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The big reunion the world was apparently waiting happens with Oasis, but it was nearly two in week with Deryck Whibley finding himself at the centre of a storm of confusion, plus talk on the comedy metal albums we actually like.

Releases:
Stand Atlantic - Was Here
Simone Simons - Vermillion
Within the Ruins - Phenomena II
Uniform - American Standard
Melt-Banana - 3+5
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire
Koldbrann - Ingen Skansel
Gravenoire - Devant La Porte Des Etoiles
Black Birch - Black Birch
Demiser - Slave to the Scythe
Nil / Castle of the Winds - Bastard Sons of Tyranny
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum XX
Wintersun - Time II
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
Leprous - Melodies of Atonement
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God
Thrown - Excessive Guilt
Oceano - Living Chaos
Satan’s Satyrs - After Dark
Phaëthon - Wielder of the Steel
Teeth - The Will of Hate
Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Deceased - Children of the Morgue
Concrete Winds - Concrete Winds
Avmakt - Satanic Inversion of…
Copse - MMXXIV
Cutdown - To the Grave
Chelsea Wolfe - Undone
Hellripper - Fork-Tongued Messiah

Actual mythical albums lead this month's album reviews, as we discuss the actually real Wintersun album Time II, the comeback of Nails, Zeal & Ardor, Twin Atlantic, Four Year Strong, Leprous, & Nile.

Wintersun 40:06
Nails 1:21:18
Zeal & Ardor 1:50:16
Twin Atlantic 2:06:28
Four Year Strong 2:24:22
Leprous 2:37:44
Nile 2:51:32

We catch up to give our take on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Nex Gen, albums from The Story So Far, Joey Valance & Brae, Candy, Umbra Vitae, Rotting Christ, & Julie Christmas, and take a trip to the movies for Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now film.

Ghost 1:59
Bring Me the Horizon 31:08
The Story So Far 1:15:50
Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47
Candy 1:43:00
Umbra Vitae 1:53:47
Rotting Christ 2:05:56
Julie Christmas 2:20:37

In May Album Clubs, we take the opportune time to fairly assess My Chemical Romance's as yet final album Danger Days. From there we dive into a world of weirdness with Swans' White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, Big Black's affront to tastefulness Songs About Fucking, and Sigh's ode to madness In Somniphobia.

This episode was originally published May 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

In a week with Turnstile up for multiple Grammys, we head into our last reviews bag of 2022 with albums from Nickelback, Skin Failure, Devin Townsend, SpiritWorld, High Command, Turnover, Dream Unending, & Spider God.

Nickelback 37:57
Skin Failure 1:00:09
Devin Townsend 1:14:47
SpiritWorld 1:30:27
High Command 1:41:29
Turnover 1:51:46
Dream Unending 2:04:44
Spider God 2:18:45

This week we review this year's massive Damnation, seeing exclusive album sets from the likes of Converge and Pig Destroyer as the event steps up to a much larger part of the festival year, and the enormous line-up for 2023's Download is revealed.

Releases:
Skin Failure - Radillac
L.S. Dunes - Past Lives
Chelsea Grin - Suffer In Hell
He Is Legend - Endless Hallway
Xentrix - Seven Words
Dream Unending - Song of Salvation
Bonecarver - Carnage Funeral
Spider God - Fly in the Trap
Kampfar - Til Klovers Takt
Fell Ruin - Cast In Oil The Dressed Wrought
Constellatia - Magisterial Romance
Fjort - Nicht
Envy - Seimei
Last In Line - A Day in the Life
Epica - The Alchemy Project

Hyperblasts mulls over the news that the Lingua Ignota project is being retired, casts an eye over some potential festival hints, and picks a bunch of the perfect rock mixes.

Releases:
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
Turnover - Myself in the Way
Ingested - Ashes Lie Still
ChuggaBoom - Death Pledge
Dayseeker - Dark Sun
Born Without Bones - Dancer
Warlung - Vulture’s Paradise
InTechnicolour - Midnight Heavyweight
The Offering - Seeking the Elephant
96 Bitter Beings - Synergy Restored
Black Mirrors - Tomorrow Will Be Without Us
Black Anvil - Regenesis
Mord’A’Stigmata - Like Ants and Snakes
Frank Bello - Then I’m Gone

In this week's Hyperblasts round up When We Were Young got windy, and as it's Halloween we book a TNM Spooktacular and hypothesise the Universal monster's record collections.

Releases:
The Otolith - Folium Limina
Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
Dead Cross - II
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
Show Me the Body - Trouble the Water
Implore - The Burden of Existence
Fit for a King - The Hell We Create
The Gloom in the Corner - Trinity
Fire from the Gods - Soul Revolution
Single Mothers - Everything You Need
Therion - Leviathan II
Obsidious - Iconic
Worm - Bluenothing
Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality
Noctem - Credo Certe Ne Cras
Despised Icon - Déterré

This week's Hyperblasts reviews Architects' star-shooting new album, as well as covering the fiasco around Blink-182 tickets, Botch continuing to definitely not exist, and wondering which band could fight off the most goblins.

Releases:
Brutus - Unison Life
Cabal - Magno Interitus
Inclination - Unaltered Perspective
Witch Fever - Congregation
84 Tigers - Time in the Lighthouse
Orden Ogan - Final Days: Orden Ogan and Friends
Avantasia - A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society
Avatarium - Death, Where is Your Sting
Sahg - Born Demon
Black Royal - Earthbound
Exhumed - To the Dead
Battalions - King of a Dead World
Black Veil Brides - The Mourning
Full of Hell - Aurora Leaking from an Open Wound
Architects - The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit

In April's Album Clubs, AC/DC re-ascend to the throne with Black Ice, we return to the dawn of NYHC with Agnostic Front's Victim In Pain, celebrate the growing legacy of In Solitude's gothic heavy metal swansong Sister, and Kids In Glass Houses... try?

This episode was originally published April 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.