That's Not Metal

A bumper Album Club dissection as Mötley Crüe go horribly wrong on Generation Swine. Crossfaith's electronicore captures a moment on Zion, Have Heart's melodic hardcore landmark Songs to Scream at the Sun, and Suffocation invent/perfect brutal death metal with Effigy of the Forgotten. Brandon. We love you.This episode was originally published May 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Sam is lured back to the UK's pop punk home for Slam Dunk 2025 and has to think long and hard about Electric Callboy, and we doff our caps to Svalbard's decision to drop the curtain on a decade plus career as one of the UK's favourite heavy bands.Releases:Skunk Anansie - The Painful TruthMidnight - Steel, Rust and DisgustThus Spoke Zarathustra - I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time for Others’ HarmHome Is Where - Hunting SeasonWitchcraft - IdagWitchrot - Soul CellarYear of No Light - Les Maitres FousHellcrash - Inferno CrematorioSexmag - SexorczymChepang - JhyappaOssuary - Abhorrent Worship…And Oceans - The Regeneration ItineraryMagus Lord - In the Company of ChampionsHouse of Protection - Outrun You AllMSPAINT - No SeparationCrowquill - CrowquillSwans - BirthingGarbage - Let All That We Imagine Be the LightStray from the Path - ClockworkedDesolated - Finding PeaceThe Haunted - Songs of Last ResortRivers of Nihil - Rivers of NihilVildhjarta - Där skogen sjunger under evighetens granarKUSANAGI - ParamnesiaPlanning for Burial - It’s Closeness, It’s EasyCwfen - SorrowsGrin - Acid GodsColtsblood - Obscured Into Nebulous DuskTrivax - The Great SatanSvartsyn - Vortex of the DestroyerObsidian Tongue - Eclipsing Worlds of ScornLord Vigo - Walk the ShadowsVader - HumanihilityWormrot - TNT

In a month that saw two no. 1 metal albums, we go through 2025's biggest reviews gauntlet with Ghost, Machine Head, Behemoth, PUP, The Callous Daoboys, Model/Actriz, Age of Apocalypse, & Sijjin.Ghost 30:52Machine Head 1:17:32Behemoth 1:42:36PUP 2:06:43The Callous Daoboys 2:21:42Model/Actriz 2:47:50Age of Apocalypse 3:00:55Sijjin 3:14:07

We rummage through the wreckage as Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine's Poisoned Ascendancy tour comes to a sudden stop with fingers generally being pointed at one party, and we ask big questions like: are four-sided longsleeves good?Releases:Bury Tomorrow - Will You Haunt Me, With That Same PatienceCallous Daoboys - I Don’t Want to See You in HeavenNovelists - CodaPridian - Venetian DarkHundredth - Faded SplendorArm’s Length - There’s a Whole World Out ThereDeath Before Dishonor - Nowhere BoundPelican - Flickering ResonanceSteve von Till - Alone in a World of WoundsOndfødt - DimsvallBlood Monolith - The Calling of FireAntropomorphia - Devoid of LightCadaver Shrine - Into the Horrible DepthsDrouth - The Teeth of TimeFull of Hell - Broken Sword, Rotten ShieldYouth Code - Yours, With Malice

TNM's 2025 festival summer begins with Incineration descending upon Camden for extreme metal sets from the likes of Lamp of Murmuur, Blackbraid, Spectral Wound, Blood Incantation debuting Absolute Elsewhere in the UK, & a mountain-moving Celtic Frost performance by Triptykon. Ough.Releases:Sijjin - Helljjin CombatPUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs?Propagandhi - At PeacePress Club - To All The Ones That I LoveBleed - BleedModel/Actriz - PirouetteKnives - GlitterYour Spirit Dies - My Gnawing Pains Will Never RestParadise Slaves - With Hell In His EyesSlung - In WavesSnooze - I Know How You Will DieShearling - Motherfucker, I am Both: “Amen” and “Hallelujah”...Dispyt - Från Melankoli till MeningslöshetHate - Bellum RegiisFroglord - MetamorphosisSleep Token - Even In ArcadiaBehemoth - The Shit ov GodTetrarch - The Ugly Side of MeMcClusky - The World is Still Here and So Are WePeter Murphy - Silver ShadeDeath SS - The EntityGhost Bath - Rose Thorn NecklaceSvarta Havet - Månen ska lysa din vägJade - Mysteries of a Flowery DreamCandlemass - Black StarHarms Way - Other World

On the single biggest release week of the year we head down to Ghost kicking off the Skeletour here in the UK, Charli XCX officially declares it a Turnstile Summer, the original Alice Cooper band reunites after 52 years, and there's important updates about last week's Weezer movie announcement.Releases:Superheaven - SuperheavenMelvins - ThunderballLik - NecroAncient Death - Ego DissolutionTribunal - In Penitence and RuinHeaven’s Gate - Tales from a Blistering ParadiseZeicrydeus - La Grande HeresieUngraven - Hollows Made Homes In Their Sunken CheeksXweaponX - Weapon X Demo 2Employed to Serve - Fallen StarInhuman Nature - Greater Than DeathGhost - SkeletáMachine Head - UnatonedLandmvrks - The Darkest Place I’ve Ever BeenCaliban - Back From HellWednesday 13 - Mid Death CrisisH.E.A.T. - Welcome to the FutureHeart Attack Man - Joyride the Pale HorseEluveitie - AnvPagan Altar - Never Quite DeadConan - Violence DimensionSumac / Moor Mother - The FilmBRUIT < - The Age of EphemeralityCancer - Inverted WorldCaustic Wound - Grinding Mechanism of TormentKardashev - AluneaPhantom - Tyrants of WrathVenator - PsychodromeHyena - About Rock and RollBig Boy - Love SongsProfanatica - Wreathed In Dead AngelsDavid Eugene Edwards & Al Cisneros - Pillar of Fire/CapernaumCirith Ungol - Live at the Roxy

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