Hyperblasts: 40 Squat Sun

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Warning returns after 20 years with a new album called Rituals of Shame, reviving the saddest music in heavy metal.

Perrin Hayesh opens by welcoming listeners to another weekly Hyperblast. The show is there to cover what happened in rock and heavy music over the past week. He notes that the previous week carried a heavier weight, both in material and in feeling. He also acknowledges the people close to those events and hopes they are holding up. This week feels easier to move through. Mark Sanderson joins after Perrin briefly weighs doing the episode alone. Their introduction includes a joke about someone being run over in self-defense. The news section leads into a discussion of Holding Absence. Perrin remembers reviewing the band's debut album. He is unsure whether the second album got the same treatment, and thinks the third did not. Holding Absence have signed to Sumerian for the new song. Perrin places them near the modern alternative-radio side of Brit rock. He links their current appeal to the Bad Omens crowd and the wider heavy-music sphere. The singer's role in Mark's favorite band gives the chat another route in. Perrin remembers hearing more sonic depth and stronger choruses on the band's first album. He compares that early impression with the increasing polish of their later work. The discussion considers how repeating a formula can sit alongside a band becoming bigger. The closing release list includes cisne's EP Awake Children Under the Moon. It also includes a split called Shouting the Odds from JK Flesh and Monrella. JK Flesh is identified as Justin Broadrick's hard industrial electronic project. The episode ends with another Hyperblast promised for the following week and a Patreon announcement about a forthcoming band special.

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A brisk heavy-music dispatch where scene context and personal taste keep the release picks sharp.

Hyperblast makes a quiet news week feel useful, with Perrin Hayesh and Mark Sanderson moving from community concern into release talk and broader scene judgment.

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Press play for a compact heavy-music catch-up: a small-week Hyperblast that moves quickly through rock news, Holding Absence debate, and releases worth knowing.

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