That's Not Metal

This month brings us one of the most daunting, monolithic, and outlandish reviews bags we've ever had, as we tackle Converge, Sylosis, Mayhem, Worm, Pony, Cryptic Shift, Hällas, and Killing Pace. Slap on your spacesuit, we're adventure rocking.

Converge 27:36
Sylosis 56:02
Mayhem 1:12:56
Worm 1:30:33
Pony 1:43:00
Cryptic Shift 1:52:40
Hällas 2:12:10
Killing Pace 2:30:20

Party time at TNM: the mythical drought comes to an end, alongside new tracks from the Foo Fighters and Don Broco/Nickelback and grand line-up unveilings from Arch Enemy and Nevermore.

Releases:
Sylosis - The New Flesh
New Found Glory - Listen Up!
Killing Pace - HCPM
Exhumed - Red Asphalt
Coscradh - Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld
The Magus - Daemonosophia
Lead Injector - Witching Attack

Hyperblasts is back to cover what we missed from the Grammys, UK live shows from Home Front to Korpiklaani, Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry's collab single, and the discussion around While She Sleeps' video announcement for their stepping back from touring.

Releases:
Hällas - Panorama
Softcult - When a Flower Doesn’t Grow
Karnivool - In Veses
Puscifer - Normal Isn’t
Tailgunner - Midnight Blitz
Tumour - Human Salvage
Uncultivates - This Will Become Clear Later, Like the French Revolution
Mayhem - Liturgy of Death
Night of the Vampire - The Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade
Kanonenfieber - Soldatenschicksale
Power Snatch - EP1
Afraid to Die - Hell is a Place In My Mind
Predatory Void - Atoned In Metamorphosis
Infinite Misery - Altar of Extracted Teeth
Converge - Love is Not Enough
TX2 - End of Us
Angel Du$t - COLD 2 THE TOUCH
Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx IV
Pony - Clearly Cursed
Yakkie - Kill The Cop Inside Your Head
Worm - Necropalace
Fossilization - Advent of Wounds
Guilt Trip - God Forgives

Looking back at the records January gave us we give an honest assessment of the final album from Megadeth, alongside Kreator, Urne, Møl, Joyce Manor, The Ruins of Beverast, and Backengrillen. Thanks for all the riffs, MegaDave.

Megadeth 20:11
Kreator 1:06:31
Urne 1:22:47
Møl 1:38:35
Joyce Manor 1:49:44
The Ruins of Beverast 2:02:15
Backengrillen 2:14:11

TNM talks bands we would have introduced to ourselves at an earlier age, a breadth of new tracks from Def Leppard, Exodus, Immolation and Haggard Cat, and Cryptopsy take to the UK with 200 Stab Wounds for 30 years of None So Vile.

Releases:
Megadeth - Megadeth
Poppy - Empty Hands
Crystal Lake - The Weight of Sound
Textures - Genotype
The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else
Backengrillen - Backengrillen
Barbarian - Reek of God
Ligation - After Gods