That's Not Metal

Knocked Loose hit us with a surprise EP, album reviews turn to Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Ice Nine Kills, and Cradle of Filth, and Album Club looks at the role that Thy Art is Murder's Hate played in opening up a new era in deathcore.

Trivium return with their second album in two years In the Court of the Dragon King along with reviews of Blood Youth and Lamp of Murmuur, Album Club is Alkaline Trio's big rock record Crimson, plus the great Jane Doe controversy.

One of TNM's noisiest weeks sees album reviews of Dying Wish, Full of Hell, & Frontierer, news starts with music from Converge's Bloodmoon album, Ghost's Halloween Kills track, Guns N' Roses, & Limp Bizkit before getting to the ridiculous with Psychosexual - sorry, Synner - and Hollywood Gods N' Monsters, and Album Club is on emotional hardcore's most divisive band with La Dispute's Wildlife.

Machine Gun Kelly picks a fight with Slipknot, we cover an album of the year push from Unto Others, Sleep Token and Rivers of Nihil, take questions on band specials, awards show clunkers, and the oldest records we love, and Album Club is a big peek at our Meshuggah special with the iconic obZen.

In one of 2021's best weeks, we finally delve inside and evaluate Spiritbox's debut album Eternal Blue, Employed to Serve's victorious Conquering, and Miss Vincent, questions gage onomatopoeias, title tracks & Rick Astley, and Album Club is a monstrous 2000s death metal springboard from Tobias Forge in Repugnant's Epitome of Darkness.

There's new Biffy Clyro (you're welcome), new Corey Taylor mask, and news of Gulch's split, questions on Halsey's Reznor & Ross produced album and festival horror stories, reviews are Andrew WK, Carcass and Mastiff, and Album Club finally takes to task a wild claim of Gold Cobra being Limp Bizkit's secret best work.

TNM goes in deep on appraising Iron Maiden's new double album Senjutsu, backed by Bokassa, Press to MECO, & Leprous, questions include the most unlikely 10/10 albums, there's Download & Damnation fest news, and the mystery of the Turnstile pit pooper.

Turnstile finally return with Glow On alongside Jinjer & The Bronx, Album Club surveys rock's relationship with industrial hip-hop band Death Grips and their brutal Exmilitary tape, and news bids farewell to Charlie Watts and Eric Wagner while assessing the week's developments with Gloryhammer.

Three sweeping captivating records fill reviews with Deafheaven's pivot to indie rock, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Between the Buried and Me's Colors II, and Album Club is The Sisters of Mercy's 1987 Steinman-assisted goth pop bombast Floodland.

Perran is back from Bloodstock with a review of the UK's most heavy metal festival's big return and birthday celebrations, with massive headlining sets and a bill put together under constantly trying circumstances bringing celebration-worthy successes.