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Episodes
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- Damnation Festival 2026 Review · 3 h 32 minWe're back at the UK's biggest extreme music fest at Damnation where 2026 sees multiple headline-tier bands being splashed across the bills with sets from Cult of Luna…
- Hyperblasts: Korny Klowns Halloween Tracksuit Party · 1 h 6 minWe take a trip on All Hallow's Eve to Korn's mega arena UK tour with Architects and Youth Code, plus look through the week's big fest announcements including the return of Reuben…
- Hyperblasts: Washington Monumental · 47 minIt's an episode of massive events for hardcore as we discuss Turnstile's massive Washington Monument benefit show, Single Print Index's new EP drop, plus the unlikely Spiritbox…
- Pop Punk's Dead, Hardcore Did It Instead · 2 h 45 minWe'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…
- Hyperblasts: Hetfield Woes, Deafheaven WOAHs · 1 h 24 minThere'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…
- Hyperblasts: At Least They're Not In Train · 36 minNails tear through the UK, Trivium unveil their Eastern darkness-inspired new album, and Aerosmith plot their own Back to the Beginning style party. Releases: Slope - Same Kids…
- Album Club Pack October 2026: Damnation Special · 2 h 17 minWe'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…
- Hyperblasts: Lay Down Your Soul to the Gods Rock 'n' Roll · 1 h 21 minIt'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…
- Hyperblasts: Justice for Glenn · 1 h 5 minThere 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…
- Getting Down with the Organ · 3 h 18 minSeptember gets us all sludgy as reviews pore over new Mastodon, Green Lung, Anthrax, Chat Pile, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Sleep, Devil Master, & Wrong Man, Evanescence playing…
- Hyperblasts: Gallows Cope (RIP Andy Williams) · 1 h 4 minFirst and foremost, we try to speak to the awful loss of Every Time I Die legend Andy Williams. From there we tackle new singles from Slipknot and Spiritbox, the hallucinatory…
- Hyperblasts: Big Goth Weekend (The Cure, AFI, Outbreak x All Points East) · 2 h 45 minThis 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…
- Mathcore Massage Therapy · 2 h 38 minRivers Cuomo's QR code woes, some goth-pop flourish and questioning what even is an album lead the way for TNM reviews this time with Weezer's Gold Album, Chelsea Wolfe, Electric…
- Hyperblasts: Bleeding American In The Dark · 1 h 6 minChelsea Wolfe's new album release show and Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American set arrive for a lucky few in the UK, there's new music from Haywire, God's Hate, and Down, the sad…
- Hyperblasts: Bloodstock's Electric Gamble · 53 minThis week we discuss how Bloodstock's 2027 announcement doubles down on a new direction, and pull out some of the lesser discussed gems within the line-up. Releases: Various…
- Hyperblasts: Sorry, Who Commits Crime? · 1 h 11 minAfter a week of exasperating and confusing news we discuss the unconfirmed firing of Sid Wilson by Slipknot and Merauder's absolutely bizarre crashout, as well as big live…
- Hyperblasts: Wading in at Offal Fest 2026 · 1 h 16 minThis humid summer gets that bit muckier as we check out the UK's growing slam, brutal death metal, and goregrind event at Offal Fest, as well as check in on Avenged Sevenfold's…
- Loathe to Say · 2 h 44 minAt least one of the most anticipated heavy albums this decade hits our radars this month as Loathe, Muse, The Menzingers, The Xcerts, Fuming Mouth, No Cure, and Arise From Worms…
- Hyperblasts: Count Your Blessings Repented (Football Season is Over) · 1 h 35 minIt's the week where br00tal returned (and football season is over), as we make our way to Bring Me the Horizon's Count Your Blessings | Repented shows and into the re-recorded…
- Album Club Pack July 2025 · 3 h 9 minSound the charge, into glory ride, as Album Clubs look at the maddening effect Twenty One Pilots' ragga-pop Blurryface had on rock, the most metal band of all Manowar's debut…
- Hyperblasts: MCR and Metallica Stadium Extravaganza · 1 h 7 minBoth Metallica's No Repeats weekend and My Chemical Romance's 20th anniversary Black Parade musical theatre reimagining hit UK stadiums, plus Damon Albarn beefs with an unlikely…
- Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2026, and Acid Bath Arrive · 3 h 17 minTwo hard and heavy events hit the UK heat this week, as Outbreak Festival brings Hatebreed, Converge, Alexisonfire, Basement, & loads more, and Acid Bath's mad reunion brings the…
- Kurt Ballou Déjà Vu · 2 h 53 minFrom twenty year waits to four month breaks, we mop up some of the biggest heavy records of the last few weeks reviewing Converge's second album of 2026, Marmozets, Static Dress…
- Hyperblasts: Bloodaxe Ninja Flips · 59 minSam returns from Asia (and through a robo-mic, sorry about that) to talk about Japanese hardcore hijinks at Bloodaxe Festival, Voivod and Midnight speed through the UK together…
- Hyperblasts: The Week Bananas Tore Hardcore Apart · 1 h 9 minOn top of a stream of new music from across the heavy spectrum, we weigh in on the debate following End It's targeting of the man in a banana costume at their show, why the…
- Hyperblasts: Fortress Festival 2026 Review · 2 h 17 minFortress Festival returns bringing worldwide black metal exclusives to the British seaside, with Gallowbraid, Old Man's Child, Dødheimsgard, Misþyrming, A Forest of Stars & more…
- Steady Away Boys! Poop Poop! · 2 h 19 minIt's all about vaporwave prog, French oi, and choo choo train black metal as a whip round the underground picks up Basement, Frozen Soul, Haggard Cat, Fire-Toolz, Prisonnier du…
- Hyperblasts: Anthrax Splashback · 52 minAnthrax's first single in ten years leads us to consider the thrash legends' creative relevancy in 2026, and Avenged Sevenfold going fully indepedent by buying back their rights…
- Hyperblasts: Burning Ambition · 55 minIron Maiden's brand new documentary Burning Ambition hits cinema screens, and there's new singles from Green Lung announcing their new album Necropolitan and from brat superstar…
- Hyperblasts: Incineration Festival 2026 Review · 1 h 38 minThis week we make our way back to Incineration to once again kick off the festival season with a scorching of black and death metal as the likes of Dragged Into Sunlight, Of…
- Hyperblasts: The Sangui-Tour · 35 minCreeper's vampire extravaganza Sangui-Tour hits small venues in the UK for a full celebration of blooddrinking and leather. Releases: Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy The Amity…
- Last Ride At the Gates · 3 h 7 minViral microtonal aliens, surprise drops, and defiant, powerful final bows rule the month with At the Gates, Enter Shikari, Corrosion of Conformity, Spirit Adrift, Angine de…
- Album Club Pack April 2025 · 2 h 50 minWe launch the polaris and get into one of our giddiest ever album clubs on Megadeth's delirious Rust In Peace, the suffocating global anger of Killing Joke 2003, the launchpad…
- Hyperblasts: Recount Your Blessings · 55 minBring Me the Horizon make the genuinely absurd announcement of Count Your Blessings 20th anniversary celebrations, Nine Inch Noize owns Coachella, and Evanescence lead the…
- Hyperblasts: 40 Squat Sun · 42 minTracks from Warning, Holding Absence, Health and more head up the week's music, and we announce our first massive band special for 2026. Releases: Bilmuri - Kinda Hard Lord of…
- Hyperblasts: Krushing On Tour · 1 h 25 minA lot of heavy feelings this week sadly, with the losses of Bo Lueders, James Lollar of Gost, and Ross the Boss. Elsewhere the Kreator/Carcass/Exodus/Nails package lights up the…
- NeurIsis Lives · 2 h 39 minTNM March reviews bag just catches the most brain-breaking, beautiful return as Neurosis emerge with a whole new album, alongside another return from Poison the Well, Lamb of…
- Hyperblasts: Big Ass WOW! · 52 minMuse beam back down to us with their new album announcement, along with music from Black Veil Brides, Stormkeep, and Dropkick Murphys/Haywire, there's a live report from…
- Album Club Pack March 2025 · 2 h 51 minA curtain of biblical darkness falls upon Album Club in the unofficial Sabbath album The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell, 16 Horsepower's dark country classic Sackcloth 'n'…
- Hyperblasts: Eternal Synth Champions · 50 minNew singles from the likes of Gouge Away, Drug Church, and Devin Townsend hit our ears, epic metal heroes Eternal Champion surprise drop a bold and ambitious new EP, and there's…
- Hyperblasts: Godspeed, Godflesh · 1 h 4 minBasement, Blackbraid, and Portrayal of Guilt give us a diverse pack of new songs to chew in, questions on what is the greatest musical city and generationally phased out songs…
- Caped Cryptic Cosmic Adventure Rock · 2 h 39 minThis month brings us one of the most daunting, monolithic, and outlandish reviews bags we've ever had, as we tackle Converge, Sylosis, Mayhem, Worm, Pony, Cryptic Shift, Hällas…
- Hyperblasts: AFI Watch... Is Over? · 53 minParty time at TNM: the mythical drought comes to an end, alongside new tracks from the Foo Fighters and Don Broco/Nickelback and grand line-up unveilings from Arch Enemy and…
- Hyperblasts: The Fate of the Sleeps · 1 h 9 minHyperblasts is back to cover what we missed from the Grammys, UK live shows from Home Front to Korpiklaani, Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry's collab single, and the discussion…
- Explosion on Blue Planet · 2 h 25 minLooking back at the records January gave us we give an honest assessment of the final album from Megadeth, alongside Kreator, Urne, Møl, Joyce Manor, The Ruins of Beverast, and…
- Hyperblasts: None So Vile as the Leppard · 42 minTNM talks bands we would have introduced to ourselves at an earlier age, a breadth of new tracks from Def Leppard, Exodus, Immolation and Haggard Cat, and Cryptopsy take to the…
- Album Club Pack January 2025 · 2 h 40 min2025 Album Clubs come from the land where the mullet attacks: Sabaton's Swedish concept album Carolus Rex, Hatebreed's hardcore benchmark Satisfaction is the Death of Desire…
- Hyperblasts: Gorerotting the Well · 46 minNew album singles from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, and Static Dress keep 2026 starting up, along with a killer first band announcement from Damnation Festival, and announcement…
- Hyperblasts: 2026, Let's Cook · 39 minTNM usher in the new year with hopes, questions and predictions for 2026, and some familiar faces already poking their heads above the parapets for the year ahead. Releases…
- TNM Awards 2025 · 4 h 48 minRight before Christmas our last bash for 2025 is TNM Awards looking back over the highs and lows, the stories, the icons, the presidents, and the circuses that made the year in…
