That's Not Metal

The first new music from Fugitive featuring members of Power Trip and Creeping Death is here, with Ozzy and Iommi appearing at the Commonwealth games, and trying to reach for what are the worst albums we still secretly love.Releases:Arch Enemy - DeceiversThe Halo Effect - Days of the LostNorma Jean - Deathrattle Sing for MeHollywood Undead - Hotel KaliforniaBoris - Heavy RocksLocrian - New CatastrophismsAEIR - A Frith BefouledAcid Blade - Power DiveWeregoat - The Devil’s LustKreator - Live at Bloodstock 2021

There's festival news around the world from Music Midtown's gun-caused cancellation to theorising on the identity of Bloodstock's first ever secret band, picking what bands would be on a TNM tour in 2022, and we cast our eyes over the clues that suggest Botch might actually be reuniting after all. If they're not trolling.Releases:The Interrupters - In the WildAmon Amarth - The Great Heathen ArmySoulfly - TotemDub War - Westgate Under FireSavage Master - Those Who Hunt At NightThe Flatliners - New RuinMercy Union - White TigerHot Milk - The King and Queen of GasolinePsycroptic - Divine CouncilAbaddon Incarnate - The Wretched SermonEther Coven - The Relationship Between the Hammer and the NailLiminal Shroud - All Virtues AblazeWampyric Rites - The Wolves Howl to the Moon

On the eve of their new album release we're joined by Cammie Gilbert of Oceans of Slumber to talk about Louisiana sludge, classic Seattle, turbulent Americana and Scandinavian folk-pop.Agents of Oblivion - Agents of OblivionAlice In Chains - DirtMark Lanegan - Blues FuneralSoundgarden - SuperunknownThe Civil Wars - The Civil WarsEivør - SlørThis episode was originally published as early access on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A heavy rock band are actually up for the Mercury Music Prize for once, we pick the best riffs of 2022 and the best songs to test your headphones with, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are back at it again.Releases:Ithaca - They Fear UsDune Rats - Real Rare WhaleStick to Your Guns - SpectreBastions - Majestic DesolationDance Gavin Dance - Jackpot JuicerBeach Rats - Rat BeatUnwritten Law - The HumAnberlin - SilverlineFuneral Chic - Roman CandleKrisiun - Mortem SolisTriumvir Foul - Onslaught to Seraphim

It's time for one of modern metal's great traditions, the lowdown on a full new Slipknot era with reactions to new album, new songs and new masks. There's also a contentious new A Day to Remember single coming out of the You're Welcome cycle, as well as heavy discussion on what rising ticket prices at Download Festival could mean, and remembrance of one of heavy metal's great modern painters Mariusz Lewandowski.Releases:Deaf Havana - The Present is a Foreign LandSenses Fail - Hell is in Your Head…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead - XI: Bleed Here NowThe Ever Living - Artificial DevicesMantar - Pain is Forever and This is the EndHaunt - Windows of Your HeartFellowship - The Saberlight ChroniclesBehold! The Monolith - From the Fathomless DeepInhuman Condition - FearsickMolder - Engrossed In DecayMaul - Seraphic PunishmentHissing - Hypervirulence ArchitectureTombs - Ex OblivionImperial Triumphant - Spirit of EcstasyOceans of Slumber - Starlight and AshWitchery - NightsidePalisades - Reaching HypercriticalWake - Thought Form DescentCastrator - Defiled In OblivionNicolas Cage Fighter - The Bones That Grew From PainTeethgrinder - DystopiaNebula - Transmission from Mothership EarthKarl Sanders - Saurian ApocalypsePanzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral DrainAshenspire - Hostile ArchitecturePool Kids - Pool Kids

Album Club has a brand new home, giving you a month's worth of classic records in one swoop as our first episode positions Enter Shikari's A Flash Flood of Colour as the springboard for their next ten years, unearths Porcupine Tree's information age prog dystopia Fear of a Blank Planet, considers the untapped potential of Black Peaks' All That Divides, and tries to do justice to the profound heartbreaker that is Woods of Ypres' Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light.This episode was originally published January 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Incredibly dense and rich albums populate reviews with a returning Porcupine Tree, Conjurer, Greg Puciato, Ithaca, Imperial Triumphant, Blood Command, Wormrot, and Oceans of Slumber, but news that Pantera are "reuniting" seems maddest of all.Porcupine Tree 38:16Conjurer 56:05Greg Puciato 1:18:49Ithaca 1:32:35Imperial Triumphant 1:46:25Blood Command 2:07:12Wormrot 2:26:20Oceans of Slumber 2:44:10

Having made Kate Bush the most popular artist on planet Earth, we talk about the Stranger Things train lifting Metallica's Master of Puppets to similar heights, as well as the best metalhead character in popular media in years.Releases:Wormrot - HissVomit Forth - Seething MalevolenceAltars - Ascetic ReflectionBlind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & DangerousThe Machinist - All is Not WellTelekinetic Yeti - Primordial

This week's Hyperblasts also sees a full review of last weekend's Outbreak Festival, where an arena-sized crowd signed mosh waivers to leap off stages for the likes of Turnstile, Knocked Loose, Deafheaven, & Vein.fm in what turned out to be a landmark year.Releases:Conjurer - PáthosGreg Puciato - MirrorcellBlood Command - Praise ArmageddonismMunicipal Waste - Electrified BrainShinedown - Planet ZeroFrayle - Skin & SorrowThirteen Goats - Servants of the Outer DarkBlack Cilice - Esoteric AtavismHulder - The Eternal FanfareMassacre - MythosFresh - Raise Hell Camp Trash - The Long Way, The Slow Way Chief State - Waiting For Your Colours

Reports from the first Nine Inch Nails UK shows in 4 years as well as SeeYouSpaceCowboy..., the first new music in a decade from The Mars Volta, new Megadeth, and a surprise Spiritbox banger heading up a wealth of new music, and one of the most overwhelming release weeks of the year.Releases:Alexisonfire - OthernessCoheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking MindFinal Light - Final LightNervus - The Evil OnePorcupine Tree - Closure/ContinuationCandy - Heaven is HereDune Rats - Real Rare WhalePetrol Girls - BabyGraywave - RebirthSaor - OriginsKhold - SvartsynEntrails - An Eternal Time of DecayDarkane - Inhuman SpiritsWerewolves - From the Cave to the GraveCalderum - Mystical Fortress of Iberian LandsVicious Blade - Siege of Cruelty