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The new Gulch album is phenomenal and you should listen to it as soon as you finish listening to this podcast. There's also new Neck Deep and The Acacia Strain and Album Club concentrates on Faith No More's King For A Day...masterpiece.

The TNM crew discuss Metallica's new S&M tracks, ICP administering street justice and a tonne of new music, there's reviews on the new Sharptooth, Lawrence Arms and Maggot Heart albums and we get real heavy with Sleep's Dopesmoker in Album Club.

Nothing but covers this week as we review the new Benji Skindred, Inter Arma, Thou and 2 Minutes to Late Night and do Metallica's Garage Inc as Album Club. There's also laughs aplenty with news and the best mailbag in forever. Good work, gang!

I'm not even writing a description this week because Mini Milks - Beez

Just Beez and Perran this week as they discuss hot off the press new BMTH, whether the world is ready to pay for streamed concert events and what is the most metal logo in sports in your letters. We catch up on some of the year's best albums we haven't covered from Sepultura, Drain and Ulcerate and Killswitch offshoot Times Of Grace are the subject of this week's Album Club.

The TNM crew dissect new music from Machine Head, Creeper and The Dirty Nil, they go deep on the new Lamb of God, Mrs Piss and Justice For The Damned albums, there's a celebration of 20 years of White Pony and all the usual japes.

A serious first 20 mins about race, The Ghost Inside and what the past 2 weeks have meant for the alternative community. We then shift gears to chat about the best live collaborations we've ever seen, review the new albums from Run The Jewels, END and Album Club is on The Pixies' debut, Surfer Rosa.

TNM is a riot this week as we rejoice that Mastodon will have music in the new Bill And Ted movie and Rob Halford has an autobiography coming, we review new albums from Bleed From Within and Gold Key, the new Behemoth EP and Cypress Hill's Black Sunday is this week's Album Club.

It's a ridiculously fun show as the lads discuss new Idles and Jamie Lenman, the future of Bullet For My Valentine, your questions bring some spectacular nonsense about cover songs and Covid swimming pools and we bring you great underground releases from Dool, Slowbleed, Jeff Rosenstock and Rule Them All.

Matt Bellamy and Maynard James Keenan get weird, Chelsea Wolfe has a spectacular new band, we pick who we’d like to get a The Last Dance style documentary, there’s reviews of the new albums from Asking Alexandria and Paradise Lost and our Album Club is on the much overlooked Anthrax classic, We’ve Come For you All.

We discuss who would headline an all British Download festival in your questions, there’s chat on album delays and reviews of the new Hayley Williams, Combos and Malevolence releases and our Album Club is on Cancer Bats’ devastating Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones.

There's a bumper mailbag including an essential guide to getting to grips with bands with big back catalogues, we review the new albums from The Used, Boston Manor, Umbra Vitae and Havok and our Album Club is on Skindred's 2011 slammer, Union Black.

A special TNM Extra as Beez is joined by Jonathan Vigil and James Riley from The Ghost Inside to talk about the realities of the past 5 years and their triumphant return. The Ghost Inside's self-titled album is available to pre-order at theghostinside.com.

It's a killer TNM as we rejoice at the return of The Ghost Inside, there's a look at the new albums from Trivium, Dance Gavin Dance, Danzig and Elder and our Album Club is on Depeche Mode's Songs Of Faith And Devotion.

It's a huge week as Enter Shikari return with a barn stormer of an album, there's discussion on who is the best band in the world right now and more in your letters, lolz aplenty with Puddle Of Mudd's Nirvana impression and our Album Club goes back to 1995 for Skunk Anansie's Paranoid And Sunburnt.

We chat about what we want from Download festival in 2021 and more in your letters, Nightwish, Testament and Demonic Death Judge have their latest albums reviewed and Sublime's self-titled is featured in this week's Album Club.

It's a stir crazy week where we talk about Drag Race, Godzilla and leprechauns in the absence of actual news, your letters defend Smash Mouth and things get back on track with Nine Inch Nails, Me And That Man and All Time Low have their new album reviews and there's an Album Club for the ages on Motorhead's Ace Of Spades. Everything Louder Than Everything Else.

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Bizarrely, it's a massive week for TNM with new albums to review from Pearl Jam, Milk Teeth and one of the best new metal bands to debut in ages from Irist. We deal with the sad news that there will be no Download festival this year, there are returns from Trivium, Nine Inch Nails, Jamie Lenman, a bumper mailbag and The Ghost Inside's Dear Youth features on Album Club.