That's Not Metal

Hill and Beez go tropical on today’s episode and discuss the new songs from Stone Sour and Fall Out Boy and Ivan Moody leaves and returns to Five Finger Death Punch within 24 hours, there’s live reports from Mastodon and Rise Against, discussion on band set lists and more, album reviews on New Found Glory, Life Of Agony, Blood Command and Daisyhead and cover Muse’s Black Holes and Revelations in this week’s Album Club. All this and more laughs than you can shake a coconut bra at on today’s laugh a minute That’s Not Metal.

Hill & Beez discuss the festivals in depth and how things outside of just bands being booked can effect our festival going experience. Can the future of festivals be helped by more than just the bands being booked? A lot of intense discussion before we bring in the expert, Mr Clay Busch of Danny Wimmer Presents who works on some of America’s biggest festivals such as Rock On The Range, Chicago Open Air and more.

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Hill and Beez discuss Mark Morton from Lamb Of God's solo album, Korn's 12 year old bassist, our imaginary Netflix series starring Scott Stapp and Wes Scantlin, how the charts are impacted by streaming and play a WORLD EXCLUSIVE new track from Gnarwolves' forthcoming album, Outsiders. There are album reviews on some of the best releases we've missed this year including Within The Ruins, Vein, Royal Thunder and The Smith Street Band, live reports from Parkway Drive in the UK and Dreamcar, Thursday and When We Were Young festival and our Album Club is on Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

After releasing one of the most groundbreaking albums in the recent history of rock music, Beez sits down with Caro Tanghe of Oathbreaker to discuss their landmark album, Rheia, just how far a person is willing to push themselves physically and mentally for their art and how you difficult it is to take art that delves into the darkest parts of your emotions on the road and onto the stage. This is an interview not to be missed.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Hill and Beez laugh in the face of criticisms of this year's Bloodstock festival and the NME's Mastodon 'review', there are album reviews from Falling In Reverse, Jacob Bannon of Converge's Wear Your Wounds project and The Flatliners, a report from Creeper's TNM associated headline tour and our Album Club is on one of the 90s most decadent and brilliant albums, Monster Magnet's Power Trip.

Beez catches up with Bill and Brann from Mastodon to talk about their quite frankly incredible new album, Emperor Of Sand. The concepts, the inspirations and the full story behind one of the year's best albums. Dive right in.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

It's a huge week with Hill and Beez reviewing the new Mastodon album, Ghost and Suicide Silence line in the UK, Biffy Clyro and Oathbreaker live in the US, more album reviews from Ice T's Body Count, Brutality Will Prevail and Sumo Cyco, our wrestling theme tunes and an Album Club on Alexisonfire's Old Crows/Young Cardinals. Oh and it turns out that cats quite like prawns.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Stephen Hill catches up with Nergal (you'll know him from Behemoth) and British songwriter John Porter to chat in-depth about their new project, Me And That Man. What do an extreme metal artist and a folk songwriter have in common? How did this project come to pass? How do they define their new album, Songs Of Love And Death? All of this plus a few tasty morsels about Behemoth's follow up to The Satanist, only on today's TNM Extra.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic

Hill and Beez have a bumper week where they reveal the launch of That's Not Metal Radio, discuss the controversial Warped Tour line-up for 2017, there's the review of Creeper's Eternity In Your Arms, Northlane's surprise album drop Mesmer and the new albums from Pallbearer and Nergal from Behemoth's new project, Me And That Man. Throw in a very special Album Club on Coheed & Cambria's Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness and a whole host of lols and you have one hell of a That's Not Metal.That’s Not Metal is powered by Marshall. The world’s leading amps, effects pedals, headphones and more are available at shop.marshallamps.com #liveformusic