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Sep 19, 2024 · 1 hr 3 min
Hyperblasts: Cosmic Void
Another UK live event hits with Cosmic Void Festival and Cirith Ungol's UK date on their final tour, Iron Maiden announce their huge 50th anniversary tour, The Cure start to finally tease new music, and there's the unfortunate Jane's Addiction...
Sep 12, 2024 · 1 hr 12 min
Hyperblasts: No Play Festival, and the Fastest Milkshake Duck Ever
We take a trip to No Play Festival to see SeeYouSpaceCowboy and a day of UK hardcore bands, and follow up on last week's Linkin Park announcement with, well... all of that. Not the conversation we imagined having last time. Releases: Pyrrhon -...
Sep 6, 2024 · 50 min
Hyperblasts: Lactating at the Gob
The fruits of Linkin Park's rollout emerge with all of the details of their reunion and return, Slam Dunk leads with its first announcements for 2025, there's trouble in the W.A.S.P. camp, and there's a live report from NWOBHM cult legends Satan....
Sep 1, 2024 · 2 hr 20 min
Album Club Pack May 2023
Album Clubs kick off with an EP that set it all alight with Nine Inch Nails' Broken, Baroness make modern rock's great double album Yellow & Green, The Hotelier hit an emo revival high Home, Like Noplace Is There, and Satyricon take black'n'roll...
Aug 29, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
Hyperblasts: Deryck Whibley's Big Book Ploy
The big reunion the world was apparently waiting happens with Oasis, but it was nearly two in week with Deryck Whibley finding himself at the centre of a storm of confusion, plus talk on the comedy metal albums we actually like. Releases: Stand...
Aug 25, 2024 · 3 hr 8 min
Finally, It Is Time
Actual mythical albums lead this month's album reviews, as we discuss the actually real Wintersun album Time II, the comeback of Nails, Zeal & Ardor, Twin Atlantic, Four Year Strong, Leprous, & Nile. Wintersun 40:06 Nails 1:21:18 Zeal &...
Aug 18, 2024 · 1 hr 18 min
Bloodstock Festival 2024 Review
We're back for our annual report from Bloodstock Festival where Opeth, Architects, & Amon Amarth headlined atop Malevolence, Clutch, Satyricon, Whitechapel, Hatebreed, Green Lung, & plenty more.
Aug 8, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
Hyperblasts: Is Real Death On Artwork Okay?
Aerosmith unceremoniously call it a day, OPETH HAVE GROWLZ AGAIN, and we discuss the most disgusting things we've witnessed at festivals and have a conversation on the ethics of using depictions of real death on album artwork. Releases: Twin Atlantic...
Aug 1, 2024 · 57 min
Hyperblasts: From Mars to Olympians
Gojira make history with their absolutely insane Olympics performance, there's a massive stream of singles from Undeath, Better Lovers, High Vis, Jinjer, Oranssi Pazuzu, Jerry Cantrell, & more, and Sam talks about Bruce Springsteen again....
Aug 1, 2024 · 2 hr 6 min
Ashenspire Album Roulette
We are joined by drummer and vocalist Alasdair Dunn of experimental black metallers Ashenspire to blow the doors open with one of our most eclectic Album Roulettes with dance-noise, abstract hip-hop, discussion of the true ethos of post-black metal,...
Jul 25, 2024 · 17 min
Hyperblasts: Hot Dog Flavoured Honour
A hyperspeed Hyperblast with Rou Reynolds joining the War of the Worlds cast, and the first returning track from the original Jane's Addiction line-up. Releases: Orange Goblin - Science, Not Fiction Deep Purple - =1 Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse - Paul...
Jul 20, 2024 · 2 hr 26 min
The Suck Zone
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...
Jul 11, 2024 · 59 min
Hyperblasts: Toilet Swift
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...
Jul 5, 2024 · 1 hr 40 min
Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2024 Review
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...
Jun 27, 2024 · 2 hr 37 min
Rite Here Rite Now
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...
Jun 21, 2024 · 55 min
Hyperblasts: Frownload
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...
Jun 14, 2024 · 1 hr 14 min
Hyperblasts: Knucklehead
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...
Jun 6, 2024 · 55 min
Hyperblasts: Fortress Festival 2024 Review
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...
May 31, 2024 · 54 min
Hyperblasts: Slam Dunk 2024
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...
May 30, 2024 · 2 hr 16 min
Album Club Pack April 2023
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...