"Too goth for metal, too metal for goth”.

On this week's not-at-all-rushed-shut-up episode of the Desolation Sounds Podcast: studio updates from Mastodon and Sepultura; Hellyeah confirm their new drummer; and finally, THAT news update from perennial trolls, Tool.

There's a load of new music this week as well from the likes of DLVRR, Issues, Of Mice & Men, Jamie Lenman and Oathbreaker, plus confirmed album news from Wear Your Wounds and Northlane.

This week's album reviews go to the world's first, foremost, and only Ned Flanders-themed metal (or "Nedal") band Okilly Dokilly and their sophomore effort Howdilly Twodilly; Belgium's most exciting export since Jean-Claude Van Damme in Brutus and their second album Nest; and the colourful imaginings from the darkest thoughts of La Dispute and their fourth album Panorama.

Open Mic goes to a band unfairly taken from us (mostly me) in industrial metalcore goths The Defiled, and their 2011 debut Grave Times.

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