That's Not Metal

letlive. finally break the seal on their UK return dates, Death Grips seem to disband again, and there's questions on the misconceptions that surround some of rock's most underrated, misunderstood bands. Releases: Bleeding Through - Nine Lacuna Coil - Sleepless Empire Love is Noise - To live in a different way Winona Fighter - My Apologies to the Chef The Nightmares - Fire In Heaven Hangman’s Chai...

A bumper edition of Hyperblasts sees Trivium & Bullet for My Valentine embark on the Poisoned Ascendancy tour, Cattle Decapitation & Shadow of Intent also co-headline, Gojira win a Grammy, Courtney LaPlante wins the Grammys, and oh yeah Black Sabbath?! Lot to cover in this one. Releases: Dream Theater - Parasomnia Jinjer - Duel Marko Hietala - Roses from the Deep Majestica - Power Train Ob...

Some of 2025's first heavy hitting singles arrive all at once from Deafheaven, Behemoth, Poison the Well, & also Bring Me the Horizon cover Wonderwall for some reason. Releases: Dax Riggs - 7 Songs for Spiders Vukovi - My God Has Got a Gun Century - Sign of the Storm Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil and the Dead Negative 13 - Recover What You Can Harakiri for the Sky - Scorched Earth Su...

Our first TNM reviews of 2025 hit the runway with The Night Flight Orchestra, Wardruna, The Halo Effect, The Great Old Ones, Trauma Bond, & Grief Ritual, and we pay tribute to one of the greatest left-field artists and dreamers of all time David Lynch. The Night Flight Orchestra 45:00 Wardruna 1:07:53 The Halo Effect 1:28:45 The Great Old Ones 1:44:48 Trauma Bond 2:00:34 Grief Ritual 2:10:30

Album Club returns to start 2024 after a few months away with a bumper episode, setting the record straight on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Survival Horror, destroying orcs with 3 Inches of Blood's Advance and Vanquish, Joyce Manor's micro-classic Never Hungover Again, and Reign Supreme with #WhyNotDyingFetus This episode was originally published January 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Hints of a Nine Inch Nails world tour, uncertainty in the SeeYouSpaceCowboy camp, Exodus swap their old singers again, and SpiritWorld go full cowboy. Releases: Eidola - Mend Grave Digger - Bone Collector Tokyo Blade - Time is the Fire Trauma Bond - Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone. Sarcator - Swarming Angels & Flies Necrodeath - Arimortis Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abomin...

We're back for 2025 looking to our hopes and goals for the year ahead, announce our first 2025 special, get a first batch of promising to stupid new singles, and yet another reunion. Releases: Patriarkh - Prophet Ilja Paleface Swiss - Cursed Mutagenic Host - The Diseased Machine Ethel Cain - Perverts Stick to Your Guns - Keep Planting Flowers Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out Tremonti - The En...

For our last show before Christmas we arrive at the TNM Awards for 2024, as we gather to end the year with the successes, stories, downfalls and villain arcs that defined the year in heavy: 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 Year Comeback...

We round off the best rock and metal albums of 2024 with lists from Sam and Mark, plus the all important and really incredibly great this year listener poll from all of you to really see who gets crowned.

The That's Not Metal Albums of the Year for 2024 begins, with Perran and Elliot giving their lists of so much that the best in metal, the underground and beyond had to offer.

Our final reviews bag of 2024 happens to feature the biggest rock comebacks of the year and underground heroes, with Linkin Park, The Cure, Opeth, Better Lovers, Many Eyes, Tribulation & Neon Nightmare getting discussed. Linkin Park 31:45 The Cure 1:01:04 Opeth 1:25:59 Better Lovers 1:49:56 Many Eyes 2:09:03 Tribulation 2:20:08 Neon Nightmare 2:41:53

2025 singles really start coming with Spiritbox, Architects, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, and Coheed and Cambria, W.A.S.P. go full mental, and we talk the "bad" albums we got into bands on. Releases: Opeth - The Last Will and Testament Body Count - Merciless Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More Ocean Grove - Oddworld Polar - Nova Fellowship - The Skies Above Eternity Coilguns - Odd Love Múr - Múr...

We hit that point of the year where we have Grammy nominations and Download headliners to either complain about or debunk complaints about, and a mega live review as Sepultura's farewell tour finally arrives on UK shores. Releases: Linkin Park - From Zero As I Lay Dying - Through Storms Ahead Poppy - Negative Spaces Full of Hell / Andrew Nolan - Scraping the Divine Primal Code - Opaque Fixation Th...

We once again convene for a review of the UK’s biggest underground event at Damnation Festival and witness legendary returns from Dragged Into Sunlight, Nails, Cradle of Filth, Bleeding Through, Inter Arma, and so many other TNM faves absolutely tearing it up. Elliot's audio is beaming in through the internet on this one, but we'll be back sounding proper soon. Releases: Make Them Suffer - Make Th...

We convene on Halloween night to talk yet more big reunions at big American rock festivals, the news that Ithaca are calling it a day, and give the definitive answer on whether bands wearing their own shirts is cool or not and whether we're too focused on the size of bands in appreciating their art. Releases: Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt Gr...

We face some of our toughest Album Club challenges yet: Matchbox 20's Ken anthems Yourself or Someone Like You, ponder how Attila's About That Life achieved some kind of longevity, cheer originality in hardcore on Twitching Tongues' In Love There is No Law, and the troubling eternal mystique of Acid Bath's When the Kite String Pops. This episode was originally published July 2023 on patreon.com/th...

We convene for conversations on 2024's most monolithic potential landmark records, reviewing Blood Incantation, Undeath, Balance and Composure, High Vis, Touché Amoré, Oranssi Pazuzu, and Chat Pile, as well as scratching our heads at festival clues and Acid Bath(?!), and a toast to the late Paul Di'Anno. Blood Incantation 45:58 Undeath 1:22:56 Balance and Composure 1:45:20 High Vis 2:00:55 Touché...

On this Album Club episode we return to the scene of the crime to again preview some of the must-see sets at this year's Damnation Festival: Cradle of Filth's old school origins with The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, Ne Obliviscaris' Citadel, Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, and Dragged Into Sunlight's terrifying Hatred for Mankind.

We've got a big catch-up chat talking about Sam's trip to a Tokyo hardcore show, tours from Orange Goblin, Cannibal Corpse, and Frank Carter fronting the Sex Pistols, leading into a discussion of the surprising news around The Rattlesnakes calling a hiatus and their potential future, and questions around nostalgia festival booking double standards and which band we'd want to see "do a Wintersun"....

Autumn releases arrive with the album for the season, a huge return, and several much hyped debuts to assess, from Unto Others, The Black Dahlia Murder, Nightwish, Zetra, Heriot, Vended, Vicious Blade, & The Jesus Lizard. Unto Others 21:45 The Black Dahlia Murder 57:55 Nightwish 1:19:30 Zetra 1:37:58 Heriot 1:52:42 Vended 2:08:41 Vicious Blade 2:27:34 The Jesus Lizard 2:38:44

Album Club is back with Slayer's sunset on their imperial era Seasons in the Abyss, My Bloody Valentine's shoegaze starting gun Loveless, a comprehensive look back on the divisive effect of Cancer Bats' Searching for Zero, and Blood Incantation's Starspawn blasting death metal through the stargate. This episode was originally published July 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Another UK live event hits with Cosmic Void Festival and Cirith Ungol's UK date on their final tour, Iron Maiden announce their huge 50th anniversary tour, The Cure start to finally tease new music, and there's the unfortunate Jane's Addiction punch-up implosion to deal with. Releases: Nightwish - Yesterwynde Unto Others - Never, Neverland Vended - Vended Crimson Veil - Hex Charlotte Wessels - The...

We take a trip to No Play Festival to see SeeYouSpaceCowboy and a day of UK hardcore bands, and follow up on last week's Linkin Park announcement with, well... all of that. Not the conversation we imagined having last time. Releases: Pyrrhon - Exhaust Man’s Gin - The Reprobate The Jesus Lizard - Rack Cursive - Devourer Nada Surf - Moon Mirror Chastity - Chastity Zetra - Zetra Oceans of Slumber - W...

The fruits of Linkin Park's rollout emerge with all of the details of their reunion and return, Slam Dunk leads with its first announcements for 2025, there's trouble in the W.A.S.P. camp, and there's a live report from NWOBHM cult legends Satan. Releases: Rat Lord - Blazed in the Northern Sky Enumclaw - Home In Another Life Boston Manor - Sundiver 40 Watt Sun - Little Weight Molchat Doma - Belaya...

Album Clubs kick off with an EP that set it all alight with Nine Inch Nails' Broken, Baroness make modern rock's great double album Yellow & Green, The Hotelier hit an emo revival high Home, Like Noplace Is There, and Satyricon take black'n'roll to the mainstream with Now, Diabolical. This episode was originally published May 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.