That's Not Metal

Linkin Park release a new single but downgrade shows, Evanescence release 2025's hottest AMV, Midnight write an anthem for Cleveland Metal, and Danzig's in hot water for far right dogwhistles on merch. Releases: Scowl - Are We All Angels Bleed From Within - Zenith Thornhill - Bodies Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious Benediction - Ravage of Empires Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens Rotting Christ - 35 Years of Evil Existence - Live in Lycabettus Balmora - Prologue Dynamite - Settle the Score Not Without Punishment - Blood Runs Cold

Sam and Perran sit down to talk about Knocked Loose's recent massive headline tour in the UK bringing Basement, Harms Way, & Pest Control into massive Academy venues, as well as Powerwolf announcing a UK arena and Download booking the Vengaboys, and a mega end of month release round-up. Releases: Ophicvs - Steel Beast Cradle of Filth - The Screaming of the Valkyries Bloodywood - Nu Delhi Lordi - Limited Deadition Secret Cutter - /// Stormo - Tagli/Talee Ursa - Call of the Infinite Noisepicker - The Earth Will Swallow the Sun Gates to Hell - Death Comes to All Corpus Offal - Corpus Offal Rancid Cadaver - Mortality Denied Rothadás - Töviskert… a kísértés örök érzete… lidércharang Iron Form - Cut From Cold Blood anvilchandelier - anvilchandelier heavenscoldhands - heavenscoldhands Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power Underoath - The Place After This One Memphis May Fire - Shapeshifter Arch Enemy - Blood Dynasty Alien Weaponry - Te Rā The Darkness - Dreams On Toast Backxwash - Only Dust Remains Jivebomb - Ethereal Doomsday - Never Known Peace The Warriors - Burn Yourself Alive Forlorn - Aether Savage Master - Dark & Dangerous Lady Beast - The Inner Alchemist Seven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star Pt.2 Cult of Fire - The One, Who is Made of Smoke Teitanblood - From the Visceral Abyss Lucifer’s Child - The Illuminant Urn - Demon Steel Amenra - De Toorn / With Fang and Claw Wallows - More Satsuma - this is my outside voice Silent Planet / Invent Animate - Bloom In Heaven

In our new reviews show we stop to take stock of the state of some of our most popular heavy bands with Architects, Spiritbox, & A Day to Remember, as well as Whitechapel, Spiritworld, Warbringer, Imperial Triumphant, & Rwake. More hardcore bands imploding over idiocy too. Architects 27:10 Spiritbox 1:05:56 A Day to Remember 1:30:17 Whitechapel 1:46:14 Spiritworld 2:08:37 Warbringer 2:25:29 Imperial Triumphant 2:39:08 Rwake 3:03:49

Napalm Death's 2025 edition of the Campaign for Musical Destruction (Bollocks) rolls around, Tool are being sued by their fans over setlist controversy, and we give our take on the ground-shaking moment when a member of Mastodon departs the band. Releases: Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe Steven Wilson - The Overview clipping. - Dead Channel Sky Warbringer - Wrath and Ruin Nite - Cult of the Serpent Sun Rwake - The Return of Magic The Body / Intensive Care - Was I Good Enough? Wombbath - Beyond the Abyss Warhammer - Total Maniac Red Fang - Deep Cuts Earth Crisis / Integrity Split

We really cover ground on this one: prog goes pop on Rush's Power Windows, 2010s Britrock goes horribly wrong when The Blackout Start the Party, American Football reinvent emo on LP1, and black metal's most comforting album in Agalloch's The Mantle. This episode was originally published February 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Ghost unveil all things Skeletá, Slayer add yet another mega-show onto the UK summer, and Bobby Liebling is being seen by more people than should ever see Bobby Liebling. Releases: Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between Oversize - Vital Signs Cloakroom - Last Leg of the Human Table Avantasia - Here Be Dragons Dirkschneider - Balls to the Wall Reloaded Stress Test - Stress Test Havukruunu - Tavastland Grima - Nightside Effluence - Pianistic Dismemberment Sleep Paralysis - Sleep Paralysis Grave Infestation - Carnage Gathers Sepulchral Voice - Crimson Moon Evocations Ritual Ascension - Profanation Scimitar - Scimitarium I Hail Conjurer - Order of Disgrace Tubal Cain - Slime Abyss Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea Whitechapel - Hymns In Dissonance The Wildhearts - Satanic Rites of The Wildhearts Raging Speedhorn - Night Wolf Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant Destruction - Birth of Malice Guiltless - Teeth to Sky Ingrown - Idaho Staticlone - Better Living Through Static Visions This Gift is a Curse - Heir Dawn of Ouroboros - Bioluminescence Cryptosis - Celestial Death Whipstriker - Cry of Extinction Reconciler - Three Songs Rootbrain - Mother Tomb Sunami/Pain of Truth - Coast to Coast Split Death Pulsation - Demo

We close out February with reviews of some of our boldest and sloppiest with Killswitch Engage, Bleeding Through, Winona Fighter, Pissgrave, Vacuous, & Gràb, Green Lung & Unto Others' recent Heathen Neverland trip across Europe, and yes, Sam finally reviews a Dream Theater album. Killswitch Engage 40:37 Bleeding Through 1:06:01 Dream Theater 1:31:51 Winona Fighter 1:56:08 Pissgrave 2:10:38 Vacuous 2:31:42 Gràb 2:43:22

There's reports from High Vis and Tribulation both hitting headline tours around the UK, A Day to Remember bring news of their surprise album and its promised big ole volumes, and Parkway Drive stake a claim on the Sydney Opera House. Releases: Killswitch Engage - This Consequence Silverstein - Antibloom Anxious - Bambi To Obey a Tyrant - Frigore Inferni Wren - Black Rain Falls Hirax - Faster Than Death Morax - The Amulet Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness Gràb - Kremess Abduction - Existentialismus God Complex - He Watches In Silence Spy - Seen Enough

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 Chair - Saddiction Pothamus - Abur Mantar - Post Apocalyptic Depression Savage Lands - Army of the Trees Fell Omen - Invaded by a Dark Spirit Church Tongue - You’ll Know It Was Me Final Resting Place - Bound by Affliction Lacerated - Lacerated

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 Obscura - A Sonication Phrenelith - Ashen Womb 16 - Guides for the Misguided Morast - Fentanyl Saor - Amidst the Ruins Ereb Altor - Hälsingemörker Unreqvited - A Pathway to the Moon

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 Sunrot - Passages The Night Flight Orchestra - Give Us the Moon Grief Ritual - Collapse L.S. Dunes - Violet Tayne - Love Great American Ghost - Tragedy of the Commons The Hellacopters - Overdriver Pentagram - Lightning in a Bottle Jonathan Hultén - Eyes of the Living Night Revenge - Violation.Strife.Abominate Scrüda - Fury Among Ruins

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 Abominable Onirophagus - Revelations from the Void Hierarchies - Hierarchies Day By Day - Dust and Ashes Dark Fortress - Anthems From Beyond the Grave - Live In Europe 2023

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 End Will Show Us How The Halo Effect - March of the Unheard The Cimmerian - An Age Undreamed Of Haunted Horses - Dweller Ex Deo - Year of the Four Emperors Jota - Haven

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 of the Year Surprise of the Year Outstanding Achievement Worst Band of the Year Unsung Heroes Story of the Year Band of the Year

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 Defeated Sanity - Chronicles of Lunacy Gutless - High Impact Violence Ante-Inferno - Death’s Soliloquy Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion Kruelty - Profane Usurpation Mallavora - Echoes Doro - Rock ‘N’ Roll Xmas Party