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Prayers are answered as news hits of letlive. returning to play a round of shows, Thursday release their first song in 13 years, Frank Turner attempts the impossible, and live reports from Blind Guardian and Midnight.

Releases:
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
The Ghost Inside - Searching for Solace
SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace
NOFX - Half Album
Cloud Nothings - Final Summer
High On Fire - Cometh the Storm
My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding
Melvins - Tarantula Heart
Dvne - Voidkind
Bongripper - Empty
Big | Brave - A Chaos of Flowers
Dool - The Shape of Fluidity
Henrik Palm - Nerd Icon
Haust - Negative Music
Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight
Nuclear Tomb - Terror Labyrinthian
Antichrist Siege Machine - Vengeance of Eternal Fire
Folterkammer - Weibermacht
Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen
unpeople - unpeople

Architects release a new single in collaboration with Jordan Fish, but there is also an elephant in the room we have to discuss. Elsewhere Bloodywood get a big movie moment, music from Century Media's new signing Sonja, and questions on negative review pushback and our favourite foot in mouth band moments.

Releases:
Blue Öyster Cult - Ghost Stories
Castle Rat - Into the Realm
Týr - Battle Ballads
Riot V - Mean Streets
Vulture - Sentinels
Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens
Tarot - Glimpse of the Dawn
Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers
Heavenly Blue - We Have the Answer
Whores. - War.
Love Sex Machine - Trve
Necrot - Lifeless Birth
Benighted - Ekbom
Exist - Hijacking the Zeitgeist
Replicant - Infinite Mortality
Heresiarch - Edifice
Northlane - Mirror’s Edge

We polish off March's releases with a bonus review ep covering While She Sleeps' continued bizarre choices of experimentation in Self Hell and Sum 41's parting note of a double album Heaven :x: Hell.

Releases:
Bob Vylan - Humble as the Sun
Feeder - Black/Red
Alpha Wolf - Half Living Things
ERRA - Cure
Filth - Southern Hostility
Strung Out - Dead Rebellion
Bayside - There are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Cock Sparrer - Hand On Heart
Korpiklaani - Rankarumpu
Ingested - The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams
Hour of Penance - Devotion
Iron Monkey - Spleen & Goad
Friends of Hell - God Damned You to Hell
Destroyer of Light - Degradation Years
Horndal - Head Hammer Man
Attic - Return of the Witchfinder
Witch Vomit - Funeral Sanctum
Funeral Leech - The Illusion of Time
Diabolic Oath - Oracular Hexations
Locrian - End Terrain
Austere - Beneath the Threshold
The Good The Bad and the Zugly - Decade of Regression
Dreamcar - Dream

Album Club toasts 20 years of AFI's goth punk masterpiece Sing the Sorrow, revisits one of the last big supergroups and the era it ended with Axewound's Vultures, and celebrates two underground punk and grind gems with Fall of Efrafa's Owsla and Genghis Tron's Dead Mountain Mouth.

This episode was originally published March 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

We scheme the best ways to survive being a member of Slipknot and FMK with baddiecore, as the Summer Slaughter is confirmed to return, and Botch's reunion/final shows hit the UK in mindblowing style.

Releases:
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes
Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night
Crushed By Waves - More to Life
Blanket - Ceremonia
Restorations - Restorations
Mastiff - Deprecipice
BRAT - Social Grace
Zombi - Direct Inject
Hamferd - Men Guds hond er sterk
Khold - Du dommes til Dod
Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe
Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
Apparition - Disgraced Emanations from a Tranquil State
Civerous - Maze Envy
Aberration - Refracture
Sylvaine - Eg Er Framand
While She Sleeps - Self Hell
Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell
Boundaries - Death is Little More
Wristmeetrazor - Degeneration
Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet
Vial - Burnout
Teens In Trouble - What’s Mine
Coffin Storm - Arcana Rising
Mutiilation - Black Metal Cult
Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star
Verwoed - The Mother
Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness
Darkestrah - Nomad
Coffins - Sinister Oath
Hate Force - Systems of Terror
Septage - Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms)

That's Not Metal reviews for March are in absolute guitar heaven, and maybe hell, with Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Midnight, Gouge Away, Chapel of Disease, & Dödsrit.

Judas Priest 23:30
Bruce Dickinson 55:35
Midnight 1:24:56
Gouge Away 1:40:20
Chapel of Disease 1:58:20
Dödsrit 2:23:24