Hyperblasts: 2000 Trees 2025 Review (& The Paul Ledney Glitterbomb)
TNM makes a long overdue return to 2000 Trees Festival to see Alexisonfire, Coheed and Cambria, the return of letlive., a massively contested slot from Kneecap, plenty more from punk rock spectrum, and in the same episode somehow, we face the great Profanatica jar controversy.Releases:Bring Me the Horizon - Lo-filesDaron Malakian and Scars On Broadway - Addicted to the ViolenceBush - I Beat LonelinessZac Farro - OperatorLaura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes - Adventure ClubPanic Shack - Panic ShackBlind Equation - A Funeral In PurgatoryStomach - Low DemonBa’al - The Fine Line Between Heaven and HereEntrails - Grip of Ancient EvilAbigail Williams - A Void Within ExistenceHaunter / Cape of Bats - Black Magick Metal Punk
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Hyperblasts: Back to the Beginning
The biggest metal weekend of all time maybe arrives, with our impressions of Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning and Ozzy's retirement party, plus trips to the return of Slayer in the UK.Releases:Split Chain - motionblurCalva Louise - Edge of the Abyssdead7 - Love What You Can While You’ve Still Got Something Left to LoveWard XVI - ID3NTITYBorn of Osiris - Through ShadowsMargarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In HellFloating - Hesitating Lights
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Hyperblasts: Revenge of the Stoff
It's a rock show extravaganza as we chat about one of the highest profile weeks for live heavy music in the UK ever with Deftones, Linkin Park, King Diamond, and Iron Maiden, as well as a sobering discussion of the fallout of Bob Vylan's appearance at Glastonbury and removal from Radar Festival.Releases:Higher Power - There’s Love In This World If You Want ItPig Pen - Mental MadnessDropkick Murphys - For the PeopleWytch Hazel - V: LamentationsWe Lost the Sea - A Single FlowerStygian - DreadlandsGaupa - Fyr
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Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2025 Review
Outbreak returns in 2025 in a different guise, with a new site in London for a different kind of mass hardcore experience with sets from Turnstile, Sunny Day Real Estate, Speed, Model/Actriz, plus bonus appearances from Deafheaven and God's Hate.Releases:Cryptopsy - An Insatiable ViolenceHelms Deep - Chasing the DragonHaggus - Destination ExtinctionWitherer - Shadow Without a HorizonUpon Stone - End Time LightningValdrin - Apex ViolatorDeadguy - Near-Death Travel ServicesHeaven Shall Burn - HeimatSodom - The ArsonistBlood Vulture - Die CloseJohan Langquist - The Castle - Johan Langquist - The CastleKing Witch - IIIFer de Lance - Fires on the MountainsideKilling of a Sacred Deer - A Visage of a Mangled BodyGreet Death - Die In LoveAll Men Unto Me - RequiemInhuman Condition - Mind TrapLord Belial - Unholy TrinityShining - Divided You’ll Stand and United You’ll FallCosmic Joke - Forced PerspectiveBotch - 061524Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums
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Hot Hardcore Summer
A glut of huge hardcore storms TNM reviews with albums from Turnstile, Malevolence, Stray from the Path, Kaonashi, Deadguy (& Hexvessel, not very hardcore), and Nine Inch Nails kick off their incredible Peel It Back arena production.Turnstile 34:18Malevolence 1:18:45Stray from the Path 1:39:00Kaonashi 1:57:44Deadguy 2:18:16Hexvessel 2:35:50
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