That's Not Metal

AC/DC hit Wembley Stadium, Palm Reader bid farewell, while also giving us new music from new band Vower. We get one of the year's more questionable covers, and get misty-eyed over closed venues from years past.Releases:Speed - Only One ModeGraphic Nature - Who Are You When No One is Watching?In Hearts Wake - IncarnationThe Home Team - The Crucible of LifeMr. Big - TenWebbed Wing - Vol. IIIWerewolves - Die for UsSissy Spacek - DiaphonousSeth - La France des mauditsForgotten Tomb - NightfloatingTotengott - Beyond the VeilSkelethal - Within Corrosive ContinuumsKing 810 - Under the Black Rainbow

Outbreak Festival goes outdoors for an even bigger event, with sets from Have Heart, Basement, American Football, Thursday, Balance and Composure, The Hotelier, Poison the Well, & more.Releases:Scene Queen - Hot Singles In Your AreaCrossfaith - ARK200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic ProceduresAnvil - One and OnlyWraith - Fueled by FearLove Letter - Everyone Wants Something BeautifulPijn - On Low Beams of HopeLimbonic Art - Opus DaemoniacalEnter Shikari - Dancing on the FrontlineVisions of Atlantis - Pirates II - ArmadaOrden Ogan - The Order of FearWormed - OmegonVulvodynia - EntabeniKrallice - Inorganic RitesXasthur - Disharmonic Variations

We catch up to give our take on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Nex Gen, albums from The Story So Far, Joey Valance & Brae, Candy, Umbra Vitae, Rotting Christ, & Julie Christmas, and take a trip to the movies for Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now film.Ghost 1:59Bring Me the Horizon 31:08The Story So Far 1:15:50Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47Candy 1:43:00Umbra Vitae 1:53:47Rotting Christ 2:05:56Julie Christmas 2:20:37

A huge live music summer continues with gigs galore but also the reports of drama, mismanagement, and poisoning coming out of Download Festival 2024.Releases:The Story So Far - I Want to DisappearWage War - StigmaKittie - FireAlcest - Les Chants De l’Auroreearthtone9 - In Resonance NexusForeign Hands - What’s Left UnsaidCalcine - Common Love Common NauseaThe Dangerous Summer - GravitySumac - The HealerPortrait - The HostHyperdontia - Harvest of MalevolenceSarke - Endo FeightKvaen - The Formless FiresCavalera Conspiracy - SchizophreniaBlack Veil Brides - Bleeders

The season of the big rock shows begins with Paramore supporting at The Eras Tour, double Metallica, Weezer + Pumpkins, as well as tonnes of new singles including big returns for Nails and The Black Dahlia Murder, and discussion of the Barclay's Boycott at Download Festival.Releases:Black Country Communion - VThe Early November - Self-TitledFu Manchu - The Return of TomorrowJulie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of BloodCrypt Sermon - The Stygian RoseLucifer’s Hammer - Be and ExistRezn - BurdenUlcerate - Cutting the Throat of GodDownfall of Mankind - PurgatoryMalignancy - …DiscontinuedEmbryonic Autopsy - Origins of the DeformedGroin - Paid In FleshFellwarden - Legend: Forged In Defiance

After last week's trip to Slam Dunk, we hop to the other side of the UK festival spectrum to the upcoming black metal event Fortress Festival, headlined by Triptykon and Wolves in the Throne Room and setting black metal at the beach.Releases:Bon Jovi - ForeverRoyal Republic - LoveCopApocalyptica - Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2Evergrey - Theories of EmptinessJoey Valance & Brae - No HandsSect - Plagues Upon PlaguesCandy - It’s Inside YouUmbra Vitae - Light of DeathSevere Torture - Torn from the Jaws of DeathTorturers’ Lobby - Deadened NervesDysrhythmia - Coffin of ConvictionHippotraktor - StasisGurt - Satan EtcErnte - Weltenzerstorer

We take a trip to 2024's Slam Dunk event, and Nile come out with the song title of the year.Releases:Rotting Christ - Pro XristouSpiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking HellThou - UmbilicalCHVE - KalvarieFour Stroke Baron - Data DiamondThe Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression / Rule by DeceptionRhapsody of Fire - Challenge the WindSaltatio Mortis - FinsterwachtCloven Hoof - Heathen CrossBad Nerves - Still NervousBad Breeding - ContemptHellbutcher - HellbutcherTroops of Doom - A Mass to the GrotesqueShrapnel - In GravityHouse by the Cemetery - The Mortuary HauntingsHaunted Plasma - IWhoredom Rife - Den Vrede MaktWormwood - The StarGraywave - Dancing in the DustExodus - British Disaster: The Battle of ‘89 (Live at the Astoria)Black Sabbath - Anno Domini 1989-1995

Def Leppard signal the dawn of the pop metal age with Pyromania, we evaluate if Fightstar's Grand Unification holds up, Comeback Kid make a modern hardcore classic Wake the Dead, and Autopsy set a bar for freakish death metal Mental Funeral.This episode was originally published April 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

May brings some of the biggest event releases in metal as we review Knocked Loose, Kerry King, Gatecreeper, Pallbearer, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, One Step Closer, Folterkammer, & Antichrist Siege Machine.27:35 Knocked Loose58:48 Kerry King1:21:36 Gatecreeper1:41:10 Pallbearer2:00:36 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats2:24:26 One Step Closer2:39:41 Folterkammer3:06:16 Antichrist Siege Machine

Live trips to Sick of It All and Green Lung, big new additions to Outbreak and Damnation's schedules, reactions to news of a certain controversial label signing, and more Steve Albini worship.Releases:Missiles - Weaponize TomorrowMarkgraf - HohenbadenKerry King - From Hell I RiseGatecreeper - Darker SuperstitionJasta - …And Jasta for AllPallbearer - Mind Burns AliveShellac - To All TrainsOne Step Closer - All You EmbraceRope Sect - EstrangementNocturnus A.D. - UnicursalPathology - Unholy DescentTzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral ForceBat - Under the Crooked ClawGoden - Vale of the FallenUfomammut - HiddenBotanist - PaleobotanySoftcult - HeavenCivil Elegies - No Life