Hyperblasts: Hetfield Woes, Deafheaven WOAHs

There's big surprise releases from Deafheaven and Power Trip, major Nightwish and Judas Priest line-up shifts, a tremendous festival announcement from Fortress, live shows from Joyce Manor, Blaze Bayley, and Khemmis, but no one wants to talk about any of it because the world's up in arms about James Hetfield.

Releases:

Caspian - Caspian

The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Howls from the Holographic Heart

Throes - The Colorless Light of Emptiness

John Zorn - Flatlands

Eivør - Tungl

Insomnium - Netherworlds

The Keening - Devotion

Master - Among the Seeds of Death

Mother of Graves - The Light That Keeps Us

Algor Mortis - The Art of Suffering