That's Not Metal

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

The biggest piece of Slipknot drummer rumouring yet, some absolutely blistering tracks from Knocked Loose and Inter Arma, and probably the maddest band drama ever to unfold. We've all done it.Releases:Mick Mars - The Other Side of MarsAce Frehley - 10,000 VoltsAmigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is OverAmaranthe - The CatalystGlitterer - RationaleShoreline - To Figure OutTimelost - DrainedSleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human BeingThe Body/Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile HeavenTraveler - Prequel to MadnessBorknagar - FallStygian Crown - Funeral for a KingMorta Skuld - Creation UndoneVircolac - VenerationGuiltless - ThornsPaledusk - PALEHELLBruce Dickinson - The Mandrake ProjectZakk Sabbath - Doomed Forever Forever DoomedMinistry - HopiumforthemassesNew Years Day - Half Black HeartMannequin Pussy - I Got HeavenPissed Jeans - Half DivorcedFirewind - Stand UnitedSuicidal Angels - Profane PrayerHaunt - DreamersSheer Mag - Playing FavoritesSentry - SentryMessiah - Christus HypercubusDevastator - Conjurers of CrueltySaturnalia Temple - Paradigm CallCelestial Sword - Nocturnal DivinityKontravoid - Detachment

February Album Clubs look at Fall Out Boy's initial send-off Folie a Deux, Kreator's proto-extreme masterpiece Pleasure to Kill, the oft brushed over Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent from Refused, and a decade of Beastmilk's last post-punk party at the end of the world Climax.This episode was originally published February 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

February reviews on TNM pop the hell off with Chelsea Wolfe, Alkaline Trio, Ihsahn, Job for a Cowboy, Darkest Hour, Spectral Voice, Hulder & Slope, and reactions to the bamboozling news of Slayer's return and Ascendancy + The Poison tours.Chelsea Wolfe 57:00Alkaline Trio 1:23:40Ihsahn 1:39:18Job for a Cowboy 2:01:12Darkest Hour 2:19:57Spectral Voice 2:35:21Hulder 2:55:38Slope 3:09:25

Hyperblasts checks out the new single from Pearl Jam, tours from Malevolence and The Menzingers, and very exciting headliner announcements from Outbreak and Damnation.Releases:Idles - TangkBlackberry Smoke - Be Right HereLaura Jane Grace - Hole In My HeadIhsahn - IhsahnBokassa - All Out of DreamsProfiler - A Digital NowhereShooting Daggers - Love & RageGVLLOW - Twin FlamesThe Obsessed - Gilded SorrowPraise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of TimeDarkspace - Dark Space -IIPestilength - Solar Clorex

Kerry King is back on the scene with all of the details surrounding his first album since Slayer, as well as some spicy interview snippets, and there's huge tours on both sides of the Atlantic. The Grammys also exist.Releases:Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to SheYellowcard + Hammock - A Hopeful SignThe Chisel - What a F*cking NightmareThe Pineapple Thief - It Leads to ThisThe Last Ten Seconds of Life - No Name GravesHaystack - Doomsday Goes AwayMorbid Saint - Swallowed By HellSpectral Voice - SparagmosHulder - Verses In OathChapel of Disease - Echoes of LightPetrification - Sever Sacred LightZwielicht - The Aphotic EmbraceTheophonos - Ashes in the Huron RiverHannes Grossmann - Echoes of Eternity

A mega edition of Hyperblasts finds TNM conducting a critical reflection on the legacy of YMAS with the news of their impending farewell, a moment you either feared would come or never come. There's also crazy new music in the form of Kaonashi's new EP, and some crazy choices in the form of Download's stage splits.Releases:Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Dark RainbowAlkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and EyeballsThe Infernal Sea - HellfenlicOlhava - SacrificeUnsouling - Vampiric Spiritual DrainKnoll - As SpokenEye Flys - Eye FlysJunta - JuntaDeath Killer - Total Destruction of the Entire UniverseMountain Caller - Chronicle II: HypergenesisGUHTS - RegenerationSlower - SlowerCaligula’s Horse - Charcoal GraceMadder Mortem - Old Eyes, New HeartVitriol - Suffer & BecomeCognizance - PhantazeinWhitechapel - Live in the ValleyDream State - Still DreamingKaonashi - The 3 Faces of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan MontgomeryMilitarie Gun - Life Under the SunJesu - Hard to ReachEnterprise Earth - Death: An AnthologyBeing as an Ocean - Death Can WaitReconciler - Art for Our Sakemeth. - ShameUtopia - ShameBipolar Architecture - MetaphysicizeMyrath - KarmaStriker - OverpowerNecrowretch - Swords of DajjalDwarrowdelf - The Fallen LeavesStages of Decomposition - Raptures of PsychopathyGhoul - Noxious ConcoctionsPersefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I