That's Not Metal

Sam joined Perran for an impromptu weekend at the first and last UK Deathfest, in a week that also saw the first Taylor Hawkins tribute show, Fat Mike hinting that NOFX will be calling it quits, and Darkthrone continually topping their own album announcements like the kings they are.Releases:Parkway Drive - Darker StillOzzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9Stray From the Path - EuthanasiaBloodbath - Survival of the SickestRevocation - NetherheavenElectric Callboy - TekknoTallah - The Generation of DangerI Am - Eternal SteelDemon Hunter - ExileHoly Fawn - Dimensional BleedArmor for Sleep - The Rain MuseumAfghan Wigs - How Do You Burn?Flogging Molly - AnthemFallujah - EmpyreanCrippled Black Phoenix - BanefyreValborg - Der Alte

This week's Hyperblasts holds the much heralded review of Muse's further dive into lunacy Will of the People. Conversely there is the much more serious and important discussion around the news concerning Neurosis this week.Releases:Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying… and the Dead!Blind Guardian - The God MachineThe Callous Daoboys - Celebrity TherapistMiss May I - Curse of Existence156/Silence - NarrativeVermin Womb - RetaliationThe Hu - Rumble of ThunderCarnal Ruin - Soulless I RemainState of You - State of You

Some big summer album reviews with the massive return of Machine Head, The Interrupters, a melodeath barrage with Amon Amarth, The Halo Effect, and Arch Enemy, Sigh, and Thoughtcrimes, as well a new Botch song after 20 years that people were very normal about.Machine Head 26:42The Interrupters 55:06Amon Amarth 1:11:23The Halo Effect 1:31:50Arch Enemy 1:41:30Sigh 1:52:41Thoughtcrimes 2:06:03

Album Club Pack returns for Round 2, landing a hard rocking grunge classic in Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, The Defiled's independent industrial metalcore debut Grave Times, a 2010s alt rock cornerstone in Basement's Colourmeinkindness, and an extreme metal Valentine's Day special on Bloodbath's Nightmares Made Flesh.This episode was originally published February 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A lot later than intended due to the small matter of needing a whole new microphone, but finally the That's Not Metal review of Bloodstock Festival 2022 is here! Perran is joined by Elliot Paisley to talk the UK heavy metal event headlined by Behemoth, Mercyful Fate, and Lamb of God.

The first new music from Fugitive featuring members of Power Trip and Creeping Death is here, with Ozzy and Iommi appearing at the Commonwealth games, and trying to reach for what are the worst albums we still secretly love.Releases:Arch Enemy - DeceiversThe Halo Effect - Days of the LostNorma Jean - Deathrattle Sing for MeHollywood Undead - Hotel KaliforniaBoris - Heavy RocksLocrian - New CatastrophismsAEIR - A Frith BefouledAcid Blade - Power DiveWeregoat - The Devil’s LustKreator - Live at Bloodstock 2021

There's festival news around the world from Music Midtown's gun-caused cancellation to theorising on the identity of Bloodstock's first ever secret band, picking what bands would be on a TNM tour in 2022, and we cast our eyes over the clues that suggest Botch might actually be reuniting after all. If they're not trolling.Releases:The Interrupters - In the WildAmon Amarth - The Great Heathen ArmySoulfly - TotemDub War - Westgate Under FireSavage Master - Those Who Hunt At NightThe Flatliners - New RuinMercy Union - White TigerHot Milk - The King and Queen of GasolinePsycroptic - Divine CouncilAbaddon Incarnate - The Wretched SermonEther Coven - The Relationship Between the Hammer and the NailLiminal Shroud - All Virtues AblazeWampyric Rites - The Wolves Howl to the Moon

On the eve of their new album release we're joined by Cammie Gilbert of Oceans of Slumber to talk about Louisiana sludge, classic Seattle, turbulent Americana and Scandinavian folk-pop.Agents of Oblivion - Agents of OblivionAlice In Chains - DirtMark Lanegan - Blues FuneralSoundgarden - SuperunknownThe Civil Wars - The Civil WarsEivør - SlørThis episode was originally published as early access on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A heavy rock band are actually up for the Mercury Music Prize for once, we pick the best riffs of 2022 and the best songs to test your headphones with, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are back at it again.Releases:Ithaca - They Fear UsDune Rats - Real Rare WhaleStick to Your Guns - SpectreBastions - Majestic DesolationDance Gavin Dance - Jackpot JuicerBeach Rats - Rat BeatUnwritten Law - The HumAnberlin - SilverlineFuneral Chic - Roman CandleKrisiun - Mortem SolisTriumvir Foul - Onslaught to Seraphim

It's time for one of modern metal's great traditions, the lowdown on a full new Slipknot era with reactions to new album, new songs and new masks. There's also a contentious new A Day to Remember single coming out of the You're Welcome cycle, as well as heavy discussion on what rising ticket prices at Download Festival could mean, and remembrance of one of heavy metal's great modern painters Mariusz Lewandowski.Releases:Deaf Havana - The Present is a Foreign LandSenses Fail - Hell is in Your Head…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead - XI: Bleed Here NowThe Ever Living - Artificial DevicesMantar - Pain is Forever and This is the EndHaunt - Windows of Your HeartFellowship - The Saberlight ChroniclesBehold! The Monolith - From the Fathomless DeepInhuman Condition - FearsickMolder - Engrossed In DecayMaul - Seraphic PunishmentHissing - Hypervirulence ArchitectureTombs - Ex OblivionImperial Triumphant - Spirit of EcstasyOceans of Slumber - Starlight and AshWitchery - NightsidePalisades - Reaching HypercriticalWake - Thought Form DescentCastrator - Defiled In OblivionNicolas Cage Fighter - The Bones That Grew From PainTeethgrinder - DystopiaNebula - Transmission from Mothership EarthKarl Sanders - Saurian ApocalypsePanzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral DrainAshenspire - Hostile ArchitecturePool Kids - Pool Kids