That's Not Metal

Our first TNM reviews of 2025 hit the runway with The Night Flight Orchestra, Wardruna, The Halo Effect, The Great Old Ones, Trauma Bond, & Grief Ritual, and we pay tribute to one of the greatest left-field artists and dreamers of all time David Lynch.The Night Flight Orchestra 45:00Wardruna 1:07:53The Halo Effect 1:28:45The Great Old Ones 1:44:48Trauma Bond 2:00:34Grief Ritual 2:10:30

Album Club returns to start 2024 after a few months away with a bumper episode, setting the record straight on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Survival Horror, destroying orcs with 3 Inches of Blood's Advance and Vanquish, Joyce Manor's micro-classic Never Hungover Again, and Reign Supreme with #WhyNotDyingFetusThis episode was originally published January 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Hints of a Nine Inch Nails world tour, uncertainty in the SeeYouSpaceCowboy camp, Exodus swap their old singers again, and SpiritWorld go full cowboy.Releases:Eidola - MendGrave Digger - Bone CollectorTokyo Blade - Time is the FireTrauma Bond - Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone.Sarcator - Swarming Angels & FliesNecrodeath - ArimortisNecromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites AbominableOnirophagus - Revelations from the VoidHierarchies - HierarchiesDay By Day - Dust and AshesDark Fortress - Anthems From Beyond the Grave - Live In Europe 2023

We're back for 2025 looking to our hopes and goals for the year ahead, announce our first 2025 special, get a first batch of promising to stupid new singles, and yet another reunion.Releases:Patriarkh - Prophet IljaPaleface Swiss - CursedMutagenic Host - The Diseased MachineEthel Cain - PervertsStick to Your Guns - Keep Planting FlowersLambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs OutTremonti - The End Will Show Us HowThe Halo Effect - March of the UnheardThe Cimmerian - An Age Undreamed OfHaunted Horses - DwellerEx Deo - Year of the Four EmperorsJota - Haven

For our last show before Christmas we arrive at the TNM Awards for 2024, as we gather to end the year with the successes, stories, downfalls and villain arcs that defined the year in heavy:Most Improved BandSong of the YearWorst Song of the YearHero of the YearVillain of the YearBest New BandBiggest DisappointmentGig of the YearEP of the YearArtwork of the YearMovie of the YearComeback of the YearSurprise of the YearOutstanding AchievementWorst Band of the YearUnsung HeroesStory of the YearBand of the Year

We round off the best rock and metal albums of 2024 with lists from Sam and Mark, plus the all important and really incredibly great this year listener poll from all of you to really see who gets crowned.

The That's Not Metal Albums of the Year for 2024 begins, with Perran and Elliot giving their lists of so much that the best in metal, the underground and beyond had to offer.

Our final reviews bag of 2024 happens to feature the biggest rock comebacks of the year and underground heroes, with Linkin Park, The Cure, Opeth, Better Lovers, Many Eyes, Tribulation & Neon Nightmare getting discussed.Linkin Park 31:45The Cure 1:01:04Opeth 1:25:59Better Lovers 1:49:56Many Eyes 2:09:03Tribulation 2:20:08Neon Nightmare 2:41:53

2025 singles really start coming with Spiritbox, Architects, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, and Coheed and Cambria, W.A.S.P. go full mental, and we talk the "bad" albums we got into bands on.Releases:Opeth - The Last Will and TestamentBody Count - MercilessKim Deal - Nobody Loves You MoreOcean Grove - OddworldPolar - NovaFellowship - The Skies Above EternityCoilguns - Odd LoveMúr - MúrDefeated Sanity - Chronicles of LunacyGutless - High Impact ViolenceAnte-Inferno - Death’s SoliloquyPanzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow ZionKruelty - Profane UsurpationMallavora - EchoesDoro - Rock ‘N’ Roll Xmas Party

We hit that point of the year where we have Grammy nominations and Download headliners to either complain about or debunk complaints about, and a mega live review as Sepultura's farewell tour finally arrives on UK shores.Releases:Linkin Park - From ZeroAs I Lay Dying - Through Storms AheadPoppy - Negative SpacesFull of Hell / Andrew Nolan - Scraping the DivinePrimal Code - Opaque FixationThy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután JönnekSpider God - Possess the DevilChelsea Wolfe - UnboundLess Than Jake - UnchartedMammoth Grinder - Undying Spectral ResonanceDeadbody / Tribal Gaze - Deadbody / Tribal GazeRefused - The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated