It is the ultimate escalation in aggression this week.

On the Desolation Sounds Podcast this week, Steven discusses the news of Tool now being available on Spotify and what it means to the core fan base and impending listeners. There's also an update on the upcoming Tool album, as well as other album news from Blink-182, Wednesday 13 and DragonForce.

For album reviews, we get folking sad thanks to Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties, the narrative folk project from The Wonder Years' Soupy; things then get a little mad as we look at Italian progressive metalcore storm Destrage; and then things get really dark as we look at one of Belgium's newest exports in blackened powerviolence mob Vonnis.

Open Mic offers no rest-bite, as we take a look at the fantastically brilliant yet blood-curdling nightmare that is Anaal Nathrakh and their 2009 album In the Constellation of the Black Widow.

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