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We scheme the best ways to survive being a member of Slipknot and FMK with baddiecore, as the Summer Slaughter is confirmed to return, and Botch's reunion/final shows hit the UK in mindblowing style. Releases: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night Crushed By Waves - More to Life Blanket - Ceremonia Restorations - Restorations Mastiff - Deprecipice BRAT - Social Grace Zombi - Direct Inject Hamferd - Men Guds hond er sterk Khold - Du dommes til Dod Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe Hideous Divinity - Unextinct Apparition - Disgraced Emanations from a Tranquil State Civerous - Maze Envy Aberration - Refracture Sylvaine - Eg Er Framand While She Sleeps - Self Hell Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell Boundaries - Death is Little More Wristmeetrazor - Degeneration Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet Vial - Burnout Teens In Trouble - What’s Mine Coffin Storm - Arcana Rising Mutiilation - Black Metal Cult Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star Verwoed - The Mother Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness Darkestrah - Nomad Coffins - Sinister Oath Hate Force - Systems of Terror Septage - Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms)
That's Not Metal reviews for March are in absolute guitar heaven, and maybe hell, with Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Midnight, Gouge Away, Chapel of Disease, & Dödsrit. Judas Priest 23:30 Bruce Dickinson 55:35 Midnight 1:24:56 Gouge Away 1:40:20 Chapel of Disease 1:58:20 Dödsrit 2:23:24
One of the biggest weeks for heavy touring in the UK peaks with a podcast-wide trip to Napalm Death's Campaign for Musical Destruction with Pig Destroyer, Primitive Man, and Wormrot, coming with sadly some sombre news from the PD camp. Releases: Kid Kapichi - There Goes the Neighbourhood Scott Stapp - Higher Power The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards Gouge Away - Deep Sage Bleak - My Body is Not Where I Belong DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors Savage Oath - Divine Battle Vltimas - Epic Aborted - Vault of Horrors Necrophobic - Into the Twilight Grey Udåd - Udåd O ZORN! - Vermillion Haze Greywind - Antidote Comeback Kid - Trouble
Hyperblasts brings a report from London's Celestial Darkness Festival checking out rare bookings in the worlds of black, doom, & goth and sets from the likes of Primordial, Tribulation, & Ihsahn, and salute a formative band for TNM as Palm Reader announce their farewell. Releases: Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond Myrath - Karma Kill the Lights - Death Melodies Midnight - Hellish Expectations Gost - Prophecy Exhorder - Defectum Omnium Skeletal Remains - Fragments of the Ageless Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished Merrimack - Of Gravity and Grace Isenordal - Requiem for Eirênê
The biggest piece of Slipknot drummer rumouring yet, some absolutely blistering tracks from Knocked Loose and Inter Arma, and probably the maddest band drama ever to unfold. We've all done it. Releases: Mick Mars - The Other Side of Mars Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is Over Amaranthe - The Catalyst Glitterer - Rationale Shoreline - To Figure Out Timelost - Drained Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being The Body/Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven Traveler - Prequel to Madness Borknagar - Fall Stygian Crown - Funeral for a King Morta Skuld - Creation Undone Vircolac - Veneration Guiltless - Thorns Paledusk - PALEHELL Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project Zakk Sabbath - Doomed Forever Forever Doomed Ministry - Hopiumforthemasses New Years Day - Half Black Heart Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced Firewind - Stand United Suicidal Angels - Profane Prayer Haunt - Dreamers Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites Sentry - Sentry Messiah - Christus Hypercubus Devastator - Conjurers of Cruelty Saturnalia Temple - Paradigm Call Celestial Sword - Nocturnal Divinity Kontravoid - Detachment
February Album Clubs look at Fall Out Boy's initial send-off Folie a Deux, Kreator's proto-extreme masterpiece Pleasure to Kill, the oft brushed over Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent from Refused, and a decade of Beastmilk's last post-punk party at the end of the world Climax. This episode was originally published February 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
February reviews on TNM pop the hell off with Chelsea Wolfe, Alkaline Trio, Ihsahn, Job for a Cowboy, Darkest Hour, Spectral Voice, Hulder & Slope, and reactions to the bamboozling news of Slayer's return and Ascendancy + The Poison tours. Chelsea Wolfe 57:00 Alkaline Trio 1:23:40 Ihsahn 1:39:18 Job for a Cowboy 2:01:12 Darkest Hour 2:19:57 Spectral Voice 2:35:21 Hulder 2:55:38 Slope 3:09:25
Hyperblasts checks out the new single from Pearl Jam, tours from Malevolence and The Menzingers, and very exciting headliner announcements from Outbreak and Damnation. Releases: Idles - Tangk Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head Ihsahn - Ihsahn Bokassa - All Out of Dreams Profiler - A Digital Nowhere Shooting Daggers - Love & Rage GVLLOW - Twin Flames The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow Praise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of Time Darkspace - Dark Space -II Pestilength - Solar Clorex
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
