Show Notes
This week we've got reports from My Bloody Valentine's first shows since 2018 as we see one of the loudest bands in the world, reaction to Alissa White-Gluz being out of Arch Enemy, and we tell you how to get involved in our 2025 end of year shows.
Releases: The Algorithm - Recursive Infinity The Pretty Wild - zero.point.genesis Danko Jones - Leo Rising Gasket - Gasket Stryper - The Greatest Gift of All Speedclaw - Stardust Morbikon - Lost Within the Astral Crypts Terror Corpse - Ash Eclipses Flesh Flesher - Gore On Gore Dome Runner - World Panopticon Spanish Love Songs - A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time The Halo Effect - We Are Shadows ExitWounds - An Offering to Tragedy Master’s Hammer - Maldoror Disco male//gaze - Too Late Now Excide - Bastard Hymns Equilibrium - Equinox Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons The Ominous Circle - Cloven Tongues of Fire Phobocosm - Gateway Fessus - Subcutaneous Tomb 1349 - Winter Mass
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.