That's Not Metal

We're at August Album Clubs with an early 2010s selection of The Gaslight Anthem's derided Get Hurt, Sylosis' thrash ambition on Edge of the Earth, Trap Them defining Entombedcore on Darker Handcraft, and assessing the impact of Infant Annihilator's meme deathcore The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution.This episode was originally published August 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Avenged Sevenfold finally break their musical silence, we dissect Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Metal Songs list, and reviews tackle Babymetal, Zulu, Periphery, Suicide Silence, Judiciary, Dawn Ray'd, and OHHMS.Babymetal 49:48Zulu 1:07:24Periphery 1:28:08Suicide Silence 1:48:51Judiciary 2:11:13Dawn Ray'd 2:22:30OHHMS 2:39:13

The electronicore scene is fractured by Blessed by a Broken Heart dramatically returning to the scene calling out Electric Callboy for supposedly stealing their sound. Who will prevail?! We also saw Napalm Death with Barney (slightly) consigned to a chair, talk our dalliances with the slam scene, and about Funeral for a Friend doing a Casually Dressed tour, again.Releases:Majesties - Vast Reaches UnclaimedPeriphery - Periphery V: Djent is Not a GenreSuicide Silence - Remember… You Must DieJudiciary - Flesh + BloodMeet Me @ The Altar - Past // Present // FutureManchester Orchestra - The Valley of VisionStory of the Year - Tear Me to PiecesNanowar of Steel - Dislike to False MetalGorod - The OrbFluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel - I - Harslo

New music from Svalbard and Cradle of Filth, Avenged Sevenfold teasing through social media "hacks", a trip to Obituary and Conjurer's London show, and trying to pick four of the deathcore new breed.Releases:Can’t Swim - Thanks But No ThanksZulu - A New TomorrowEnslaved - HeimdalHaken - FaunaFull of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating HallucinationViscera - CarcinogenesisEntheos - Time Will Take Us AllNecropanther - BetrayalSortilège - ApocalypsoFake Names - Expendables.gif from god - Digital Red

Architects call for a band strike on venue merch cuts, Frozen Soul release their first Matt Heafy-produced cut, and a lengthy report on Gojira's arena tour with Alien Weaponry and Employed to Serve and theorising on how far they might go.Releases:Avatar - Dance Devil DanceGraphic Nature - A Man Waiting to DiePigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of SleeperMan Must Die - The Pain Behind It AllUlthar - Anthronomicon / HelionomiconCult of Fire - Om Kali Maha KaliHost - IXNaut - HuntGoing Off - What Makes You Tick?Hundred Reasons - Glorious SunsetGodsmack - Lighting Up the SkyDope - LovesongSteel Panther - On the ProwlInsomnium - Anno 1696Lovebites - Judgement DayMegaton Sword - Might & PowerBig|Brave - Nature MorteDeath Pill - Death PillVenomous Concept - The Good Ship Lollipop

July Album Clubs look at the victory of one of heavy metal's patron saints Dio's Holy Diver, the most ripped off pop punk album of the decade Under Soil and Dirt by The Story So Far, the psychological horror metalcore splurge of Norma Jean's Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child, and examines bluegrass and worker's solidarity in black metal with Panopticon's Kentucky.This episode was originally published July 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The superb new Paramore record tops February reviews with In Flames, Hellripper, Sanguisugabogg, Narrow Head, Naut, Host, and Going Off in tow, as well as Unto Others b-sides, lost Linkin Park songs, and Code Orange's ARG remix album.Paramore 37:30In Flames 59:54Hellripper 1:16:12Sanguisugabogg 1:27:06Narrow Head 1:41:38Naut 1:51:52Host 2:00:02Going Off 2:11:16

The results of the 2023 Grammys are discussed with a particularly poor showing for Rock & Metal, with the problems of treating categories like lifetime achievement awards and valueing genre tourism over homegrown acts, and we pay respects to one of our favourite alt punk bands Camp Cope.Releases:Paramore - This is WhyYou Me At Six - Truth DecayPierce the Veil - The Jaws of LifeNarrow Head - Moments of ClarityDelain - Dark WatersKlone - MeanwhileStormo - EndocannibalismoFrozen Dawn - The Decline of the Enlightened GodsOak - Disintegrate

The Prince of Darkness announces his touring retirement, Slipknot and Year of the Knife surprise drop new music on us, Zara Larsson pulls an oopsie! with her choice of questionable band merch, and we try to drill into the intrinsic appeal of a skeleton.Releases:In Flames - ForegoneSanguisugabogg - Homicidal EcstasyMemoriam - Rise to PowerFvnerals - Let the Earth Be SilentCalderum - Lord CramridorTorso - A Crash Course In Terror

News absolutely boots off with discussion of Pantera being removed from various festival lineups in Europe, Panic! At the Disco calling it quits, and a barrage of bizarre and questionable new music arrives from The Xcerts, Ghost ft Joe Elliot, power metallers dropping diss tracks, and... David Ellefson and Violent J covering Faith No More. Give us strength.Releases:Maneskin - RushNew Found Glory - Make the Most of ItRiverside - ID.EntityTidal Wave - The Lord KnowsImperium Dekadenz - Into Sorrow EvermoreNothingness - SupraliminalDeiquisitor - ApotheosisTribunal - The Weight of RemembranceDryad - The Abyssal PlainGrief Symposium - …In the Absence of LightFucked Up - One DayWhite Reaper - Asking for a RideSightless Pit - Lockstep BloodwarOozing Wound - We Cater to Cowards…And Oceans - As in Gardens, So in TombsBizarrekvlt - Den Tatpe KrigenTrastorned - Into the VoidFreeroad - Do What You Feel!The Lucid - Saddle Up and Ride