May Contain Metal

Coilguns, Bedsore, Mur, Opeth, God Complex, Fractal Universe, Frontierer and Wounded Touch. Plusssss lots of worm chat and minimal Christmas stuff.

You've got to love us to bear with the sound delay that makes it sound like we don't know what's going on BUT if you can deal with it you'll hear stuff from Saltwound, Thirdface, Terror Cell, Every Hell, Havok, Raging Speedhorn, Botfly, Host BodyNote to self: Record episodes in person

Well hello there! This week: Ascend the Helix, Barbarians of California, Blood Incantation, Better Lovers, Sol Invicto, Will Haven, Cytotoxin and Cult of Luna. PLUS an important apology…

Another year, another ArcTanGent in just 2 weeks' time! Join us as we take you through the acts we're dying to see, some greacts we'd literally never heard of until the line up came out aaand some of our fondest memories from ArcTanGents past. See you there?

Assemble the Chariots, The God Awful Truth, Blind Girls, Highly Suspect, VOWER, 156/silence, Glacial Tomb & Zeal and Ardor. PLUS loads more (a bit more). Tell a friend!

Horseburner, Hippotraktor, Squid Pisser, Kittie, Colossus of Destiny, Speed, Extinction A.D. and Letterbombs. Plus Matt's been to around a million gigs since we last spoke aaand we pontificate on burning horses and hippos riding tractors, for obvious reasons. Tell a friend.

Glassing, g i f t, DVNE, From Dying Suns, Knives, Ba'al, Escuela Grind & Ascending the Helix. Plus lots of GREAT CHAT!

Protosequence, Frail Body, Horndal, Ingested, Ever Forthright, Contention, Love Sex Machine, Candy. Plus the incomprehensible witterings of a couple of silly old madmen.

Job for a Cowboy, Kollapse, Cell Press, Weston Super Maim, The Sawtooth Grin, Earthtone9, Exist and God Mother. PLUS we get a voice note from Cancer Christ and we discuss the kind of jobs that might be suitable for a half-cow half-boy hybrid. Thanks.

Refore, Bokassa, Ihsahn, FHORCE, Protosequence, Imminence, Vulture, Kittie and LOADS MORE. Tell a friend.

Drown in Sulphur, Yersin, Cancer Christ, Cariosus, Worse than Death, Wasp Mother, Divided, Kollapse PLUS LOADS MORE STUFF!

Join us on a metal journey (sort of) through last year as we take you through our top 10 albums of last year! We also tell you what wasn't very good which is fun too.

Merry Metalmas! Matt plays an incredibly well executed metal Christmas mash up game. We talk new releases from Full of Hell & Nothing, Panopticon, Lies!, Oro, Comeback Kid, Capsule, Thoughtcrimes and Utopia.

End, Ex Everything, Laang, Horsewhip, Texas in July, Enterprise Earth, Better Lovers, Drown in Sulphur. Also some great chat about Taiwanese duos and St.Ives.

May Contain Divorce Papers

It's been a while! We catch up on gigs we've been to. Race through 6 albums we loved that came out in August/early September but didn't make it into a show because there wasn't one. Then we take you through some notable newer releases as per usual. All in that same jaunty but incredibly slick May Contain Metal style that you know and love so dearly. TELL A FRIEND.

We're going to ArcTanGent! 6 bands we didn't know but now are bang up for. 6 we already knew and are also bang up for aaaaand we discuss some VERY SERIOUS FESTIVAL CLASHES that we need to work through. See you there?

Will Haven, Radiant Knife, Nuclear Dudes, Johnny Booth, Better Lovers, Capra, Hazing Over and Dreamwell all get the May Contain Metal treatment plus lots of stupid chat as is customary. Tell a friend!

Lots of references to the number 69, and also Soulkeeper, Grant the Sun, Queens of the Stone Age, TAKACS, Knocked Loose, The Motion Mosaic, Mutoid Man & Baroness. PLUS Matt's been to Download AND Glastonbury since the last episode…did he survive? Yes he did. We also got a bunch of messages! Go us!

Olkoth, Pupil Slicer, Blindfolded and Led to the Woods, Tortured Daemon, Koningsor, Empire State Bastard, Evile and Sylosis. We attempt to steal someone's identity live on air (sort of) and find out who Matt's going to see at Download! Tell a friend!

Here we bloody go! This time we talk festivals then it's Nightmarer, The Ocean, Herod, Unearth, In Mourning, Will Haven, Pallid Veil and URNE that get the May Contain Metal treatment. We also get a message (lucky us). It's time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it's May Contain Metal.

Lurk, Lo!, Jesus Piece, Metallica, Vertex, Better Lovers, Koningsor, Cattle Decapitation AND MORE. OK not more really but also some lame chat and great times. LISTEN! It's time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it's May Contain Metal.

This week you get our expert (lol) opinion on new music from Steel Panther, Judiciary, Dissentient, Suicide Silence, Fit For An Autopsy, DRAIN, Over Kill and Common Wounds. Then one gets the Album of the Week title aaand that's actually about it aside from all the nonsense chat in between! It's time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it's May Contain Metal.

This week we talk about new releases from EYES, Mithridatum, In Flames, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Lo!, Megadeth, The Acacia Strain, Periphery. We crown one album of the week aaaaand that's sort of it actually. It's funny though too, so, you know…listen to it, yeah? It's time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it's May Contain Metal.

New year new us, but largely similar content. This week we discuss new releases from Tidal Waves, Polar, Turbid North, Kollapse, Tan and Handsome, Chelsea Grin, Periphery and The Ocean. We crown one Album of the Week aaaand that's it! We might have binned off Band Name Generator…oops! It's time to put up your feet and put on the kettle, it's May Contain Metal.

Which band will win the highest accolade in metal?! The May Contain Metal Album of the Year! GOD IT'S SO EXCITING!

We get a message from a record label. We talk about Christmas a tiny bit. We discuss new music from Elder, Blame Kandinsky, Colonial Wound, 16, Doomsday, Metallica, Atrocity and Silent Civilain. We crown one Album of the Week. Then we gloat about our Spotify Wrapped podcast stats and theeen a small Christmas treat (sort of). MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTH…you get the idea.

May contain chops

Someone asks us to interview an old pop star. We discuss new music from Birds in Row, Lamb of God, Armed for Apocalypse, Stake, Skin Failure, Gojira, Forager and Filter. We crown one album of the week then band name generator then bed!

May contain Anvil?

We get a message about killer beer. We discuss new releases from Fallujah, Thoughtcrimes, Revocation, Machine Head, Mantic Ritual, Fawn Limbs, VÅDE and Botch. We crown one ‘Album of the Week'. We list of some hilarious (debatable) food based band name puns. Then Band Name Generator…then bed. Tell a friend!

We are going to ArcTanGent festival! We give you no less than 12 key bands that we're looking forward to seeing there. We also make food based puns out of some of the line up (it's really very high brow). Then we do the standard new releases stuff with Psycroptic, Ithaca, Ether Coven, Nicolas Cagefighter, Pillar of Wasps, Ingested, Ghost Wreck and Drowning Pool. Tell a friend! @arctangent

This week we talk new releases from Process of Guilt, Conjurer, Antilles, Municipal Waste, Megadeth, END, Revocation and Cult Leader. We subjectively discuss various bands' best and worst albums aaaaand band name generator. Then bed time. Tell a friend!

New quick fire releases this week because so much great stuff has come out since we last recorded. Then on to the usuals with a closer look at Belushi Speed Ball, Mothman, Sons of Node, Magnatar, Thoughtcrimes, Emberthrone, Stake and Clutch. We talk metal feuds in HOMEWORK then BAND NAME GENERATOR then bed time as per. Tell a friend!

This week…Pyrithe, Cage Fight, Demiricous, Faüst, Aenimus, Ursus, Anvil and Sacred Skin get some ‘reviews'. We produce some incredible (not in a good way) product jingles in HOMEWORK aaaaand everyone's least favourite thing; BAND NAME GENERATOR

This week we get a lovely compliment. We discuss NEW RELEASES from Dream Widow, Rejuvenation, Cancer Bats, Incite, God Mother, GWAR, Clutch and Darkane. We play Metal Jeopardy in HOMEWORK and finish on BAND NAME GENERATOR as per the last 51 episodes.

Gloson, Without Waves, Hath, Bastardane, Vade, Hexis, Conjurer and Crisix - they're all in there! Plus we talk about the best metal deaths (why? not sure). And of course Band Name Generator rears it's ugly head yet again. Oh also we went LIVE on Instagram LIVE (LIVE).

We talk NEW RELEASES from Consvmer, Mass Worship, Zeal & Ardor, Persefone, Cage Fight, Ithaca, Dream Widow and Stray From The Path. We discuss weird jobs that metal…people (?!)…have had in HOMEWORK and yes, it's back…BAND NAME GENERATOR. Then it just sort of ends.

Oh hi there. THIS WEEK we mourn the death of Every Time I Die. We let you know what NEW RELEASES we're looking forward to in 2022 as well as review new music from Hadal Maw, Comeback Kid, Fit for an Autopsy, Celeste, Horndal, Vein.fm, Voivod and Carpenter Brut. We chat through some of metal's worst criminals in HOMEWORK then BAND NAME GENERATOR then bedtime. Tell a friend!

As the episode title suggests…and much later than all the other lists…it's the May Contain Metal Album of the Year episode! Who made our top 10?! Who made it to number 1?! What did we get for Christmas?! All this and more awaits your ears!

THIS WEEK we talk new releases from Redemptor, In Mourning, No Bragging Rights, So Hideous, Ashbreather, Sylosis, Brotality and Cult of Luna. We get a message from a great band from Indonesia in MESSAGES. We talk about bands who own things (?!) in HOMEWORK and then everyones favourite dice rolling game; BAND NAME GENERATOR.

We talk new music from Dying Hydra, MØL, Obscura, All Hail the Yeti, Eye Flys, Slipknot, Fueled by Fire & Behemoth. We crown one of them ALBUM OF THE WEEK. We get a message in MESSAGES (duh). We discuss band beers in HOMEWORK aaaand BAND NAME GENERATOR.

Every Time I Die, Mastodon, Limp Bizkit, Frontierer, LLNN, Employed to Serve, Knocked Loose & Pissing Razors! They've all released new stuff since we last recorded so we've covered them all because we're great! Also we absolutely murder the cockney accent (sorry) in ‘Cockney Rhyming Bands' and Band Name Generator had had a much needed re-vamp!

We're back in business! And oh my does it feel goooood. This week we dive straight in to MESSAGES with a killer track from Deadslow. We talk NEW RELEASES from Neomantra, Filth is Eternal, Jinjer, Bokassa, Mastodon, Employed to Serve, Dominicide and Every Time I Die. We set new HOMEWORK for next time aaaaaand BAND NAME GENERATOR! Tell a friend!

We are officially 1 year old! So join us as we reminisce a bit AND play you our top 10 band name generators EVER! Normal service will resume in due course ;)

Absolutely no homework this week! YES! We chat through new music from Resist the Thought, Fawn Limbs, Structures, Moon Reaper, Crossbringer, Frontierer, Soen and Cradle of Filth. Then messages then band name generator then bed as per!

THIS WEEK we look at some death metal band logos and try to work out what the hell they say in HOMEWORK. We talk about NEW RELEASES from At The Gates, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, URNE, Pacmanthemovie, LLNN, Rivers of Nihil, MøL and Weston Super Maim. We then crown one ALBUM OF THE WEEK. We get a very sexy message in MESSAGES and then BAND NAME GENERATOR and bedtime. Once you're done here head over to our insta page @maycontainmetalpod to grab the accompanying episode playlist in our story highlights featuring music from all the bands we mention on the episode.

We are 40 episodes old!!! What does it even mean?! This week we ‘metal up' some nursery rhymes in HOMEWORK. We discuss NEW RELEASES from Elderblood, Kollapse, The Absence, VCTMS, First Fragment, Trivium, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy and Deadsquad. We get a message in MESSAGES. Aaaaaaand BAND NAME GENERATOR. Once you're done here head over to our insta page @maycontainmetalpod to grab the accompanying episode playlist in our story highlights featuring music from all the bands we mention on the episode.

We're almost 40 and the mid podcast life crises is well underway. THIS WEEK we ‘metal up' a couple of well known movie theme songs using our incredible musical talent in HOMEWORK. We discuss and play you our favourite new tunes from Bossk, Fatal Effect, Fear Factory, Fractal Universe, The Bronx, Employed to Serve, Fawn Limbs and Lotus Eater in NEW RELEASES. We crown one ALBUM OF THE WEEK and then roll the dice once again in everybody's favourite BAND NAME GENERATOR! Once you're done here head over to our insta page @maycontainmetalpod to grab the accompanying episode playlist in our story highlights featuring music from all the bands we mention on the episode.

This week we play a downright hilarious cryptic metal band name quiz in HOMEWORK. We talk new releases from Octohawk, Floatsam & Jetsam, Canvas Solaris, Red Fang, Machine Head, Alustrium, Notions and Bloodred Hourglass. We crown one ALBUM OF THE WEEK. Then everybody's favourite BAND NAME GENERATOR. HOORAY! Once you're done here head over to our insta page @maycontainmetalpod to grab the accompanying episode playlist in our story highlights featuring music from all the bands we mention on the episode.

You know what they say about podcasts that get to 37 episodes? Nope, us neither. This week we un-metal a couple of metal songs in HOMEWORK. We talk NEW RELEASES from Reject the Sickness, Vulture, End You, Alluvial, Zeal & Ardor, Bone Cutter, Body Snatcher and At The Gates. We get a message from a symphonic extreme metal solo project in MESSAGES. Then BAND NAME GENERATOR then bed time (for us, not you...maybe for you). Once you're done here head over to our insta page @maycontainmetalpod to grab the accompanying episode playlist in our story highlights featuring music from all the bands we mention on the episode.