Some normality is restored for the Desolation Sounds Podcast this week.

On the show, Steven has studio updates on Rise Against and The Black Dahlia Murder; there's new music out from Alexisonfire, The Hives, and the intriguing collaboration of Poppy and FEVER 333; and album news comes from Swedish prog giants Opeth, the collaboration project between Pijn and Conjurer, and the biggest album news from the week in Slipknot.

In album reviews, your boy takes a look at EPs from Norwegian punks Blood Command and Oakland-based 90s worshipper Kevin Nichols, as well as albums from Swedish epic metallers Grand Magus and the Anthrax/Fall Out Boy/Every Time I Die/Alkaline Trio supergroup The Damned Things.

Open Mic album goes out to extreme metal label Earache Records' highly controversial new signing - and their first from the realm of hip hop - Alireza and his 2019 debut album Endlyss.

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