Returning by popular demand after last week's launch, our new news and questions show takes a moment to celebrate the life of Taylor Hawkins, before turning to The Gaslight Anthem returning as an active band and the potential of a remixed The Blackest Beautiful edition. Alec hears of Pen Pineapple Apple Pen for the first time.

Releases:
Meshuggah - Immutable
PUP - THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror
The Hellacopters - Eyes of Oblivion
Satan - Earth Infernal
GGGOLDDD - This Shame Should Not Be Mine
Black Death Cult - Diaspora
Blood Countess - Occulta Tenebrais
Kublai Khan - The Lowest Form of Animal
Devon Kay & the Solutions - Grieving Expectation
Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflection
Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon
Ignite - Ignite

We debut our much-requested weekly news and questions show, dissecting Ghost's chart performance for Impera, the bands who've done best and worst during the pandemic, and lay out our first release calendar.

RELEASES:
Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
Camp Cope - Running With the Hurricane
Helpless - Caged In Gold
Dream Widow - Dream Widow
Placebo - Never Let Me Go
Abbath - Dread Reaver
Sakis Tolis - Among the Fires of Hell
Absent In Body - Plague God
Emma Ruth Rundle - Orpheus Looking Back
Killing Joke - Lord of Chaos
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
Port Noir - Cuts
Architects - For Those That Wish to Exist At Abbey Road
Bâ'a - Egrégore
Falls of Rauros - Keys to a Vanishing Future
Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World
Father Befouled - Crowned In Veneficum
Kanonenfieber - Yankee Division / Stop the War
MWWB - The Harvest
Reckless Love - Turborider

We lead with a huge look at Ghost's Impera in our March reviews as Papa guns for the bigtime, with Vein.fm, some right jokes with Sabaton, Midnight, Camp Cope, Soul Glo, Helpless, and Véhémence, as well as Rammstein's return.

Ghost 29:05
Vein.fm 1:05:17
Sabaton 1:27:02
Midnight 1:50:45
Camp Cope 2:01:24
Soul Glo 2:12:17
Helpless 2:24:39
Véhémence 2:33:01

TNM Does Horror turns a year old, so we're throwing a birthday bash for all listeners with the new Scream & Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. It's a face-off of the re-quels, both spinning commentary on the idea, with some surprise disagreements on what's really going on in them.

An enormous month for expansive albums demands a big episode, as our February reviews hit huge records from Venom Prison, Zeal & Ardor, Korn, Cult of Luna, Rolo Tomassi, Gregor Barnett, Tuskar, and Immolation, and tries to turn over every bit of rock beef these weeks have thrown at us.

TNM returns with a new look as we lay out our new reviews schedule, and debut the format with Enterprise Earth, Shadow of Intent, Billy Talent, Wiegedood, Celeste, Slowbleed, Comeback Kid, and 40 Watt Sun.

This episode features some lower than usual microphone quality, which we will be looking to remedy for the next show. Cheers for sticking with us and we hope you enjoy the new show format.

Perran, Sam & Alec return to the TNM Awards for 2021 with:
Most Improved Band
Song of the Year
Worst Song of the Year
Hero of the Year
Villain of the Year
Best New Band
Biggest Disappointment
Gig of the Year
EP of the Year
Artwork of the Year
Movie of the Year
Comeback of the Year
Surprise of the Year
Outstanding Achievement
Worst Band of the Year
Unsung Heroes
Story of the Year
Band of the Year

It's the album of the year show for 2021, with Perran, Alec & Sam presenting their top 20 albums of the year, along with TNM Listener Album of the Year results.

It's the last reviews episode of 2021 with records from Static Dress, Volbeat, and Voices dissected, and an Album Club on Bury Tomorrow's breakthrough medieval hit factory The Union of Crowns.

The fallout of Code Orange's new single and Brass Against's unexpected passion for public watersports are the big stories of the week, and reviews hit Khemmis, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Me and That Man, and at last Converge's almighty Bloodmoon.