Show Notes
There are surprising pivots towards our world from the pop sphere this time from Miley Cyrus and Chvrches alongside new singles from Bullet for My Valentine & several others, live trips to see Electric Wizard & more, there's a mindblowing milestone for Judas Priest's Ian Hill, a bizarre multi-pronged bust-up with Frankie Palmeri at the centre, and sadly another passing of a punk and hardcore legend with the loss of New Found Glory's Chad Gilbert.
Releases: Holding Absence - Modern Life is Lonely Emma Ruth Rundle - These Killing Times Boy Harsher - Get Mean The Eternal - Obscured Horizons Remote Viewing - State Violence Early Moods - Ready for the Grave Krallice - Scour Order Runemagick - After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil CH’AHOM - Anthropic Rites of Sublimation Combust / Blow Your Brains Out / Imposter - United Nations Tom Morello - Everyone Gets Everything They Want Coldrain - OPTIMIZE = OPTDEMIZE Europe - Come This Madness Keo - Put a Smile On For Me Pain of Truth - Pain of Truth Split Dogs - Nice N’ Rough Burner - No One is Coming to Save Us Cloven Hoof - Never a Prophet in Your Own Land Bloodstain - Bloodstain God Mother - Köttvärld Crown of Magnetar - The Hollowing of Godflesh Godflesh - Decay Protomartyr - Hotel Usona Brat - Manslayer The Ocean - Solaris Ethereal Tomb - Living to Dream Again Noctule - Extinguish Thy Flame Iskald - Curse of the Mind Aborym - Metachaos Krolok - Hričov – Súľov – Lietava Massteron - Second in the Spheres Profanation - Ultra-Noise Warfare Scorpion Milk - Flesh Mask for Skulls
More from That's Not Metal
We've got a reviews bag full of mavericks and outsiders making some big crazy choices and marching to their own drum with their records this month as we look at albums from Haywire, unpeople, New World Man, Wolves in the Throne Room, Noctule, Godflesh, Smoulder, & Bombstrap.
There's big surprise releases from Deafheaven and Power Trip, major Nightwish and Judas Priest line-up shifts, a tremendous festival announcement from Fortress, live shows from Joyce Manor, Blaze Bayley, and Khemmis, but no one wants to talk about any of it because the world's up in arms about James Hetfield.
Nails tear through the UK, Trivium unveil their Eastern darkness-inspired new album, and Aerosmith plot their own Back to the Beginning style party.
We've arrived at our annual Damnation Festival preview Album Club pack as we pull out Cult of Luna's 21st century post-metal benchmark Somewhere Along the Highway, Walls of Jericho's 00s metallic hardcore smackdown The American Dream, the 2010s sludgy powerviolence of Weekend Nachos' Worthless (featuring "Pat Patterson" and "Troe Johman"), and The Berzerker's Aussie gabber death metal Dissimulate.
It's real highs and lows in the news for rock music this week, with incredibly exciting reveals from Disfear and Repugnant, the 2027 line-up announcements from Slam Dunk and ArcTanGent, but also the news of Enter Shikari's incoming hiatus and the mountain-moving loss of Venom's Cronos, the forefather of extreme metal without whom our world is unthinkable.