and The Opposite of December get toured across the UK, but with another crushing blow to metal we also try to find words for one of the underground's truest heroes Tomas Lindberg. RIP King Tompa. Lorna Shore 42:50 …

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Hyperblasts: Systems, Queens & Baths 35:48

3M ago35:48

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Turnover's 10 Years of Peripheral Vision tour hits the UK, Poppy, Amy Lee, & Courtney LaPlante put out "Lady Marmalade for goths", and System of a Down unveil one hell of a stadium run with a particular choice of opener. Releases: Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me Between the Buried and Me - The Blue Nowhere Spinal Tap - The En…

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10 Years Of TNM, What Are The Chances 2:38:11

3M ago2:38:11

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It's our birthday! This week That's Not Metal turns 10, and to celebrate this crazy crazy milestone, we get misty-eyed dialling it back to the first ever episodes of TNM to look at the albums that launched this podcast and track our decade through these bands. Thank you for 10 years of support - you've not let us down, so we're still here. To TNM, …

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Private Music in the Drunken Dragon 2:23:19

4M ago2:23:19

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In our end of summer reviews we give the verdict on new albums from Deftones, Dinosaur Pile-Up, The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die, Pool Kids, Malthusian, Faced Out, and brave a trip into the Knightclub with Feuerschwanz. Deftones 24:30 Dinosaur Pile-Up 1:1:29 The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die 1:…

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Album Club Pack August 2024 2:22:05

4M ago2:22:05

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End of summer Album Clubs are the sleaze and scandal of W.A.S.P.'s debut, The Distillers' perfect punk rock Sing Sing Death House, Japandroid's celebrated Celebration Rock, and Watain split black metal opinion on The Wild Hunt. This episode was originally published August 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.…

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Hyperblasts: The Last Baron 1:14:31

4M ago1:14:31

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Sam reports from a hardcore fireworks show underneath a bridge in London, there's tracks from Joyce Manor, Conjurer, and Gaerea's continued surprising swerves into pop black metal, and we respond to the awful news of Brent Hinds' death. Hearts Alive, forever. Releases: Rise Against - Ricochet Joey Valance & Brae - HYPERYOUTH Justice for the Damned …

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Bloodstock Festival 2025 Review 3:18:17

4M ago3:18:17

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TNM returns to a monster edition of Bloodstock Festival where Trivium, Machine Head, Gojira, Mastodon, Emperor, Nailbomb, Ministry, & more bring heavy metal to the fields of England once again.By That's Not Metal

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Hyperblasts: The Fabulous Gruffalo 34:08

4M ago34:08

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There's gothy new AFI and even more dramatically new Davey Havok facial hair as we wonder who is really under there, and pay our respects to the sadly passed Erik Wunder behind the revolutionary USBM outlaws Cobalt. Releases: Babymetal - Metal Forth Halestorm - Everest Good Charlotte - Motel Du Cap Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 1 As December Fa…

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Hyperblasts: The Drummer Transfer Window 36:46

5M ago36:46

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Musical drum stools strikes again, Dying Wish and Fleshwater set new records for the autumn, and the Poisoned Ascendancy shadiness raises its sassy head once again. Releases: Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper Post Animal - Iron Scalp - Not Worthy of Human Compassion Kontusion - Insatiable Lust for Death Nuovo Testamento - Trouble Fit for a…

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Goodbye to Romance 2:15:18

5M ago2:15:18

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We shake up the reviews with looks at plenty of smaller newcomer bands with TNM fave The Dirty Nil plus Blood Vulture, Psycho-Frame, Blind Equation, Crown of Anguish, Stangarigel, & Nuvolascura, and of course we do our best this week to speak to the seismic passing of the Prince of Darkness, heavy metal's hugest figure, Ozzy Osbourne. The Dirty Nil…

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Hyperblasts: 2000 Trees 2025 Review (& The Paul Ledney Glitterbomb) 2:48:44

5M ago2:48:44

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TNM makes a long overdue return to 2000 Trees Festival to see Alexisonfire, Coheed and Cambria, the return of letlive., a massively contested slot from Kneecap, plenty more from punk rock spectrum, and in the same episode somehow, we face the great Profanatica jar controversy. Releases: Bring Me the Horizon - Lo-files Daron Malakian and Scars On Br…

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Hyperblasts: Back to the Beginning 1:07:44

5M ago1:07:44

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The biggest metal weekend of all time maybe arrives, with our impressions of Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning and Ozzy's retirement party, plus trips to the return of Slayer in the UK. Releases: Split Chain - motionblur Calva Louise - Edge of the Abyss dead7 - Love What You Can While You’ve Still Got Something Left to Love Ward XVI - ID3NTITY …

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Hyperblasts: Revenge of the Stoff 1:50:26

6M ago1:50:26

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It's a rock show extravaganza as we chat about one of the highest profile weeks for live heavy music in the UK ever with Deftones, Linkin Park, King Diamond, and Iron Maiden, as well as a sobering discussion of the fallout of Bob Vylan's appearance at Glastonbury and removal from Radar Festival. Releases: Higher Power - There’s Love In This World I…

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Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2025 Review 1:35:36

6M ago1:35:36

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Outbreak returns in 2025 in a different guise, with a new site in London for a different kind of mass hardcore experience with sets from Turnstile, Sunny Day Real Estate, Speed, Model/Actriz, plus bonus appearances from Deafheaven and God's Hate. Releases: Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence Helms Deep - Chasing the Dragon Haggus - Destination Extin…

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Hot Hardcore Summer 3:01:42

6M ago3:01:42

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A glut of huge hardcore storms TNM reviews with albums from Turnstile, Malevolence, Stray from the Path, Kaonashi, Deadguy (& Hexvessel, not very hardcore), and Nine Inch Nails kick off their incredible Peel It Back arena production. Turnstile 34:18 Malevolence 1:18:45 Stray from the Path 1:39:00 Kaonashi 1:57:44 Deadguy 2:18:16 Hexvessel 2:35:50…

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Hyperblasts: Fortress & Mystic Festivals 2025 2:20:09

6M ago2:20:09

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TNM returns from a week off with a cross continent double fest report as we hit up Yorkshire's Fortress and Poland's Mystic Festival, seeing every band under the sun from Agalloch to Ulcerate, W.A.S.P. to King Diamond, Bullet to Beherit. Releases: Turnstile - Never Enough Volbeat - God of Angels Trust Kaonashi - I Want to Go Home Orthodox - A Door …

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Album Club Pack May 2024 3:03:00

6M ago3:03:00

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A bumper Album Club dissection as Mötley Crüe go horribly wrong on Generation Swine. Crossfaith's electronicore captures a moment on Zion, Have Heart's melodic hardcore landmark Songs to Scream at the Sun, and Suffocation invent/perfect brutal death metal with Effigy of the Forgotten. Brandon. We love you. This episode was originally published May …

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Hyperblasts: Sam Says Nice Things About Electric Callboy At Slam Dunk 1:04:21

7M ago1:04:21

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Sam is lured back to the UK's pop punk home for Slam Dunk 2025 and has to think long and hard about Electric Callboy, and we doff our caps to Svalbard's decision to drop the curtain on a decade plus career as one of the UK's favourite heavy bands. Releases: Skunk Anansie - The Painful Truth Midnight - Steel, Rust and Disgust Thus Spoke Zarathustra …

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Were Black Flag Alive? 3:28:20

7M ago3:28:20

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In a month that saw two no. 1 metal albums, we go through 2025's biggest reviews gauntlet with Ghost, Machine Head, Behemoth, PUP, The Callous Daoboys, Model/Actriz, Age of Apocalypse, & Sijjin. Ghost 30:52 Machine Head 1:17:32 Behemoth 1:42:36 PUP 2:06:43 The Callous Daoboys 2:21:42 Model/Actriz 2:47:50 Age of Apocalypse 3:00:55 Sijjin 3:14:07…

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Hyperblasts: Bullet for My Catfight 1:08:20

7M ago1:08:20

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We rummage through the wreckage as Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine's Poisoned Ascendancy tour comes to a sudden stop with fingers generally being pointed at one party, and we ask big questions like: are four-sided longsleeves good? Releases: Bury Tomorrow - Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience Callous Daoboys - I Don’t Want to See You in …

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Hyperblasts: Incineration Festival 2025 Review 1:52:23

7M ago1:52:23

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TNM's 2025 festival summer begins with Incineration descending upon Camden for extreme metal sets from the likes of Lamp of Murmuur, Blackbraid, Spectral Wound, Blood Incantation debuting Absolute Elsewhere in the UK, & a mountain-moving Celtic Frost performance by Triptykon. Ough. Releases: Sijjin - Helljjin Combat PUP - Who Will Look After The Do…

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Hyperblasts: Watching Videodrome and Listening to Nonstop Feeling 1:01:54

8M ago1:01:54

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On the single biggest release week of the year we head down to Ghost kicking off the Skeletour here in the UK, Charli XCX officially declares it a Turnstile Summer, the original Alice Cooper band reunites after 52 years, and there's important updates about last week's Weezer movie announcement. Releases: Superheaven - Superheaven Melvins - Thunderb…

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Magic Virgin Music 2:19:21

8M ago2:19:21

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Reviews really hot up with some of the most hyped and acclaimed records of the year, some experiments from familiar faces, and some real underground crushers with Deafheaven, Scowl, Employed to Serve, Inhuman Nature, Messa, & Final Dose. Deafheaven 25:41 Scowl 57:31 Employed to Serve 1:20:33 Inhuman Nature 1:43:08 Messa 1:52:32 Final Dose 2:07:53…

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Album Club Pack March 2024 2:52:43

8M ago2:52:43

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We cover some of the biggest, baddest, craziest Album Clubs there is: Thin Lizzy go studs and leather on Thunder and Lightning, Wintersun undergo an epic, farcical saga to create Time I, Palm Reader's raise UK hardcore's ambition on Beside the Ones We Love, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed's hellish 99 song chemical digi-grind Altered States of America. T…

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Hyperblasts: A Fifty Pound Farewell 1:22:17

8M ago1:22:17

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The time comes to hold a funeral for one of our podcast's greatest villains You Me At Six as their reign of tyranny comes to an end assessing their end and legacy, Turnstile hit us with their first track of Never Enough, a bumper questions section talking the best metal solo artists and two album wonders, and announcing a particularly crunchy band …

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Hyperblasts: The Emptiness Stadium 41:12

9M ago41:12

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Linkin Park release a new single but downgrade shows, Evanescence release 2025's hottest AMV, Midnight write an anthem for Cleveland Metal, and Danzig's in hot water for far right dogwhistles on merch. Releases: Scowl - Are We All Angels Bleed From Within - Zenith Thornhill - Bodies Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious Benediction -…

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Hyperblasts: Getting Knocked Loose in the UK 52:57

9M ago52:57

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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 Screamin…

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The Metalcore Address - A Parade of Curry's Screensavers 3:24:29

9M ago3:24:29

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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 1:4…

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Hyperblasts: Adieu, Mr Hinds 1:25:03

9M ago1:25:03

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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…

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Album Club Pack February 2024 2:55:40

9M ago2:55:40

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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.…

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Hyperblasts: Satanized 52:24

9M ago52:24

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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 Wal…

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LaBrie Paralysis 2:59:20

10M ago2:59:20

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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 1:31:5…

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Hyperblasts: Chad Face McKinnon 50:25

10M ago50:25

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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 I…

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Hyperblasts: letliving it up in the UK 53:05

10M ago53:05

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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 C…

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Hyperblasts: Poisoned Ascendancy Sabbaganza 1:22:14

10M ago1:22:14

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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 - Rose…

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Hyperblasts: The Sh*t ov Whom? 34:30

11M ago34:30

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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 Yo…

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Fix Your Hearts or Die 2:20:15

11M ago2:20:15

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Our first TNM reviews of 2025 hit the runway with The Night Flight Orchestra, Wardruna, The Halo Effect, The Great Old Ones, Trauma Bond, & Grief Ritual, and we pay tribute to one of the greatest left-field artists and dreamers of all time David Lynch. The Night Flight Orchestra 45:00 Wardruna 1:07:53 The Halo Effect 1:28:45 The Great Old Ones 1:44…

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Album Club Pack January 2024 3:08:48

11M ago3:08:48

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Album Club returns to start 2024 after a few months away with a bumper episode, setting the record straight on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Survival Horror, destroying orcs with 3 Inches of Blood's Advance and Vanquish, Joyce Manor's micro-classic Never Hungover Again, and Reign Supreme with #WhyNotDyingFetus This episode was originally publi…

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Hyperblasts: Exodus Swapping 24:05

11M ago24:05

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Hints of a Nine Inch Nails world tour, uncertainty in the SeeYouSpaceCowboy camp, Exodus swap their old singers again, and SpiritWorld go full cowboy. Releases: Eidola - Mend Grave Digger - Bone Collector Tokyo Blade - Time is the Fire Trauma Bond - Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone. Sarcator - Swarming Angels & Flies Necrodeath - Arimortis Necromani…