That's Not Metal

Some weeks just get overrun by drama: Thy Art is Murder's quite unbelievable decision to replace the vocals on their album in a week has the extended discussion that such a subject warrants, Bloodstock complete their 2023 headliners, and there's an intriguing LiveNation merch cuts scheme. Simmering down, we talk Busted. Releases: Samurai Pizza Cats - You’re Hellcome Heart of a Coward - This Place...

In the busiest month of the year TNM reviews Corey Taylor, Baroness, Sylosis, Blood Command, Kvelertak, Empire State Bastard, Cannibal Corpse, & Hexvessel, toast the achievements of the departing Dawn Ray'd, and ask... WHO did Stef Carpenter tell about the new Deftones album?! Corey Taylor 38:00 Baroness 1:06:37 Sylosis 1:25:31 Blood Command 1:43:35 Kvelertak 2:06:11 Empire State Bastard 2:21:...

Nickelback and Massacre both draw conversational lines in the sand, and While She Sleeps release a new track that goes full... something. Releases: 30 Seconds to Mars - It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day Corey Taylor - CMF2 Baroness - Stone Tesseract - War of Being Ash - Race the Night Danko Jones - Electric Sounds Pain of Truth - Not Through Blood Magnitude - Of Days Renewed… Worr...

Sleep Token have to call out impersonators and we call out "presidential bid" publicity stunts. Also a week of gig reports from Hot Mulligan/Spanish Love Songs, The Story So Far, Dawn Ray'd, and Full of Hell/Antichrist Siege Machine. Releases: Sylosis - A Sign of Things to Come Kvelertak - Endling Angel Du$t - Brand New Soul UnityTX - Ferality Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death Myrath - Karma U...

The Album Club Pack is back for a second year as we look at Linkin Park's experimental A Thousand Suns, Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese, the sleeper crossover influence of Iron Age's The Sleeping Eye, and cower beneath the unreachable pinnacle of caveman horror death metal meatheadedness that is Mortician's Chainsaw Dismemberment. This episode was originally published January 2023 on patreon.com...

Job for a Cowboy finally release new music, Trivium hit the UK for their second tour of the year highlighting cuts from Shogun, and we talk the completed Damnation Festival bill and the bands we'd pay the most for. Releases: Holding Absence - The Noble Art of Self Destruction The Armed - Perfect Saviors Asking Alexandria - Where Do We Go From Here? The Word Alive - Hard Reset Hot Milk - A Call to...

Some of the leaders in alt rock top reviews with Spanish Love Songs, The Xcerts, and Teenage Wrist, as well as new Skindred, Urne, Spirit Adrift, Horrendous, Celestial Sanctuary, and a conversation addressing recent comments from CJ McMahon. Spanish Love Songs 37:20 The Xcerts 1:01:51 Teenage Wrist 1:22:55 Skindred 1:34:21 Urne 1:47:03 Spirit Adrift 2:01:35 Horrendous 2:12:22 Celestial Sanctuary 2...

TNM returns to Bloodstock Festival for the 2023 event as Perran reports on sets from Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Triptykon, Meshuggah, Knocked Loose, Employed to Serve, and generally more heavy metal than you could shake a stick at.

We pore over the first Wacken announcement looking for festival clues for 2024, debate the worth of rock's various one hit wonders, and learn some mad stats about AC/DC's setlists. Releases: The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons Urne - A Feast on Sorrow Caskets - Reflections Kataklysm - Goliath Werewolves - My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me Slugchild - Wounds Untold

Wacken caps its attendees early, Marmozets tease a return, Skindred announce their first Wembley show, and we poke the bands sitting on albums for too long. The return of Toolwatch? Releases: Teenage Wrist - Still Love Skindred - Smile Mammoth WVH - Mammoth II Humanity’s Last Breath - Ashen An Autumn for Crippled Children - Closure

TNM's Barbenheimer musical double bill moments, Roger Waters re-records Dark Side of the Moon like a mumbling lunatic, and as the aliens are confirmed here we pick our albums to try to communicate with them. Releases: Greta van Fleet - Starcatcher As December Falls - Join the Club James and the Cold Gun - James and the Cold Gun Oxbow - Love’s Holiday Mizmor - Prosaic Agriculture - Agriculture The...

We spotlight a bunch of underground acts and fresh faces as we review new albums from Blackbraid, Mutoid Man, Torture Rack, Outer Heaven, Calligram, The Sun's Journey Through the Night, Temple of Angels, and Home is Where. Apologies for the lower quality microphone recording as Elliot calls in, we'll be back to full capacity in no time. Blackbraid 32:21 Mutoid Man 48:00 Torture Rack 56:20 Outer He...

The Ghost Inside make a stylistic shift and there's new album announcements from everybody, but it's all about the potential activity going on in the Creed camp as we wait with arms wide open. Releases: Voyager - Fearless In Love Evile - The Unknown Cavalera Conspiracy - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation Eleine - We Shall Remain Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit Calligram - Position | Momentum...

Paramore add to the Taylor Swift ticket buying crisis, Lil Uzi Vert drops collabs with Bring Me the Horizon and Babymetal on unsuspecting hip-hop listeners, and Iron Maiden's Future Past tour hits the UK. Releases: Will Haven - VII Blackbraid - Blackbraid II Fen - Monuments to Absence Astral Tomb - Total Spiritual Death Bloodbound - Tales from the North The Raven Age - Blood Omen Better Lovers - G...

We return to Outbreak Fest to see how the UK's biggest hardcore fest with sets from Code Orange, Converge & more integrates huge hip-hop acts into its bill for one of the now most innovative and genre-experimental weekends in the heavy music calendar. Releases: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse Royal Thunder - Rebuilding the Mountain Creeping Death - Boundless Dom...

We close the year's Album Club packs with the last time Tom DeLonge returned to Blink-182 with Neighborhoods, the returning Heck's Instructions, Anaal Nathrakh releasing the most venomous metal record ever made The Codex Necro, and remembering the time Christopher Lee made heavy metal records about Charlemagne and shed the blood of the Saxon men. This episode was originally published November 2022...

Avenged Sevenfold make the most daring and unhinged album of their generation, in a review episode colossus with new works from Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Rancid, Pupil Slicer, Vexed, Godflesh, & PONY. Avenged Sevenfold 9:21 Foo Fighters 1:14:53 Queens of the Stone Age 1:37:15 Rancid 1:59:05 Pupil Slicer 2:09:30 Vexed 2:27:49 Godflesh 2:39:32 PONY 2:54:09

Fresh off one of the biggest weekends in UK rock festival history: the 20th anniversary Download Festival review, the full experience four day event featuring headlining sets from Slipknot, two unique Metallica sets, and a long-awaited graduation for Bring Me the Horizon.

Sam returns with a report on the organisational carnage at Slam Dunk as well as a trip to see Bruce Springsteen, and there's a very fresh look at the bizarre news surrounding Slipknot's activity and member change-ups. Releases: Godflesh - Purge Torture Rack - Primeval Onslaught Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph) Geld - Currency // Castration Johnny the Boy - You Black Rainbows -...

A huge host of TNM faves are back with music as Creeper, Code Orange, Sylosis, Fever 333, and more offer themselves up, there's discussion around the news of Josh Middleton departing the Architects camp, Iron Maiden's Future Past tour setlist opened up, and everyone being in a right tizz at Royal Blood for saying some naughty words. Releases: Avenged Sevenfold - Life is But a Dream… Foo Fighters -...

Album Clubs look at some beloved cult records in Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time ahead of the Future Past tour, Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Descendents' foundational but thorny Milo Goes to College, and the murder psych rock breakthrough of Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' Blood Lust. This episode was originally published October 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Sleep Token are taking the world by storm. It's the most significant heavy release of the year, and historically, none of us get it. In this podcast, we try and assess how as non-worshippers we interact with a record like this, and the role of the reviewer to take in everything. Releases: PONY - Velveteen The Used - Toxic Positivity The Ocean - Holocene Botanist - VIII: Selenotrope Vnder a Crvmbli...

Eurovision goes into metal overdrive, and we review six of the month's biggest heavy releases from The Dirty Nil, Cattle Decapitation, Frozen Soul, Immortal, Drain, & Hot Mulligan. Big time for ice-people and shirt-tuggers. The Dirty Nil 26:34 Cattle Decapitation 44:19 Frozen Soul 1:14:55 Immortal 1:30:20 Drain 1:49:01 Hot Mulligan 1:59:20

TNM considers and salutes the careers of departing bands Sum 41 and Dark Fortress, looks at new music from Queens of the Stone Age, Thy Art is Murder, and 30 Seconds to Mars, asks whether Billy Corgan paying a ransom was worth it, and takes a brief look at the rising trend of AI music in metal. Releases: Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow The Acacia Strain - St...

Bring Me the Horizon are still making music for Emo Girls, we check out Metallica's opening setlists for their No Repeats tour, put some venues to the sword in order to save Brixton Academy, and take the moment to assess who the best live band in the world is in 2023. Releases: Drain - Living Proof Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous Therapy? - Hard Cold Fire Dave Lombardo - Rites of Percussion Cu...