That's Not Metal

That's Not Metal reviews for March are in absolute guitar heaven, and maybe hell, with Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Midnight, Gouge Away, Chapel of Disease, & Dödsrit. Judas Priest 23:30 Bruce Dickinson 55:35 Midnight 1:24:56 Gouge Away 1:40:20 Chapel of Disease 1:58:20 Dödsrit 2:23:24

One of the biggest weeks for heavy touring in the UK peaks with a podcast-wide trip to Napalm Death's Campaign for Musical Destruction with Pig Destroyer, Primitive Man, and Wormrot, coming with sadly some sombre news from the PD camp. Releases: Kid Kapichi - There Goes the Neighbourhood Scott Stapp - Higher Power The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards Gouge Away - Deep Sage Bleak - My Body is Not...

Hyperblasts brings a report from London's Celestial Darkness Festival checking out rare bookings in the worlds of black, doom, & goth and sets from the likes of Primordial, Tribulation, & Ihsahn, and salute a formative band for TNM as Palm Reader announce their farewell. Releases: Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond Myrath - Karma Kill the Lights - Death Mel...

The biggest piece of Slipknot drummer rumouring yet, some absolutely blistering tracks from Knocked Loose and Inter Arma, and probably the maddest band drama ever to unfold. We've all done it. Releases: Mick Mars - The Other Side of Mars Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is Over Amaranthe - The Catalyst Glitterer - Rationale Shoreline - To Figure Out Timelost - Drain...

February Album Clubs look at Fall Out Boy's initial send-off Folie a Deux, Kreator's proto-extreme masterpiece Pleasure to Kill, the oft brushed over Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent from Refused, and a decade of Beastmilk's last post-punk party at the end of the world Climax. This episode was originally published February 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

February reviews on TNM pop the hell off with Chelsea Wolfe, Alkaline Trio, Ihsahn, Job for a Cowboy, Darkest Hour, Spectral Voice, Hulder & Slope, and reactions to the bamboozling news of Slayer's return and Ascendancy + The Poison tours. Chelsea Wolfe 57:00 Alkaline Trio 1:23:40 Ihsahn 1:39:18 Job for a Cowboy 2:01:12 Darkest Hour 2:19:57 Spectral Voice 2:35:21 Hulder 2:55:38 Slope 3:09:25

Hyperblasts checks out the new single from Pearl Jam, tours from Malevolence and The Menzingers, and very exciting headliner announcements from Outbreak and Damnation. Releases: Idles - Tangk Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head Ihsahn - Ihsahn Bokassa - All Out of Dreams Profiler - A Digital Nowhere Shooting Daggers - Love & Rage GVLLOW - Twin Flames The Obsesse...

Kerry King is back on the scene with all of the details surrounding his first album since Slayer, as well as some spicy interview snippets, and there's huge tours on both sides of the Atlantic. The Grammys also exist. Releases: Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She Yellowcard + Hammock - A Hopeful Sign The Chisel - What a F*cking Nightmare The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This...

A mega edition of Hyperblasts finds TNM conducting a critical reflection on the legacy of YMAS with the news of their impending farewell, a moment you either feared would come or never come. There's also crazy new music in the form of Kaonashi's new EP, and some crazy choices in the form of Download's stage splits. Releases: Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow Alkaline Trio - Blood,...

One of the most farcical yet often great review gauntlets opens TNM 2024, with efforts from Green Day, Neck Deep, Saxon, Lucifer, Upon Stone, Rough Justice... and Lord of the Lost's 90 minute cover album. Green Day 3:35 Neck Deep 34:19 Lord of the Lost 52:08 Saxon 1:18:19 Lucifer 1:41:15 Upon Stone 1:55:35 Rough Justice 2:13:36

New Year Hyperblasts continue with an in-depth report from Bring Me the Horizon's Nex Gen tour with Bad Omens, Cassyette, and Static Dress, representing a state of the address at the start of 2024. Releases: Green Day - Saviors Neck Deep - Neck Deep Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence Slift - Ilion Kontact - Full Contact Master - Sa...

That's Not Metal is back for the first episode of 2024 covering the big news from the beginning of the year, announcement straight away of the year's first special, plus a big thank you. Releases: Peyton Parrish - Soul Sprints - Letter to Self Gray State - Under the Wheels of Progress Haywire 617 - Conditioned for Demolition Rejoice - All of Heaven’s Luck Cancer Christ - God is Violence Svdestada...

Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house... The TNM Awards hit back crowning the heroes and villains, menaces and marvels of 2023: 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 of the Year Surprise of the Year Outstand...

The second load of That's Not Metal Albums of the Year come from Mark and Sam, and crucially in a year of some of the most divisive albums we announce the results of the listener AOTY poll.

The end of the year at TNM is nigh; it's time to cut the ribbon and begin crowning our top 20 albums, as Perran and Elliot start off with all of the great musical colour and invention that has graced our ears in 2023.

News show close for 2023 with acknowledgement of the passing of Killing Joke's Geordie Walker, before turning to more new music from ex-Black Peaks members and Video Nasties, and some very exciting Glenn Danzig news. Releases: Future Static - Liminality Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness Kvelgeyst - Blut, Mi...

The final reviews bag of 2023 is a brilliant one, with loads of late year contenders: The Gaslight Anthem, Green Lung, Dying Wish, NOBRO, Autopsy, Wayfarer, Underdark, & Malokarpatan. The Gaslight Anthem 24:45 Green Lung 50:42 Dying Wish 1:11:20 NOBRO 1:27:30 Autopsy 1:42:46 Wayfarer 2:02:52 Underdark 2:22:46 Malokarpatan 2:37:30

When We Were Young pulls an insane choice, Slipknot drummer rumours abound, and live reports from Creeper and future Download headliners Queens of the Stone Age among others. Releases: Dolly Parton - Rock Star High Spirits - Safe on the Other Side Racetraitor - Creation and the Timeless Order of Things C.L.S.M. - Infinity Shit Plaguemace - Reptilian Warlords Foetal Juice - Grotesque Sadus - The Sh...

We were fully back on the ground for this year's Damnation Festival (41:12) to see sets from Anaal Nathrakh, Electric Wizard, Enslaved, Akercocke, and many more of the best in underground and extreme. Bonus on Download and Grammys whinging. Releases: Tarja - Dark Christmas Lonely the Brave - What We Do to Feel Helmet - Left MTVoid - Matter’s Knot, Pt. 1 Gama Bomb - Bats MouthBreather - Self-Tape E...

Spiritbox release their new Fear of Fear EP, and there are conundrums about the ethics of contriving "viral moments" at shows with Frozen Soul's Magic the Gathering pit and Blink-182 recreating the Denny's hardcore meme Releases: Green Lung - This Heathen Land Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival Fuming Mouth - Last Day of Sun Sugar Horse - Truth or Consequence, New Mexico Spiritual Cramp - Spiritual...

Green Day threaten us with a new album, there's the out of nowhere news of Mike Portnoy's return to Dream Theater, and Mortician become the unlikeliest social media stars of all time. We TOLD you. Releases: Within Temptation - Bleed Out Myrkur - Spine Boys Like Girls - Sunday at Foxwoods Knuckle Puck - Losing What We Love Go Ahead and Die - Unhealthy Mechanisms Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade SAVAGE -...

This month we feast upon the new albums from Creeper, The Menzingers, Blink-182's nostalgic reunion, Svalbard, Kristin Hayter, Primordial, Maggot Heart... and Roger Waters redoing Dark Side of the Moon. Creeper 26:20 The Menzingers 1:01:40 Blink-182 1:20:43 Roger Waters 1:41:29 Svalbard 1:58:50 Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter 2:16:00 Primordial 2:37:29 Maggot Heart 3:03:44

Sam catches a double helping of Better Lovers, and Sick New World announces its lineup for 2024. Releases: Creeper - Sanguivore The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True Beartooth - The Surface Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. Twin Temple - God is Dead Årabrot - Of Darkness and Light Free Throw - Lessons That We Swear to Keep The Keening - Little Bird Gévaudan - Umbra Body Void - Atroc...

This week we review two new albums from bands who have changed the modern sonic make-up of hardcore in Harm's Way's industrial brutality Common Suffering, and Code Orange's latest (divisive as always) piece of their ongoing conceptual evolution as they go up into The Above. Releases: Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask Of Mice & Men - Tether Capra - Errors Carnifex - Necromanteum Citizen - Calli...

Our September Album Club Pack is a Damnation Fest special as we look at four diverse records from heavy history being showcased at this event: Leprous' prog majesty Coal, Unearth's Oncoming Storm, Deadguy's deranged Fixation on a Coworker, and Akercocke's sexy suit Choronzon. Album Club normally goes up at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal, but teaming up with Damnation Festival, this one's on us straight...