That's Not Metal

Hyperblasts mulls over the news that the Lingua Ignota project is being retired, casts an eye over some potential festival hints, and picks a bunch of the perfect rock mixes.

Releases:
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
Turnover - Myself in the Way
Ingested - Ashes Lie Still
ChuggaBoom - Death Pledge
Dayseeker - Dark Sun
Born Without Bones - Dancer
Warlung - Vulture’s Paradise
InTechnicolour - Midnight Heavyweight
The Offering - Seeking the Elephant
96 Bitter Beings - Synergy Restored
Black Mirrors - Tomorrow Will Be Without Us
Black Anvil - Regenesis
Mord’A’Stigmata - Like Ants and Snakes
Frank Bello - Then I’m Gone

In this week's Hyperblasts round up When We Were Young got windy, and as it's Halloween we book a TNM Spooktacular and hypothesise the Universal monster's record collections.

Releases:
The Otolith - Folium Limina
Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
Dead Cross - II
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
Show Me the Body - Trouble the Water
Implore - The Burden of Existence
Fit for a King - The Hell We Create
The Gloom in the Corner - Trinity
Fire from the Gods - Soul Revolution
Single Mothers - Everything You Need
Therion - Leviathan II
Obsidious - Iconic
Worm - Bluenothing
Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality
Noctem - Credo Certe Ne Cras
Despised Icon - Déterré

This week's Hyperblasts reviews Architects' star-shooting new album, as well as covering the fiasco around Blink-182 tickets, Botch continuing to definitely not exist, and wondering which band could fight off the most goblins.

Releases:
Brutus - Unison Life
Cabal - Magno Interitus
Inclination - Unaltered Perspective
Witch Fever - Congregation
84 Tigers - Time in the Lighthouse
Orden Ogan - Final Days: Orden Ogan and Friends
Avantasia - A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society
Avatarium - Death, Where is Your Sting
Sahg - Born Demon
Black Royal - Earthbound
Exhumed - To the Dead
Battalions - King of a Dead World
Black Veil Brides - The Mourning
Full of Hell - Aurora Leaking from an Open Wound
Architects - The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit

In April's Album Clubs, AC/DC re-ascend to the throne with Black Ice, we return to the dawn of NYHC with Agnostic Front's Victim In Pain, celebrate the growing legacy of In Solitude's gothic heavy metal swansong Sister, and Kids In Glass Houses... try?

This episode was originally published April 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The reaction to the Blink-182 return, October's reviews highlight massive drops in the metal calendar from Lamb of God and Lorna Shore, as well as records from Brutus, Counterparts, Press Club, Cloud Rat, and Cabal.

Lamb of God 33:53
Lorna Shore 55:42
Brutus 1:16:19
Counterparts 1:28:01
Press Club 1:40:20
Cloud Rat 1:47:25
Cabal 2:00:33

It's an episode of heavy live music logistics, with Depeche Mode, Iron Maiden and While She Sleeps all announcing massive shows, a trip to Behemoth and Arch Enemy's co-headlining European Siege tour, and Rammstein shake up the board with their legal action against resale giant Viagogo.

Releases:
Acid Witch - Rot Among Us
Melvins - Bad Moon Rising
Lamb of God - Omens
Wednesday 13 - Horrifier
Vukovi - Nula
A.A. Williams - As the Moon Rests
Bush - The Art of Survival
Counterparts - A Eulogy for Those Still Here
Get the Shot - Merciless Destruction
Armed for Apocalypse - Ritual Violence
Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
Cloud Rat - Threshold
The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory
Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration
Languish - Feeding the Flames of Annihilation
Aenaon - Mnemosyne
De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue
Queensrÿche - Digital Noise Alliance
Fucked Up - Oberon
Ancst - Zorn

One more massive record this month comes from Slipknot with this week's Hyperblasts holding our review of The End, So Far, the record that sees the band double down on dark experimentation and churning gloom for the discerning maggots.

Releases:
Gaerea - Mirage
KEN Mode - Null
Daufødt - Aromaterapi
Kid Kapichi - Here’s What You Could Have Won
Stratovarius - Survive
Venom Inc. - There’s Only Black
Razor - Cycle of Contempt
Frayle - Skin & Sorrow
Gutvoid - Durance of Lightless Horizons
Live Burial - My Head as Tribute
Lostalone - The Warring Twenties
Drowning Pool - Strike a Nerve
Lost Society - If the Sky Came Down
Tankard - Pavlov’s Dawgs
Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
Stake - Love, Death and Decay
Off! - Free LSD
No Sun - In the Interim
ColdWorld - Isolation
Strigoi - Viscera
Godeater - Vespera
Darkest Era - Wither on the Vine
Escuela Grind - Memory Theater
Autophagy - Bacteriophage
Sammy Hagar and the Circle - Crazy Times
Dropkick Murphys - This Machine Still Kills Fascists
Slipknot - The End, So Far

It's the review motherlode from 2022's biggest month, with Parkway Drive, The Callous Daoboys, Megadeth, Behemoth, Clutch, Electric Callboy, Sumerlands, and The Wonder Years albums giving us disagreements, ethical discussions, huge tunes, and "ready spaghetti".

Parkway Drive 28:20
The Callous Daoboys 1:04:45
Megadeth 1:25:17
Behemoth 1:49:50
Clutch 2:19:25
Electric Callboy 2:32:11
Sumerlands 2:56:37
The Wonder Years 3:08:57

For March Album Clubs, time thaws on Judas Priest's poptastic Turbo, doesn't on The Rasmus' school disco goth with Dead Letters, there's Turbonegro's Scandipunk watershed Apocalypse Dudes, and Celtic Frost make metal's most revolutionary ever statement with Into the Pandemonium.

This episode was originally published March 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A bumper live reviews pack checks out Machine Head and Amon Amarth's Vikings & Lionhearts tour, Blood Command, and The Xcerts, as well as a consideration of the reviewer mindset, and The Black Dahlia Murder looking to continue on.

Releases:
Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvrum
Clutch - Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
Sumerlands - Dreamkiller
No Devotion - No Oblivion
Blaqk Audio - Trop d’amour
Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
Suede - Autofiction
Destrage - So Much. Too Much.
The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay
Mindforce - New Lords
The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
Spiritus Mortis - The Great Seal
Tribal Gaze - The Nine Choirs
Mortuous - Upon Desolation
Innumerable Forms - Philosophical Collapse
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Wolfheart - King of the Abyss
Irist - Gloria