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Dec 19, 2022 · 4 hr 2 min
TNM Awards 2022
It's the last dance of the year with the TNM Awards, as the gang assemble to anoint the greats and truly take to task the bull: Most Improved Band Song of the Year Worst Song of the Year Hero of the Year Villain of the Year Best New Band Biggest...
Dec 12, 2022 · 2 hr 15 min
TNM Albums of the Year 2022: Round 2
AOTY season continues at TNM with lists from 2022's fresh contributors Mark & Elliot, and most importantly the results of the listener album of the year poll are revealed and given the magnifying glass.
Dec 5, 2022 · 3 hr 33 min
TNM Albums of the Year 2022
Start up the fanfare cause the Albums of the Year 2022 are here, celebrating another 12 months of great records with lists from Perran, Sam, & Alec.
Dec 2, 2022 · 48 min
Hyperblasts: Lux Aeternaaaaa
Metallica are back with an absolute trad metal joy, we predict the albums of the year from metal's major outlets, and we open the official TNM Listener Album of the Year 2022 poll. Releases: Elder - Innate Passage Jamie Lenman - The Atheist In...
Nov 23, 2022 · 2 hr 12 min
Album Club Pack May 2022
In May Album Clubs, we take the opportune time to fairly assess My Chemical Romance's as yet final album Danger Days. From there we dive into a world of weirdness with Swans' White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, Big Black's affront to tastefulness...
Nov 21, 2022 · 2 hr 30 min
Three Skinny Missys
In a week with Turnstile up for multiple Grammys, we head into our last reviews bag of 2022 with albums from Nickelback, Skin Failure, Devin Townsend, SpiritWorld, High Command, Turnover, Dream Unending, & Spider God. Nickelback 37:57 Skin Failure...
Nov 11, 2022 · 2 hr 19 min
Hyperblasts: Damnation Festival 2022 Review, and Download Lineup Revealed
This week we review this year's massive Damnation, seeing exclusive album sets from the likes of Converge and Pig Destroyer as the event steps up to a much larger part of the festival year, and the enormous line-up for 2023's Download is revealed....
Nov 4, 2022 · 41 min
Hyperblasts: What is a Chuggalo?
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...
Oct 28, 2022 · 40 min
Hyperblasts: The Monster Mosh
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...
Oct 21, 2022 · 1 hr 2 min
Hyperblasts: Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit Review
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 -...
Oct 17, 2022 · 2 hr 20 min
Album Club Pack April 2022
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......
Oct 14, 2022 · 2 hr 9 min
Return of DeLonge
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...
Oct 7, 2022 · 49 min
Hyperblasts: Chadstein
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...
Sep 30, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min
Hyperblasts: Slipknot The End, So Far Review
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:...
Sep 23, 2022 · 3 hr 31 min
Chonky Shaky Sweaty Sweaty Reviews
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...
Sep 20, 2022 · 2 hr 18 min
Album Club Pack March 2022
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...
Sep 16, 2022 · 59 min
Hyperblasts: This is Not My Radillac
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:...
Sep 9, 2022 · 46 min
Hyperblasts: A Report from the Deathfest
Sam joined Perran for an impromptu weekend at the first and last UK Deathfest, in a week that also saw the first Taylor Hawkins tribute show, Fat Mike hinting that NOFX will be calling it quits, and Darkthrone continually topping their own album...
Sep 2, 2022 · 1 hr 26 min
Hyperblasts: Muse Will of the People Review
This week's Hyperblasts holds the much heralded review of Muse's further dive into lunacy Will of the People. Conversely there is the much more serious and important discussion around the news concerning Neurosis this week. Releases: Megadeth -...
Aug 26, 2022 · 2 hr 15 min
Kingdoms, Crowns, and the Gothenburg Gauntlet
Some big summer album reviews with the massive return of Machine Head, The Interrupters, a melodeath barrage with Amon Amarth, The Halo Effect, and Arch Enemy, Sigh, and Thoughtcrimes, as well a new Botch song after 20 years that people were very...