TNM considers and salutes the careers of departing bands Sum 41 and Dark Fortress, looks at new music from Queens of the Stone Age, Thy Art is Murder, and 30 Seconds to Mars, asks whether Billy Corgan paying a ransom was worth it, and takes a brief look at the rising trend of AI music in metal.

Releases:
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow
The Acacia Strain - Step Into the Light
DevilDriver - Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
The Amity Affliction - Not Without My Ghosts
Veil of Maya - [m]other
Left to Suffer - Feral
Black Spiders - Can’t Die, Won’t Die
De Forbandede - Menneske
Island of Love - Island of Love
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise
Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse
Impetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
Esoctrilihum - Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Grave Desecrator - Immundissime Spiritus