That's Not Metal

Today's episode is dedicated to Steve Albini, the patron saint of alternative music, architect of the 90s, engineer of some of our greatest works of art across five different decades, and one of TNM's true heroes.Releases:Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed ToLike Moths to Flames - The Cycles of Trying to CopePowerman 5000 - Abandon ShipKill II This - VariantHot Water Music - VowsIndoor Pets - Pathetic ApatheticUncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Nell’ Ora BluUnleash the Archers - PhantomaFreedom Call - Silver RomanceAnette Olzon - RaptureSebastian Bach - Child Within the ManArab Strap - I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍Riot V - Mean StreetsFlamekeeper - FlamekeeperTake Offense - T.O.talitySix Feet Under - Killing for RevengeNecrophagia - Moribundis GrimRed Rot - Borders of Mania

April releases went absolutely crazy, and so this time on TNM we reviews albums from Pearl Jam, The Ghost Inside, Inter Arma, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Dool, Castle Rat, High On Fire, & Dvne, as well as singles from Motley Crue and Unto Others, and live trips to Pupil Slicer and Underdark/Devil Master.36:49 Pearl Jam55:25 The Ghost Inside1:14:48 Inter Arma1:47:10 SeeYouSpaceCowboy...2:05:26 Dool2:25:13 Castle Rat2:39:12 High On Fire2:57:07 Dvne

Excitement brews as letlive. prepares for a return, while Thursday celebrates their first new song in 13 years. Live performances spark nostalgia and laughter, revealing the chaotic nature of the metal scene. A thrilling death metal cover by Frozen Soul brings a fresh twist to a classic. Latest releases from bands like Pearl Jam and My Dying Bride highlight genre diversity, while the buzz around upcoming concerts keeps fans on their toes. The hosts reflect on the vibrant evolution of metal, concluding with a nod to the rich underground culture.

Architects release a new single in collaboration with Jordan Fish, but there is also an elephant in the room we have to discuss. Elsewhere Bloodywood get a big movie moment, music from Century Media's new signing Sonja, and questions on negative review pushback and our favourite foot in mouth band moments.Releases:Blue Öyster Cult - Ghost StoriesCastle Rat - Into the RealmTýr - Battle BalladsRiot V - Mean StreetsVulture - SentinelsHeavy Temple - Garden of HeathensTarot - Glimpse of the DawnAaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of FlowersHeavenly Blue - We Have the AnswerWhores. - War.Love Sex Machine - TrveNecrot - Lifeless BirthBenighted - EkbomExist - Hijacking the ZeitgeistReplicant - Infinite MortalityHeresiarch - EdificeNorthlane - Mirror’s Edge

We polish off March's releases with a bonus review ep covering While She Sleeps' continued bizarre choices of experimentation in Self Hell and Sum 41's parting note of a double album Heaven :x: Hell.Releases:Bob Vylan - Humble as the SunFeeder - Black/RedAlpha Wolf - Half Living ThingsERRA - CureFilth - Southern HostilityStrung Out - Dead RebellionBayside - There are Worse Things Than Being AliveCock Sparrer - Hand On HeartKorpiklaani - RankarumpuIngested - The Tide of Death and Fractured DreamsHour of Penance - DevotionIron Monkey - Spleen & GoadFriends of Hell - God Damned You to HellDestroyer of Light - Degradation YearsHorndal - Head Hammer ManAttic - Return of the WitchfinderWitch Vomit - Funeral SanctumFuneral Leech - The Illusion of TimeDiabolic Oath - Oracular HexationsLocrian - End TerrainAustere - Beneath the ThresholdThe Good The Bad and the Zugly - Decade of RegressionDreamcar - Dream

Album Club toasts 20 years of AFI's goth punk masterpiece Sing the Sorrow, revisits one of the last big supergroups and the era it ended with Axewound's Vultures, and celebrates two underground punk and grind gems with Fall of Efrafa's Owsla and Genghis Tron's Dead Mountain Mouth.This episode was originally published March 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

We scheme the best ways to survive being a member of Slipknot and FMK with baddiecore, as the Summer Slaughter is confirmed to return, and Botch's reunion/final shows hit the UK in mindblowing style.Releases:The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow EyesNight Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of NightCrushed By Waves - More to LifeBlanket - CeremoniaRestorations - RestorationsMastiff - DeprecipiceBRAT - Social GraceZombi - Direct InjectHamferd - Men Guds hond er sterkKhold - Du dommes til DodBrodequin - Harbinger of WoeHideous Divinity - UnextinctApparition - Disgraced Emanations from a Tranquil StateCiverous - Maze EnvyAberration - RefractureSylvaine - Eg Er FramandWhile She Sleeps - Self HellSum 41 - Heaven :x: HellBoundaries - Death is Little MoreWristmeetrazor - DegenerationFrail Body - Artificial BouquetVial - BurnoutTeens In Trouble - What’s MineCoffin Storm - Arcana RisingMutiilation - Black Metal CultVorga - Beyond the Palest StarVerwoed - The MotherVerberis - The Apophatic WildernessDarkestrah - NomadCoffins - Sinister OathHate Force - Systems of TerrorSeptage - Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms)

That's Not Metal reviews for March are in absolute guitar heaven, and maybe hell, with Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Midnight, Gouge Away, Chapel of Disease, & Dödsrit.Judas Priest 23:30Bruce Dickinson 55:35Midnight 1:24:56Gouge Away 1:40:20Chapel of Disease 1:58:20Dödsrit 2:23:24

One of the biggest weeks for heavy touring in the UK peaks with a podcast-wide trip to Napalm Death's Campaign for Musical Destruction with Pig Destroyer, Primitive Man, and Wormrot, coming with sadly some sombre news from the PD camp.Releases:Kid Kapichi - There Goes the NeighbourhoodScott Stapp - Higher PowerThe Black Crowes - Happiness BastardsGouge Away - Deep SageBleak - My Body is Not Where I BelongDragonForce - Warp Speed WarriorsSavage Oath - Divine BattleVltimas - EpicAborted - Vault of HorrorsNecrophobic - Into the Twilight GreyUdåd -  UdådO ZORN! - Vermillion HazeGreywind - AntidoteComeback Kid - Trouble

Hyperblasts brings a report from London's Celestial Darkness Festival checking out rare bookings in the worlds of black, doom, & goth and sets from the likes of Primordial, Tribulation, & Ihsahn, and salute a formative band for TNM as Palm Reader announce their farewell.Releases:Judas Priest - Invincible ShieldSonata Arctica - Clear Cold BeyondMyrath - KarmaKill the Lights - Death MelodiesMidnight - Hellish ExpectationsGost - ProphecyExhorder - Defectum OmniumSkeletal Remains - Fragments of the AgelessSlimelord - Chytridiomycosis RelinquishedMerrimack - Of Gravity and GraceIsenordal - Requiem for Eirênê