That's Not Metal

Hill and Beez overcome technical difficulties to bring you previews on the biggest albums of 2016 including Biffy Clyro, Avenged Sevenfold, BABYMETAL, Architects, Paramore, Deftones and more!

Hill and Beez reflect on the year that's past with the That's Not Metal Awards. Best New Band, Song of the Year, Most Disappointing Album, Best British Band, Best Festival Performance and Asshole of the Year are just some of the awards dished out in this end of year special!

In a bumper edition of TNM, Hill and a highly caffeinated Beez run through their Top 20 releases of 2015. Expect the very best in rock, alternative, metal, hardcore, prog, tech metal, pop punk, death metal, emo , horror punk and everything inbetween.

It's a massive podcast this week as Download main man Andy Copping comes in to answer your questions and reveal a whole host of exclusives for Download 2016. Hill and Beez also discuss the 33 new bands for next year's Download and there's a tribute to the one and only Scott Weiland.

Hill and Beez discuss what is the best way to serve peanut butter on toast. Oh and there's rock and metal in the shape of Slayer, Anthrax and Refused live, reviews of the latest from Sikth, Baroness, Myrkur and Enter Shikari, Machine Head are this week's album club, we reveal who next week's massive TNM guest is and there's all of the usual discussion in between. You could say we are the Toast of...

Hill and Beez are right back at it again, discussing the new releases from Foo Fighters, Stone Sour and Danzig. They pour over the Slam Dunk line up, live shows from Marilyn Manson and Beartooth and the Album Club is The Get Up Kids' superb Something To Write Home About. WARNING: This podcast contains talk of moobs. #moobs

Hill and Beez reflect on the past week's events, both good and bad, and there's album reviews on the latest releases from Vision Of Disorder, Gnarwolves and Cattle Decapitation. Metallica and Lou Reed's Lulu is up on the Album Club and find out just how much Steve likes The Muppets. SPOILER: He bloody LOVES The Muppets.

Hill & Beez review the new albums from The Hell, Cryptopsy and the terrible, terrible, terrible new Def Leppard album. Seriously, it's terrible. System Of A Down's Toxicity stars in this week's Album Club and there's discussion on the Busted reunion, Volbeat, Motley Crue, Skindred, Trivium and more. But seriously that Def Leppard album is so terrible.

Hill and Beez discuss corsets and Boglins...oh and the latest additions to Download 2016, including Korn, Deftones, Disturbed, Motorhead, Nightwish and Megadeth.

Hill & Beez tackle the new albums from Escape The Fate, Devil You Know, Boysetsfire and Seaway and our Album Club focuses on Lostprophets 'The Fake Sound Of Progress'. Yeah, it was VERY difficult.

A very squeaky Stephen Hill & Beez reveal all about their exciting new project, review the new albums from Skindred, Killing Joke, Cane Hill and Twitching Tongues and our Album Club focuses on Glassjaw's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence.

This week's TNM Encore evolves around whether or not bands should play albums in their entirety at live shows.

Join Hill and Beez as they answer your questions about Download, Limp Bizkit is this week's Album Club and there's chat on BABYMETAL, Nine Inch Nails, Children Of Bodom, Twisted Sister, Blink 182 and more.

Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Rammstein are Download Festival 2016's headliners and Hill & Beez are here to put the announcement under the microscope.

Coheed & Cambria, Fightstar, State Champs and Counting Days' new albums are reviewed, there's chat about Sonisphere, the Mercury Prize's stance on rock music and more of the usual lolz with Hill & Beez.

Does anybody care about a Guns N Roses reunion? Has Slash been as guilty as Axl in recent years? Those are the questions that Hill & Beez tackle this week on your That's Not Metal Encore.

This week's encore sees Hill and Beez discussing their hopes and expectations for a new Metallica album, tnetatively scheduled for 2016.

Hill and Beez review the new albums from Trivium, Clutch, No Devotion and Black Breath, there's questions on moshing etiquette, double albums and Alter Bridge and we should probably say sorry to the old bass player in Alien Ant Farm. Sorry mate.

Because we miss you too much, we decided to hit you with a bonus podcast talking about Funeral For A Friend's split and Alexisonfire's return. See you again on Friday!

This week's podcast features Hill & Beez's take on the new album from Parkway Drive, Crossfaith, Tesseract & The Black Dahlia Murder, we discuss who should headline Bloodstock 2016 and our album club comes from The Prodigyl and their unstoppable Fat Of The Land.

Hill and Beez have NEVER SOUNDED BETTER as they review the new records from Slayer, Atreyu, Creeper and Black Tongue, there's discussion on Slipknot and Andy Black and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory is this week's Album Club entry.

Hill & Beez discuss the new albums from Bring Me The Horizon, Iron Maiden and The Wonder Years, there's chat about Gojira, Foo Fighters and Cancer Bats and we introduce the TNM Album Club. Get involved!

Hill & Beez explore the 2015 albums from BABYMETAL, Lamb Of God, Bullet For My Valentine, Faith No More, Neck Deep, While She Sleeps, As It Is, Stray From The Path, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Employed To Serve.