That's Not Metal

Reviews really hot up with some of the most hyped and acclaimed records of the year, some experiments from familiar faces, and some real underground crushers with Deafheaven, Scowl, Employed to Serve, Inhuman Nature, Messa, & Final Dose.Deafheaven 25:41Scowl 57:31Employed to Serve 1:20:33Inhuman Nature 1:43:08Messa 1:52:32Final Dose 2:07:53

We cover some of the biggest, baddest, craziest Album Clubs there is: Thin Lizzy go studs and leather on Thunder and Lightning, Wintersun undergo an epic, farcical saga to create Time I, Palm Reader's raise UK hardcore's ambition on Beside the Ones We Love, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed's hellish 99 song chemical digi-grind Altered States of America.This episode was originally published March 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The time comes to hold a funeral for one of our podcast's greatest villains You Me At Six as their reign of tyranny comes to an end assessing their end and legacy, Turnstile hit us with their first track of Never Enough, a bumper questions section talking the best metal solo artists and two album wonders, and announcing a particularly crunchy band special.Releases:Epica - AspiralCabal - Everything RotsTeen Mortgage - Devil Ultrasonic DreamMessa - The SpinIdle Heirs - Life is ViolenceBenthos - From NothingIn the Woods… - OtraMalphas - ExtinctFinal Dose - Under the Eternal ShadowPutrid Offal - Obliterated LifeRyoji Shinomoto - Children of BushidoThe Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral GladesCBZK - DybuctwoAngell - Veiled by Woe

Linkin Park release a new single but downgrade shows, Evanescence release 2025's hottest AMV, Midnight write an anthem for Cleveland Metal, and Danzig's in hot water for far right dogwhistles on merch.Releases:Scowl - Are We All AngelsBleed From Within - ZenithThornhill - BodiesPigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death HilariousBenediction - Ravage of EmpiresTómarúm - Beyond Obsidian EuphoriaAllegaeon - The Ossuary LensRotting Christ - 35 Years of Evil Existence - Live in LycabettusBalmora - PrologueDynamite - Settle the ScoreNot Without Punishment - Blood Runs Cold

Sam and Perran sit down to talk about Knocked Loose's recent massive headline tour in the UK bringing Basement, Harms Way, & Pest Control into massive Academy venues, as well as Powerwolf announcing a UK arena and Download booking the Vengaboys, and a mega end of month release round-up.Releases:Ophicvs - Steel BeastCradle of Filth - The Screaming of the ValkyriesBloodywood - Nu DelhiLordi - Limited DeaditionSecret Cutter - ///Stormo - Tagli/TaleeUrsa - Call of the InfiniteNoisepicker - The Earth Will Swallow the SunGates to Hell - Death Comes to AllCorpus Offal - Corpus OffalRancid Cadaver - Mortality DeniedRothadás - Töviskert… a kísértés örök érzete… lidércharangIron Form - Cut From Cold Bloodanvilchandelier - anvilchandelierheavenscoldhands - heavenscoldhandsDeafheaven - Lonely People With PowerUnderoath - The Place After This OneMemphis May Fire - ShapeshifterArch Enemy - Blood DynastyAlien Weaponry - Te RāThe Darkness - Dreams On ToastBackxwash - Only Dust RemainsJivebomb - EtherealDoomsday - Never Known PeaceThe Warriors - Burn Yourself AliveForlorn - AetherSavage Master - Dark & DangerousLady Beast - The Inner AlchemistSeven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star Pt.2Cult of Fire - The One, Who is Made of SmokeTeitanblood - From the Visceral AbyssLucifer’s Child - The IlluminantUrn - Demon SteelAmenra - De Toorn / With Fang and ClawWallows - MoreSatsuma - this is my outside voiceSilent Planet / Invent Animate - Bloom In Heaven

In our new reviews show we stop to take stock of the state of some of our most popular heavy bands with Architects, Spiritbox, & A Day to Remember, as well as Whitechapel, Spiritworld, Warbringer, Imperial Triumphant, & Rwake. More hardcore bands imploding over idiocy too.Architects 27:10Spiritbox 1:05:56A Day to Remember 1:30:17Whitechapel 1:46:14Spiritworld 2:08:37Warbringer 2:25:29Imperial Triumphant 2:39:08Rwake 3:03:49

Napalm Death's 2025 edition of the Campaign for Musical Destruction (Bollocks) rolls around, Tool are being sued by their fans over setlist controversy, and we give our take on the ground-shaking moment when a member of Mastodon departs the band.Releases:Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make BelieveSteven Wilson - The Overviewclipping. - Dead Channel SkyWarbringer - Wrath and RuinNite - Cult of the Serpent SunRwake - The Return of MagicThe Body / Intensive Care - Was I Good Enough?Wombbath - Beyond the AbyssWarhammer - Total ManiacRed Fang - Deep CutsEarth Crisis / Integrity Split

We really cover ground on this one: prog goes pop on Rush's Power Windows, 2010s Britrock goes horribly wrong when The Blackout Start the Party, American Football reinvent emo on LP1, and black metal's most comforting album in Agalloch's The Mantle.This episode was originally published February 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Ghost unveil all things Skeletá, Slayer add yet another mega-show onto the UK summer, and Bobby Liebling is being seen by more people than should ever see Bobby Liebling.Releases:Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All BetweenOversize - Vital SignsCloakroom - Last Leg of the Human TableAvantasia - Here Be DragonsDirkschneider - Balls to the Wall ReloadedStress Test - Stress TestHavukruunu - TavastlandGrima - NightsideEffluence - Pianistic DismembermentSleep Paralysis - Sleep ParalysisGrave Infestation - Carnage GathersSepulchral Voice - Crimson Moon EvocationsRitual Ascension - ProfanationScimitar - Scimitarium IHail Conjurer - Order of DisgraceTubal Cain - Slime AbyssSpiritbox - Tsunami SeaWhitechapel - Hymns In DissonanceThe Wildhearts - Satanic Rites of The WildheartsRaging Speedhorn - Night WolfJethro Tull - Curious RuminantDestruction - Birth of MaliceGuiltless - Teeth to SkyIngrown - IdahoStaticlone - Better Living Through Static VisionsThis Gift is a Curse - HeirDawn of Ouroboros - BioluminescenceCryptosis - Celestial DeathWhipstriker - Cry of ExtinctionReconciler - Three SongsRootbrain - Mother TombSunami/Pain of Truth - Coast to Coast SplitDeath Pulsation - Demo

We close out February with reviews of some of our boldest and sloppiest with Killswitch Engage, Bleeding Through, Winona Fighter, Pissgrave, Vacuous, & Gràb, Green Lung & Unto Others' recent Heathen Neverland trip across Europe, and yes, Sam finally reviews a Dream Theater album.Killswitch Engage 40:37Bleeding Through 1:06:01Dream Theater 1:31:51Winona Fighter 1:56:08Pissgrave 2:10:38Vacuous 2:31:42Gràb 2:43:22