That's Not Metal

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 MarsAce Frehley - 10,000 VoltsAmigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is OverAmaranthe - The CatalystGlitterer - RationaleShoreline - To Figure OutTimelost - DrainedSleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human BeingThe Body/Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile HeavenTraveler - Prequel to MadnessBorknagar - FallStygian Crown - Funeral for a KingMorta Skuld - Creation UndoneVircolac - VenerationGuiltless - ThornsPaledusk - PALEHELLBruce Dickinson - The Mandrake ProjectZakk Sabbath - Doomed Forever Forever DoomedMinistry - HopiumforthemassesNew Years Day - Half Black HeartMannequin Pussy - I Got HeavenPissed Jeans - Half DivorcedFirewind - Stand UnitedSuicidal Angels - Profane PrayerHaunt - DreamersSheer Mag - Playing FavoritesSentry - SentryMessiah - Christus HypercubusDevastator - Conjurers of CrueltySaturnalia Temple - Paradigm CallCelestial Sword - Nocturnal DivinityKontravoid - 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 57:00Alkaline Trio 1:23:40Ihsahn 1:39:18Job for a Cowboy 2:01:12Darkest Hour 2:19:57Spectral Voice 2:35:21Hulder 2:55:38Slope 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 - TangkBlackberry Smoke - Be Right HereLaura Jane Grace - Hole In My HeadIhsahn - IhsahnBokassa - All Out of DreamsProfiler - A Digital NowhereShooting Daggers - Love & RageGVLLOW - Twin FlamesThe Obsessed - Gilded SorrowPraise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of TimeDarkspace - Dark Space -IIPestilength - 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 SheYellowcard + Hammock - A Hopeful SignThe Chisel - What a F*cking NightmareThe Pineapple Thief - It Leads to ThisThe Last Ten Seconds of Life - No Name GravesHaystack - Doomsday Goes AwayMorbid Saint - Swallowed By HellSpectral Voice - SparagmosHulder - Verses In OathChapel of Disease - Echoes of LightPetrification - Sever Sacred LightZwielicht - The Aphotic EmbraceTheophonos - Ashes in the Huron RiverHannes 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 RainbowAlkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and EyeballsThe Infernal Sea - HellfenlicOlhava - SacrificeUnsouling - Vampiric Spiritual DrainKnoll - As SpokenEye Flys - Eye FlysJunta - JuntaDeath Killer - Total Destruction of the Entire UniverseMountain Caller - Chronicle II: HypergenesisGUHTS - RegenerationSlower - SlowerCaligula’s Horse - Charcoal GraceMadder Mortem - Old Eyes, New HeartVitriol - Suffer & BecomeCognizance - PhantazeinWhitechapel - Live in the ValleyDream State - Still DreamingKaonashi - The 3 Faces of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan MontgomeryMilitarie Gun - Life Under the SunJesu - Hard to ReachEnterprise Earth - Death: An AnthologyBeing as an Ocean - Death Can WaitReconciler - Art for Our Sakemeth. - ShameUtopia - ShameBipolar Architecture - MetaphysicizeMyrath - KarmaStriker - OverpowerNecrowretch - Swords of DajjalDwarrowdelf - The Fallen LeavesStages of Decomposition - Raptures of PsychopathyGhoul - Noxious ConcoctionsPersefone - 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 3:35Neck Deep 34:19Lord of the Lost 52:08Saxon 1:18:19Lucifer 1:41:15Upon Stone 1:55:35Rough 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 - SaviorsNeck Deep - Neck DeepSaxon - Hell, Fire and DamnationUpon Stone - Dead Mother MoonLord Dying - Clandestine TranscendenceSlift - IlionKontact - Full ContactMaster - Saints DispelledResin Tomb - Cerebral PurgatoryVemod - The DeepeningSexual Perverts - Sex Maniac…ForeverHeavy 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 - SoulSprints - Letter to SelfGray State - Under the Wheels of ProgressHaywire 617 - Conditioned for DemolitionRejoice - All of Heaven’s LuckCancer Christ - God is ViolenceSvdestada - CandelaCasey - How to DisappearRough Justice - Faith In VainRyujin - RyujinNeal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph: Part TwoAlluvial - Death is but a DoorLifesick - Love and Other LiesExtinction A.D. - Ruthless IntentEscuela 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 BandSong of the YearWorst Song of the YearHero of the YearVillain of the YearBest New BandBiggest DisappointmentGig of the YearEP of the YearArtwork of the YearMovie of the YearComeback of the YearSurprise of the YearOutstanding AchievementWorst Band of the YearUnsung HeroesStory of the YearBand of the Year