That's Not Metal

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.Get the full quiz by subscribing at thatsnotmetal.net. Premium episodes are all available with subscription on the That's Not Metal App.

Round 2 of the first ever TNM Pub Quiz is here for your enjoyment.Get the full quiz by subscribing at thatsnotmetal.net. Premium episodes are all available with subscription on the That's Not Metal App.

Round 1 of the first ever TNM Pub Quiz is here for your enjoyment. Get the full quiz by subscribing at thatsnotmetal.net. Premium episodes are all available with subscription on the That's Not Metal App/

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.If you want to help support bands effected by the Coronavirus, please click this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lVjdd-66y2D_DrsRuXUwNUz8KB_mx7R-cmMh1WwBQrI/edit?usp=sharing