That's Not Metal

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

TNM considers and salutes the careers of departing bands Sum 41 and Dark Fortress, looks at new music from Queens of the Stone Age, Thy Art is Murder, and 30 Seconds to Mars, asks whether Billy Corgan paying a ransom was worth it, and takes a brief look at the rising trend of AI music in metal.Releases:Cattle Decapitation - TerrasiteThe Acacia Strain - Failure Will FollowThe Acacia Strain - Step Into the LightDevilDriver - Dealing With Demons Vol. IIHot Mulligan - Why Would I WatchThe Amity Affliction - Not Without My GhostsVeil of Maya - [m]otherLeft to Suffer - FeralBlack Spiders - Can’t Die, Won’t DieDe Forbandede - MenneskeIsland of Love - Island of LoveOmnerod - The Amensal RiseAscended Dead - Evenfall of the ApocalypseImpetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik SynthesisEsoctrilihum - Astraal Constellations of the Majickal ZodiacGrave Desecrator - Immundissime Spiritus

Bring Me the Horizon are still making music for Emo Girls, we check out Metallica's opening setlists for their No Repeats tour, put some venues to the sword in order to save Brixton Academy, and take the moment to assess who the best live band in the world is in 2023.Releases:Drain - Living ProofUnearth - The Wretched; The RuinousTherapy? - Hard Cold FireDave Lombardo - Rites of PercussionCurrents - The Death We SeekDeath Goals - A Garden of Dead FlowersBlood Ceremony - The Old Ways RemainEnforcer - NostalgiaHaunt - Golden ArmHerod - IconoclastShit Present - What Still Gets MeTeeth - A Biblical Worship of Violence

September's Album Clubs see Anthrax making the Big 4 with Among the Living, Taking Back Sunday's Louder Now explosion, one of hardcore's most underloved albums in Gallows' self-titled, and ahead of deploying it at Damnation Festival Pig Destroyer's psychotic masterpiece Prowler in the Yard.This episode was originally published September 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Hyperblasts weighs in on the calls for Brixton Academy's license to be permanently revoked, the Trophy Eyes moshing debate, and a stinky Beartooth track, as well as a jubilant trip to Paramore's UK leg of the This is Way tour.Releases:Enforced - War RemainsCradle of Filth - Trouble and Their Double LivesDangerface - Be Damned!The Damned - DarkadelicCrown the Empire - DogmaVamachara - No Roses On My GraveMat Kerekes - You Look Like a StrangerDave Hause - Drive It Like It’s StolenLunar Chamber - Shambhallic VibrationsAustere - Corrosion of HeartsWallowing - Earth ReaperLucifuge - Monoliths of WrathSwollen Teeth - Swollen Teeth

We're joined by one man speed metal machine James McBain of Hellripper for an Album Roulette talking through his early thrash metal loves, nuclear post-punk, iconic Maiden live albums, and why the Red Hot Chili Peppers are kvlt.Toxic Holocaust - Evil Never DiesMegadeth - Peace Sells... But Whose Buying!Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex MagickCannibal Corpse - Evisceration PlagueBeastmilk - ClimaxIron Maiden - Live After Death