Didn't Go Platinum

Who wants to take a good look at my jars? Didn't Go Platinum takes a trip into a serial killer's basement to discuss Nightbringers, the fantastic eighth album by The Black Dahlia Murder. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Jimi of the Bangers & Mosh podcast to talk about a mutual favourite. Nightbringers might be a later addition to The Black Dahlia's canon, but it's ar...

All hail the new flesh! Didn't Go Platinum explores the world of heavy metal's favourite mad scientist, the one and only Devin Townsend. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by artist and the unofficial fourth member of the Bangers & Mosh team, Mr. Dan Goldsworthy, to discuss Strapping Young Lad's City. Once, this band could have been considered Hevy Devy's "main band....

We Say Hello To Sunshine in the latest episode of Didn't Go Platinum. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Dave Stewart of the Noise Cartel to discuss the excellent but frequently misunderstood second album by Finch. This remarkable slice of mid-2000's post-hardcore has become something of a cult favourite, but a sizeable chunk of Finch's early fanbase positively hated it. And t...

Didn't Go Platinum goes into space, as we follow A Pathway To The Moon. Lindsay from the Heavy Metal Journal returns to discuss her love of this excellent album by one-man Canadian black metal genius Unreqvited. It's a dense and enthralling trip into the void, defined by lengthy passages of exquisite beauty and some throat-ripping, soul-crushing extremity. But Unreqvited's first non-in...

Is it metalcore or is it melodic death metal? Either way, it's Deliver Us, the fifth album by the eternally underrated Darkest Hour. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Brother John of the Menn Metal Mayhem podcast for a deep dive into this high-velocity slice of angry, but also kinda sad, American metal. This mid-2000's gem was excellent, but never got the credit it deserved. Let&...

It's a special festival review episode of the Didn't Go Platinum podcast. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by hardcore scholars Chris Earl and Ellis Heasley to discuss this year's Outbreak festival in depth. We look at all the important questions surrounding Britain's biggest hardcore fest: were the vegan brownies good? What's the best way to smuggle mini cheddars into...

Didn't Go Platinum unearths a real gem in this latest episode. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Judicator guitarist and Transgressive genius Alicia Cordisco to discuss Act Of God by Znowhite, a thrash metal band that even hardcore genre fans rarely mention. Act Of God was the only full-length this Chicago-based group ever recorded, which is a damn shame because it's bloody great...

Bad Religion's controversial Into The Unknown is widely detested, including by the band themselves, but on the latest episode of Didn't Go Platinum, we make the case that it's way better than you might think. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined once again by Matt Hudson of Battle Born to discuss the album that nearly led to a premature end to Bad Religion. The punk icons added keyboards and s...

Didn't Go Platinum revisits a terrific thrash album while exploring the origins of the podcast itself! Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Philly Byrne and Joe McGuigan of Gama Bomb to discuss the making of 2013's The Terror Tapes. This was the band's fourth full-length album and first for AFM, and it tends to get overshadowed by their previous ones, but it's a banger. It&#...

Didn't Go Platinum is off to Orange County, California. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Jordan Gaw, singer for rising American metallers Against The Grave, to dress up like Spartans and discuss Declaration by Bleeding Through. Upon its release, the band was engaged in a very public feud with their record label. However, this controversy appears to have overshadowed the music itself...

We're travelling into space with the Mechanicus Cult on the latest episode of Didn't Go Platinum. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by the returning Fae Scott Dench (aka the Death Metal Mum) to discuss Labyrinth by Dissentient. This hour-long slice of highly technical, futuristic death metal is barely mentioned outside some very small circles, but it's excellent. Dissentient are...

It's another special episode! Hardcore expert Ellis Heasley returns to Didn't Go Platinum to discuss this year's Outbreak Festival with Tim and talk about which bands you can't afford to miss. Over the course of an hour, they give shoutouts to bands like Converge, Dynamite, Fiddlehead, Ingrown, Harm's Way, Sanction, Gridiron, Suicidal Tendencies, Hatebreed, and many others. The...

It's a special episode of the Didn't Go Platinum podcast, as Tim is joined by Dr Hell and Count Gravedigga of Evil Scarecrow for a trip to the cinema! We're revisiting the soundtrack to Last Action Hero, the cult classic Arnold Schwarzenegger movie from 1993. With a host of artists on the track list, including AC/DC, Cypress Hill, Queensryche, Alice In Chains, and Anthrax (kinda), this...

Didn't Go Platinum visits the worst neighbourhoods in Detroit, as we explore Cold As Life's excellent second album, a forgotten gem of nineties hardcore. Cold As Life might be the most dangerous band to ever emerge from the American underground, whose songs of brutal slice violence and urban paranoia mask a tragic, heartbreaking career. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Loudstakk...

Didn't Go Platinum asks the big question: can being very well-dressed and incredibly good-looking be a drawback? Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Kris Kielich of the Psychic Warfare podcast to discuss Love And Other Disasters, the third full-length from Swedish metallers Sonic Syndicate. They're a band that Tim once dismissed as "Hot Topic Mall Goth metal," but it turns out that they're...

Are Mercenary the unsung heroes of melodic death metal? We tackle this question with an in-depth look at the band's 2004 album 11 Dreams on the latest episode of Didn't Go Platinum. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Brother Dave of the Menn, Metal Mayhem podcast to discuss the Danish underdogs. 11 Dreams is a very strong album, and a viable alternative to some of the more popular...

We're off to the trenches with the pals battalions as Didn't Go Platinum revisits an overlooked classic: it's Those Once Loyal by Bolt Thrower. This WW1-themed death metal album was deemed so good, that the band decided to stop recording once it was released. And yet, it's got a reputation as one of those albums that loads of people have heard of, but never listened to. Regular hos...

Put on your finest flannel shirt and lather your beard in fresh oil, Didn't Go Platinum returns to discuss Mastodon's divisive fifth album, The Hunter. This record was a critical smash for the band, but is a long way from being a fan favourite and seems to have fallen out of the conversation. Host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Bruce from the Noizze Podcast Network for a deep dive into a f...

Didn't Go Platinum travels to Germany, circa 2006, to look at what may be the best metalcore album that most of you have never heard of: it's When Worlds Collide by Maroon. Joining regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is the one and only Dazz Freeman of the Bangers And Mosh podcast . The lads talk everything from veganism to mosh calls and that absolutely killer bit where Maroon go full power me...

New year, new series: Didn't Go Platinum returns to look at more unloved and underrated metal albums, and we're starting off with some vegetarian death metal. Host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Ebony Jeanette to discuss The Harvest Floor, the 2009 release by Cattle Decapitation. This album has gone overlooked in favour of their later work, but is an important transitional work and a major...

Didn't Go Platinum goes all grim and frostbitten as we head into winter. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Brother Paul of the Menn Metal Mayhem podcast to discuss Heaven That Dwells Within by Wormwitch. This Canadian band delivered the goods on their stunning second album, but for some reason never got the credit they deserved. Maybe it's because Canada isn't the place folks...

Didn't Go Platinum wanders back into the metalcore realm. For this episode, we're taking a deep dive into All Hail by Norma Jean. The Georgia veterans were among the first wave of metalcore bands to threaten the mainstream, but have tended to be overshadowed by their more famous peers. All Hail is their eighth full-length album, and it's a cracker. This record was suggested by the horr...

Didn't Go Platinum dives into the British metal underground of the 2000s, to discuss a band that scared the living daylights out of Tim when he was a fresh-faced, wide-eyed young metalhead: it's Mistress and their excellent third album, In Disgust We Trust. Joining him for this foray into filth is none other than Jon Rhodes of Rotherham's finest sludge maestros, Swamp Coffin. They disc...

HUH! Didn't Go Platinum travels to a futuristic hellscape filled with Hunter Killer Robots! For this episode, we're looking at Archetype by Fear Factory. Tim is joined by the returning Lindsay from The Heavy Metal Journal to discuss what could be considered as the "lost Fear Factory album." It's usually overlooked in favour of the band's three classics (Demanufacture, Obs...

Didn't Go Platinum enters the world of 'proper' metalcore. Tim is joined by journalist and hardcore aficionado Ellis Heasley to discuss The Transient Effects Of Light On Water, by This Day Forward. One of the unsung heroes of the late nineties/early 2000's metalcore scene, This Day Forward were contemporaries of bands like Poison The Well, but remain little known even in hardcore c...