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Damnation Festival 2026 Review

We'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, S

Nov 13
3 h 32 min

Hyperblasts: Korny Klowns Halloween Tracksuit Party

We 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 o

Nov 6
1 h 06 min

Hyperblasts: Washington Monumental

It'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 Spi

Oct 30
46 min

Pop Punk's Dead, Hardcore Did It Instead

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 fr

Oct 22
2 h 45 min

Hyperblasts: Hetfield Woes, Deafheaven WOAHs

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 show

Oct 15
1 h 24 min

Hyperblasts: At Least They're Not In Train

Nails 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 - Sa

Oct 8
36 min

Album Club Pack October 2026: Damnation Special

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

Oct 8
2 h 17 min

Hyperblasts: Lay Down Your Soul to the Gods Rock 'n' Roll

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

Oct 1
1 h 21 min

Hyperblasts: Justice for Glenn

There 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 oth

Sep 24
1 h 05 min

Getting Down with the Organ

September 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

Sep 18
3 h 18 min

Hyperblasts: Gallows Cope (RIP Andy Williams)

First 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 hallucin

Sep 11
1 h 04 min

Hyperblasts: Big Goth Weekend (The Cure, AFI, Outbreak x All Points East)

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 wit

Sep 3
2 h 45 min

Mathcore Massage Therapy

Rivers 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,

Aug 28
2 h 38 min

Hyperblasts: Bleeding American In The Dark

Chelsea 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, th

Aug 21
1 h 06 min

Hyperblasts: Bloodstock's Electric Gamble

This 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: Var

Aug 13
53 min

Hyperblasts: Sorry, Who Commits Crime?

After 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 liv

Aug 6
1 h 11 min

Hyperblasts: Wading in at Offal Fest 2026

This 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 Seven

Jul 30
1 h 16 min

Loathe to Say

At 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 Fro

Jul 23
2 h 44 min

Hyperblasts: Count Your Blessings Repented (Football Season is Over)

It'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-rec

Jul 16
1 h 35 min

Album Club Pack July 2025

Sound 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 d

Jul 15
3 h 09 min

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Good bunch of folks, funny, engaging and charismatic, as well as smart and well thought out. Thanks for introducing me to stuff like Fall of Efrafa, Panopticon and Primordial.

Seamless Loop · Apr 2024

These lads really know their stuff, and they talk about new music and news with a very objective frame of mind. They’re not afraid to criticize music they don’t like, which makes it mean all that much more when they praise something (just wish they’d talk about American metalcore every once in a while). Consistent episodes every week keep me tuning in. Keep it up!

ding dong a ling ling · Oct 2023

I adore this podcast. Been listening for a couple weeks now and have completely fallen in love with it. Hill and Beez are fantastic hosts, with music tastes similar enough to my own that I feel right at home with the topics and genres being discussed, but different enough that I am consistently being challenged. I've found so many fantastic bands through this podcast that I just wouldn't have found otherwise. I'd have no clue who Oathbreaker, ZOAX, Heart of a Coward, Heck, or Code Orange are if not for this podcast, and those are all some of my new favorite bands out there right now. Seriously, if you like heavy music, this podcast is the best one out there. From the commentary on the state of music to the measured and honest reviews of new albums to the passion that fills the voices of the hosts when they get onto something they care about, every single minute is entertaining and worth your time.

Blakeandjake · Apr 2017

Been listening to Beez since the early Metal Hammer podcast days and this podcast is the absolute best music podcast out there. The passion Hill and Beez have for music is infectious and makes you want to check out new stuff weekly.

Joshua McNeil · Mar 2017

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