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Jun 20, 2025 · 3 hr 1 min
Hot Hardcore Summer
A glut of huge hardcore storms TNM reviews with albums from Turnstile, Malevolence, Stray from the Path, Kaonashi, Deadguy (& Hexvessel, not very hardcore), and Nine Inch Nails kick off their incredible Peel It Back arena production. Turnstile...
Jun 12, 2025 · 2 hr 20 min
Hyperblasts: Fortress & Mystic Festivals 2025
TNM returns from a week off with a cross continent double fest report as we hit up Yorkshire's Fortress and Poland's Mystic Festival, seeing every band under the sun from Agalloch to Ulcerate, W.A.S.P. to King Diamond, Bullet to Beherit. Releases:...
Jun 11, 2025 · 3 hr 3 min
Album Club Pack May 2024
A bumper Album Club dissection as Mötley Crüe go horribly wrong on Generation Swine. Crossfaith's electronicore captures a moment on Zion, Have Heart's melodic hardcore landmark Songs to Scream at the Sun, and Suffocation invent/perfect brutal death...
May 29, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
Hyperblasts: Sam Says Nice Things About Electric Callboy At Slam Dunk
Sam is lured back to the UK's pop punk home for Slam Dunk 2025 and has to think long and hard about Electric Callboy, and we doff our caps to Svalbard's decision to drop the curtain on a decade plus career as one of the UK's favourite heavy bands....
May 23, 2025 · 3 hr 28 min
Were Black Flag Alive?
In a month that saw two no. 1 metal albums, we go through 2025's biggest reviews gauntlet with Ghost, Machine Head, Behemoth, PUP, The Callous Daoboys, Model/Actriz, Age of Apocalypse, & Sijjin. Ghost 30:52 Machine Head 1:17:32 Behemoth 1:42:36...
May 15, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min
Hyperblasts: Bullet for My Catfight
We rummage through the wreckage as Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine's Poisoned Ascendancy tour comes to a sudden stop with fingers generally being pointed at one party, and we ask big questions like: are four-sided longsleeves good? Releases: Bury...
May 8, 2025 · 1 hr 52 min
Hyperblasts: Incineration Festival 2025 Review
TNM's 2025 festival summer begins with Incineration descending upon Camden for extreme metal sets from the likes of Lamp of Murmuur, Blackbraid, Spectral Wound, Blood Incantation debuting Absolute Elsewhere in the UK, & a mountain-moving Celtic...
Apr 24, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
Hyperblasts: Watching Videodrome and Listening to Nonstop Feeling
On the single biggest release week of the year we head down to Ghost kicking off the Skeletour here in the UK, Charli XCX officially declares it a Turnstile Summer, the original Alice Cooper band reunites after 52 years, and there's important updates...
Apr 20, 2025 · 2 hr 19 min
Magic Virgin Music
Reviews really hot up with some of the most hyped and acclaimed records of the year, some experiments from familiar faces, and some real underground crushers with Deafheaven, Scowl, Employed to Serve, Inhuman Nature, Messa, & Final Dose....
Apr 19, 2025 · 2 hr 52 min
Album Club Pack March 2024
We cover some of the biggest, baddest, craziest Album Clubs there is: Thin Lizzy go studs and leather on Thunder and Lightning, Wintersun undergo an epic, farcical saga to create Time I, Palm Reader's raise UK hardcore's ambition on Beside the Ones We...
Apr 10, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min
Hyperblasts: A Fifty Pound Farewell
The time comes to hold a funeral for one of our podcast's greatest villains You Me At Six as their reign of tyranny comes to an end assessing their end and legacy, Turnstile hit us with their first track of Never Enough, a bumper questions section...
Apr 3, 2025 · 41 min
Hyperblasts: The Emptiness Stadium
Linkin Park release a new single but downgrade shows, Evanescence release 2025's hottest AMV, Midnight write an anthem for Cleveland Metal, and Danzig's in hot water for far right dogwhistles on merch. Releases: Scowl - Are We All Angels Bleed From...
Mar 28, 2025 · 52 min
Hyperblasts: Getting Knocked Loose in the UK
Sam and Perran sit down to talk about Knocked Loose's recent massive headline tour in the UK bringing Basement, Harms Way, & Pest Control into massive Academy venues, as well as Powerwolf announcing a UK arena and Download booking the Vengaboys,...
Mar 21, 2025 · 3 hr 24 min
The Metalcore Address - A Parade of Curry's Screensavers
In our new reviews show we stop to take stock of the state of some of our most popular heavy bands with Architects, Spiritbox, & A Day to Remember, as well as Whitechapel, Spiritworld, Warbringer, Imperial Triumphant, & Rwake. More hardcore...
Mar 14, 2025 · 1 hr 25 min
Hyperblasts: Adieu, Mr Hinds
Napalm Death's 2025 edition of the Campaign for Musical Destruction (Bollocks) rolls around, Tool are being sued by their fans over setlist controversy, and we give our take on the ground-shaking moment when a member of Mastodon departs the band....
Mar 11, 2025 · 2 hr 55 min
Album Club Pack February 2024
We really cover ground on this one: prog goes pop on Rush's Power Windows, 2010s Britrock goes horribly wrong when The Blackout Start the Party, American Football reinvent emo on LP1, and black metal's most comforting album in Agalloch's The Mantle....
Mar 7, 2025 · 52 min
Hyperblasts: Satanized
Ghost unveil all things Skeletá, Slayer add yet another mega-show onto the UK summer, and Bobby Liebling is being seen by more people than should ever see Bobby Liebling. Releases: Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between Oversize - Vital...
Feb 28, 2025 · 2 hr 59 min
LaBrie Paralysis
We close out February with reviews of some of our boldest and sloppiest with Killswitch Engage, Bleeding Through, Winona Fighter, Pissgrave, Vacuous, & Gràb, Green Lung & Unto Others' recent Heathen Neverland trip across Europe, and yes, Sam...
Feb 21, 2025 · 50 min
Hyperblasts: Chad Face McKinnon
There's reports from High Vis and Tribulation both hitting headline tours around the UK, A Day to Remember bring news of their surprise album and its promised big ole volumes, and Parkway Drive stake a claim on the Sydney Opera House. Releases:...
Feb 14, 2025 · 53 min
Hyperblasts: letliving it up in the UK
letlive. finally break the seal on their UK return dates, Death Grips seem to disband again, and there's questions on the misconceptions that surround some of rock's most underrated, misunderstood bands. Releases: Bleeding Through - Nine Lacuna Coil...