That's Not Metal

The fruits of Linkin Park's rollout emerge with all of the details of their reunion and return, Slam Dunk leads with its first announcements for 2025, there's trouble in the W.A.S.P. camp, and there's a live report from NWOBHM cult legends Satan.Releases:Rat Lord - Blazed in the Northern SkyEnumclaw - Home In Another LifeBoston Manor - Sundiver40 Watt Sun - Little WeightMolchat Doma - Belaya PolosaAluk Todolo - LUXBlitzkrieg - BlitzkriegHelvetets Port - WarlordsGod is an Astronaut - EmbersGod Dethroned - The Judas ParadoxPeelingFlesh - The G CodeBodysnatcher - Vile ConductLaura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals - Give An Inch

Album Clubs kick off with an EP that set it all alight with Nine Inch Nails' Broken, Baroness make modern rock's great double album Yellow & Green, The Hotelier hit an emo revival high Home, Like Noplace Is There, and Satyricon take black'n'roll to the mainstream with Now, Diabolical.This episode was originally published May 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The big reunion the world was apparently waiting happens with Oasis, but it was nearly two in week with Deryck Whibley finding himself at the centre of a storm of confusion, plus talk on the comedy metal albums we actually like.Releases:Stand Atlantic - Was HereSimone Simons - VermillionWithin the Ruins - Phenomena IIUniform - American StandardMelt-Banana - 3+5Fleshgod Apocalypse - OperaSpectral Wound - Songs of Blood and MireKoldbrann - Ingen SkanselGravenoire - Devant La Porte Des EtoilesBlack Birch - Black BirchDemiser - Slave to the ScytheNil / Castle of the Winds - Bastard Sons of TyrannyMark Lanegan - Bubblegum XXWintersun - Time IINails - Every Bridge BurningLeprous - Melodies of AtonementNick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild GodThrown - Excessive GuiltOceano - Living ChaosSatan’s Satyrs - After DarkPhaëthon - Wielder of the SteelTeeth - The Will of HateAnciients - Beyond the Reach of the SunDeceased - Children of the MorgueConcrete Winds - Concrete WindsAvmakt - Satanic Inversion of…Copse - MMXXIVCutdown - To the GraveChelsea Wolfe - UndoneHellripper - Fork-Tongued Messiah

Actual mythical albums lead this month's album reviews, as we discuss the actually real Wintersun album Time II, the comeback of Nails, Zeal & Ardor, Twin Atlantic, Four Year Strong, Leprous, & Nile.Wintersun 40:06Nails 1:21:18Zeal & Ardor 1:50:16Twin Atlantic 2:06:28Four Year Strong 2:24:22Leprous 2:37:44Nile 2:51:32

We're back for our annual report from Bloodstock Festival where Opeth, Architects, & Amon Amarth headlined atop Malevolence, Clutch, Satyricon, Whitechapel, Hatebreed, Green Lung, & plenty more.

Aerosmith unceremoniously call it a day, OPETH HAVE GROWLZ AGAIN, and we discuss the most disgusting things we've witnessed at festivals and have a conversation on the ethics of using depictions of real death on album artwork.Releases:Twin Atlantic - MeltdownFour Year Strong - Analysis ParalysisDune Rats - If It Sucks, Turn It UpKing Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741Oso Oso - Life Till BonesFucked Up - Another DayDestroy Boys - Funeral Soundtrack #4Mushroomhead - Call the DevilHammerFall - Avenge the FallenAnd So I Watch You From Afar - MegafaunaKurokuma - Of Amber and SandTendrils - Long DeadMamaleek - Vida BlueFulci - Duck Face KillingsOxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the UniverseMalodorous - The Carrion RecoilViscera Infest - TeratomaIn Aphelion - ReaperdawnHeilung - Lifa Iotungard: Live at Red Rocks Ampitheatre

Gojira make history with their absolutely insane Olympics performance, there's a massive stream of singles from Undeath, Better Lovers, High Vis, Jinjer, Oranssi Pazuzu, Jerry Cantrell, & more, and Sam talks about Bruce Springsteen again.Releases:The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mori MeiAnberlin - VegaBlues Pills - BirthdayBarbarian Hermit - Mean SugarShadow Knell - Shadow KnellBlind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond RevisitedFootballhead - Before I DiePoison Ruin - ConfrereCalderum - Desecration of the Bastille

We are joined by drummer and vocalist Alasdair Dunn of experimental black metallers Ashenspire to blow the doors open with one of our most eclectic Album Roulettes with dance-noise, abstract hip-hop, discussion of the true ethos of post-black metal, and tips on getting into jazz as a metal fan.Ed Scissor & Lamplighter - Tell Them It's WinterCIVIL ELEGIES - CombatAltar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & InjuryModel/Actriz - DogsbodyEx Eye - Ex EyeDoomCannon - Renaissance

A hyperspeed Hyperblast with Rou Reynolds joining the War of the Worlds cast, and the first returning track from the original Jane's Addiction line-up.Releases:Orange Goblin - Science, Not FictionDeep Purple - =1Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse - Paul Di’Anno’s WarhorseUprising - IIIPowerwolf - Wake Up the WickedDream Evil - Metal GodsHarvestmen - Triptych: Part TwoState Faults - Children of the MoonWormwitch - WormwitchColdCell - Age of UnreasonMayhemic - TobaVoid Witch - Horripilating PresenceKaonashi - A Second Chance at Forever: The Brilliant Lies from Casey DiamondGhost - Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The week Tenacious D implode in the least predictable circumstances, TNM reviews and gives judgement on albums from Scene Queen, Speed, Crossfaith, 200 Stab Wounds, Ulcerate, Crypt Sermon, & Blind Girls.Scene Queen 18:55Speed 51:00Crossfaith 1:03:30200 Stab Wounds 1:22:57Ulcerate 1:41:53Crypt Sermon 2:03:52Blind Girls 2:15:14