Hyperblasts checks out the new single from Pearl Jam, tours from Malevolence and The Menzingers, and very exciting headliner announcements from Outbreak and Damnation. Releases: Idles - Tangk Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head Ihsahn - Ihsahn Bokassa - All Out of Dreams Profiler - A Digital Nowhere Shooting Daggers - Love & Rage GVLLOW - Twin Flames The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow Praise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of Time Darkspace - Dark Space -II Pestilength - Solar Clorex

Kerry King is back on the scene with all of the details surrounding his first album since Slayer, as well as some spicy interview snippets, and there's huge tours on both sides of the Atlantic. The Grammys also exist. Releases: Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She Yellowcard + Hammock - A Hopeful Sign The Chisel - What a F*cking Nightmare The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This The Last Ten Seconds of Life - No Name Graves Haystack - Doomsday Goes Away Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell Spectral Voice - Sparagmos Hulder - Verses In Oath Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light Petrification - Sever Sacred Light Zwielicht - The Aphotic Embrace Theophonos - Ashes in the Huron River Hannes Grossmann - Echoes of Eternity

A mega edition of Hyperblasts finds TNM conducting a critical reflection on the legacy of YMAS with the news of their impending farewell, a moment you either feared would come or never come. There's also crazy new music in the form of Kaonashi's new EP, and some crazy choices in the form of Download's stage splits. Releases: Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs The Infernal Sea - Hellfenlic Olhava - Sacrifice Unsouling - Vampiric Spiritual Drain Knoll - As Spoken Eye Flys - Eye Flys Junta - Junta Death Killer - Total Destruction of the Entire Universe Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis GUHTS - Regeneration Slower - Slower Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart Vitriol - Suffer & Become Cognizance - Phantazein Whitechapel - Live in the Valley Dream State - Still Dreaming Kaonashi - The 3 Faces of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan Montgomery Militarie Gun - Life Under the Sun Jesu - Hard to Reach Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology Being as an Ocean - Death Can Wait Reconciler - Art for Our Sake meth. - Shame Utopia - Shame Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize Myrath - Karma Striker - Overpower Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves Stages of Decomposition - Raptures of Psychopathy Ghoul - Noxious Concoctions Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

One of the most farcical yet often great review gauntlets opens TNM 2024, with efforts from Green Day, Neck Deep, Saxon, Lucifer, Upon Stone, Rough Justice... and Lord of the Lost's 90 minute cover album. Green Day 3:35 Neck Deep 34:19 Lord of the Lost 52:08 Saxon 1:18:19 Lucifer 1:41:15 Upon Stone 1:55:35 Rough Justice 2:13:36

New Year Hyperblasts continue with an in-depth report from Bring Me the Horizon's Nex Gen tour with Bad Omens, Cassyette, and Static Dress, representing a state of the address at the start of 2024. Releases: Green Day - Saviors Neck Deep - Neck Deep Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence Slift - Ilion Kontact - Full Contact Master - Saints Dispelled Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory Vemod - The Deepening Sexual Perverts - Sex Maniac…Forever Heavy Sentence - Warriors of Madness

That's Not Metal is back for the first episode of 2024 covering the big news from the beginning of the year, announcement straight away of the year's first special, plus a big thank you. Releases: Peyton Parrish - Soul Sprints - Letter to Self Gray State - Under the Wheels of Progress Haywire 617 - Conditioned for Demolition Rejoice - All of Heaven’s Luck Cancer Christ - God is Violence Svdestada - Candela Casey - How to Disappear Rough Justice - Faith In Vain Ryujin - Ryujin Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two Alluvial - Death is but a Door Lifesick - Love and Other Lies Extinction A.D. - Ruthless Intent Escuela Grind - DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL

Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house... The TNM Awards hit back crowning the heroes and villains, menaces and marvels of 2023: Most Improved Band Song of the Year Worst Song of the Year Hero of the Year Villain of the Year Best New Band Biggest Disappointment Gig of the Year EP of the Year Artwork of the Year Movie of the Year Comeback of the Year Surprise of the Year Outstanding Achievement Worst Band of the Year Unsung Heroes Story of the Year Band of the Year

The second load of That's Not Metal Albums of the Year come from Mark and Sam, and crucially in a year of some of the most divisive albums we announce the results of the listener AOTY poll.

The end of the year at TNM is nigh; it's time to cut the ribbon and begin crowning our top 20 albums, as Perran and Elliot start off with all of the great musical colour and invention that has graced our ears in 2023.

News show close for 2023 with acknowledgement of the passing of Killing Joke's Geordie Walker, before turning to more new music from ex-Black Peaks members and Video Nasties, and some very exciting Glenn Danzig news. Releases: Future Static - Liminality Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness Kvelgeyst - Blut, Milch und Thranen Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation of Suffering Panopticon - The Rime of Memory Mouth Culture - Mishaps of My Mid Twenties Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang Bjorko - Heartrot Varathon - The Crimson Temple Going Off - Kill List Health - Rat Wars