Show Notes
This week we look back on a historic moment of live music for our podcast in our combined Big Goth Weekend with a run of shows from The Cure, Outbreak/All Points East with an epochal headlining set from Deftones, and our AFI watch finally being brought to an end with their first UK headline shows in 16 years.
Releases: Mastodon - Marrow Deep Beartooth - Pure Ecstasy In This Moment - Witch Dinosaur Jr. - There Near Kamelot - Dark Asylum Flotsam and Jetsam - Rats in the Temple Exumer - Death Mask Messiah Ninth Realm - Damnation’s Veil Russian Circles - Nine Kulk - Choosing to Die Rat Cage - Not Asking for Much Static Abyss - The Dying Hunt Gorod - The Ember Gone Epicardiectomy - Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular Cadaverosis Turn of Phrase - Out in the Water President - Blood of Your Empire Showing Teeth - A Fate Worse Than Loneliness Gradience - Anomaly Airbourne - Airbourne Audrey Horne - Achilles 156/Silence - From a Distance Judiciary - Stalagmite Angels Movements - Happier Now Sleep - Hempispheres Chat Pile - Who Loves the Sun Arab Strap - Half-Told Tales Sigh - Goh-ka Devil Master - Bloody Dreams Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex Tales of Perdition - The Theatre of Existence Behemoth - I, Scvlptor
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.