That's Not Metal

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 Spiritbox to Neurosis connection to have emerged this week, and one of the most absurdly large release dumps of the year.

Releases:
Tony Iommi - From the Dark
Polyphia - Be Not Afraid
Ghostemane - AM:FM
Stand Atlantic - GODBREATH
Forbidden - Forbidden
Fake Names - Punk Ruins
Kohti Tuhoa - Paratiisi
Mental Cruelty - Echoes of a Forlorn Land
Boss Keloid - Float & Aperture
Frontierer - Ultraviolet Paradise
Glorior Belli - Ave Marais
The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir - Songs from a Dying Empire
Single Print Index - Confessions
Get the Shot - Crucifixion Depiction
Niis - Play Niis
Leng Tch’e - Hammered Into Collapse
Sequestrum / Torture Rack - Split
Queens of the Stone Age - Perfecth
Nickelback - Everything Under the Sun
Ministry - Hate to Go - Take Out or Delivery
Master Boot Record - Computer Metal
Darkest Hour - Suffer Divine
Rev3rent - She Let the World Run Rampant
Half Me - Dogma
Demonstration of Power - In the Name of…
Xentrix - Allied with the Enemy
Cirith Ungol - All the Shadows
Enslaved - Mið
Satanic Planet - Dead Deities
Dream Unending - Certain Uncertainties
Black Royal - Abyssian
Sea Bastard - Cyclopian
Pantheist - Uncanny Times
Dungeon Serpent - Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms
Genital Shame - Wellness Plan
Grotesqueries - Nightmare Delirium

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.

Haywire 19:15
unpeople 44:38
New World Man 1:10:50
Wolves in the Throne Room 1:26:35
Noctule 1:42:04
Godflesh 1:55:22
Smoulder 2:14:09
Bombstrap 2:33:25

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.

Releases:
Caspian - Caspian
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Howls from the Holographic Heart
Throes - The Colorless Light of Emptiness
John Zorn - Flatlands
Eivør - Tungl
Insomnium - Netherworlds
The Keening - Devotion
Master - Among the Seeds of Death
Mother of Graves - The Light That Keeps Us
Algor Mortis - The Art of Suffering
Shores of Null - Homesick
Lugubrious Garment - In the Wide Vale of Uncreated Night

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 - Same Kids. Just Louder.
Greta van Fleet - Palace for the People
unpeople - we are unpeople
Wage War - Landfall
Left to Suffer - Unwelcome Guest
Twin Temple - Doomed Lovers
Graveyard - Fever
Meryl Streek - Stories They Don’t Teach You At School
Wolfbrigade - Howl From Underground
RAM - Against
Smoulder - Witch Wife in an Alien World
Avrak - Avrak
Werewolves - You’re Weak and You Know You’re Weak
Goblin Cock - Traumanaut
Nowhere2Run - Bloodrave II

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.