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Aug 25, 2023 · 2 hr 37 min
Baa for the Course
Some of the leaders in alt rock top reviews with Spanish Love Songs, The Xcerts, and Teenage Wrist, as well as new Skindred, Urne, Spirit Adrift, Horrendous, Celestial Sanctuary, and a conversation addressing recent comments from CJ McMahon. Spanish...
Aug 18, 2023 · 1 hr 40 min
Bloodstock Festival 2023 Review
TNM returns to Bloodstock Festival for the 2023 event as Perran reports on sets from Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Triptykon, Meshuggah, Knocked Loose, Employed to Serve, and generally more heavy metal than you could shake a stick at.
Aug 11, 2023 · 1 hr
Hyperblasts: Robbie Williams' Subversive Genius
We pore over the first Wacken announcement looking for festival clues for 2024, debate the worth of rock's various one hit wonders, and learn some mad stats about AC/DC's setlists. Releases: The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons Urne - A Feast...
Aug 4, 2023 · 35 min
Hyperblasts: What's Up Denny's
Wacken caps its attendees early, Marmozets tease a return, Skindred announce their first Wembley show, and we poke the bands sitting on albums for too long. The return of Toolwatch? Releases: Teenage Wrist - Still Love Skindred - Smile Mammoth WVH -...
Jul 28, 2023 · 49 min
Hyperblasts: The Extraterrestrial Musical Peace Process
TNM's Barbenheimer musical double bill moments, Roger Waters re-records Dark Side of the Moon like a mumbling lunatic, and as the aliens are confirmed here we pick our albums to try to communicate with them. Releases: Greta van Fleet - Starcatcher As...
Jul 20, 2023 · 1 hr 54 min
Wipe This, Devil Daddy
We spotlight a bunch of underground acts and fresh faces as we review new albums from Blackbraid, Mutoid Man, Torture Rack, Outer Heaven, Calligram, The Sun's Journey Through the Night, Temple of Angels, and Home is Where. Apologies for the lower...
Jul 14, 2023 · 51 min
Hyperblasts: Creedwatch
The Ghost Inside make a stylistic shift and there's new album announcements from everybody, but it's all about the potential activity going on in the Creed camp as we wait with arms wide open. Releases: Voyager - Fearless In Love Evile - The Unknown...
Jul 7, 2023 · 57 min
Hyperblasts: Swiftiegeddon
Paramore add to the Taylor Swift ticket buying crisis, Lil Uzi Vert drops collabs with Bring Me the Horizon and Babymetal on unsuspecting hip-hop listeners, and Iron Maiden's Future Past tour hits the UK. Releases: Will Haven - VII Blackbraid -...
Jun 30, 2023 · 2 hr 45 min
Hyperblasts: Outbreak Fest 2023 Review
We return to Outbreak Fest to see how the UK's biggest hardcore fest with sets from Code Orange, Converge & more integrates huge hip-hop acts into its bill for one of the now most innovative and genre-experimental weekends in the heavy music...
Jun 26, 2023 · 2 hr 26 min
Album Club Pack November 2022
We close the year's Album Club packs with the last time Tom DeLonge returned to Blink-182 with Neighborhoods, the returning Heck's Instructions, Anaal Nathrakh releasing the most venomous metal record ever made The Codex Necro, and remembering the...
Jun 23, 2023 · 3 hr 6 min
Avenged Sevenfold's Get Lucky Galaxy Brain
Avenged Sevenfold make the most daring and unhinged album of their generation, in a review episode colossus with new works from Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Rancid, Pupil Slicer, Vexed, Godflesh, & PONY. Avenged Sevenfold 9:21 Foo...
Jun 16, 2023 · 2 hr 52 min
Download Festival 2023 Review
Fresh off one of the biggest weekends in UK rock festival history: the 20th anniversary Download Festival review, the full experience four day event featuring headlining sets from Slipknot, two unique Metallica sets, and a long-awaited graduation for...
Jun 9, 2023 · 47 min
Hyperblasts: No One Will Ever Be Able to Park Ever Again
Sam returns with a report on the organisational carnage at Slam Dunk as well as a trip to see Bruce Springsteen, and there's a very fresh look at the bizarre news surrounding Slipknot's activity and member change-ups. Releases: Godflesh - Purge...
Jun 1, 2023 · 1 hr 2 min
Hyperblasts: Rage Against the Manuel-Miranda
A huge host of TNM faves are back with music as Creeper, Code Orange, Sylosis, Fever 333, and more offer themselves up, there's discussion around the news of Josh Middleton departing the Architects camp, Iron Maiden's Future Past tour setlist opened...
May 30, 2023 · 1 hr 52 min
Album Club Pack October 2022
Album Clubs look at some beloved cult records in Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time ahead of the Future Past tour, Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Descendents' foundational but thorny Milo Goes to College, and the murder psych...
May 25, 2023 · 1 hr 21 min
Hyperblasts: Let's Talk About Sleep Token
Sleep Token are taking the world by storm. It's the most significant heavy release of the year, and historically, none of us get it. In this podcast, we try and assess how as non-worshippers we interact with a record like this, and the role of the...
May 19, 2023 · 2 hr 12 min
Schrödinger's Black Metal
Eurovision goes into metal overdrive, and we review six of the month's biggest heavy releases from The Dirty Nil, Cattle Decapitation, Frozen Soul, Immortal, Drain, & Hot Mulligan. Big time for ice-people and shirt-tuggers. The Dirty Nil 26:34...
May 12, 2023 · 1 hr
Hyperblasts: Frostbum Snorekings
TNM considers and salutes the careers of departing bands Sum 41 and Dark Fortress, looks at new music from Queens of the Stone Age, Thy Art is Murder, and 30 Seconds to Mars, asks whether Billy Corgan paying a ransom was worth it, and takes a brief...
May 4, 2023 · 50 min
Hyperblasts: Rules is Rules
Bring Me the Horizon are still making music for Emo Girls, we check out Metallica's opening setlists for their No Repeats tour, put some venues to the sword in order to save Brixton Academy, and take the moment to assess who the best live band in the...
Apr 30, 2023 · 2 hr 5 min
Album Club Pack September 2022
September's Album Clubs see Anthrax making the Big 4 with Among the Living, Taking Back Sunday's Louder Now explosion, one of hardcore's most underloved albums in Gallows' self-titled, and ahead of deploying it at Damnation Festival Pig Destroyer's...