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TNM talks bands we would have introduced to ourselves at an earlier age, a breadth of new tracks from Def Leppard, Exodus, Immolation and Haggard Cat, and Cryptopsy take to the UK with 200 Stab Wounds for 30 years of None So Vile. Releases: Megadeth - Megadeth Poppy - Empty Hands Crystal Lake - The Weight of Sound Textures - Genotype The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else Backengrillen - Backengrill...

2025 Album Clubs come from the land where the mullet attacks: Sabaton's Swedish concept album Carolus Rex, Hatebreed's hardcore benchmark Satisfaction is the Death of Desire, Visigoth's dungeon-keeping The Revenant King, and Family Force 5 give us Business Up Front/Party in the Back. This episode was originally published January 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

New album singles from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, and Static Dress keep 2026 starting up, along with a killer first band announcement from Damnation Festival, and announcement of our first Patreon special for 2026. Releases: Kreator - Krushers of the World Kid Kapichi - Fearless Nature Greywind - Severed Heart City Ov Sulfur - Endless Blanket - True Blue Serpent Column - Aion of Strife Rifle -...

TNM usher in the new year with hopes, questions and predictions for 2026, and some familiar faces already poking their heads above the parapets for the year ahead. Releases: Ulver - Neverland Fuath - III Woe - Legacies of Human Frailty Paleface Swiss - The Wilted EP Alter Bridge - Alter Bridge The Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf

Right before Christmas our last bash for 2025 is TNM Awards looking back over the highs and lows, the stories, the icons, the presidents, and the circuses that made the year in rock music what it was: Most Improved Band Song of the Year Worst Song of the Year Hero of the Year Villain of the Year Best New Band Biggest Disappointment Gig of the Year EP of the Year Artwork of the Year Movie of the Ye...

Our second go of albums of the year for 2025 with Sam and Mark celebrating records from hair metal to hardcore, and your results for the TNM listener poll as we see who's bringing it home in a year filled with past winners and big dog contenders.

2025 Album of the Year time begins on That's Not Metal, with our first lists from Perran and Elliot celebrating everything from synth-punk to goth-doom, power-goregrind to jazz-death, post-metal to metalcore, legendary rock icons to grimy dungeon crust bands that this year gave us.

This week we've got reports from My Bloody Valentine's first shows since 2018 as we see one of the loudest bands in the world, reaction to Alissa White-Gluz being out of Arch Enemy, and we tell you how to get involved in our 2025 end of year shows. Releases: The Algorithm - Recursive Infinity The Pretty Wild - zero.point.genesis Danko Jones - Leo Rising Gasket - Gasket Stryper - The Greatest Gift...

2025's final reviews is a crazy bag of disco mania with Creeper's Sanguivore II, Pupil Slicer, Drain, Astronoid, Home Front, Lamp of Murmuur, and Master's Hammer, bid farewell to Svalbard on tour, a new single from Converge, and about half an hour before our record, doing cartwheels at the reunion of Black Breath. Creeper 31:51 Pupil Slicer 1:09:19 Drain 1:24:17 Astronoid 1:35:08 Home Front 1:47:2...

The UK's biggest dedicated extreme music fest at Damnation Festival goes bigger than ever for its 20th anniversary with a bonkers two day line-up featuring Corrosion of Conformity, Napalm Death, Deafheaven, Perturbator, Anaal Nathrakh, Amenra, Warning, Wormrot, Castle Rat, and so many more to crack our skulls. Releases: Of Mice & Men - Another Miracle The Devil Wears Prada - Flowers Rise of th...

It's that week in November where every big festival announces their lineup so we assess the bills of Download, Outbreak, 2000 Trees, & Slam Dunk 2026, Turnstile come through Ally Pally, and finally one of the UK's great rock bands Marmozets return with first new music in over 8 years. Releases: Drain - …Is Your Friend Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork Astronoid - Stargod Set It Off - Set It Off Agnosti...

For Halloween we take the time for some horror movie questions including our pitch for a 2025 Freddy vs Jason, discuss Dogma's fracturing and Megadeth choosing to cover Metallica on their final album, live trips to Common Thread and Igorrr with Imperial Triumphant, and there is a Hagar horror on the loose... Releases: Soulfly - Chama Mammoth - The End Dayseeker - Creature in the Black Night Downsw...

With autumn chill in the air we plunge into a stacked October reviews bunch of new AFI, Thrice, Miltarie Gun, Conjurer, Perturbator, Sanguisugabogg, Tribal Gaze, & Agriculture. AFI 24:01 Thrice 47:28 Militarie Gun 59:04 Conjurer 1:11:12 Perturbator 1:23:08 Sanguisugabogg 1:33:37 Tribal Gaze 1:44:21 Agriculture 1:50:37

Perran and Mark catch up to talk about some of 2025's massive event tours with both Parkway Drive and Blood Incantation blazing trails to put on some of modern metal's most ambitious shows. Releases: All Time Low - Everyone’s Talking! Sabaton - Legends Battle Beast - Steelbound Militarie Gun - God Save the Gun Biohazard - Divided We Fall 84 Tigers - Nothing Ends Coroner - Dissonance Theory Tribal...

We're drowning in news with Oathbreaker and Rush both coming back, Alex Bent stepping out of Trivium, Bleeding Through & Darkest Hour hitting the UK, and a slew of new metal songs from Lamb of God, Ice Nine Kills, and Megadeth revealing their favourite game show. Releases: AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… Thrice - Horizons/West Orbit Culture - Death Above Life 50 Lions - New Reality Author &...

For this week's show Album Club returns with an eye once again on this year's Damnation Festival with Warning's monument of misery Watching from a Distance, Wormrot's early 10s grind detonation Dirge, Devil Sold His Soul's innovative post-metalcore A Fragile Hope, and Code's bizarro black metal genius on Resplendent Grotesque.

This week we top up our last reviews show with Biffy Clyro's first album in four years Futique and Dying Wish's bleaker kind of metalcore Flesh Stays Together, along with a trip to Brighton's D.I.E. Fest and discussion of Watain's three year plan of disbandment. Releases: Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Paradise Lost - Ascension Castle Rat - The Bestiary Motion Ci...

Lorna Shore, Fleshwater, Scorpion Milk, La Dispute, Modern Life is War, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, & Die Spitz albums get tackled, Jupiter and The Opposite of December get toured across the UK, but with another crushing blow to metal we also try to find words for one of the underground's truest heroes Tomas Lindberg. RIP King Tompa. Lorna Shore 42:50 Fleshwater 1:06:56 Scorpion Milk 1:21:44 La Di...

Turnover's 10 Years of Peripheral Vision tour hits the UK, Poppy, Amy Lee, & Courtney LaPlante put out "Lady Marmalade for goths", and System of a Down unveil one hell of a stadium run with a particular choice of opener. Releases: Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me Between the Buried and Me - The Blue Nowhere Spinal Tap - The End Continues Silverstein - Pink Moon I See Star...

It's our birthday! This week That's Not Metal turns 10, and to celebrate this crazy crazy milestone, we get misty-eyed dialling it back to the first ever episodes of TNM to look at the albums that launched this podcast and track our decade through these bands. Thank you for 10 years of support - you've not let us down, so we're still here. To TNM, and to you. Releases: Hayley Williams - Ego Death...

In our end of summer reviews we give the verdict on new albums from Deftones, Dinosaur Pile-Up, The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die, Pool Kids, Malthusian, Faced Out, and brave a trip into the Knightclub with Feuerschwanz. Deftones 24:30 Dinosaur Pile-Up 1:1:29 The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die 1:14:36 Feuerschwanz 1:29:53 Pool Kids 1:48:...

End of summer Album Clubs are the sleaze and scandal of W.A.S.P.'s debut, The Distillers' perfect punk rock Sing Sing Death House, Japandroid's celebrated Celebration Rock, and Watain split black metal opinion on The Wild Hunt. This episode was originally published August 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Sam reports from a hardcore fireworks show underneath a bridge in London, there's tracks from Joyce Manor, Conjurer, and Gaerea's continued surprising swerves into pop black metal, and we respond to the awful news of Brent Hinds' death. Hearts Alive, forever. Releases: Rise Against - Ricochet Joey Valance & Brae - HYPERYOUTH Justice for the Damned - Stay Relentless Pool Kids - Easier Said Than...

TNM returns to a monster edition of Bloodstock Festival where Trivium, Machine Head, Gojira, Mastodon, Emperor, Nailbomb, Ministry, & more bring heavy metal to the fields of England once again.

There's gothy new AFI and even more dramatically new Davey Havok facial hair as we wonder who is really under there, and pay our respects to the sadly passed Erik Wunder behind the revolutionary USBM outlaws Cobalt. Releases: Babymetal - Metal Forth Halestorm - Everest Good Charlotte - Motel Du Cap Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 1 As December Falls - Everything’s On Fire But I’m Fine Firstborne...