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Thursday · 1 hr 16 min
Hyperblasts: Wading in at Offal Fest 2026
This humid summer gets that bit muckier as we check out the UK's growing slam, brutal death metal, and goregrind event at Offal Fest, as well as check in on Avenged Sevenfold's latest piece of craziness, and sadly speak to the passing of all time...
July 23 · 2 hr 44 min
Loathe to Say
At least one of the most anticipated heavy albums this decade hits our radars this month as Loathe, Muse, The Menzingers, The Xcerts, Fuming Mouth, No Cure, and Arise From Worms are reviewed, along with speculation about the seemingly imminent return...
July 16 · 1 hr 35 min
Hyperblasts: Count Your Blessings Repented (Football Season is Over)
It's the week where br00tal returned (and football season is over), as we make our way to Bring Me the Horizon's Count Your Blessings | Repented shows and into the re-recorded album for the biggest event in 2006 deathcore since... 2006. Releases:...
July 15 · 3 hr 9 min
Album Club Pack July 2025
Sound the charge, into glory ride, as Album Clubs look at the maddening effect Twenty One Pilots' ragga-pop Blurryface had on rock, the most metal band of all Manowar's debut Battle Hymns, Turnover's mastering of emo dreampop on Peripheral Vision, and...
July 9 · 1 hr 7 min
Hyperblasts: MCR and Metallica Stadium Extravaganza
Both Metallica's No Repeats weekend and My Chemical Romance's 20th anniversary Black Parade musical theatre reimagining hit UK stadiums, plus Damon Albarn beefs with an unlikely underground metal target. Releases: Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your...
July 3 · 3 hr 17 min
Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2026, and Acid Bath Arrive
Two hard and heavy events hit the UK heat this week, as Outbreak Festival brings Hatebreed, Converge, Alexisonfire, Basement, & loads more, and Acid Bath's mad reunion brings the swamp to town their first ever UK appearance. Releases: Muse - The...
June 25 · 2 hr 53 min
Kurt Ballou Déjà Vu
From twenty year waits to four month breaks, we mop up some of the biggest heavy records of the last few weeks reviewing Converge's second album of 2026, Marmozets, Static Dress, Turnover, Guilt Trip, Warning, Stormkeep, & Funebrarum. Converge...
June 18 · 58 min
Hyperblasts: Bloodaxe Ninja Flips
Sam returns from Asia (and through a robo-mic, sorry about that) to talk about Japanese hardcore hijinks at Bloodaxe Festival, Voivod and Midnight speed through the UK together, and we unpack the news no one saw coming that Faith No More are returning...
June 11 · 1 hr 9 min
Hyperblasts: The Week Bananas Tore Hardcore Apart
On top of a stream of new music from across the heavy spectrum, we weigh in on the debate following End It's targeting of the man in a banana costume at their show, why the frustration and resentment towards meme behaviour and influencer culture...
June 4 · 2 hr 17 min
Hyperblasts: Fortress Festival 2026 Review
Fortress Festival returns bringing worldwide black metal exclusives to the British seaside, with Gallowbraid, Old Man's Child, Dødheimsgard, Misþyrming, A Forest of Stars & more darkening the skies over the 2026 bill. Releases: Devin Townsend -...
May 28 · 2 hr 19 min
Steady Away Boys! Poop Poop!
It's all about vaporwave prog, French oi, and choo choo train black metal as a whip round the underground picks up Basement, Frozen Soul, Haggard Cat, Fire-Toolz, Prisonnier du temps, A Forest of Stars, Panopticon, and Scimitar for the month's most...
May 21 · 52 min
Hyperblasts: Anthrax Splashback
Anthrax's first single in ten years leads us to consider the thrash legends' creative relevancy in 2026, and Avenged Sevenfold going fully indepedent by buying back their rights brings reminiscing on ten years of their album The Stage. Releases:...
May 14 · 54 min
Hyperblasts: Burning Ambition
Iron Maiden's brand new documentary Burning Ambition hits cinema screens, and there's new singles from Green Lung announcing their new album Necropolitan and from brat superstar Charli XCX making ro-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ck music. Releases: Periphery - A...
May 7 · 1 hr 38 min
Hyperblasts: Incineration Festival 2026 Review
This week we make our way back to Incineration to once again kick off the festival season with a scorching of black and death metal as the likes of Dragged Into Sunlight, Of Feather and Bone, Tomb Mold and Scimitar rip it up across London stages....
April 30 · 34 min
Hyperblasts: The Sangui-Tour
Creeper's vampire extravaganza Sangui-Tour hits small venues in the UK for a full celebration of blooddrinking and leather. Releases: Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy The Amity Affliction - House of Cards Atreyu - The End is Not the End Failure -...
April 26 · 3 hr 7 min
Last Ride At the Gates
Viral microtonal aliens, surprise drops, and defiant, powerful final bows rule the month with At the Gates, Enter Shikari, Corrosion of Conformity, Spirit Adrift, Angine de Poitrine, Portrayal of Guilt, Poison Ruïn, and Immolation. One last time: Go!...
April 19 · 2 hr 50 min
Album Club Pack April 2025
We launch the polaris and get into one of our giddiest ever album clubs on Megadeth's delirious Rust In Peace, the suffocating global anger of Killing Joke 2003, the launchpad for second wave emo in Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary, and Gorguts returning...
April 16 · 54 min
Hyperblasts: Recount Your Blessings
Bring Me the Horizon make the genuinely absurd announcement of Count Your Blessings 20th anniversary celebrations, Nine Inch Noize owns Coachella, and Evanescence lead the singles in their team-up with the Fish. Releases: Nine Inch Noize - Nine Inch...
April 9 · 41 min
Hyperblasts: 40 Squat Sun
Tracks from Warning, Holding Absence, Health and more head up the week's music, and we announce our first massive band special for 2026. Releases: Bilmuri - Kinda Hard Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 3 Truckfighters - Masterflow As Everything...
April 2 · 1 hr 25 min
Hyperblasts: Krushing On Tour
A lot of heavy feelings this week sadly, with the losses of Bo Lueders, James Lollar of Gost, and Ross the Boss. Elsewhere the Kreator/Carcass/Exodus/Nails package lights up the UK, Damnation 2026 unveil all their headliners, Converge unveil a second...