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• TNM Albums of the Year 2025: Round 1

  2025 Album of the Year time begins on That's Not Metal, with our first lists from Perran and Elliot celebrating everything from synth-punk to goth-doom, power-goregrind to jazz-death, post-metal to metalcore, legendary rock icons to grimy dungeon crust bands that this year gave us.

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• Hyperblasts: A Blast of Bloody Valentine

  This week we've got reports from My Bloody Valentine's first shows since 2018 as we see one of the loudest bands in the world, reaction to Alissa White-Gluz being out of Arch Enemy, and we tell you how to get involved in our 2025 end of year shows.Releases:The Algorithm - Recursive InfinityThe Pretty Wild - zero.point.genesisDanko Jones - Leo RisingGasket - GasketStryper - The Greatest Gift of AllSpeedclaw - StardustMorbikon - Lost Within the Astral CryptsTerror Corpse - Ash Eclipses FleshFlesher - Gore On GoreDome Runner - World PanopticonSpanish Love Songs - A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of TimeThe Halo Effect - We Are ShadowsExitWounds - An Offering to TragedyMaster’s Hammer - Maldoror Discomale//gaze - Too Late NowExcide - Bastard HymnsEquilibrium - EquinoxBlut Aus Nord - Ethereal HorizonsThe Ominous Circle - Cloven Tongues of FirePhobocosm - GatewayFessus - Subcutaneous Tomb1349 - Winter Mass

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• Vamping at the Disco

  2025's final reviews is a crazy bag of disco mania with Creeper's Sanguivore II, Pupil Slicer, Drain, Astronoid, Home Front, Lamp of Murmuur, and Master's Hammer, bid farewell to Svalbard on tour, a new single from Converge, and about half an hour before our record, doing cartwheels at the reunion of Black Breath.Creeper 31:51Pupil Slicer 1:09:19Drain 1:24:17Astronoid 1:35:08Home Front 1:47:29Lamp of Murmuur 1:59:08Master's Hammer 2:18:05

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• Damnation Festival 2025 Review

  The UK's biggest dedicated extreme music fest at Damnation Festival goes bigger than ever for its 20th anniversary with a bonkers two day line-up featuring Corrosion of Conformity, Napalm Death, Deafheaven, Perturbator, Anaal Nathrakh, Amenra, Warning, Wormrot, Castle Rat, and so many more to crack our skulls.Releases:Of Mice & Men - Another MiracleThe Devil Wears Prada - FlowersRise of the Northstar - CHAPTER 04: RED FALCON SUPER BATTLE! NEO PARIS WAR!!AVVT/PTTN - AVVT/PTTNLamp of Murmuur - The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy1914 - Viribus UnitisBell Witch & Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Vol. IIRagana & Drowse - Ash SouvenirVoidCeremony - AbditumChairmaker - Leviathan CarcassVower - A Storm Lined With Silver

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• Hyperblasts: Monster Mashing Marmozets

  It's that week in November where every big festival announces their lineup so we assess the bills of Download, Outbreak, 2000 Trees, & Slam Dunk 2026, Turnstile come through Ally Pally, and finally one of the UK's great rock bands Marmozets return with first new music in over 8 years.Releases:Drain - …Is Your FriendPupil Slicer - FleshworkAstronoid - StargodSet It Off - Set It OffAgnostic Front - Echoes In EternityCold Steel - Discipline & PunishThe Devil's Trade - Nincs Szennyezetlen SzépDrowned In Silver - MothersOmnium Gatherum - May the Bridges We Burn Light the WayNovembre - Words of IndigoCentinex - With Guts and GloryGlorious Depravity - Death Never SleepsDysentery - Dejection ChrysalisYellow Eyes - Confusion GateWaldgeflüster - Knochengesänge I & IIQrixkuor - The Womb of the WorldPrimordial - Live In New York CityRecollection - Vivid DreamsAlexisonfire - Copies of Old Masters Vol 1

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