That's Not Metal

The big reunion the world was apparently waiting happens with Oasis, but it was nearly two in week with Deryck Whibley finding himself at the centre of a storm of confusion, plus talk on the comedy metal albums we actually like. Releases: Stand Atlantic - Was Here Simone Simons - Vermillion Within the Ruins - Phenomena II Uniform - American Standard Melt-Banana - 3+5 Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera Sp...

Actual mythical albums lead this month's album reviews, as we discuss the actually real Wintersun album Time II, the comeback of Nails, Zeal & Ardor, Twin Atlantic, Four Year Strong, Leprous, & Nile. Wintersun 40:06 Nails 1:21:18 Zeal & Ardor 1:50:16 Twin Atlantic 2:06:28 Four Year Strong 2:24:22 Leprous 2:37:44 Nile 2:51:32

We're back for our annual report from Bloodstock Festival where Opeth, Architects, & Amon Amarth headlined atop Malevolence, Clutch, Satyricon, Whitechapel, Hatebreed, Green Lung, & plenty more.

Aerosmith unceremoniously call it a day, OPETH HAVE GROWLZ AGAIN, and we discuss the most disgusting things we've witnessed at festivals and have a conversation on the ethics of using depictions of real death on album artwork. Releases: Twin Atlantic - Meltdown Four Year Strong - Analysis Paralysis Dune Rats - If It Sucks, Turn It Up King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741 Oso Oso - Lif...

Gojira make history with their absolutely insane Olympics performance, there's a massive stream of singles from Undeath, Better Lovers, High Vis, Jinjer, Oranssi Pazuzu, Jerry Cantrell, & more, and Sam talks about Bruce Springsteen again. Releases: The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mori Mei Anberlin - Vega Blues Pills - Birthday Barbarian Hermit - Mean Sugar Shadow Knell - Shadow Knell Blind Guar...

We are joined by drummer and vocalist Alasdair Dunn of experimental black metallers Ashenspire to blow the doors open with one of our most eclectic Album Roulettes with dance-noise, abstract hip-hop, discussion of the true ethos of post-black metal, and tips on getting into jazz as a metal fan. Ed Scissor & Lamplighter - Tell Them It's Winter CIVIL ELEGIES - Combat Altar of Plagues - Teethed G...

A hyperspeed Hyperblast with Rou Reynolds joining the War of the Worlds cast, and the first returning track from the original Jane's Addiction line-up. Releases: Orange Goblin - Science, Not Fiction Deep Purple - =1 Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse - Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse Uprising - III Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked Dream Evil - Metal Gods Harvestmen - Triptych: Part Two State Faults - Children of the M...

The week Tenacious D implode in the least predictable circumstances, TNM reviews and gives judgement on albums from Scene Queen, Speed, Crossfaith, 200 Stab Wounds, Ulcerate, Crypt Sermon, & Blind Girls. Scene Queen 18:55 Speed 51:00 Crossfaith 1:03:30 200 Stab Wounds 1:22:57 Ulcerate 1:41:53 Crypt Sermon 2:03:52 Blind Girls 2:15:14

AC/DC hit Wembley Stadium, Palm Reader bid farewell, while also giving us new music from new band Vower. We get one of the year's more questionable covers, and get misty-eyed over closed venues from years past. Releases: Speed - Only One Mode Graphic Nature - Who Are You When No One is Watching? In Hearts Wake - Incarnation The Home Team - The Crucible of Life Mr. Big - Ten Webbed Wing - Vol. III...

Outbreak Festival goes outdoors for an even bigger event, with sets from Have Heart, Basement, American Football, Thursday, Balance and Composure, The Hotelier, Poison the Well, & more. Releases: Scene Queen - Hot Singles In Your Area Crossfaith - ARK 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures Anvil - One and Only Wraith - Fueled by Fear Love Letter - Everyone Wants Something Beautiful Pijn - O...

We catch up to give our take on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Nex Gen, albums from The Story So Far, Joey Valance & Brae, Candy, Umbra Vitae, Rotting Christ, & Julie Christmas, and take a trip to the movies for Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now film. Ghost 1:59 Bring Me the Horizon 31:08 The Story So Far 1:15:50 Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47 Candy 1:43:00 Umbra Vitae 1:53:47 Rotting Christ...

A huge live music summer continues with gigs galore but also the reports of drama, mismanagement, and poisoning coming out of Download Festival 2024. Releases: The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear Wage War - Stigma Kittie - Fire Alcest - Les Chants De l’Aurore earthtone9 - In Resonance Nexus Foreign Hands - What’s Left Unsaid Calcine - Common Love Common Nausea The Dangerous Summer - Gravity Sum...

The season of the big rock shows begins with Paramore supporting at The Eras Tour, double Metallica, Weezer + Pumpkins, as well as tonnes of new singles including big returns for Nails and The Black Dahlia Murder, and discussion of the Barclay's Boycott at Download Festival. Releases: Black Country Communion - V The Early November - Self-Titled Fu Manchu - The Return of Tomorrow Julie Christmas -...

After last week's trip to Slam Dunk, we hop to the other side of the UK festival spectrum to the upcoming black metal event Fortress Festival, headlined by Triptykon and Wolves in the Throne Room and setting black metal at the beach. Releases: Bon Jovi - Forever Royal Republic - LoveCop Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2 Evergrey - Theories of Emptiness Joey Valance & Brae - No...

We take a trip to 2024's Slam Dunk event, and Nile come out with the song title of the year. Releases: Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou Spiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell Thou - Umbilical CHVE - Kalvarie Four Stroke Baron - Data Diamond The Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception Rhapsody of Fire - Challenge the Wind Saltatio Mortis - Finsterwacht Cloven Hoof - Heathen Cross Ba...

Def Leppard signal the dawn of the pop metal age with Pyromania, we evaluate if Fightstar's Grand Unification holds up, Comeback Kid make a modern hardcore classic Wake the Dead, and Autopsy set a bar for freakish death metal Mental Funeral. This episode was originally published April 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

May brings some of the biggest event releases in metal as we review Knocked Loose, Kerry King, Gatecreeper, Pallbearer, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, One Step Closer, Folterkammer, & Antichrist Siege Machine. 27:35 Knocked Loose 58:48 Kerry King 1:21:36 Gatecreeper 1:41:10 Pallbearer 2:00:36 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats 2:24:26 One Step Closer 2:39:41 Folterkammer 3:06:16 Antichrist Siege...

Live trips to Sick of It All and Green Lung, big new additions to Outbreak and Damnation's schedules, reactions to news of a certain controversial label signing, and more Steve Albini worship. Releases: Missiles - Weaponize Tomorrow Markgraf - Hohenbaden Kerry King - From Hell I Rise Gatecreeper - Darker Superstition Jasta - …And Jasta for All Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive Shellac - To All Trains...

Today's episode is dedicated to Steve Albini, the patron saint of alternative music, architect of the 90s, engineer of some of our greatest works of art across five different decades, and one of TNM's true heroes. Releases: Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Like Moths to Flames - The Cycles of Trying to Cope Powerman 5000 - Abandon Ship Kill II This - Variant Hot Water Music -...

April releases went absolutely crazy, and so this time on TNM we reviews albums from Pearl Jam, The Ghost Inside, Inter Arma, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Dool, Castle Rat, High On Fire, & Dvne, as well as singles from Motley Crue and Unto Others, and live trips to Pupil Slicer and Underdark/Devil Master. 36:49 Pearl Jam 55:25 The Ghost Inside 1:14:48 Inter Arma 1:47:10 SeeYouSpaceCowboy... 2:05:26 Dool...

Prayers are answered as news hits of letlive. returning to play a round of shows, Thursday release their first song in 13 years, Frank Turner attempts the impossible, and live reports from Blind Guardian and Midnight. Releases: Pearl Jam - Dark Matter The Ghost Inside - Searching for Solace SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace NOFX - Half Album Cloud Nothings - Final Summer High On Fire - Cometh the...

Architects release a new single in collaboration with Jordan Fish, but there is also an elephant in the room we have to discuss. Elsewhere Bloodywood get a big movie moment, music from Century Media's new signing Sonja, and questions on negative review pushback and our favourite foot in mouth band moments. Releases: Blue Öyster Cult - Ghost Stories Castle Rat - Into the Realm Týr - Battle Ballads...

We polish off March's releases with a bonus review ep covering While She Sleeps' continued bizarre choices of experimentation in Self Hell and Sum 41's parting note of a double album Heaven :x: Hell. Releases: Bob Vylan - Humble as the Sun Feeder - Black/Red Alpha Wolf - Half Living Things ERRA - Cure Filth - Southern Hostility Strung Out - Dead Rebellion Bayside - There are Worse Things Than Bein...

Album Club toasts 20 years of AFI's goth punk masterpiece Sing the Sorrow, revisits one of the last big supergroups and the era it ended with Axewound's Vultures, and celebrates two underground punk and grind gems with Fall of Efrafa's Owsla and Genghis Tron's Dead Mountain Mouth. This episode was originally published March 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

We scheme the best ways to survive being a member of Slipknot and FMK with baddiecore, as the Summer Slaughter is confirmed to return, and Botch's reunion/final shows hit the UK in mindblowing style. Releases: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night Crushed By Waves - More to Life Blanket - Ceremonia Restorations - Restorations Mastiff...