That's Not Metal

Aerosmith unceremoniously call it a day, OPETH HAVE GROWLZ AGAIN, and we discuss the most disgusting things we've witnessed at festivals and have a conversation on the ethics of using depictions of real death on album artwork.

Releases:
Twin Atlantic - Meltdown
Four Year Strong - Analysis Paralysis
Dune Rats - If It Sucks, Turn It Up
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741
Oso Oso - Life Till Bones
Fucked Up - Another Day
Destroy Boys - Funeral Soundtrack #4
Mushroomhead - Call the Devil
HammerFall - Avenge the Fallen
And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna
Kurokuma - Of Amber and Sand
Tendrils - Long Dead
Mamaleek - Vida Blue
Fulci - Duck Face Killings
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Malodorous - The Carrion Recoil
Viscera Infest - Teratoma
In Aphelion - Reaperdawn
Heilung - Lifa Iotungard: Live at Red Rocks Ampitheatre

Gojira make history with their absolutely insane Olympics performance, there's a massive stream of singles from Undeath, Better Lovers, High Vis, Jinjer, Oranssi Pazuzu, Jerry Cantrell, & more, and Sam talks about Bruce Springsteen again.

Releases:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mori Mei
Anberlin - Vega
Blues Pills - Birthday
Barbarian Hermit - Mean Sugar
Shadow Knell - Shadow Knell
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited
Footballhead - Before I Die
Poison Ruin - Confrere
Calderum - Desecration of the Bastille

We are joined by drummer and vocalist Alasdair Dunn of experimental black metallers Ashenspire to blow the doors open with one of our most eclectic Album Roulettes with dance-noise, abstract hip-hop, discussion of the true ethos of post-black metal, and tips on getting into jazz as a metal fan.

Ed Scissor & Lamplighter - Tell Them It's Winter

CIVIL ELEGIES - Combat

Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody

Ex Eye - Ex Eye

DoomCannon - Renaissance

A hyperspeed Hyperblast with Rou Reynolds joining the War of the Worlds cast, and the first returning track from the original Jane's Addiction line-up.

Releases:
Orange Goblin - Science, Not Fiction
Deep Purple - =1
Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse - Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse
Uprising - III
Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked
Dream Evil - Metal Gods
Harvestmen - Triptych: Part Two
State Faults - Children of the Moon
Wormwitch - Wormwitch
ColdCell - Age of Unreason
Mayhemic - Toba
Void Witch - Horripilating Presence
Kaonashi - A Second Chance at Forever: The Brilliant Lies from Casey Diamond
Ghost - Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The week Tenacious D implode in the least predictable circumstances, TNM reviews and gives judgement on albums from Scene Queen, Speed, Crossfaith, 200 Stab Wounds, Ulcerate, Crypt Sermon, & Blind Girls.

Scene Queen 18:55
Speed 51:00
Crossfaith 1:03:30
200 Stab Wounds 1:22:57
Ulcerate 1:41:53
Crypt Sermon 2:03:52
Blind Girls 2:15:14

AC/DC hit Wembley Stadium, Palm Reader bid farewell, while also giving us new music from new band Vower. We get one of the year's more questionable covers, and get misty-eyed over closed venues from years past.

Releases:
Speed - Only One Mode
Graphic Nature - Who Are You When No One is Watching?
In Hearts Wake - Incarnation
The Home Team - The Crucible of Life
Mr. Big - Ten
Webbed Wing - Vol. III
Werewolves - Die for Us
Sissy Spacek - Diaphonous
Seth - La France des maudits
Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating
Totengott - Beyond the Veil
Skelethal - Within Corrosive Continuums
King 810 - Under the Black Rainbow

Outbreak Festival goes outdoors for an even bigger event, with sets from Have Heart, Basement, American Football, Thursday, Balance and Composure, The Hotelier, Poison the Well, & more.

Releases:
Scene Queen - Hot Singles In Your Area
Crossfaith - ARK
200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures
Anvil - One and Only
Wraith - Fueled by Fear
Love Letter - Everyone Wants Something Beautiful
Pijn - On Low Beams of Hope
Limbonic Art - Opus Daemoniacal
Enter Shikari - Dancing on the Frontline
Visions of Atlantis - Pirates II - Armada
Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear
Wormed - Omegon
Vulvodynia - Entabeni
Krallice - Inorganic Rites
Xasthur - Disharmonic Variations

We catch up to give our take on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Nex Gen, albums from The Story So Far, Joey Valance & Brae, Candy, Umbra Vitae, Rotting Christ, & Julie Christmas, and take a trip to the movies for Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now film.

Ghost 1:59
Bring Me the Horizon 31:08
The Story So Far 1:15:50
Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47
Candy 1:43:00
Umbra Vitae 1:53:47
Rotting Christ 2:05:56
Julie Christmas 2:20:37

A huge live music summer continues with gigs galore but also the reports of drama, mismanagement, and poisoning coming out of Download Festival 2024.

Releases:
The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear
Wage War - Stigma
Kittie - Fire
Alcest - Les Chants De l’Aurore
earthtone9 - In Resonance Nexus
Foreign Hands - What’s Left Unsaid
Calcine - Common Love Common Nausea
The Dangerous Summer - Gravity
Sumac - The Healer
Portrait - The Host
Hyperdontia - Harvest of Malevolence
Sarke - Endo Feight
Kvaen - The Formless Fires
Cavalera Conspiracy - Schizophrenia
Black Veil Brides - Bleeders

The season of the big rock shows begins with Paramore supporting at The Eras Tour, double Metallica, Weezer + Pumpkins, as well as tonnes of new singles including big returns for Nails and The Black Dahlia Murder, and discussion of the Barclay's Boycott at Download Festival.

Releases:
Black Country Communion - V
The Early November - Self-Titled
Fu Manchu - The Return of Tomorrow
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Lucifer’s Hammer - Be and Exist
Rezn - Burden
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
Downfall of Mankind - Purgatory
Malignancy - …Discontinued
Embryonic Autopsy - Origins of the Deformed
Groin - Paid In Flesh
Fellwarden - Legend: Forged In Defiance