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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
The Last Ten Seconds of Life - No Name Graves
Haystack - Doomsday Goes Away
Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
Hulder - Verses In Oath
Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light
Petrification - Sever Sacred Light
Zwielicht - The Aphotic Embrace
Theophonos - Ashes in the Huron River
Hannes Grossmann - Echoes of Eternity

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, Hair, and Eyeballs
The Infernal Sea - Hellfenlic
Olhava - Sacrifice
Unsouling - Vampiric Spiritual Drain
Knoll - As Spoken
Eye Flys - Eye Flys
Junta - Junta
Death Killer - Total Destruction of the Entire Universe
Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis
GUHTS - Regeneration
Slower - Slower
Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace
Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart
Vitriol - Suffer & Become
Cognizance - Phantazein
Whitechapel - Live in the Valley
Dream State - Still Dreaming
Kaonashi - The 3 Faces of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan Montgomery
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Sun
Jesu - Hard to Reach
Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology
Being as an Ocean - Death Can Wait
Reconciler - Art for Our Sake
meth. - Shame
Utopia - Shame
Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize
Myrath - Karma
Striker - Overpower
Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal
Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves
Stages of Decomposition - Raptures of Psychopathy
Ghoul - Noxious Concoctions
Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

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 - Saints Dispelled
Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory
Vemod - The Deepening
Sexual Perverts - Sex Maniac…Forever
Heavy Sentence - Warriors of Madness

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 - Candela
Casey - How to Disappear
Rough Justice - Faith In Vain
Ryujin - Ryujin
Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two
Alluvial - Death is but a Door
Lifesick - Love and Other Lies
Extinction A.D. - Ruthless Intent
Escuela Grind - DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL

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

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, Milch und Thranen
Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation of Suffering
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
Mouth Culture - Mishaps of My Mid Twenties
Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang
Bjorko - Heartrot
Varathon - The Crimson Temple
Going Off - Kill List
Health - Rat Wars

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 Shadow Inside
Aeturnus - Philosopher
King - Fury and Death
Bewitcher - Deep Cuts & Shallow Graves
Earthside - Let the Truth Speak
Soars - Repeater
Celeste - Epilogue(s)

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
Ex Everything - Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart
Shylamagoghnar - Convergence
Night Crowned - Tales
Vastum - Inward to Gethsemane
Left Cross - Upon Desecrated Altars
AGLO - Build Fear
Sodom - 1982
Triumph of Death - Resurrection of the Flesh

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 Cramp
Sexless Marriage - This is Not Love
Morne - Engraved With Pain
All Get Out - All Get Out
Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha
Krypta - Outo laakso
Mortuary Drape - Black Mirror
Watain - Die In Fire - Live In Hell
Strigoi - Bathed in a Black Sun
Insomnium - Songs of the Dusk
Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear

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 - Glory Riders
Clowns - Endless
awakebutstillinbed - chaos take the wheel and i am a passenger
Afterbirth - In But Not Of
Marthe - Further In Evil
Worm / Dream Unending - Starpath
The Gaslight Anthem - History Books
Taking Back Sunday - 152
Wargasm - Venom
Poppy - Zig
In This Moment - Godmode
Year of the Knife - No Love Lost
END - The Sin of Human Frailty
Rile - Pessimist
NOBRO - Set Your Pussy Free
Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
Wayfarer - American Gothic
Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar
Endseeker - Global Worming
Dokken - Heaven Comes Down
Sorcerer - Reign of the Reaper
Legendry - Time Immortal Wept

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 - Atrocity Machine
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Krieg - Ruiner
Gruzja - Koniec Wakacji
Slidhr - White Hart!
Laster - Andermans Mijne
Sadistic Force - Midnight Assassin
Acid Blade - Shooting Star

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 - Calling the Dogs
Prong - State of Emergency
Heavy Load - Riders of the Ancient Storm
Blodet - Death Mother
October Tide - The Cancer Pledge
Spider God - Blackened: Pink

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 away. Enjoy!

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 Brings Only Death
Guilt Trip - Severance
3TEETH - EndEx
KEN Mode - Void
Kill Devil Hill - Seas of Oblivion
Pkew Pkew Pkew - Siiick Days
Sincere Engineer - Cheap Grills
Profanatica - Crux Simplex
Final Gasp - Mourning Moon
Silence in the Snow - Ghost Eyes
Mourning - Hive of Resentment
Blood Command - World Domination
Code Orange - The Above
Harm’s Way - Common Suffering
Koyo - Would You Miss It?
Grove Street - The Path to Righteousness
Primordial - How It Ends
Maggot Heart - Hunger
Black Stone Cherry - Screamin’ At the Sky
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
Gunship - Unicorn
KK’s Priest - The Sinner Rides Again
Graveyard - 6
Asinhell - Impii Hora
Nervosa - Jailbreak
‘68 - Yes, and…
Filth is Eternal - Find Out
Ruin Lust - Dissimulant
Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
Woe - Legacies of Frailty
Iskandr - Spiritus Sylvestris
Wolves in the Throne Room - Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge

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 2:21:57
Cannibal Corpse 2:37:48
Hexvessel 2:55:27

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…
Worriers - Trust Your Gut
Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night
Explosions in the Sky - End
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
Brujeria - Esto es Brujeria
Gridlink - Coronet Jupiter
Shining - Shining
Alkaloid - Numen
Fabricant - Drudge to the Thicket
Altarage - Worst Case Scenario
Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge
Mayhem - Daemonic Rites

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
Uada - Crepuscule Natura
Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns
Slomatics - Strontium Fields
Fire Down Below - Low Desert Surf Club
Domkraft - Sonic Moons
Nasty - Heartbreak Criminals
With Honor - Boundless
Captain Planet - Come On, Cat
Excarnated Entity - Mass Grave Horizon
Monolord - It’s All the Same
Acranius - Amoral

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/thatsnotmetal.

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 the Void
Orbit Culture - Descent
Fiddlehead - Death is Nothing to Us
Dethklok - Dethalbum IV
Knife - Heaven Into Dust
Incantation - Unholy Deification
Godthrymm - Distortions
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab
Urfaust - Untergang
Drab Majesty - An Object In Motion
Full of Hell/Gasp - Split
Royal Blood - Back to the Water Below
Empire State Bastard - Rivers of Heresy
Polaris - Fatalism
Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode
Taking Meds - Dial M for Meds
Primal Fear - Code Red
Bio-Cancer - Revengeance
Grave Pilgrim - The Bigotry of Purpose
Undergang - De syv stadier af fordaerv

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 2:27:20

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 Zenith Passage - Datalysium
Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes
Mutoid Man - Mutants
The Sun’s Journey Through the Night - Wordless
Sevendust - Truth Killer
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Slaughter On First Avenue

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 Heaven 1:05:06
Calligram 1:13:14
The Sun’s Journey Through the Night 1:20:53
Temple of Angels 1:29:59
Home is Where 1:40:55

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
Chamber - A Love to Kill For
End Reign - The Way of All Flesh is Decay
Deitus - Irreversible

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 - God Made Me An Animal

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 Domain
Sunami - Sunami
Vulture Industries - Ghosts from the Past
Home is Where - The Whaler
Saturnus - The Storm Within
Thy Catafalque - Alföld
Swans - The Beggar
Trophy Eyes - Suicide and Sunshine
Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun
Burner - It All Returns to Nothing
Tsjuder - Helvegr
Xasthur - Inevitably Dark
Ebony Pendant - Ebony Pendant
Wilt - Huginn
Loma Prieta - Last
Static Abyss - Aborted From Reality
Coffin Mulch - Spectral Intercession
Grotesqueries - Vile Crematory
Khanate - To Be Cruel
Divide and Dissolve - Systemic

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 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

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 - Superskull
Superbloom - Life’s a Blur
Glass Casket - Glass Casket

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 - But Here We Are
Rancid - Tomorrow Never Comes
Buckcherry - Vol. 10
Pupil Slicer - Blossom
Tigercub - The Perfume of Decay
Bully - Lucky for You
Einar Solberg - 16
Tortured Demon - Rise of the Lifeless
Buggin - Concrete Cowboys
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
Bongzilla - Dab City
Necrofier - Burning Shadows in the Southern Light
Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
American Nightmare - Dedicated to the Next World
Damim - World Turned Hell

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 Crvmbling Moon - I: Oblivion
Thulcandra - Hail the Abyss
Henget - Beyond North Star
Radien - Unissa palaneet
Vomitheist - NekoFvneral
Blood Cult - Tomb of the Unknown Redneck
Mystic Prophecy - Hellriot
The Dirty Nil - Free Rein to Passions
Immortal - War Against All
Incendiary - Change the Way You Think About Pain
Elegant Weapons - Horns for a Halo
Metal Church - Congregation of Annihilation
AJJ - Disposable Everything
Heart Attack Man - Freak of Nature
Legion of the Damned - The Poison Chalice
Vomitory - All Heads are Gonna Roll
Cloak - Black Flame Eternal
Speedwhore - Visions of a Parallel World
Usnea - Bathed In Light
Phlebotomized - Clouds of Confusion
Ondfødt - Det Österbottniska Mörkret
Darkthrone - Thulcandra
Mournful Congregation - The Exuviae of Gods - Part II
Som - Faith

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 - Step Into the Light
DevilDriver - Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
The Amity Affliction - Not Without My Ghosts
Veil of Maya - [m]other
Left to Suffer - Feral
Black Spiders - Can’t Die, Won’t Die
De Forbandede - Menneske
Island of Love - Island of Love
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise
Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse
Impetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
Esoctrilihum - Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Grave Desecrator - Immundissime Spiritus

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
Currents - The Death We Seek
Death Goals - A Garden of Dead Flowers
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
Enforcer - Nostalgia
Haunt - Golden Arm
Herod - Iconoclast
Shit Present - What Still Gets Me
Teeth - A Biblical Worship of Violence

September's Album Clubs see Anthrax making the Big 4 with Among the Living, Taking Back Sunday's Louder Now explosion, one of hardcore's most underloved albums in Gallows' self-titled, and ahead of deploying it at Damnation Festival Pig Destroyer's psychotic masterpiece Prowler in the Yard.

This episode was originally published September 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Hyperblasts weighs in on the calls for Brixton Academy's license to be permanently revoked, the Trophy Eyes moshing debate, and a stinky Beartooth track, as well as a jubilant trip to Paramore's UK leg of the This is Way tour.

Releases:
Enforced - War Remains
Cradle of Filth - Trouble and Their Double Lives
Dangerface - Be Damned!
The Damned - Darkadelic
Crown the Empire - Dogma
Vamachara - No Roses On My Grave
Mat Kerekes - You Look Like a Stranger
Dave Hause - Drive It Like It’s Stolen
Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations
Austere - Corrosion of Hearts
Wallowing - Earth Reaper
Lucifuge - Monoliths of Wrath
Swollen Teeth - Swollen Teeth

We're joined by one man speed metal machine James McBain of Hellripper for an Album Roulette talking through his early thrash metal loves, nuclear post-punk, iconic Maiden live albums, and why the Red Hot Chili Peppers are kvlt.


Toxic Holocaust - Evil Never Dies


Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Whose Buying!


Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magick


Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague


Beastmilk - Climax


Iron Maiden - Live After Death

It's time for us to undertake our hour deep dive review into the brand new Metallica record 72 Seasons, on top of the new Every Time I Escape Plan music, Foo Fighters & others, a talk about the increase of festival cancellations in the UK, and a glut of Metallica-themed questions to seal the deal.

Releases:
Poison Ruin - Harvest
Overkill - Scorched
Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance
VoidCeremony - Threads of Unknowing
Sól Án Varma - Sól Án Varma
The Infinity Ring - Nemesis & Nativity
Enter Shikari - A Kiss for the Whole World
Grave Pleasures - Plagueboys
Bell Witch - Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music
The Smashing Pumpkins - Atum: Act Three
The St. Pierre Snake Invasion - Galore
Angus McSix - Angus McSix and the Sword of Power
Dorthia Cortrell - Death Folk Country
Tanith - Voyage
Sign Language - Madison & Floral
Oath of Cranes - The Unsung Mantras
Dawn of Ouroboros - Velvet Incandescence
Predatory Void - Seven Keys to the Discomfort of Being
Birdflesh - Sickness in the North
As Everything Unfolds - Ultraviolet
Brand of Sacrifice - Between Death and Dreams

If you're not all on Metallica... Toasting Balance and Composure's return, and reviews debate Enter Shikari, Bury Tomorrow, Grave Pleasures, a hardcore gauntlet of Jesus Piece, Enforced, & The Hirs Collective, and black metal opuses from Lamp of Murmuur and Dødheimsgard.

Enter Shikari 20:32
Bury Tomorrow 43:27
Grave Pleasures 1:09:07
Jesus Piece 1:29:24
Enforced 1:40:53
The Hirs Collective 1:49:57
Lamp of Murmuur 2:07:59
Dødheimsgard 2:24:08

Hyperblasts reviews new EPs from Scowl, Tribulation, and the split from Fit for an Autopsy, Thy Art is Murder, and Malevolence, and takes in news of Motley Crue's lawsuit, petty KISS drama, and Josh Klinghoffer's sky high self-confidence.

Releases:
Scowl - Psychic Dance Routine
Tribulation - Hamartia
Fit for an Autopsy/Thy Art is Murder/Malevolence - The Aggression Sessions
Powerwolf - Interludium
Rise of the Northstar - Showdown
The Nightmares - Séance
Mudhoney - Plastic Eternity
Worriers - Warm Blanket
healthyliving - Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief
Understand - Real Food At Last
Anthropophagous - Abuse of a Corpse
Midnight Betrothed - Death…My Faithful Bride
Sunrot - The Unfailing Rope
Lo! - The Gleaners

We've got a double review on Hyperblasts with the verdict on Fall Out Boy's supposed return to form So Much (for) Stardust and Depeche Mode's poignant Memento Mori, along with new music from Empire State Bastard and Portrayal of Guilt among others and totally topical hot button questions.

Releases:
Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm
OHHMS - Rot
Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Sun
Gel - Only Constant
Lordi - Screem Writers Guild
City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near
Foxteeth - Through the Blue
Samiam - Stowaway
The Ongoing Concept - Again
Kingsmen - Bones Don’t Lie
Dead Lakes - Daydreamer
The Last In Line - Jericho
Demonstealer - The Propaganda Machine
Rotten Sound - Apocalypse
Allfather - A Violent Truth
Spirit Possession - Of the Sign…
Kommand - Death Age
Vredensdal - Sonic Devotion to Darkness
Aara - Triade III: Nyx
Attack Attack! - Dark Waves

The State of Unrest Tour with Lamb of God and Kreator finally gets done and dusted, as well as an arena show for Beartooth and a 40th anniversary blast for W.A.S.P., hip-hop delivers two very different takes on heavy metal, and we talk the worst festivals we've been to.

Releases:
Night Demon - Outsider
Kruelty - Untopia
Skourge - Torrential Torment
Foretoken - Triumphs
Verminous Serpent - The Malign Covenant
Hyperdontia - Deranged
Downfall of Gaia - Silhouettes of Disgust
Kamelot - The Awakening
Babymetal - The Other One
Dawn Ray’d - To Know the Light
Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust
Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
August Burns Red - Death Below
Ov Sulfur - The Burden ov Faith
The Bouncing Souls - Ten Stories High
The Hirs Collective - We’re Still Here
Gatekeeper - From Western Shores
Saxon - More Inspirations
Acid King - Beyond Vision
Liturgy - 93696
Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
Keep of Kalessin - Katharsis
Mork - Dypet
Shores of Null - The Loss of Beauty
Cruachan - The Living and the Dead
Ihsahn - Fascination Street Sessions
Softcult - See You in the Dark

We're at August Album Clubs with an early 2010s selection of The Gaslight Anthem's derided Get Hurt, Sylosis' thrash ambition on Edge of the Earth, Trap Them defining Entombedcore on Darker Handcraft, and assessing the impact of Infant Annihilator's meme deathcore The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution.

This episode was originally published August 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Avenged Sevenfold finally break their musical silence, we dissect Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Metal Songs list, and reviews tackle Babymetal, Zulu, Periphery, Suicide Silence, Judiciary, Dawn Ray'd, and OHHMS.

Babymetal 49:48
Zulu 1:07:24
Periphery 1:28:08
Suicide Silence 1:48:51
Judiciary 2:11:13
Dawn Ray'd 2:22:30
OHHMS 2:39:13

The electronicore scene is fractured by Blessed by a Broken Heart dramatically returning to the scene calling out Electric Callboy for supposedly stealing their sound. Who will prevail?! We also saw Napalm Death with Barney (slightly) consigned to a chair, talk our dalliances with the slam scene, and about Funeral for a Friend doing a Casually Dressed tour, again.

Releases:
Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
Periphery - Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre
Suicide Silence - Remember… You Must Die
Judiciary - Flesh + Blood
Meet Me @ The Altar - Past // Present // Future
Manchester Orchestra - The Valley of Vision
Story of the Year - Tear Me to Pieces
Nanowar of Steel - Dislike to False Metal
Gorod - The Orb
Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel - I - Harslo

New music from Svalbard and Cradle of Filth, Avenged Sevenfold teasing through social media "hacks", a trip to Obituary and Conjurer's London show, and trying to pick four of the deathcore new breed.

Releases:
Can’t Swim - Thanks But No Thanks
Zulu - A New Tomorrow
Enslaved - Heimdal
Haken - Fauna
Full of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination
Viscera - Carcinogenesis
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All
Necropanther - Betrayal
Sortilège - Apocalypso
Fake Names - Expendables
.gif from god - Digital Red

Architects call for a band strike on venue merch cuts, Frozen Soul release their first Matt Heafy-produced cut, and a lengthy report on Gojira's arena tour with Alien Weaponry and Employed to Serve and theorising on how far they might go.

Releases:
Avatar - Dance Devil Dance
Graphic Nature - A Man Waiting to Die
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper
Man Must Die - The Pain Behind It All
Ulthar - Anthronomicon / Helionomicon
Cult of Fire - Om Kali Maha Kali
Host - IX
Naut - Hunt
Going Off - What Makes You Tick?
Hundred Reasons - Glorious Sunset
Godsmack - Lighting Up the Sky
Dope - Lovesong
Steel Panther - On the Prowl
Insomnium - Anno 1696
Lovebites - Judgement Day
Megaton Sword - Might & Power
Big|Brave - Nature Morte
Death Pill - Death Pill
Venomous Concept - The Good Ship Lollipop

July Album Clubs look at the victory of one of heavy metal's patron saints Dio's Holy Diver, the most ripped off pop punk album of the decade Under Soil and Dirt by The Story So Far, the psychological horror metalcore splurge of Norma Jean's Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child, and examines bluegrass and worker's solidarity in black metal with Panopticon's Kentucky.

This episode was originally published July 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The superb new Paramore record tops February reviews with In Flames, Hellripper, Sanguisugabogg, Narrow Head, Naut, Host, and Going Off in tow, as well as Unto Others b-sides, lost Linkin Park songs, and Code Orange's ARG remix album.

Paramore 37:30
In Flames 59:54
Hellripper 1:16:12
Sanguisugabogg 1:27:06
Narrow Head 1:41:38
Naut 1:51:52
Host 2:00:02
Going Off 2:11:16

The results of the 2023 Grammys are discussed with a particularly poor showing for Rock & Metal, with the problems of treating categories like lifetime achievement awards and valueing genre tourism over homegrown acts, and we pay respects to one of our favourite alt punk bands Camp Cope.

Releases:
Paramore - This is Why
You Me At Six - Truth Decay
Pierce the Veil - The Jaws of Life
Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity
Delain - Dark Waters
Klone - Meanwhile
Stormo - Endocannibalismo
Frozen Dawn - The Decline of the Enlightened Gods
Oak - Disintegrate

The Prince of Darkness announces his touring retirement, Slipknot and Year of the Knife surprise drop new music on us, Zara Larsson pulls an oopsie! with her choice of questionable band merch, and we try to drill into the intrinsic appeal of a skeleton.

Releases:
In Flames - Foregone
Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy
Memoriam - Rise to Power
Fvnerals - Let the Earth Be Silent
Calderum - Lord Cramridor
Torso - A Crash Course In Terror

News absolutely boots off with discussion of Pantera being removed from various festival lineups in Europe, Panic! At the Disco calling it quits, and a barrage of bizarre and questionable new music arrives from The Xcerts, Ghost ft Joe Elliot, power metallers dropping diss tracks, and... David Ellefson and Violent J covering Faith No More. Give us strength.

Releases:
Maneskin - Rush
New Found Glory - Make the Most of It
Riverside - ID.Entity
Tidal Wave - The Lord Knows
Imperium Dekadenz - Into Sorrow Evermore
Nothingness - Supraliminal
Deiquisitor - Apotheosis
Tribunal - The Weight of Remembrance
Dryad - The Abyssal Plain
Grief Symposium - …In the Absence of Light
Fucked Up - One Day
White Reaper - Asking for a Ride
Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar
Oozing Wound - We Cater to Cowards
…And Oceans - As in Gardens, So in Tombs
Bizarrekvlt - Den Tatpe Krigen
Trastorned - Into the Void
Freeroad - Do What You Feel!
The Lucid - Saddle Up and Ride

Summer arrives and we go into some classic Album Club territory with Sum 41's moodier metal turn Chuck, Blind Guardian's Nightfall In Middle Earth, Your Demise upset the windbreakers on The Golden Age, and Cattle Decapitation's boundary-crossing look into a dark future The Anthropocene Extinction.

This episode was originally published June 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

2023's first TNM reviews come from VV, Katatonia, Obituary, Twilight Force, Fireworks, Swiss Army Wife, Ahab, & Grief Symposium, Fall Out Boy do the unthinkable and write a rock song again, and we debate Trivium setlists after their long awaited UK tour.

VV 35:10
Katatonia 51:38
Obituary 1:04:03
Twilight Force 1:16:06
Fireworks 1:25:32
Swiss Army Wife 1:36:19
Ahab 1:43:17
Grief Symposium 2:00:40

Hyperblasts returns for 2023 bringing the first round of early news including new music from Sleep Token, Periphery, and Enter Shikari, Till Lindeman's statue getting nicked, and our quick little look ahead at the albums and shows we're looking forward to this year.

Releases:
Iggy Pop - Every Loser
Anti-Flag - Lies They Tell Our Children
HellPoison - Ultra Outbreak of Hell
The Canyon Observer - Figura
VV - Neon Noir
Obituary - Dying of Everything
Ahab - The Coral Tombs
Polar - Everywhere, Everything

It's the last dance of the year with the TNM Awards, as the gang assemble to anoint the greats and truly take to task the bull:
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

AOTY season continues at TNM with lists from 2022's fresh contributors Mark & Elliot, and most importantly the results of the listener album of the year poll are revealed and given the magnifying glass.

Start up the fanfare cause the Albums of the Year 2022 are here, celebrating another 12 months of great records with lists from Perran, Sam, & Alec.

Metallica are back with an absolute trad metal joy, we predict the albums of the year from metal's major outlets, and we open the official TNM Listener Album of the Year 2022 poll.

Releases:
Elder - Innate Passage
Jamie Lenman - The Atheist
In the Woods… - Diversum
Judicator - The Majesty of Decay
Trhä - endlh​ë​d​ë​haj q​á​shm​ë​na ëlh vim innivte
Tchornobog / Abyssal - Split
NOFX - Double Album
Amberian Dawn - Take a Chance - A Metal Tribute to ABBA
Isafjord - Hjartastaki
Hammers of Misfortune - Overtaker
Nihilist Death Cult - Death to All Tyrants
Other Half - Soft Action
Crosses - Permanent.Radiant

In May Album Clubs, we take the opportune time to fairly assess My Chemical Romance's as yet final album Danger Days. From there we dive into a world of weirdness with Swans' White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, Big Black's affront to tastefulness Songs About Fucking, and Sigh's ode to madness In Somniphobia.

This episode was originally published May 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

In a week with Turnstile up for multiple Grammys, we head into our last reviews bag of 2022 with albums from Nickelback, Skin Failure, Devin Townsend, SpiritWorld, High Command, Turnover, Dream Unending, & Spider God.

Nickelback 37:57
Skin Failure 1:00:09
Devin Townsend 1:14:47
SpiritWorld 1:30:27
High Command 1:41:29
Turnover 1:51:46
Dream Unending 2:04:44
Spider God 2:18:45

This week we review this year's massive Damnation, seeing exclusive album sets from the likes of Converge and Pig Destroyer as the event steps up to a much larger part of the festival year, and the enormous line-up for 2023's Download is revealed.

Releases:
Skin Failure - Radillac
L.S. Dunes - Past Lives
Chelsea Grin - Suffer In Hell
He Is Legend - Endless Hallway
Xentrix - Seven Words
Dream Unending - Song of Salvation
Bonecarver - Carnage Funeral
Spider God - Fly in the Trap
Kampfar - Til Klovers Takt
Fell Ruin - Cast In Oil The Dressed Wrought
Constellatia - Magisterial Romance
Fjort - Nicht
Envy - Seimei
Last In Line - A Day in the Life
Epica - The Alchemy Project

Hyperblasts mulls over the news that the Lingua Ignota project is being retired, casts an eye over some potential festival hints, and picks a bunch of the perfect rock mixes.

Releases:
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
Turnover - Myself in the Way
Ingested - Ashes Lie Still
ChuggaBoom - Death Pledge
Dayseeker - Dark Sun
Born Without Bones - Dancer
Warlung - Vulture’s Paradise
InTechnicolour - Midnight Heavyweight
The Offering - Seeking the Elephant
96 Bitter Beings - Synergy Restored
Black Mirrors - Tomorrow Will Be Without Us
Black Anvil - Regenesis
Mord’A’Stigmata - Like Ants and Snakes
Frank Bello - Then I’m Gone

In this week's Hyperblasts round up When We Were Young got windy, and as it's Halloween we book a TNM Spooktacular and hypothesise the Universal monster's record collections.

Releases:
The Otolith - Folium Limina
Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
Dead Cross - II
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
Show Me the Body - Trouble the Water
Implore - The Burden of Existence
Fit for a King - The Hell We Create
The Gloom in the Corner - Trinity
Fire from the Gods - Soul Revolution
Single Mothers - Everything You Need
Therion - Leviathan II
Obsidious - Iconic
Worm - Bluenothing
Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality
Noctem - Credo Certe Ne Cras
Despised Icon - Déterré

This week's Hyperblasts reviews Architects' star-shooting new album, as well as covering the fiasco around Blink-182 tickets, Botch continuing to definitely not exist, and wondering which band could fight off the most goblins.

Releases:
Brutus - Unison Life
Cabal - Magno Interitus
Inclination - Unaltered Perspective
Witch Fever - Congregation
84 Tigers - Time in the Lighthouse
Orden Ogan - Final Days: Orden Ogan and Friends
Avantasia - A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society
Avatarium - Death, Where is Your Sting
Sahg - Born Demon
Black Royal - Earthbound
Exhumed - To the Dead
Battalions - King of a Dead World
Black Veil Brides - The Mourning
Full of Hell - Aurora Leaking from an Open Wound
Architects - The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit

In April's Album Clubs, AC/DC re-ascend to the throne with Black Ice, we return to the dawn of NYHC with Agnostic Front's Victim In Pain, celebrate the growing legacy of In Solitude's gothic heavy metal swansong Sister, and Kids In Glass Houses... try?

This episode was originally published April 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The reaction to the Blink-182 return, October's reviews highlight massive drops in the metal calendar from Lamb of God and Lorna Shore, as well as records from Brutus, Counterparts, Press Club, Cloud Rat, and Cabal.

Lamb of God 33:53
Lorna Shore 55:42
Brutus 1:16:19
Counterparts 1:28:01
Press Club 1:40:20
Cloud Rat 1:47:25
Cabal 2:00:33

It's an episode of heavy live music logistics, with Depeche Mode, Iron Maiden and While She Sleeps all announcing massive shows, a trip to Behemoth and Arch Enemy's co-headlining European Siege tour, and Rammstein shake up the board with their legal action against resale giant Viagogo.

Releases:
Acid Witch - Rot Among Us
Melvins - Bad Moon Rising
Lamb of God - Omens
Wednesday 13 - Horrifier
Vukovi - Nula
A.A. Williams - As the Moon Rests
Bush - The Art of Survival
Counterparts - A Eulogy for Those Still Here
Get the Shot - Merciless Destruction
Armed for Apocalypse - Ritual Violence
Goatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
Cloud Rat - Threshold
The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory
Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration
Languish - Feeding the Flames of Annihilation
Aenaon - Mnemosyne
De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue
Queensrÿche - Digital Noise Alliance
Fucked Up - Oberon
Ancst - Zorn

One more massive record this month comes from Slipknot with this week's Hyperblasts holding our review of The End, So Far, the record that sees the band double down on dark experimentation and churning gloom for the discerning maggots.

Releases:
Gaerea - Mirage
KEN Mode - Null
Daufødt - Aromaterapi
Kid Kapichi - Here’s What You Could Have Won
Stratovarius - Survive
Venom Inc. - There’s Only Black
Razor - Cycle of Contempt
Frayle - Skin & Sorrow
Gutvoid - Durance of Lightless Horizons
Live Burial - My Head as Tribute
Lostalone - The Warring Twenties
Drowning Pool - Strike a Nerve
Lost Society - If the Sky Came Down
Tankard - Pavlov’s Dawgs
Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
Stake - Love, Death and Decay
Off! - Free LSD
No Sun - In the Interim
ColdWorld - Isolation
Strigoi - Viscera
Godeater - Vespera
Darkest Era - Wither on the Vine
Escuela Grind - Memory Theater
Autophagy - Bacteriophage
Sammy Hagar and the Circle - Crazy Times
Dropkick Murphys - This Machine Still Kills Fascists
Slipknot - The End, So Far

It's the review motherlode from 2022's biggest month, with Parkway Drive, The Callous Daoboys, Megadeth, Behemoth, Clutch, Electric Callboy, Sumerlands, and The Wonder Years albums giving us disagreements, ethical discussions, huge tunes, and "ready spaghetti".

Parkway Drive 28:20
The Callous Daoboys 1:04:45
Megadeth 1:25:17
Behemoth 1:49:50
Clutch 2:19:25
Electric Callboy 2:32:11
Sumerlands 2:56:37
The Wonder Years 3:08:57

For March Album Clubs, time thaws on Judas Priest's poptastic Turbo, doesn't on The Rasmus' school disco goth with Dead Letters, there's Turbonegro's Scandipunk watershed Apocalypse Dudes, and Celtic Frost make metal's most revolutionary ever statement with Into the Pandemonium.

This episode was originally published March 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A bumper live reviews pack checks out Machine Head and Amon Amarth's Vikings & Lionhearts tour, Blood Command, and The Xcerts, as well as a consideration of the reviewer mindset, and The Black Dahlia Murder looking to continue on.

Releases:
Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvrum
Clutch - Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
Sumerlands - Dreamkiller
No Devotion - No Oblivion
Blaqk Audio - Trop d’amour
Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
Suede - Autofiction
Destrage - So Much. Too Much.
The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay
Mindforce - New Lords
The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field
Spiritus Mortis - The Great Seal
Tribal Gaze - The Nine Choirs
Mortuous - Upon Desolation
Innumerable Forms - Philosophical Collapse
Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Wolfheart - King of the Abyss
Irist - Gloria

Sam joined Perran for an impromptu weekend at the first and last UK Deathfest, in a week that also saw the first Taylor Hawkins tribute show, Fat Mike hinting that NOFX will be calling it quits, and Darkthrone continually topping their own album announcements like the kings they are.

Releases:
Parkway Drive - Darker Still
Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
Stray From the Path - Euthanasia
Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest
Revocation - Netherheaven
Electric Callboy - Tekkno
Tallah - The Generation of Danger
I Am - Eternal Steel
Demon Hunter - Exile
Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed
Armor for Sleep - The Rain Museum
Afghan Wigs - How Do You Burn?
Flogging Molly - Anthem
Fallujah - Empyrean
Crippled Black Phoenix - Banefyre
Valborg - Der Alte

This week's Hyperblasts holds the much heralded review of Muse's further dive into lunacy Will of the People. Conversely there is the much more serious and important discussion around the news concerning Neurosis this week.

Releases:
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying… and the Dead!
Blind Guardian - The God Machine
The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist
Miss May I - Curse of Existence
156/Silence - Narrative
Vermin Womb - Retaliation
The Hu - Rumble of Thunder
Carnal Ruin - Soulless I Remain
State of You - State of You

Some big summer album reviews with the massive return of Machine Head, The Interrupters, a melodeath barrage with Amon Amarth, The Halo Effect, and Arch Enemy, Sigh, and Thoughtcrimes, as well a new Botch song after 20 years that people were very normal about.

Machine Head 26:42
The Interrupters 55:06
Amon Amarth 1:11:23
The Halo Effect 1:31:50
Arch Enemy 1:41:30
Sigh 1:52:41
Thoughtcrimes 2:06:03

Album Club Pack returns for Round 2, landing a hard rocking grunge classic in Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, The Defiled's independent industrial metalcore debut Grave Times, a 2010s alt rock cornerstone in Basement's Colourmeinkindness, and an extreme metal Valentine's Day special on Bloodbath's Nightmares Made Flesh.

This episode was originally published February 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A lot later than intended due to the small matter of needing a whole new microphone, but finally the That's Not Metal review of Bloodstock Festival 2022 is here! Perran is joined by Elliot Paisley to talk the UK heavy metal event headlined by Behemoth, Mercyful Fate, and Lamb of God.

The first new music from Fugitive featuring members of Power Trip and Creeping Death is here, with Ozzy and Iommi appearing at the Commonwealth games, and trying to reach for what are the worst albums we still secretly love.

Releases:
Arch Enemy - Deceivers
The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost
Norma Jean - Deathrattle Sing for Me
Hollywood Undead - Hotel Kalifornia
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Locrian - New Catastrophisms
AEIR - A Frith Befouled
Acid Blade - Power Dive
Weregoat - The Devil’s Lust
Kreator - Live at Bloodstock 2021

There's festival news around the world from Music Midtown's gun-caused cancellation to theorising on the identity of Bloodstock's first ever secret band, picking what bands would be on a TNM tour in 2022, and we cast our eyes over the clues that suggest Botch might actually be reuniting after all. If they're not trolling.

Releases:
The Interrupters - In the Wild
Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army
Soulfly - Totem
Dub War - Westgate Under Fire
Savage Master - Those Who Hunt At Night
The Flatliners - New Ruin
Mercy Union - White Tiger
Hot Milk - The King and Queen of Gasoline
Psycroptic - Divine Council
Abaddon Incarnate - The Wretched Sermon
Ether Coven - The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail
Liminal Shroud - All Virtues Ablaze
Wampyric Rites - The Wolves Howl to the Moon

On the eve of their new album release we're joined by Cammie Gilbert of Oceans of Slumber to talk about Louisiana sludge, classic Seattle, turbulent Americana and Scandinavian folk-pop.

Agents of Oblivion - Agents of Oblivion

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral

Soundgarden - Superunknown

The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars

Eivør - Slør

This episode was originally published as early access on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A heavy rock band are actually up for the Mercury Music Prize for once, we pick the best riffs of 2022 and the best songs to test your headphones with, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are back at it again.

Releases:
Ithaca - They Fear Us
Dune Rats - Real Rare Whale
Stick to Your Guns - Spectre
Bastions - Majestic Desolation
Dance Gavin Dance - Jackpot Juicer
Beach Rats - Rat Beat
Unwritten Law - The Hum
Anberlin - Silverline
Funeral Chic - Roman Candle
Krisiun - Mortem Solis
Triumvir Foul - Onslaught to Seraphim

It's time for one of modern metal's great traditions, the lowdown on a full new Slipknot era with reactions to new album, new songs and new masks. There's also a contentious new A Day to Remember single coming out of the You're Welcome cycle, as well as heavy discussion on what rising ticket prices at Download Festival could mean, and remembrance of one of heavy metal's great modern painters Mariusz Lewandowski.

Releases:
Deaf Havana - The Present is a Foreign Land
Senses Fail - Hell is in Your Head
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead - XI: Bleed Here Now
The Ever Living - Artificial Devices
Mantar - Pain is Forever and This is the End
Haunt - Windows of Your Heart
Fellowship - The Saberlight Chronicles
Behold! The Monolith - From the Fathomless Deep
Inhuman Condition - Fearsick
Molder - Engrossed In Decay
Maul - Seraphic Punishment
Hissing - Hypervirulence Architecture
Tombs - Ex Oblivion
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy
Oceans of Slumber - Starlight and Ash
Witchery - Nightside
Palisades - Reaching Hypercritical
Wake - Thought Form Descent
Castrator - Defiled In Oblivion
Nicolas Cage Fighter - The Bones That Grew From Pain
Teethgrinder - Dystopia
Nebula - Transmission from Mothership Earth
Karl Sanders - Saurian Apocalypse
Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain
Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
Pool Kids - Pool Kids

Album Club has a brand new home, giving you a month's worth of classic records in one swoop as our first episode positions Enter Shikari's A Flash Flood of Colour as the springboard for their next ten years, unearths Porcupine Tree's information age prog dystopia Fear of a Blank Planet, considers the untapped potential of Black Peaks' All That Divides, and tries to do justice to the profound heartbreaker that is Woods of Ypres' Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light.

This episode was originally published January 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Incredibly dense and rich albums populate reviews with a returning Porcupine Tree, Conjurer, Greg Puciato, Ithaca, Imperial Triumphant, Blood Command, Wormrot, and Oceans of Slumber, but news that Pantera are "reuniting" seems maddest of all.

Porcupine Tree 38:16
Conjurer 56:05
Greg Puciato 1:18:49
Ithaca 1:32:35
Imperial Triumphant 1:46:25
Blood Command 2:07:12
Wormrot 2:26:20
Oceans of Slumber 2:44:10

Having made Kate Bush the most popular artist on planet Earth, we talk about the Stranger Things train lifting Metallica's Master of Puppets to similar heights, as well as the best metalhead character in popular media in years.

Releases:
Wormrot - Hiss
Vomit Forth - Seething Malevolence
Altars - Ascetic Reflection
Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous
The Machinist - All is Not Well
Telekinetic Yeti - Primordial

This week's Hyperblasts also sees a full review of last weekend's Outbreak Festival, where an arena-sized crowd signed mosh waivers to leap off stages for the likes of Turnstile, Knocked Loose, Deafheaven, & Vein.fm in what turned out to be a landmark year.

Releases:
Conjurer - Páthos
Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
Blood Command - Praise Armageddonism
Municipal Waste - Electrified Brain
Shinedown - Planet Zero
Frayle - Skin & Sorrow
Thirteen Goats - Servants of the Outer Dark
Black Cilice - Esoteric Atavism
Hulder - The Eternal Fanfare
Massacre - Mythos
Fresh - Raise Hell
Camp Trash - The Long Way, The Slow Way
Chief State - Waiting For Your Colours

Reports from the first Nine Inch Nails UK shows in 4 years as well as SeeYouSpaceCowboy..., the first new music in a decade from The Mars Volta, new Megadeth, and a surprise Spiritbox banger heading up a wealth of new music, and one of the most overwhelming release weeks of the year.

Releases:
Alexisonfire - Otherness
Coheed & Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Final Light - Final Light
Nervus - The Evil One
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation
Candy - Heaven is Here
Dune Rats - Real Rare Whale
Petrol Girls - Baby
Graywave - Rebirth
Saor - Origins
Khold - Svartsyn
Entrails - An Eternal Time of Decay
Darkane - Inhuman Spirits
Werewolves - From the Cave to the Grave
Calderum - Mystical Fortress of Iberian Lands
Vicious Blade - Siege of Cruelty

Perran and Mark consider the news of a four day Download next year, the loss of The Pit/Lock Up stage at Reading & Leeds, the pros and cons of growling kids on talent shows, and a bunch of new tracks including a return to form In Flames and Steve Aoki putting his fingers in some rock music pies again.

Releases:
D.R.U.G.S. - Destroy Rebuild
Lit - Tastes Like Gold
Nova Twins - Supernova
Civil War - Invaders
Esoctrilihum - Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh
White Ward - False Light
Weezer - SZNS: Summer

Returning from Slam Dunk weekend, Alexisonfire's comeback album and another stormer from Kreator head up reviews with Bleed From Within, Coheed and Cambria, Joyce Manor, Final Light, Astronoid, & Nervus.

Alexisonfire 22:31
Kreator 41:38
Bleed From Within 56:31
Coheed and Cambria 1:09:07
Joyce Manor 1:19:48
Final Light 1:30:01
Astronoid 1:41:17
Nervus 1:52:15

Perran's joined by guest Mark Sandison to talk about the feral action going down at Maryland Deathfest, Bring Me the Horizon's throwback Malta set, new tunes from Amon Amarth and Panic! At the Disco, but mainly the feral action going down at Maryland Deathfest. Good grief.

Releases:
The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow
Kreator - Hate Uber Alles
Bleed From Within - Shrine
Astronoid - Radiant Bloom
Gwar - The New Dark Ages
The Algorithm - Data Renaissance
Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
Origin - Chaosmos
Crobot - Feel This
Memphis May Fire - Remade In Misery
No Pressure - No Pressure
Temple of Void - Summoning the Slayer
Killswitch Engage - Live at the Palladium

Milton Keynes' transport network is sent into meltdown by a bunch of emos as My Chemical Romance, Mayhem, and Elton John (not on the same bill) saw a crazy Saturday night. With this episode though we salute Alec Chillingworth, who takes his leave from TNM. Cheers for your love everybody, one and all.

Releases:
Decapitated - Cancer Culture
Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos
Tremonti - Tremonti Sings Sinatra
Liam Gallagher - C’mon You Know
bigLOVE - Crusaders of Joy
Besvärjelsen - Atlas
Lord Belial - Rapture
Sacrifizer - Le diamant de Lucifer
Black Void - Antithesis
Spiter - Bathe the Babe in Bat’s Blood
Mournful Congregation - The Exuviae of Gods Part I
Baest - Justitia

As My Chemical Romance surprise us with their first new song, there's more talk of deathcore bands sneaking in Euro-metal with Lorna Shore's new track, charlatans selling the wrong rock artists at the Eurovision Song Contest, attempts to dodge flying setlist spoilers, and a general weird gig trip to Oranssi Pazuzu.

Releases:
Pkew Pkew Pkew - Open Bar
State Champs - Kings of the New Age
Moon Tooth - Phototroph
Visions of Atlantis - Pirates
Misery Index - Complete Control
Jungle Rot - A Call to Arms
Primitive Man - Insurmountable
Famyne - II: The Ground Below
Malevolence - Malicious Intent
Static Dress - Rouge Carpet Disaster
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Septicflesh - Modern Primitive
Casket Feeder - Servants of Violence
Anvil - Impact is Imminent
James LaBrie - Beautiful Shade of Grey
Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait: The Orphean Testament
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses
Predatory Light - Death and the Twilight Hours
Luminous Vault - Animate the Emptiness
Come to Grief - When the World Dies
Unbowed - Colour the Soul
Be Well - Hello Sun

Some potential break-out records and long-awaited works populate May reviews with Ibaraki, Malevolence, Static Dress, Cave In, Puppy, Septicflesh, and Casket Feeder, but first, after the heartbreaking news we remember the wonderful Trevor Strnad.

Ibaraki 26:53
Malevolence 58:15
Static Dress 1:13:28
Cave In 1:25:46
Puppy 1:42:36
Septicflesh 1:55:56
Casket Feeder 2:08:51

The mystery of Rammstein's possible fake tour dates has us scratching our heads, Suicide Silence make a blast return to their roots, and we talk about versatile vocalists, our personal most important hardcore bands, and question what it could take to knock some of the big league bands off the top, as well as live reports from Tool's Fear Inoculum tour and Helloween's returning run.

Releases:
Halestorm - Back from the Dead
Fozzy - Boombox
Three Days Grace - Explosions
Silverstein - Misery Made Me
Simple Plan - Harder Than It Looks
Stand Atlantic - F.E.A.R.
Upon a Burning Body - Fury
Ibaraki - Rashomon
Terror - Pain Into Power
Puppy - Pure Evil
God Mother - Obeveklig
Chamber - Carved In Stone
Ufomammut - Fenice
Wo Fat - The Singularity
Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
Tómarúm - Ash In Realms of Stone Icons
Haunter - Discarnate Alis
Malthusian / Suffering Hour - Time's Withering Shadow
Negative Plane - The Pact

This week's Hyperblasts sees our review of Rammstein's dramatic and diverse new album Zeit swiftly coming through the pandemic with more actual music, along with all the usual news antics.

Releases:
Watain - The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain
Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Mizmor & Thou - Myopia
The Gathering - Beautiful Distortion
Dälek - Precipice
Helms Alee - Keep This Be the Way
The Lord - Forest Nocturne
Dischordia - Triptych
Al-Namrood - Worship the Degenerate
No/Más - Consume/Deny/Repent
Throwe - Forfald
Skull Fist - Paid In Full
Udo Dirkschneider - My Way
Beachdog - Beachdog
James and the Cold Gun - False Start
Heriot - Profound Morality
Rammstein - Zeit

Architects, While She Sleeps, The Wonder Years and Tribulation lead a barrage of tracks, and we cast our minds over ill-fitting collaborations.

Releases:
Darkher - The Buried Storm
Prince Daddy & the Hyena - Prince Daddy & the Hyena
Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Etc.
Rope Sect - Metanoia Sessions
The Troops of Doom - Antichrist Reborn
These Arms are Snakes - Duct Tapes & Shivering Crows
Greyhaven - This Bright and Beautiful World
Monuments - In Stasis
Analepsy - Quiescence
Egregore - The Word of His Law
Incandescence - Le Couer De L'Homme
Månegarm - Ynglingaättens öde
Undeath - It's Time... To Rise from the Grave
Bob Vylan - Bob Vylan Presents the Price of Life
Northlane - Obsidian
Ocean Grove - Up in the Air Forever
Bodysnatcher - Bleed-Abide
Primus - Conspiranoid
Audrey Horne - Devil's Bell
Amenra / Cave In / Marissa Nadler - Songs of Townes van Zandt Vol. III
Vanum - Legend
Corpsessed - Succumb to Rot
Archgoat - All Christianity Ends
Static Abyss - Labyrinth of Veins
Mirror - The Day Bastard Leaders Die
Caliban - Dystopia
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizzard - Omnium Gatherum
Tribulation - The Dhampir

Divisive picks and party tricks lead April's reviews on TNM of new Meshuggah, PUP, Watain, Carpenter Brut, Undeath, Devil Master, Cancer Bats, and The Good, The Bad and the Zugly, as well as a first trip to Ghost's Imperatour.

Meshuggah 24:27
PUP 57:13
Watain 1:15:40
Carpenter Brut 1:43:26
Undeath 1:58:31
Devil Master 2:10:36
Cancer Bats 2:22:40
The Good, The Bad and the Zugly 2:34:43

The yearly Grammys sigh comes from bizarre decision of metal winner, Clutch hit us with the first taste of their next album (mystic), and Rammstein get misshapen in the Zick Zack video.

Releases:
Papa Roach - Ego Trip
The Good, The Bad and the Zugly - Research and Destroy
Health - Disco 4: Part II
Destruction - Diabolical
Hällas - Isle of Wisdom
Mors Principium Est - Liberate the Unborn Inhumanity
Tome of the Unreplenished - Earthbound
Terzij de Horde - In One of These, I am Your Enemy
Signals Midwest - Dent
Oceanator - Nothing's Ever Fine
Heart to Gold - Tom

Returning by popular demand after last week's launch, our new news and questions show takes a moment to celebrate the life of Taylor Hawkins, before turning to The Gaslight Anthem returning as an active band and the potential of a remixed The Blackest Beautiful edition. Alec hears of Pen Pineapple Apple Pen for the first time.

Releases:
Meshuggah - Immutable
PUP - THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love
Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror
The Hellacopters - Eyes of Oblivion
Satan - Earth Infernal
GGGOLDDD - This Shame Should Not Be Mine
Black Death Cult - Diaspora
Blood Countess - Occulta Tenebrais
Kublai Khan - The Lowest Form of Animal
Devon Kay & the Solutions - Grieving Expectation
Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflection
Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon
Ignite - Ignite

We debut our much-requested weekly news and questions show, dissecting Ghost's chart performance for Impera, the bands who've done best and worst during the pandemic, and lay out our first release calendar.

RELEASES:
Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems
Camp Cope - Running With the Hurricane
Helpless - Caged In Gold
Dream Widow - Dream Widow
Placebo - Never Let Me Go
Abbath - Dread Reaver
Sakis Tolis - Among the Fires of Hell
Absent In Body - Plague God
Emma Ruth Rundle - Orpheus Looking Back
Killing Joke - Lord of Chaos
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
Port Noir - Cuts
Architects - For Those That Wish to Exist At Abbey Road
Bâ'a - Egrégore
Falls of Rauros - Keys to a Vanishing Future
Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World
Father Befouled - Crowned In Veneficum
Kanonenfieber - Yankee Division / Stop the War
MWWB - The Harvest
Reckless Love - Turborider

We lead with a huge look at Ghost's Impera in our March reviews as Papa guns for the bigtime, with Vein.fm, some right jokes with Sabaton, Midnight, Camp Cope, Soul Glo, Helpless, and Véhémence, as well as Rammstein's return.

Ghost 29:05
Vein.fm 1:05:17
Sabaton 1:27:02
Midnight 1:50:45
Camp Cope 2:01:24
Soul Glo 2:12:17
Helpless 2:24:39
Véhémence 2:33:01

TNM Does Horror turns a year old, so we're throwing a birthday bash for all listeners with the new Scream & Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. It's a face-off of the re-quels, both spinning commentary on the idea, with some surprise disagreements on what's really going on in them.

An enormous month for expansive albums demands a big episode, as our February reviews hit huge records from Venom Prison, Zeal & Ardor, Korn, Cult of Luna, Rolo Tomassi, Gregor Barnett, Tuskar, and Immolation, and tries to turn over every bit of rock beef these weeks have thrown at us.

TNM returns with a new look as we lay out our new reviews schedule, and debut the format with Enterprise Earth, Shadow of Intent, Billy Talent, Wiegedood, Celeste, Slowbleed, Comeback Kid, and 40 Watt Sun.

This episode features some lower than usual microphone quality, which we will be looking to remedy for the next show. Cheers for sticking with us and we hope you enjoy the new show format.

Perran, Sam & Alec return to the TNM Awards for 2021 with:
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

It's the album of the year show for 2021, with Perran, Alec & Sam presenting their top 20 albums of the year, along with TNM Listener Album of the Year results.

It's the last reviews episode of 2021 with records from Static Dress, Volbeat, and Voices dissected, and an Album Club on Bury Tomorrow's breakthrough medieval hit factory The Union of Crowns.

The fallout of Code Orange's new single and Brass Against's unexpected passion for public watersports are the big stories of the week, and reviews hit Khemmis, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Me and That Man, and at last Converge's almighty Bloodmoon.

There's a deluge of new singles from Slipknot, Korn, PUP & more, our last catch-up reviews for 2021 from tech death and swing to Gilbert Gottfried's favourite band, and we answer the big question: mask or cape?

Limp Bizkit break their ten year absence with Still Sucks, Bullet for My Valentine and MØL also reviewed, Porcupine Tree surprise with a sudden return, discussion of Behemoth's XXX Years ov Blasphemy stream, and Album Club is PUP's self-titled debut.

It's the day of rockening: Mastodon's new double album, Jerry Cantrell & Whitechapel are reviewed, there's talk of the fallacy of the "Black Album" ideal", and Lordi get an Album Club on their historic The Arockalypse.

A bumper reviews bag hits records from Biffy Clyro, Every Time I Die, Can't Swim & Green Lung, there are questions on bad encores and Corpsegrinder cameos, Unto Others put out a Halloween single and we talk through the recent Bloodstock pronouns issue and why it's important.

Knocked Loose hit us with a surprise EP, album reviews turn to Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Ice Nine Kills, and Cradle of Filth, and Album Club looks at the role that Thy Art is Murder's Hate played in opening up a new era in deathcore.

Trivium return with their second album in two years In the Court of the Dragon King along with reviews of Blood Youth and Lamp of Murmuur, Album Club is Alkaline Trio's big rock record Crimson, plus the great Jane Doe controversy.

One of TNM's noisiest weeks sees album reviews of Dying Wish, Full of Hell, & Frontierer, news starts with music from Converge's Bloodmoon album, Ghost's Halloween Kills track, Guns N' Roses, & Limp Bizkit before getting to the ridiculous with Psychosexual - sorry, Synner - and Hollywood Gods N' Monsters, and Album Club is on emotional hardcore's most divisive band with La Dispute's Wildlife.

Machine Gun Kelly picks a fight with Slipknot, we cover an album of the year push from Unto Others, Sleep Token and Rivers of Nihil, take questions on band specials, awards show clunkers, and the oldest records we love, and Album Club is a big peek at our Meshuggah special with the iconic obZen.

In one of 2021's best weeks, we finally delve inside and evaluate Spiritbox's debut album Eternal Blue, Employed to Serve's victorious Conquering, and Miss Vincent, questions gage onomatopoeias, title tracks & Rick Astley, and Album Club is a monstrous 2000s death metal springboard from Tobias Forge in Repugnant's Epitome of Darkness.

There's new Biffy Clyro (you're welcome), new Corey Taylor mask, and news of Gulch's split, questions on Halsey's Reznor & Ross produced album and festival horror stories, reviews are Andrew WK, Carcass and Mastiff, and Album Club finally takes to task a wild claim of Gold Cobra being Limp Bizkit's secret best work.

TNM goes in deep on appraising Iron Maiden's new double album Senjutsu, backed by Bokassa, Press to MECO, & Leprous, questions include the most unlikely 10/10 albums, there's Download & Damnation fest news, and the mystery of the Turnstile pit pooper.

Turnstile finally return with Glow On alongside Jinjer & The Bronx, Album Club surveys rock's relationship with industrial hip-hop band Death Grips and their brutal Exmilitary tape, and news bids farewell to Charlie Watts and Eric Wagner while assessing the week's developments with Gloryhammer.

Three sweeping captivating records fill reviews with Deafheaven's pivot to indie rock, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Between the Buried and Me's Colors II, and Album Club is The Sisters of Mercy's 1987 Steinman-assisted goth pop bombast Floodland.

Perran is back from Bloodstock with a review of the UK's most heavy metal festival's big return and birthday celebrations, with massive headlining sets and a bill put together under constantly trying circumstances bringing celebration-worthy successes.

The possible future of Babymetal is pondered, Bloodstock tips given, Lingua Ignota's puritan nightmare album Sinner Get Ready tops an eclectic reviews batch with Gost and Lantlôs, and Album Club is Britrock heroes Funeral for a Friend's underrated hardcore turn Conduit.

A reflection on a sombre week with the passing of Joey Jordison, ZZ Top's Dusty Hill, and the news of Black Peaks splitting. We also review new Creeper, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! and King Woman, and Album Club toasts Joey and Wednesday 13's Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls.

There's discussion of Iron Maiden's Senjutsu being another double album, the success of Eurovision rock winners Måneskin, and Josh Todd's mad Minor Threat fantasy, reviews of new Descendents, Alexis Marshall, and Erdve, and Album Club toasts half a century of Black Sabbath's monolithic Master of Reality.

The week is made massive by new tracks from Trivium, Ice Nine Kills, and actual Iron Maiden, questions include the worst self-titled albums, reviews follow up on our Killswitch Engage special with Times of Grace and Light the Torch alongside Powerwolf, and Album Club is on Blood Command's 2010s cult hit Funeral Beach.

There are some issues with microphone quality in this episode that clear up around 45 mins in, so heads up there. Tech has not been on our side this week but cheers for supporting.

Reviews catch up on some of 2021's gems, spanning grunge, NYHC, Norwegian legends, prog goth, expansive doom, and sickening death metal.

Iron Maiden are tickling our tastebuds with their online teaser campaign, At the Gates' masterfully strange new album tops reviews along with Urne and Pt. 2 of The Hell's Joris saga, and with the announcement of its sequel Album Club is Between the Buried and Me's demented prog classic Colors.

Perran is joined by friend of the podcast Mitch Harrod for a review of Download Pilot, the first rock festival to return after the COVID-19 pandemic, to discuss what a festival is like after COVID and of course the bands who won the weekend.

Metallica's Blacklist looks mental and prompts talk of the best remasters, reviews of new Beartooth, Helloween, and Amenra records, and Album Club is the progressive post-hardcore immersion of Thrice's Vheissu.

Perran and Alec topline the crazy Hellfest news, new songs from Machine Head, Unto Others & more, Fear Factory, Hacktivist and Bossk are in reviews, and Album Club looks at the MySpace moment and surviving status as a heavy music landmark of Job for a Cowboy's Doom EP.

It's the arrival week of AFI's Bodies along with new Deafheaven and Poppy in news, Go Ahead and Die and Wristmeetrazor reviews, talk on the best albums not streaming, and Album Club is Alice Cooper's career-reviving crack at making glam spooky with Trash.

We discuss Download Pilot, genre purity, and fictional universes, reviews are of Rise Against, Red Fang's noisy new record and Boss Keloid's odd prog, and Album Club is on one of the most individual metal bands of the 2000s with Nevermore's This Godless Endeavour.

New music from Turnstile, Times of Grace & more, the news that David Ellefson is out of Megadeth, and it's a bumper reviews week racing from punk to black metal to darkwave to deathcore with Noctule, Perturbator, Kaonashi, Fiddlehead, Dödsrit and Mental Cruelty.

UK metal upstarts Vexed, The Devil Wears Prada's Zombie II and Jess & the Ancient Ones are reviewed, there's new Green Day and discussion of how music livestreams might persevere, and an extended edition Album Club goes into Entombed's debut classic Left Hand Path.

Reviews plug into the scene with SeeYouSpaceCowboy and If I Die First's split, Manchester Orchestra and Bala, questions on affectionate blind spots for insufferable artists, and Album Club is Slash's rock jukebox with his first solo album.

TNM glams up for a review of the legend Van Weezer, plus Salem II and Evile, questions hair metal's legacy in rock's mainstream credibility and what it means to be dated, and examines another insane glam genre crossover with Blessed by a Broken Heart's Pedal to the Metal.

The long-awaited return of Gojira is here, along with reviews of Royal Blood and Capra, Album Club is swallowed up by Neurosis' legendary Through Silver In Blood, and minds are lost at Darkthrone calling an album "Eternal Hails......"

It's a bumper reviews week hitting every emotion, tackling Greta van Fleet, The Offspring, a sonic revolt from The Armed and a stirring swansong from Bodom After Midnight, Mudvayne reunite, and Weezer play their orchestral OK Human show.

The week's reviews are While She Sleeps, Holding Absence and Amigo the Devil, there's new Salem and a consideration of the news that Faust will be performing with Emperor again, Album Club is Cobalt's drunken Americana rage with Gin, and Dave Grohl helps out the elderly.

Cannibal Corpse continue to blow our minds with Violence Unimagined, fellow reviews are for Devil Sold His Soul and GHLOW, it's a packed questions week, and Album Club recognises 10 years of the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light.

Architects get orchestral, releases from Citizen, Wode and Godspeed You! Black Emperor get reviewed, and Album Club weighs up where .5: The Gray Chapter fits into Slipknot's sound in a post-WANYK world.

New tracks from Beartooth, The Bronx & more, Evanescence top reviews with their first album of original material in ten years backed by Sanguisugabogg and Dollar Signs, and Album Club is Testament's victorious thrash watershed The Formation of Damnation.

It's Awards Season as we look at the outcome of the 2021 Grammys, reviews highlight a bunch of the best hardcore and crossover releases of the past couple weeks, and Album Club gives a peek at our in-depth Rammstein special available on Patreon with their masterpiece Mutter.

Rob Zombie has another album with a stupid name we have to say out loud in reviews alongside Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and Eyehategod, Album Club looks at Thursday's 20 year old post-hardcore landmark Full Collapse, we discuss positive representation of rock fans in mainstream media, and pay tribute to Entombed's LG Petrov. Plus a big announcement about our upcoming specials.

It's another hotly contested week with the arrival of A Day To Remember's new album You're Welcome, Brand of Sacrifice and NOFX getting reviews, Amen's 2000 major label punk rock We Have Come For Your Parents is Album Club, and questions descend to the gutter with some of the worst rock and metal pseudonyms of all time.

Architects' new album gets the level-headed review in a bumper episode featuring Epica, Void, members of Code Orange getting emo with Adventures' Supersonic Home in Album Club, and a sombre discussion in news about the proposed lifting of lockdown measures date in the UK and how safe summer might really look.

TNM weighs up just how much live music is missing from our lives, Teenage Wrist, Love and Death, and Harakiri for the Sky get reviewed, Album Club positions Parkway Drive's Ire as a modern classic, and Gojira making a storming return to news with their new single Born for One Thing.

It's an eclectic week of surprise drops as Hayley Williams' second solo release and Loathe's experimental ambient project are put under the microscope along with UK punks Drones, it's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominee Time, and Album Club turns to Nile's Annihilation of the Wicked for an ancient Egyptian masterclass.

It's a massive show as Foo Fighters top the album reviews along with Cult of Luna and The Ruins of Beverast, Album Club ponders whether Mindless Self Indulgence are the godfathers of crunkcore, we address the Marilyn Manson abuse allegations story along with happier news elsewhere, and the new That's Not Metal Patreon is launched and outlined at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal. This show has always and will always be for you. Thank you for coming with us.

Weezer's OK Human arrives in album reviews along with praise for Tribulation and Portrayal of Guilt, we book an imagined returning Ghostfest, and Album Club explores the greater depth and dexterity of Evanescence's overlooked second album The Open Door.

TNM weighs up what the cancellation of Glastonbury 2021 might mean for the UK festival calendar, Frank Iero and the Future Violence, Asphyx, and Bloody Hammers are up in reviews, and Album Club looks at pop punk superstars' moment of maturity with Blink-182's untitled record.

It's the first reviews week of 2021. Power metal bands are in open rebellion against the US government. The Dirty Nil, Frozen Soul, and You Me At Six are up in reviews, there are new AFI singles to talk about, and Album Club explores what made Alexi Laiho such a one-off with Children of Bodom's Hatebreeder.

We close our 2021 preview with the metal, tackling:

Architects
While She Sleeps
Gojira
Mastodon
Iron Maiden
System of a Down
Cradle of Filth
At the Gates
Cannibal Corpse
Carcass
Deafheaven
Cult of Luna
Employed to Serve
Conjurer
Venom Prison
Vein
Spiritbox
Bleeding Through
Rammstein
Fear Factory
Megadeth
Kreator
Rob Zombie
King Diamond/Mercyful Fate
Jinjer
Converge
Machine Head
Nails
& more

We look forward to 2021 with the first part of our rock & metal preview, discussing some of the following bands:

Ghost
A Day to Remember
Every Time I Die
Foo Fighters
Weezer
Against Me!
Greta Van Fleet
Turnstile
Red Hot Chili Peppers
AFI
Nine Inch Nails
Evanescence
Papa Roach
Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes
Beartooth
Black Veil Brides
Halestorm
Billy Talent
Rise Against
The Interrupters
Marmozets
The Xcerts
Black Peaks
Holding Absence
Salem/Creeper
Perturbator
VV
Guns N Roses
My Chemical Romance

It's Christmas, so Perran, Sam & Alec take a sit back for a more casual episode running through your questions, festive, musical, or comical.

The TNM Awards are back for 2020 with:
Most Improved Band
Song of the Year
Worst Song of the Year
Hero of the Year
Villain of the Year
Best New Band
Most Disappointing Album
Gig of the Year / Livestream 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

The Album of the Year celebrations roll on as Perran is joined by two new That's Not Metal co-hosts.

That's Not Metal is back with the Top 20 Albums of 2020 from Perran and special guests Beez and Ryan De Freitas back to give their lists. Numbers 10-1 in Part 2.

That's Not Metal is back with the Top 20 Albums of 2020 from Perran and special guests Beez and Ryan De Freitas back to give their lists. Numbers 20-11 in Part 1.

It's Beez's big farewell. Album reviews are on Greg Puciato, Spirit Adrift, Six Feet Under and a double shot of Bon Jovi with their new record discussed and Keep The Faith in Album Club. See you in the future and keep supporting the things you love - Beez.

The passing of Eddie Van Halen dominates news, there's also chat about Ghost and Avenged Sevenfold's new album developments, AC/DC's comeback, Tom Delonge's sci fi movie debut, album reviews on Idles, The Hell, Laura Jane Grace, Jamie Lenman and Anaal Nathrakh and our Album Club is on Dave Grohl's Probot project.

Perran is back in the game as TNM reviews the new Deftones (eventually), Corey Taylor, Svalbard and Machine Gun Kelly releases, there's some serious chat about the future of the business and some not so serious chats about AC/DC's return.

Beez and Perran discuss the lasting legacy of Napalm Death while reviewing their new album alongside new Fit ForA King and Blaqk Audio, the return of Pendulum and Killer Be Killed's debut is this week's Album Club.

It's a bumper week as Beez and Perran discuss last week's Behemoth stream, the new albums from Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Ihsahn and Eskimo Callboy, there's a celebration of Power Trip and all of the usual radness.

Rest In Power, Riley Gale. (Metallica's S&M2, Pig Destroyer and Ulver in reviews)

The first TNM back as a 2 piece! Deftones are back and Beez literally went hunting around Los Angeles for them. There's the bizarre Psychosexual in reviews alongside Ingested and Unleash The Archers and Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe is featured on Album Club.

With a heavy heart, it's our last podcast as a three piece as Ryan leaves TNM. There's reviews on the new albums from Biffy Clyro, Elephant Tree and Phoxjaw and much, much more.

We comb the Download 2021 line up, your questions include bad songs on classic albums and we review the new albums from Avatar, Year Of The Knife and a classic in waiting from Imperial Triumphant and our Album Club is on the Saw 6 soundtrack. No, seriously.

Review and subscribe to TNM and join Beez on Twitch.tv/MoshTalks every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday 11am PST/2pm EST/7pm UK.

Reviews this week: Creeper, Gaerea and Mortality Rate.

The new Gulch album is phenomenal and you should listen to it as soon as you finish listening to this podcast. There's also new Neck Deep and The Acacia Strain and Album Club concentrates on Faith No More's King For A Day...masterpiece.

The TNM crew discuss Metallica's new S&M tracks, ICP administering street justice and a tonne of new music, there's reviews on the new Sharptooth, Lawrence Arms and Maggot Heart albums and we get real heavy with Sleep's Dopesmoker in Album Club.

Nothing but covers this week as we review the new Benji Skindred, Inter Arma, Thou and 2 Minutes to Late Night and do Metallica's Garage Inc as Album Club. There's also laughs aplenty with news and the best mailbag in forever. Good work, gang!

I'm not even writing a description this week because Mini Milks - Beez

Just Beez and Perran this week as they discuss hot off the press new BMTH, whether the world is ready to pay for streamed concert events and what is the most metal logo in sports in your letters. We catch up on some of the year's best albums we haven't covered from Sepultura, Drain and Ulcerate and Killswitch offshoot Times Of Grace are the subject of this week's Album Club.

The TNM crew dissect new music from Machine Head, Creeper and The Dirty Nil, they go deep on the new Lamb of God, Mrs Piss and Justice For The Damned albums, there's a celebration of 20 years of White Pony and all the usual japes.

A serious first 20 mins about race, The Ghost Inside and what the past 2 weeks have meant for the alternative community. We then shift gears to chat about the best live collaborations we've ever seen, review the new albums from Run The Jewels, END and Album Club is on The Pixies' debut, Surfer Rosa.

TNM is a riot this week as we rejoice that Mastodon will have music in the new Bill And Ted movie and Rob Halford has an autobiography coming, we review new albums from Bleed From Within and Gold Key, the new Behemoth EP and Cypress Hill's Black Sunday is this week's Album Club.

It's a ridiculously fun show as the lads discuss new Idles and Jamie Lenman, the future of Bullet For My Valentine, your questions bring some spectacular nonsense about cover songs and Covid swimming pools and we bring you great underground releases from Dool, Slowbleed, Jeff Rosenstock and Rule Them All.

Matt Bellamy and Maynard James Keenan get weird, Chelsea Wolfe has a spectacular new band, we pick who we’d like to get a The Last Dance style documentary, there’s reviews of the new albums from Asking Alexandria and Paradise Lost and our Album Club is on the much overlooked Anthrax classic, We’ve Come For you All.

We discuss who would headline an all British Download festival in your questions, there’s chat on album delays and reviews of the new Hayley Williams, Combos and Malevolence releases and our Album Club is on Cancer Bats’ devastating Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones.

There's a bumper mailbag including an essential guide to getting to grips with bands with big back catalogues, we review the new albums from The Used, Boston Manor, Umbra Vitae and Havok and our Album Club is on Skindred's 2011 slammer, Union Black.

A special TNM Extra as Beez is joined by Jonathan Vigil and James Riley from The Ghost Inside to talk about the realities of the past 5 years and their triumphant return.

The Ghost Inside's self-titled album is available to pre-order at theghostinside.com.

It's a killer TNM as we rejoice at the return of The Ghost Inside, there's a look at the new albums from Trivium, Dance Gavin Dance, Danzig and Elder and our Album Club is on Depeche Mode's Songs Of Faith And Devotion.

It's a huge week as Enter Shikari return with a barn stormer of an album, there's discussion on who is the best band in the world right now and more in your letters, lolz aplenty with Puddle Of Mudd's Nirvana impression and our Album Club goes back to 1995 for Skunk Anansie's Paranoid And Sunburnt.

We chat about what we want from Download festival in 2021 and more in your letters, Nightwish, Testament and Demonic Death Judge have their latest albums reviewed and Sublime's self-titled is featured in this week's Album Club.

It's a stir crazy week where we talk about Drag Race, Godzilla and leprechauns in the absence of actual news, your letters defend Smash Mouth and things get back on track with Nine Inch Nails, Me And That Man and All Time Low have their new album reviews and there's an Album Club for the ages on Motorhead's Ace Of Spades. Everything Louder Than Everything Else.

Test your knowledge of Metallica, festival headliners, grunge and alternative, US punk rock and more with our latest free round from our Premium Spotify quiz.

Head to thatsnotmetal.net to get the full quiz and subscribe to That's Not Metal Premium.

Back once again for the renegade quizmaster! Enjoy part 1 of the 2nd ever TNM Quarantine quiz.

We've dropped the price on annual subscriptions to £20 so to get the rest of this special as well as over 200 hours of premium podcasts, head to thatsnotmetal.net and get TNM Premium.

Bizarrely, it's a massive week for TNM with new albums to review from Pearl Jam, Milk Teeth and one of the best new metal bands to debut in ages from Irist. We deal with the sad news that there will be no Download festival this year, there are returns from Trivium, Nine Inch Nails, Jamie Lenman, a bumper mailbag and The Ghost Inside's Dear Youth features on Album Club.

The final free round of the first ever TNM Pub Quiz is here for your enjoyment.

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Round 2 of the first ever TNM Pub Quiz is here for your enjoyment.

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Round 1 of the first ever TNM Pub Quiz is here for your enjoyment.

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Two thirds of the TNM team decide to drink their way through the apocalype as we bring you a bumper mailbag, some of the year's most ridiculous news from Jared Leto in the desert to Trapt, reviews on the new In This Moment, Myrkur and Hyborian and there's a celebration of alll things Wildhearts as Endless Nameless gets the Album Club treatment.

We've had the tagline "support the things you love" since our inception and there has never been a more appropriate time to repeat that mantra. This special look at the realities facing the music that you love. We get the perspective of some folks on the frontline as we check in with Dylan from Spanish Love Songs and esteemed music managers Matt Hughes (Black Peaks, Jamie Lenman) and Mike Mowery (Ice Nine Kills). We'll be back on Friday with our regular programming. Stay safe and stay home.

We try to keep things upbeat as we discuss the very real implications of the Coronavirus on the music we love, we discuss the biggest album of the year so far in Code Orange's Underneath as well as new albums from Body Count and Video Nasties.

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Ghost have a brand new Papa, there's new music from Neck Deep, Creeper, Greg Puciato and more, we discuss bands that we thought would be massive but were not and round up some of the best albums of 2020 that we haven't covered on the show so far.

The TNM gang return with a look at new albums from Five Finger Death Punch, Intronaut and System Of A Down's John Dolmayan, Trivium return with a vengeance, it's been a hell of a week for The Used and our Album Club is on Muse's Absolution.

Ozzy returns with his first album in 10 years, Biffy Clyro and Machine Head return, we discuss what metalcore band would work best with a symphony orchestra, a look at the new Polaris and Starbenders albums and Album Club involves Ryan stitching the team up with one of the worst albums in existence - Crazy Town's The Gift Of Game.

So, Ryan sounded like a robot on the podcast we recorded so here's a brief summary of this week's Rage Against The Machine news and the album we all loved and an inside look at our premium podcasts. Available at thatsnotmetal.net, we are currently podcasting the entire career of Nine Inch Nails and here, for free, is the first hour of Part 1. Part 2 is also available at the site and Part 3 is coming this wednesday so, if you aren't part of TNM Premium, now is the time to sign up.

It's a massive week at TNM as we discuss the new Green Day album, an early Album Of The Year contender in Spanish Love Songs, rising British mob Loathe and returning metal lords Sylosis, there's Knotfest, new Lamb Of God and Black Dahlia Murder, discussion on rock stereotypes that drive us mad and much, much more.

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There's new music to discuss from Pearl Jam, Hayley Williams, Creeper and more, Disturbed's The Sickness causes an outright LOLocaust in Album Club, there's reviews on the new albums from Higher Power, Oberst and Midnight and all manner of rock related shenanigans.

This week’s TNM features chat on NIN going into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, new music from Avenged Sevenfold, Code Orange and Bury Tomorrow, Justin Hawkins appearing in The Masked Singer, reviews on the new releases from Dragged Under and The Hell and finally Beez, Perran and Ryan bringing you a bunch of smaller bands to keep an eye out for this year.

Gene Simmons puts ice cubes in his cereal. If that isn't enough to entice you in to this week's show, there are reviews on new albums from Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy and Jason Butler's new Pressure Cracks EP, there's new music from Turnstile, Kvelertak and the ex Machine Head guys to discuss and a classic Album Club with the Dropkick Murphys.

The TNM 2020 preview continues with a look at some of the heavier bands releasing new music this year including:
Iron Maiden
Mastodon
Gojira
Lamb Of God
Avenged Sevenfold
Bury Tomorrow
FFDP
Knotfest
Code Orange
Turnstile
Vein
Nails
Conjurer
Zeal & Ardor
Power Trip
Suicide Silence
Hatebreed
Black Dahlia Murder
Sylosis
Megadeth
Ozzy
King Diamond

The TNM gang look forward to what rock and metal has to offer in 2020 by discussing everything from My Chemical Romance and Nine Inch Nails to Don Broco, Green Day and Idles on the first of this two part 2020 preview.

Part 2 of Beez, Perran and Ryan counting down the Top 20 Albums of the Decade.

Part 1 of Beez, Perran and Ryan counting down the Top 20 Albums of the Decade.

Beez, Perran and Ryan talk you through the best and worst of all things rock and metal in 2019 through the following categories:
Most Improved Band
Best Song Of The Year
Worst Song Of The Year
Hero Of The Year
Villain of the Year
Gig of the Year
Best New Band
Most Disappointing Album Of The Year
Comeback Of the Year
Outstanding Achievement
Worst Band of 2019
Surprise Of The Year
Unsung Heroes
Story Of The Year
Band of the Year 2019

Part 2 of our Albums Of The Year show featuring our Top 10 rock and metal albums of 2019.

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Motley Crue have returned after a worldwide farewell tour, Download add a bunch of bands and there's news on how you can vote for this year's TNM Listener's Album Of The Year. It's one of the most varied and interesting set of albums this year as we look at the new Sleep Token, Lindemann and Blood Incantation and 2004's Decadence by Head Automatica is our Album Club.

There's been controversy on some of the reasons Kevin Lyman has blamed for the demise of Warped as we discuss that, new Suicide Silence and King Diamond, there's chat of bands that are always "good" and nothing more, reviews on the new Despised Icon, UnityTX and Mayhem and our Album Club celebrates the return of The Black Crowes as we discuss 1990's Shake Your Money Maker.

It's a jam packed TNM as Beez, Ryan and Perran discuss new BMTH, Ozzy Osbourne and Creeper, Rage Against The Machine's return and Arctangent festival 2020, there's chat on our favorite guitar tone ever, reviews on the new Alcest, Fit For An Autopsy and Can't Swim and MCR fever continues as we look back at Gerard Way's Hesitant Alien on Album Club.

The year's biggest news drops as My Chemical Romance announce their return, there's also chat on 2020's Bloodstock headliners, the most insane arrest of the year, your spooky Halloween themed questions, album reviews on the new Stray From The Path, Turnover and Jinjer and an Album Club on The Misfits 1999 classic, Famous Monsters.

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It's been an eventful week in the world of Machine Head, the TNM gang dissect that plus the RnR HoF 2020 nominations, mayhem with Mayhem, album reviews on the new Alter Bridge, Refused and Jimmy Eat World releases, can a band's social media put you off their music and our Album Club celebrates the soon-to-be returning Suicide Silence and their 2012 classic, The Black Crown.

Discussion this week includes Metallica's S&M2 cinema experience, David Draiman singing the US anthem at the Super Bowl, reviews on the new albums from BABYMETAL, Issues and Microwave and Album Club is on Corrosion Of Conformity's 1994 classic, Deliverance.

Machine Head add new members, the metal world rallies around James Hetfield, Bloodstock announces it's first 2020 headliner and there's new albums to discuss from The Menzingers, Gatecreeper and The Darkness with an Album Club on AFI's controversial Crash Love opus.

Download and Slam Dunk announce their first bands for 2020 and we discuss that plus how to blood new headliners, there are album reviews on the new Opeth, SeeYouSpaceCowboy and Car Bomb albums, we discuss our favorite Autumn songs and power ballads, there's some serious Steel Panther chat and an epic Album Club on AC/DC's legendary Highway To Hell.

There are massive rumors of System Of A Down playing Download 2020, album reviews on the new Blink 182, Cult Of Luna and As I Lay Dying albums, discussion on who from the world of rock you would have officiate your wedding and our Album Club turns into a group argument on Yellowcard's Ocean Avenue.

We chat the Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer 'Hella Mega Tour' and discuss their new tracks as well as new music from Ghost, Touche Amore and Post Malone's Ozzy Osborne collab, album reviews on the new Korn, Chelsea Wolfe and The Hu and our Album Club is on The Cure's classic Disintegration.

A gift from us to you on our 4th Birthday! Beez is off his head on painkillers (srsly) so here is a free Premium podcast. All hail the 1st round of our Album Of The Decade tournament!

The most anticipated rock album of the year arrives and we go deep on Tool's Fear Inoculum, there's also Trent Reznor scoring a Pixar movie, Bon Jovi releasing the political album that nobody wanted and talk of a Corey Taylor solo album, we discuss the year's biggest disappointments in your questions, review the new Oso Oso and Portrayal Of Guilt releases and talk Jay Z and Linkin Park's Collision Course on Album Club.

Beez and Perran discuss the wealth of new ADTR news, who is Tortilla Man? and all things Slipknot, there's discussion on Megadeth opening for FFDP, reviews on Knocked Loose, Shadow Of Intent and Devil Master and our Album Club is on the Freddy vs Jason soundtrack. THIS is why we need Ryan back. He'll be with us again next week.

A new Killswitch Engage album is upon us as we review that and albums from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and the combined project between Conjurer and Pijn, there's new music from Enter Shikari, news on Nergal being thrown out of a gym for not believing in Jesus, discussion about who could headline next year's Bloodstock and our Album Club in on Floridian death metal legends Death's 4th album, Human.

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It's a ludicrous week that includes all manner of tomfoolery but there's also talk on new Slipknot, reviews of the new Thy Art Is Murder, Tomb Mold and Scott Stapp, more laughs than you can shake a stick at and an Album Club on Panic! At The Disco's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.

The TNM team discuss Maynard vs The Biebers, new music from The Menzingers and Opeth and why life's too short for Puddle Of Mud, there's thoughts on Heavy Metal Parenting, album reviews on the new Sabaton, Sum 41 and Lingua Ignota and Album Club comes on the cult classic Heavy Breathing from Black Breath.

The TNM team have a laugh a minute as they discuss the mental new Asking Alexandria song, how Ed Sheeran is stinking up rock radio, there's confessions on The Rasmus and Crazy Town, discussion on the most metal crisp flavor, reviews on new Drab Majesty, Wear Your Wounds and Prince Daddy & The Hyena and Album Club is on one of the all time great albums - Dirt by Alice In Chains.

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The TNM team have spent this week finding the 3 worst albums of this year with hilarious results. There's also chat on new Korn, Killswitch Engage, Neck Deep and Alter Bridge, Manowar are being ridiculous, we pick our favorite non-lyrical vocal hooks and Album Club continues the worst week ever theme as we delve in on 2009's abomination from Brokencyde.

The TNM Team discuss next year's Download headliners and new music by Chelsea Wolfe and Bury Tomorrow, there's chat on emotional gigs, reviews on the new albums from Bokassa, Fuming Mouth and The St Pierre Snake Invasion and our Album Club is in praise of Dave Mustaine as we look back at Megadeth's Endgame.

Everything you need to know about this year's Download festival!
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It's a celebration as the TNM Team celebrate 200 episodes by questioning the Jonas Brothers' My Chemical Romance revelation, reviewing the new albums from Baroness, Dinosaur Pile-Up and Perry Farrell and it's Marilyn Manson's first ever appearance on Album Club as we revisit his 1998 opus, Mechanical Animals.

Download Festival 2019 Preview by That's Not Metal

The TNM team discuss this week's insane situation between The Armed and Frank Turner, album reviews on the new Motionless In White, Cave In and Heart Of A Coward releases and there's a radius debate about the legacy and impact of Blink 182's Enema Of The State in Album Club.

The TNM team discuss the return of Knocked Loose and Alexisonfire, attempt to name a band for every color on the rainbow, reviews of the new albums from Biffy Clyro, Weatherstate and We Learned Not To Live and Album Club is on Rush's Moving Pictures. Let's just hope Beez can stop sniggering at the word "package".

The TNM team discuss everything new in the world of Slipknot, new music from Biffy Clyro, BABYMETAL and Volbeat, there are album reviews on the first Rammstein album in 10 years, Idle Hands and Full Of Hell and our Album Club is on Taking Back Sunday's Tell All Your Friends.

Team TNM discuss the new Blink182, there's an epic TooWatch for the ages, new albums from Employed To Serve, Spirit Adrift, Defeater and The Wildhearts, an Album Club on Metallica's The Black Album and much, much more on this epic episode. Air guitar at your own will.

Beez and Perran discuss metal descending on Glastonbury, there's a deluge of new albums from Amon Amarth, Bad Religion, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Hot Milk, there's in depth talk on who is the most metal character on Game Of Thrones and much, much more.

TNM discuss the insanely dark album from NOFX's Fat Mike, a Japanese punk band that sound like a women's prison riot (Otoboke Beaver) and the return of The Damned Things. There's chat on new Rammstein and Thy Art Is Murder, what's the worst Metallica song, the best beards in rock and our Album Club is on Code Orange's breakthrough opus, I Am King.

Team TNM discuss the most crazy week in which Maynard James Keenan and Guy Fieri appear in the same news story (as do Mary J Blige and Eagles Of Death Metal), there's new music from As I Lay Dying, Bokassa, After The Burial and more, discussion on which band has the biggest gap from their best to worst albums and there's a stellar Album Club on Machine Head's landmark debut album, Burn My Eyes.

The TNM team go down memory lane with the Foo Fighters in Album Club, there's reviews on the likes of SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Inter Arma and Andy Black, they ram through this week's news on Nails, Falling In Reverse, Machine Head and Ghostemane and there's all of our usual tomfoolery.

This week's That's Not Metal has a world class Album Club on Slipknot's Volume 3, there's the sad news of Ozzy's illness, Knocked Loose's surprise EP, reviews on the new PUP, Periphery and Show Me The Body and just what made Tool fans lose their cool on April 1st? It's all in this week's TNM, powered by uDiscover.

Rammstein return, Devin Townsend makes an album for $170,000 of his own money, there's new albums from Brutus, Whitechapel and I Prevail, discussion on why rock is better for female musicians than ever before an Album Club on Incubus and who does Ryan describe as "the people's Evanescence"? It's all going on in the new episode of TNM, powered by uDiscover!

The TNM gang discuss Chris Fehn leaving Slipknot and the following implications for the band, our hopes for Metallica reviving their S&M project, is Motley Crue's Like A Virgin the worst rock cover ever, Amon Amarth return and there's look at some of our favorite new albums from the Satanic doo wop of Twin Temple through Celtic black metallers Saor and beyond.

Join the TNM gang as there's chat on Slipknot's in-band problems, new Baroness and Jamie Lenman, what is the most British song in rock and metal history, who would be in the TNM Big Brother house, reviews of the new albums from Venom Prison, Angel Du$t and Blakq Audio and our Album Club comes on Motley Crue's 1989 classic, Dr Feelgood.

This week's TNM is dedicated to the memory of Wyatt Ballard (1996-2019).

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It's a massive week of album reviews as we discuss the new releases from Weezer, While She Sleeps and Lamb Of God's Mark Morton, there's big Slipknot news, a new Deafheaven track, new Download Festival additions, chat on what the most metal names from non-metal bands and our Album Club comes on Chimaira's Impossibility Of Reason.

The TNM Crew discuss new music from Devin Townsend and The Damned Things, the trailer for Motley Crue's The Dirt, there's album reviews on the new Blood Youth, Attila and Candlemass, which songs would you ban and there's a killer Album Club on Cradle Of FIlth's almighty Midian.

The TNM team discuss new albums from SWMRS, Health and Crystal Lake, new tracks from Alexisonfire, Of Mice & Men and Venom Prison, which great bands have the worst first albums and there is an almighty discussion about one of the 21st century's most important albums in American Idiot.

This week's TNM sees a nuanced discussion on this week's Bloodstock/Parkway Drive discussion, there's word on Alexisonfire's imminent return, Nickelback's Slayer covers album (seriously), what is the best biscuit (SERIOUSLY) and we go on a Time Tunnel journey, discussing albums from the Ramones, Bon Jovi and the potential rise of Stadium Goth, Melvins and Strapping Young Lad.

Beez and Perran discuss more of the fallout from BMTH's amo album, there's 40 new bands for Download, Tool album news and album reviews on the new Within Temptation, Ithaca and Press Club releases. This week's Album Club concentrates on Queen's majestic A Night At The Opera.

TNM go all in on the controversial new album from BMTH, there's an early contender for AOTY from Puppy and new releases from King 810 and Judiciary, we discuss Weezer's surprise covers album, who is the best frontman of the past decade and Album Club comes on Carcass's death metal classic, Heartwork.

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Welcome to 2019 on TNM, powered by uDiscover, where we're discussing Axl Rose's Looney Tunes collab, Tool's album is done, 2000 Trees, albums from Amigo The Devil, Born Of Osiris and Callejon and there's an overwhelming amount of love for Queens Of The Stone Age as our Album Club is on their 6th album, ...Like Clockwork.

In the concluding part of our 2019 preview, we take a look at some of 2019's biggest releases from the likes of Korn, Deftones, Tool, Baroness, Weezer, Gerard Way, A Day To Remember, Blink 182, Devin Townsend, BABYMETAL, Suicide Silence, Against Me!, AC/DC, Megadeth, Rob Zombie and some of our smaller tips for the year ahead.

In the first part of our 2019 preview, we take a look at some of 2019's biggest releases from the likes of Slipknot, Rammstein, Killswitch Engage, Knocked Loose, Code Orange, Amon Amarth, Volbeat, Power Trip, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and a whole host of UK bands looking to make 2019 their year.

Make sure you are subscribed to catch more of 2019's biggest hitting rock and metal albums next week.

It's that special time of the year again where we celebrate the very best and worst from the world's of rock and metal in the TNM Awards 2018.

Categories up for discussion are:
Most Improved Band
Best song of the Year
Worst Song of the Year
Hero of the Year
Villain of the Year
Gig of the Year
Best New Band
Most Disappointing Album Of The Year
Comeback of the Year
Outstanding Achievement
Worst band of 2018
Surprise Of The Year
Unsung Heroes
Story Of The Year
Band of the Year 2018

Who wins? Who loses? Why the hell are Insane Clown Posse such a topic of discussion? All this and more in your essential look at the year in rock and metal that was 2018.

Beez, Perran and Ryan count down the Top 20 rock and metal releases of 2018 and, as ever, we will also be charting the albums you voted as your favourite of the year. This is Part 2 featuring albums from number 10 down to the converted number 1 spot.

Beez, Perran and Ryan count down the Top 20 rock and metal releases of 2018 and, as ever, we will also be charting the albums you voted as your favourite of the year. Part 1 features numbers 20-11. See you in part 2 for the Top 10.

Beez, Perran and Ryan discuss the week that was as BMTH have some strong words for "rock" songwriters, Beez talks about seeing the last Machine Head show, there's reviews on Unearth, Four Stroke Baron and All That Remains, embarrassing moments and an Album Club on Paramore's 2009 smash, Brand New Eyes.

Subscribe as next week, we will be running through our favorite albums of 2018. You do not want to miss it.

It's a festival week of madness as TNM discusses the Download, Reading & Leeds and Slam Dunk additions, guitar hero battles, a look at the new albums from Can't Swim, Daughters and King Nine and a hilarious delve into the world of Manor on this week's Album Club.

It's an insane TNM this week as we discuss the new albums from Architects, Smashing Pumpkins, Laura Jane Grace, Old Wounds and the slab of absolute ridiculousness that is the new Muse album. There's discussion on Threatin, new tunes from The Fever and Angel Dust, what Slayer song would work best at a wedding and Album Club is on the Beastie Boys' 1992 opus, Check Your Head.

Beez and Ryan discuss the potential Creeper split, Jonathan Davis questioning the popularity of rock & metal, why holograms are a rubbish idea, what bands they'd raise from the dead and a whole bunch more in this week's That's Not Metal, powered by uDiscover.

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The TNM gang go in depth on the first Download 2019 announcement including Def Leppard, Slipknot, Tool, Die Antwoord and more, there's chat about the new Bring Me The Horizon and BABYMETAL tracks, are Greta Van Fleet the new Nickelback and the team pick 6 albums that have flown under the radar this year including breakout US phenomenon Polyphia.

TNM delve into the many uses for David Draiman's (now defunct) chin piercings, there's reviews of the new albums from Greta Van Fleet, Disturbed, Soulfly and Atreyu, looks at the return of Gallows, Slam Dunk and Scorpions chat for Bloodstock 2019 and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes 'Blossom' is the subject of this week's Album Club.

TNM recap a ludicrous week where Weezer went Latin, one of Insane Clown Posse tried dropkicking Fred Durst and Kid Rock visited the White House, albums from Basement, Ghostemane, Tom Morello and Hangman's Chair are reviewed and Nine Inch nails' The Fragile is the subject of this week's Album Club.