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

After last week's trip to Slam Dunk, we hop to the other side of the UK festival spectrum to the upcoming black metal event Fortress Festival, headlined by Triptykon and Wolves in the Throne Room and setting black metal at the beach.

Releases:
Bon Jovi - Forever
Royal Republic - LoveCop
Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2
Evergrey - Theories of Emptiness
Joey Valance & Brae - No Hands
Sect - Plagues Upon Plagues
Candy - It’s Inside You
Umbra Vitae - Light of Death
Severe Torture - Torn from the Jaws of Death
Torturers’ Lobby - Deadened Nerves
Dysrhythmia - Coffin of Conviction
Hippotraktor - Stasis
Gurt - Satan Etc
Ernte - Weltenzerstorer

We take a trip to 2024's Slam Dunk event, and Nile come out with the song title of the year.

Releases:
Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou
Spiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell
Thou - Umbilical
CHVE - Kalvarie
Four Stroke Baron - Data Diamond
The Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception
Rhapsody of Fire - Challenge the Wind
Saltatio Mortis - Finsterwacht
Cloven Hoof - Heathen Cross
Bad Nerves - Still Nervous
Bad Breeding - Contempt
Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher
Troops of Doom - A Mass to the Grotesque
Shrapnel - In Gravity
House by the Cemetery - The Mortuary Hauntings
Haunted Plasma - I
Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt
Wormwood - The Star
Graywave - Dancing in the Dust
Exodus - British Disaster: The Battle of ‘89 (Live at the Astoria)
Black Sabbath - Anno Domini 1989-1995

Def Leppard signal the dawn of the pop metal age with Pyromania, we evaluate if Fightstar's Grand Unification holds up, Comeback Kid make a modern hardcore classic Wake the Dead, and Autopsy set a bar for freakish death metal Mental Funeral.

This episode was originally published April 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

May brings some of the biggest event releases in metal as we review Knocked Loose, Kerry King, Gatecreeper, Pallbearer, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, One Step Closer, Folterkammer, & Antichrist Siege Machine.

27:35 Knocked Loose
58:48 Kerry King
1:21:36 Gatecreeper
1:41:10 Pallbearer
2:00:36 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
2:24:26 One Step Closer
2:39:41 Folterkammer
3:06:16 Antichrist Siege Machine