The Metal Epidemic Podcast

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the surprise new album from Berlin-based genre-blenders, Vianova. The bands new album, HIT IT!, will be released on September 5th via Arising Empire. FFO: Unprocessed, Panic! At The Disco, Don Broco, Thornhill, Periphery, Destrage, Omerta, Intervals, Paledusk. Band: https://www.facebook.com/vianovaBerlin Order: https://arisingempire.com/vianova #ProgressiveMet...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Pennsylvania-bred Nu-Metal unit, Tallah. The bands new album, Primeval: Obsession // Detachment, is out September 5th via Earache Records. FFO: Mudvayne, Korn, Slipknot, Code Orange, Vended, King 810, Motograter. Band: https://www.facebook.com/TallahPA Pre-Order: https://earache.com/collections/tallah #NuMetal #AlternativeMetal #NuCore Suppo...

Join Dave & Duncan as they check out the new album from Baltimore Hardcore crew, End It. The bands new album, Wrong Side of Heaven, will be released on August 29th via Flatspot Records. FFO: Jivebomb, Haywire 617, SPY, GEL, Burn, Trapped Under Ice, Speed, Regulate, Buggin, Angel Du$t, Maximum Penalty. Band: https://www.facebook.com/EndItBCHC/ Pre-Order: https://flatspotrecords.bandcamp.com/alb...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Swiss post-metal band, Zatokrev. The bands new album, Bring Mirrors To The Surface, will be released on August 29th via Pelagic Records. FFO: Neurosis, Thou, Unsane, Conan, YOB, Ufomammut, Glassing, Deafheaven, Schammasch, Conjurer. Band: https://www.facebook.com/ZATOKREV/ Pre-Order: https://zatokrev.bandcamp.com/album/bring-mirrors-to-the-s...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Belgian shoegaze torchbearers, SLOW CRUSH. The bands new album, Thirst, will be released on August 29th via Pure Noise Records. FFO: Holy Fawn, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, The Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Pity Sex, Nothing, Deafcult, Whirr, Mumrunner, SOM, Chromatics. Band: https://www.facebook.com/slowcrushband/ Pre-Order: https://slowcr...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Californian rock duo, Sisters. The bands new album, Wings of Deliverance, will be released on August 29th via Spartan Records. FFO: QOTSA, Hum, Spotlights, Matelotage, Mastodon, Netherlands, Failure, Shiner, KNUB. Band: https://www.facebook.com/sistersrock Pre-Order: https://sistersrock.bandcamp.com/album/wings-of-deliverance #Rock #NoiseRoc...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Leeds based Jurassic rockers, Dinosaur Pile-Up. The bands new album, I’ve Felt Better, is out August 22nd via Mascot Records. FFO: The Dirty Nil, Weezer, Foo Fighters, Demob Happy, Roxferry, Teenage Wrist, Feeder, The Messenger Birds, Turbowolf. Band: https://www.facebook.com/dinosaurpileup/ Pre-Order: https://dinosaurpile-up.bandcamp.com/al...

Dave & Duncan are back for another monthly Metal Epidemic Podcast! On Episode 65 we chat recent gigs & new releases from Higher Power, Blackbraid, Slaughter To Prevail, Sinsaenum, Attack Attack and more! Plus pick our June & July Album of the Month and play some brand-new tracks! Singles: DEAD HEAT – Perpetual Punishment Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeadHeat805 DESPISED ICON - Ov...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Psychedelic Stoner Rockers, BASK. The bands new album, The Turning, will be release on August 22nd via Season of Mist Records. FFO: Elder, Cloakroom, Pallbearer, My Morning Jacket, Pile, Dawnwalker, Cave In, Neànder, Howling Giant, Baroness. Band: https://www.facebook.com/basknc Pre-Order: https://basknc.bandcamp.com/album/the-turning #Stone...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from SoCal based reggaecore band, AURORAWAVE. The bands new album, Monument, will be released on August 15th via Ineffable Records. FFO: Rebelution, Skindred, The Expendables, Ballyhoo!, Fishbone, The Movement, Paprika Korps, Underoath, The Ghost Inside, Twelve Foot Ninja, (hed) p.e., P.O.D., Ace of Base. Band: https://www.facebook.com/aurorawave...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Industrial Hardcore band, King Yosef. The bands new album, Spire of Fear, will be released on August 15th via Bleakhouse. FFO: Godflesh, Nails, Portishead, Aphex Twin, John Cxnnor, Code Orange, Author & Punisher, Crossess, Harms Way, Black Magnet, Nine Inch Nails, Massive Attack, Ministry. Band: https://www.instagram.com/kingyosef_ Pre-O...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Heavy Metal powerhouse, Firstborne. The bands new album, Lucky, will be released on August 8th via M-Theory Audio. FFO: Extreme, early Anthrax, Hardline, Ripper, Primitai, Monte Pittman, Roadwolf, Todd La Torre, Van Halen, Winger, Tesla. Band: https://www.facebook.com/firstborneofficial Bandcamp: https://firstborne.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-the-f...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Wavecore quartet, DREAMWAKE. The bands new album, The Lost Years, will be released on August 8th via UNFD. FFO: Erra, The Midnight, Novelists, Intervals, Polaris, FM-84, Shrezzers, Invent Animate, Gunship, Dayseeker. Band: https://www.facebook.com/dreamwakect/ Pre-Order: https://dreamwake.lnk.to/thelostyears #Wavecore #Synthwave #Saxcore #Metalc...

Join Dave & Duncan as they check out the new album from Japanese metal band, BABYMETAL. The bands new album, METAL FORTH, will be released on August 8th via Capitol Records. FFO: HANABIE., Electric Callboy, Bloodywood, BAND-MAID, Dragonforce, Maximum The Hormone, Poppy, Ladybaby. Band: https://www.facebook.com/BABYMETAL.jp Pre-Order: https://babymetal.lnk.to/MetalForthID #KawaiiMetal #JPop #Metalc...

Join Dave & Duncan as they check out the new album from Denver Hardcore band, Fox Lake. The bands new album, New World Heat, will be released on August 1st via MNRK Heavy. FFO: Stray From The Path, Knocked Loose, Thrown, Thornhill, Fever333, Rage Against the Machine, Korn. Band: https://www.facebook.com/FoxLakeCO/ Pre-Order: https://foxlakeco.bandcamp.com/album/new-world-heat #Hardcore #Metalcore...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Gothenburg noise experimentalists, Blessings. The bands new album, Blodsträngen, is out August 1st via Pelagic Records. FFO: Old Man Gloom, Converge, Cult of Luna, Breach, Baroness, Trap Them, Young Widows, The Psyke Project, Swans, Mastodon, The Jesus Lizard, Unsane. Band: https://www.facebook.com/Blessingsgbg/ Pre-Order: https://blessingsgbg.b...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Canadian rock band, The Dirty Nil. The bands new album, THE LASH, will be released on July 25th via Dine Alone Records. FFO: The Menzingers, Billy Talent, Dinosaur Pile Up, PUP, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Joyce Manor, Heart Attack Man, Spanish Love Songs. Band: https://www.facebook.com/thedirtynil/ Pre-Order: https://thedirtynil.bandcamp.com/album/the-...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Belgian genre-agnostic astral nomads, HEMELBESTORMER. The bands new album, The Radiant Veil, will be released on July 25th via Pelagic Records. FFO: Neurosis, ISIS, Year of No Light, Russian Circles, The Ocean, REZN, Barrens, Neànder, Glacier, The Lumberjack Feedback. Band: https://www.facebook.com/Hemelbestormer/ Pre-Order: https://hemelbes...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Spanish Post-Hardcore band, Boneflower. The bands new album, Reveries, will be released on July 25th via Deathwish Inc. FFO: State Faults, Birds In Row, Raccoon City, Chalk Hands, Loma Prieta, Record Setter, At The Drive In, Kid Feral. Band: https://www.facebook.com/weareboneflower Pre-Order: https://boneflower.bandcamp.com/album/reveries-2...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Californian Grind juggernauts, SCALP. The bands new album, Not Worthy of Human Compassion, will be released on July 25th via Closed Casket Activities. FFO: Rotten Sound, Gulch, Cloud Rat, Terrorizer, Nasum, Dystopia, Nails, Full of Hell, Lifesick, Fuming Mouth, Slowbleed. Band: https://www.instagram.com/scalp.oc Pre-Order: https://scalpoc.ba...

It’s MID-YEAR LIST TIME!! We’re halfway through the year, and the metal scene has already delivered some absolute monsters. From genre-defying experiments to pure, unrelenting brutality, join Dave, Duncan and Ross as they roundup the Top 10 Albums of 2025 (So Far) that have dominated their playlists. Let us know your favourite metal releases of 2025 so far in the comments! Did we miss any must-hea...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Cybergrind band, Blind Equation. The bands new album, A Funeral In Purgatory, will be released on July 18th via Prosthetic Records. FFO: Genghis Tron, fallingwithscissors, Slipknot, GOST, Fear Factory, The Prodigy, Cutting Pink With Knives, The Berzerker, Bubblegum Octopus, Hadouken. Band: https://www.facebook.com/BlindEquation Pre-Order: ht...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Bristol nu-gaze quintet, SPLIT CHAIN. The bands new album, motionblur, will be released on July 11th via Epitaph Records. FFO: Deftones, Superheaven, Narrow Head, The Smashing Pumpkins, Love Is Noise, Bleed, Blanket, Fleshwater, Profiler, Glare, Chevelle, Trust Company. Band: https://www.facebook.com/splitchainband Pre-Order: https://splitch...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new EP from UK prog entity, Oceanica. Oceanica’s new EP, Try Not To Dwell On It, will be released on July 1st via Prog On! Recordings. FFO: Jesu, Tesseract, Anathema, Earthside, Enochian Theory, Cloudkicker, Meniscus, sleepmakeswaves, Junius. Band: https://www.facebook.com/OceanicaUK Pre-Order: https://oceanicauk.bandcamp.com/album/try-not-to-dwell-on-it-2...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Toronto-based Hardcore quintet, Pig Pen. The bands new album, Mental Madness, will be released on June 27th via Flatspot Records. FFO: Pillars of Ivory, Big Cheese, Combust, Histamine, Cancer Bats, Real Bay Shit, Going Off, Snuffed. Band: https://www.instagram.com/foreverpigpenforever/ Pre-Order: https://flatspotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fs...