That's Not Metal

It's an episode of heavy live music logistics, with Depeche Mode, Iron Maiden and While She Sleeps all announcing massive shows, a trip to Behemoth and Arch Enemy's co-headlining European Siege tour, and Rammstein shake up the board with their legal action against resale giant Viagogo.Releases:Acid Witch - Rot Among UsMelvins - Bad Moon RisingLamb of God - OmensWednesday 13 - HorrifierVukovi - NulaA.A. Williams - As the Moon RestsBush - The Art of SurvivalCounterparts - A Eulogy for Those Still HereGet the Shot - Merciless DestructionArmed for Apocalypse - Ritual ViolenceGoatwhore - Angels Hung from the Arches of HeavenCloud Rat - ThresholdThe Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan In His Original GloryFaceless Burial - At the Foothills of DelirationLanguish - Feeding the Flames of AnnihilationAenaon - MnemosyneDe Profundis - The Corruption of VirtueQueensrÿche - Digital Noise AllianceFucked Up - OberonAncst - Zorn

One more massive record this month comes from Slipknot with this week's Hyperblasts holding our review of The End, So Far, the record that sees the band double down on dark experimentation and churning gloom for the discerning maggots.Releases:Gaerea - MirageKEN Mode - NullDaufødt - AromaterapiKid Kapichi - Here’s What You Could Have WonStratovarius - SurviveVenom Inc. - There’s Only BlackRazor - Cycle of ContemptFrayle - Skin & SorrowGutvoid - Durance of Lightless HorizonsLive Burial - My Head as TributeLostalone - The Warring TwentiesDrowning Pool - Strike a NerveLost Society - If the Sky Came DownTankard - Pavlov’s DawgsAutopsy - Morbidity TriumphantStake - Love, Death and DecayOff! - Free LSDNo Sun - In the InterimColdWorld - IsolationStrigoi - VisceraGodeater - VesperaDarkest Era - Wither on the VineEscuela Grind - Memory TheaterAutophagy - BacteriophageSammy Hagar and the Circle - Crazy TimesDropkick Murphys - This Machine Still Kills FascistsSlipknot - The End, So Far

It's the review motherlode from 2022's biggest month, with Parkway Drive, The Callous Daoboys, Megadeth, Behemoth, Clutch, Electric Callboy, Sumerlands, and The Wonder Years albums giving us disagreements, ethical discussions, huge tunes, and "ready spaghetti".Parkway Drive 28:20The Callous Daoboys 1:04:45Megadeth 1:25:17Behemoth 1:49:50Clutch 2:19:25Electric Callboy 2:32:11Sumerlands 2:56:37The Wonder Years 3:08:57

For March Album Clubs, time thaws on Judas Priest's poptastic Turbo, doesn't on The Rasmus' school disco goth with Dead Letters, there's Turbonegro's Scandipunk watershed Apocalypse Dudes, and Celtic Frost make metal's most revolutionary ever statement with Into the Pandemonium.This episode was originally published March 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A bumper live reviews pack checks out Machine Head and Amon Amarth's Vikings & Lionhearts tour, Blood Command, and The Xcerts, as well as a consideration of the reviewer mindset, and The Black Dahlia Murder looking to continue on.Releases:Behemoth - Opvs Contra NatvrumClutch - Sunrise On Slaughter BeachThe Mars Volta - The Mars VoltaSumerlands - DreamkillerNo Devotion - No OblivionBlaqk Audio - Trop d’amourDeath Cab for Cutie - Asphalt MeadowsSuede - AutofictionDestrage - So Much. Too Much.The Devil Wears Prada - Color DecayMindforce - New LordsThe Beths - Expert In A Dying Field Spiritus Mortis - The Great SealTribal Gaze - The Nine ChoirsMortuous - Upon DesolationInnumerable Forms - Philosophical CollapsePhobophilic - Enveloping AbsurdityWolfheart - King of the AbyssIrist - Gloria

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.