That's Not Metal

We take a trip to No Play Festival to see SeeYouSpaceCowboy and a day of UK hardcore bands, and follow up on last week's Linkin Park announcement with, well... all of that. Not the conversation we imagined having last time.Releases:Pyrrhon - ExhaustMan’s Gin - The ReprobateThe Jesus Lizard - RackCursive - DevourerNada Surf - Moon MirrorChastity - ChastityZetra - ZetraOceans of Slumber - Where Gods Fear to SpeakSatan - Songs In CrimsonWolfbrigade - Life Knife DeathSlomosa - Tundra RockTorus - TorusDale Crover - GlossolaliaWinterfylleth - The Imperious HorizonTrelldom - …by the Shadows…Taur-im-Duinath - Verso casaNightWraith - Divergence

The fruits of Linkin Park's rollout emerge with all of the details of their reunion and return, Slam Dunk leads with its first announcements for 2025, there's trouble in the W.A.S.P. camp, and there's a live report from NWOBHM cult legends Satan.Releases:Rat Lord - Blazed in the Northern SkyEnumclaw - Home In Another LifeBoston Manor - Sundiver40 Watt Sun - Little WeightMolchat Doma - Belaya PolosaAluk Todolo - LUXBlitzkrieg - BlitzkriegHelvetets Port - WarlordsGod is an Astronaut - EmbersGod Dethroned - The Judas ParadoxPeelingFlesh - The G CodeBodysnatcher - Vile ConductLaura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals - Give An Inch

Album Clubs kick off with an EP that set it all alight with Nine Inch Nails' Broken, Baroness make modern rock's great double album Yellow & Green, The Hotelier hit an emo revival high Home, Like Noplace Is There, and Satyricon take black'n'roll to the mainstream with Now, Diabolical.This episode was originally published May 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The big reunion the world was apparently waiting happens with Oasis, but it was nearly two in week with Deryck Whibley finding himself at the centre of a storm of confusion, plus talk on the comedy metal albums we actually like.Releases:Stand Atlantic - Was HereSimone Simons - VermillionWithin the Ruins - Phenomena IIUniform - American StandardMelt-Banana - 3+5Fleshgod Apocalypse - OperaSpectral Wound - Songs of Blood and MireKoldbrann - Ingen SkanselGravenoire - Devant La Porte Des EtoilesBlack Birch - Black BirchDemiser - Slave to the ScytheNil / Castle of the Winds - Bastard Sons of TyrannyMark Lanegan - Bubblegum XXWintersun - Time IINails - Every Bridge BurningLeprous - Melodies of AtonementNick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild GodThrown - Excessive GuiltOceano - Living ChaosSatan’s Satyrs - After DarkPhaëthon - Wielder of the SteelTeeth - The Will of HateAnciients - Beyond the Reach of the SunDeceased - Children of the MorgueConcrete Winds - Concrete WindsAvmakt - Satanic Inversion of…Copse - MMXXIVCutdo

Actual mythical albums lead this month's album reviews, as we discuss the actually real Wintersun album Time II, the comeback of Nails, Zeal & Ardor, Twin Atlantic, Four Year Strong, Leprous, & Nile.Wintersun 40:06Nails 1:21:18Zeal & Ardor 1:50:16Twin Atlantic 2:06:28Four Year Strong 2:24:22Leprous 2:37:44Nile 2:51:32

We're back for our annual report from Bloodstock Festival where Opeth, Architects, & Amon Amarth headlined atop Malevolence, Clutch, Satyricon, Whitechapel, Hatebreed, Green Lung, & plenty more.

Aerosmith unceremoniously call it a day, OPETH HAVE GROWLZ AGAIN, and we discuss the most disgusting things we've witnessed at festivals and have a conversation on the ethics of using depictions of real death on album artwork.Releases:Twin Atlantic - MeltdownFour Year Strong - Analysis ParalysisDune Rats - If It Sucks, Turn It UpKing Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741Oso Oso - Life Till BonesFucked Up - Another DayDestroy Boys - Funeral Soundtrack #4Mushroomhead - Call the DevilHammerFall - Avenge the FallenAnd So I Watch You From Afar - MegafaunaKurokuma - Of Amber and SandTendrils - Long DeadMamaleek - Vida BlueFulci - Duck Face KillingsOxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the UniverseMalodorous - The Carrion RecoilViscera Infest - TeratomaIn Aphelion - ReaperdawnHeilung - Lifa Iotungard: Live at Red Rocks Ampitheatre

Gojira make history with their absolutely insane Olympics performance, there's a massive stream of singles from Undeath, Better Lovers, High Vis, Jinjer, Oranssi Pazuzu, Jerry Cantrell, & more, and Sam talks about Bruce Springsteen again.Releases:The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mori MeiAnberlin - VegaBlues Pills - BirthdayBarbarian Hermit - Mean SugarShadow Knell - Shadow KnellBlind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond RevisitedFootballhead - Before I DiePoison Ruin - ConfrereCalderum - Desecration of the Bastille

We are joined by drummer and vocalist Alasdair Dunn of experimental black metallers Ashenspire to blow the doors open with one of our most eclectic Album Roulettes with dance-noise, abstract hip-hop, discussion of the true ethos of post-black metal, and tips on getting into jazz as a metal fan.Ed Scissor & Lamplighter - Tell Them It's WinterCIVIL ELEGIES - CombatAltar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & InjuryModel/Actriz - DogsbodyEx Eye - Ex EyeDoomCannon - Renaissance

A hyperspeed Hyperblast with Rou Reynolds joining the War of the Worlds cast, and the first returning track from the original Jane's Addiction line-up.Releases:Orange Goblin - Science, Not FictionDeep Purple - =1Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse - Paul Di’Anno’s WarhorseUprising - IIIPowerwolf - Wake Up the WickedDream Evil - Metal GodsHarvestmen - Triptych: Part TwoState Faults - Children of the MoonWormwitch - WormwitchColdCell - Age of UnreasonMayhemic - TobaVoid Witch - Horripilating PresenceKaonashi - A Second Chance at Forever: The Brilliant Lies from Casey DiamondGhost - Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The week Tenacious D implode in the least predictable circumstances, TNM reviews and gives judgement on albums from Scene Queen, Speed, Crossfaith, 200 Stab Wounds, Ulcerate, Crypt Sermon, & Blind Girls.Scene Queen 18:55Speed 51:00Crossfaith 1:03:30200 Stab Wounds 1:22:57Ulcerate 1:41:53Crypt Sermon 2:03:52Blind Girls 2:15:14

AC/DC hit Wembley Stadium, Palm Reader bid farewell, while also giving us new music from new band Vower. We get one of the year's more questionable covers, and get misty-eyed over closed venues from years past.Releases:Speed - Only One ModeGraphic Nature - Who Are You When No One is Watching?In Hearts Wake - IncarnationThe Home Team - The Crucible of LifeMr. Big - TenWebbed Wing - Vol. IIIWerewolves - Die for UsSissy Spacek - DiaphonousSeth - La France des mauditsForgotten Tomb - NightfloatingTotengott - Beyond the VeilSkelethal - Within Corrosive ContinuumsKing 810 - Under the Black Rainbow

Outbreak Festival goes outdoors for an even bigger event, with sets from Have Heart, Basement, American Football, Thursday, Balance and Composure, The Hotelier, Poison the Well, & more.Releases:Scene Queen - Hot Singles In Your AreaCrossfaith - ARK200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic ProceduresAnvil - One and OnlyWraith - Fueled by FearLove Letter - Everyone Wants Something BeautifulPijn - On Low Beams of HopeLimbonic Art - Opus DaemoniacalEnter Shikari - Dancing on the FrontlineVisions of Atlantis - Pirates II - ArmadaOrden Ogan - The Order of FearWormed - OmegonVulvodynia - EntabeniKrallice - Inorganic RitesXasthur - Disharmonic Variations

We catch up to give our take on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Nex Gen, albums from The Story So Far, Joey Valance & Brae, Candy, Umbra Vitae, Rotting Christ, & Julie Christmas, and take a trip to the movies for Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now film.Ghost 1:59Bring Me the Horizon 31:08The Story So Far 1:15:50Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47Candy 1:43:00Umbra Vitae 1:53:47Rotting Christ 2:05:56Julie Christmas 2:20:37

A huge live music summer continues with gigs galore but also the reports of drama, mismanagement, and poisoning coming out of Download Festival 2024.Releases:The Story So Far - I Want to DisappearWage War - StigmaKittie - FireAlcest - Les Chants De l’Auroreearthtone9 - In Resonance NexusForeign Hands - What’s Left UnsaidCalcine - Common Love Common NauseaThe Dangerous Summer - GravitySumac - The HealerPortrait - The HostHyperdontia - Harvest of MalevolenceSarke - Endo FeightKvaen - The Formless FiresCavalera Conspiracy - SchizophreniaBlack Veil Brides - Bleeders

The season of the big rock shows begins with Paramore supporting at The Eras Tour, double Metallica, Weezer + Pumpkins, as well as tonnes of new singles including big returns for Nails and The Black Dahlia Murder, and discussion of the Barclay's Boycott at Download Festival.Releases:Black Country Communion - VThe Early November - Self-TitledFu Manchu - The Return of TomorrowJulie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of BloodCrypt Sermon - The Stygian RoseLucifer’s Hammer - Be and ExistRezn - BurdenUlcerate - Cutting the Throat of GodDownfall of Mankind - PurgatoryMalignancy - …DiscontinuedEmbryonic Autopsy - Origins of the DeformedGroin - Paid In FleshFellwarden - Legend: Forged In Defiance

After last week's trip to Slam Dunk, we hop to the other side of the UK festival spectrum to the upcoming black metal event Fortress Festival, headlined by Triptykon and Wolves in the Throne Room and setting black metal at the beach.Releases:Bon Jovi - ForeverRoyal Republic - LoveCopApocalyptica - Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2Evergrey - Theories of EmptinessJoey Valance & Brae - No HandsSect - Plagues Upon PlaguesCandy - It’s Inside YouUmbra Vitae - Light of DeathSevere Torture - Torn from the Jaws of DeathTorturers’ Lobby - Deadened NervesDysrhythmia - Coffin of ConvictionHippotraktor - StasisGurt - Satan EtcErnte - Weltenzerstorer

We take a trip to 2024's Slam Dunk event, and Nile come out with the song title of the year.Releases:Rotting Christ - Pro XristouSpiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking HellThou - UmbilicalCHVE - KalvarieFour Stroke Baron - Data DiamondThe Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression / Rule by DeceptionRhapsody of Fire - Challenge the WindSaltatio Mortis - FinsterwachtCloven Hoof - Heathen CrossBad Nerves - Still NervousBad Breeding - ContemptHellbutcher - HellbutcherTroops of Doom - A Mass to the GrotesqueShrapnel - In GravityHouse by the Cemetery - The Mortuary HauntingsHaunted Plasma - IWhoredom Rife - Den Vrede MaktWormwood - The StarGraywave - Dancing in the DustExodus - British Disaster: The Battle of ‘89 (Live at the Astoria)Black Sabbath - Anno Domini 1989-1995

Def Leppard signal the dawn of the pop metal age with Pyromania, we evaluate if Fightstar's Grand Unification holds up, Comeback Kid make a modern hardcore classic Wake the Dead, and Autopsy set a bar for freakish death metal Mental Funeral.This episode was originally published April 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

May brings some of the biggest event releases in metal as we review Knocked Loose, Kerry King, Gatecreeper, Pallbearer, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, One Step Closer, Folterkammer, & Antichrist Siege Machine.27:35 Knocked Loose58:48 Kerry King1:21:36 Gatecreeper1:41:10 Pallbearer2:00:36 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats2:24:26 One Step Closer2:39:41 Folterkammer3:06:16 Antichrist Siege Machine