That's Not Metal

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 - VIIBlackbraid - Blackbraid IIFen - Monuments to AbsenceAstral Tomb - Total Spiritual DeathBloodbound - Tales from the NorthThe Raven Age - Blood OmenBetter 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 ApocalypseRoyal Thunder - Rebuilding the MountainCreeping Death - Boundless DomainSunami - SunamiVulture Industries - Ghosts from the PastHome is Where - The WhalerSaturnus - The Storm WithinThy Catafalque - AlföldSwans - The BeggarTrophy Eyes - Suicide and SunshineMental Cruelty - ZwielichtMilitarie Gun - Life Under the GunBurner - It All Returns to NothingTsjuder - HelvegrXasthur - Inevitably DarkEbony Pendant - Ebony PendantWilt - HuginnLoma Prieta - LastStatic Abyss - Aborted From RealityCoffin Mulch - Spectral IntercessionGrotesqueries - Vile CrematoryKhanate - To Be CruelDivide 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 9:21Foo Fighters 1:14:53Queens of the Stone Age 1:37:15Rancid 1:59:05Pupil Slicer 2:09:30Vexed 2:27:49Godflesh 2:39:32PONY 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 - PurgeTorture Rack - Primeval OnslaughtScar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)Geld - Currency // CastrationJohnny the Boy - YouBlack Rainbows - SuperskullSuperbloom - Life’s a BlurGlass 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 AreRancid - Tomorrow Never ComesBuckcherry - Vol. 10Pupil Slicer - BlossomTigercub - The Perfume of DecayBully - Lucky for YouEinar Solberg - 16Tortured Demon - Rise of the LifelessBuggin - Concrete CowboysWytch Hazel - IV: SacramentBongzilla - Dab CityNecrofier - Burning Shadows in the Southern LightThantifaxath - Hive Mind NarcosisAmerican Nightmare - Dedicated to the Next WorldDamim - 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 - VelveteenThe Used - Toxic PositivityThe Ocean - HoloceneBotanist - VIII: SelenotropeVnder a Crvmbling Moon - I: OblivionThulcandra - Hail the AbyssHenget - Beyond North StarRadien - Unissa palaneetVomitheist - NekoFvneralBlood Cult - Tomb of the Unknown RedneckMystic Prophecy - HellriotThe Dirty Nil - Free Rein to PassionsImmortal - War Against AllIncendiary - Change the Way You Think About PainElegant Weapons - Horns for a HaloMetal Church - Congregation of AnnihilationAJJ - Disposable EverythingHeart Attack Man - Freak of NatureLegion of the Damned - The Poison ChaliceVomitory - All Heads are Gonna RollCloak - Black Flame EternalSpeedwhore - Visions of a Parallel WorldUsnea - Bathed In LightPhlebotomized - Clouds of ConfusionOndfødt - Det Österbottniska MörkretDarkthrone - ThulcandraMournful Congregation - The Exuviae of Gods - Part IISom - 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 26:34Cattle Decapitation 44:19Frozen Soul 1:14:55Immortal 1:30:20Drain 1:49:01Hot Mulligan 1:59:20