That's Not Metal

This week we top up our last reviews show with Biffy Clyro's first album in four years Futique and Dying Wish's bleaker kind of metalcore Flesh Stays Together, along with a trip to Brighton's D.I.E. Fest and discussion of Watain's three year plan of disbandment. Releases: Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Paradise Lost - Ascension Castle Rat - The Bestiary Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World Greywind - Severed Heart City Cardiacs - LSD Total Wife - Come Back Down C4 - Payback’s a Bitch Igorrr - Amen Werewolves - The Ugliest of All Novembers Doom - Major Arcana Heretoir - Solastalgia Amnio - Psalms of Immortality Firmament - For Centuries Alive Secret World - Tomorrow is a Mystery to Me Missing Link - Miracle Smile The Starting Line - Eternal Youth Sprints - All That is Over Dave Hause - …And the Mermaid Amorphis - Borderland Revocation - New Gods, New Masters Vintersorg - Vattenkrafternas Spel Mors Principium Est - Darkness Invisible Esses - Pain at the Altar of Jest President - King of Terrors PeelingFlesh - PF Radio 2 Elder - Liminality / Dream State Return Tetragrammacide - Cyber-Tantric Paradigm of Radical Sri-Vidya

Lorna Shore, Fleshwater, Scorpion Milk, La Dispute, Modern Life is War, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, & Die Spitz albums get tackled, Jupiter and The Opposite of December get toured across the UK, but with another crushing blow to metal we also try to find words for one of the underground's truest heroes Tomas Lindberg. RIP King Tompa. Lorna Shore 42:50 Fleshwater 1:06:56 Scorpion Milk 1:21:44 La Dispute 1:38:16 Modern Life is War 1:52:16 Der Weg Einer Freiheit 2:01:20 Die Spitz 2:11:20

Turnover's 10 Years of Peripheral Vision tour hits the UK, Poppy, Amy Lee, & Courtney LaPlante put out "Lady Marmalade for goths", and System of a Down unveil one hell of a stadium run with a particular choice of opener. Releases: Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me Between the Buried and Me - The Blue Nowhere Spinal Tap - The End Continues Silverstein - Pink Moon I See Stars - The Wheel The Rasmus - Weirdo The Chameleons - Arctic Moon Ho99o9 - Tomorrow We Escape Not Enough Space - Weaponize Your Rage Spite House - Desertion Maruja - Pain to Power Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern Year of the Goat - Alucarda Crippling Alcoholism - Camgirl Intercourse - How I Fell in Love With the Void Slomatics - Atomicult Jo Quail - Notan Barrens - Corpse Lights Heruvim - Mercator Caesarean - Wretched Decrepitude

It's our birthday! This week That's Not Metal turns 10, and to celebrate this crazy crazy milestone, we get misty-eyed dialling it back to the first ever episodes of TNM to look at the albums that launched this podcast and track our decade through these bands. Thank you for 10 years of support - you've not let us down, so we're still here. To TNM, and to you. Releases: Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives Nova Twins - Parasites & Butterflies End It - Wrong Side of Heaven Helloween - Giants & Monsters Slow Crush - Thirst Adur - We Fail to Love Ourselves In Mourning - The Immortal Månegarm - Edsvuren Void - Forbidden Morals Deathhammer - Crimson Dawn Proscription - Desolate Divine Torso - Annihilation Day Death Goals - Survival Is An Act Of Defiance withpaperwings - Six Thousand Days Fleshwater - 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky Tallah - Primeval: Obsession // Detachment blessthefall - Gallows La Dispute - No One Was Driving the Car Modern Life is War - Life on the Moon Still In Love - Recovery Language Glenn Hughes - Chosen Dark Angel - Extinction Level Event Primal Fear - Domination Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores of Melancholia Faetooth - Labyrinthine

In our end of summer reviews we give the verdict on new albums from Deftones, Dinosaur Pile-Up, The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die, Pool Kids, Malthusian, Faced Out, and brave a trip into the Knightclub with Feuerschwanz. Deftones 24:30 Dinosaur Pile-Up 1:1:29 The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die 1:14:36 Feuerschwanz 1:29:53 Pool Kids 1:48:13 Malthusian 1:56:18 Faced Out: 2:14:25

End of summer Album Clubs are the sleaze and scandal of W.A.S.P.'s debut, The Distillers' perfect punk rock Sing Sing Death House, Japandroid's celebrated Celebration Rock, and Watain split black metal opinion on The Wild Hunt. This episode was originally published August 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Sam reports from a hardcore fireworks show underneath a bridge in London, there's tracks from Joyce Manor, Conjurer, and Gaerea's continued surprising swerves into pop black metal, and we respond to the awful news of Brent Hinds' death. Hearts Alive, forever. Releases: Rise Against - Ricochet Joey Valance & Brae - HYPERYOUTH Justice for the Damned - Stay Relentless Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done Kerosene Heights - Blame It On The Weather Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands Baest - Colossal Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque Panopticon - Laurentian Blue Panopticon - Songs of Hiraeth Phosphorus - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands Fell Omen - Caelid Dog Summer Firestarter - Still Holding On… Cult of Luna - Beyond III, IV, V Deftones - Private Music Pendulum - Inertia Three Days Grace - Alienation We Came as Romans - All is Beautiful… Because We’re Doomed Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still Dinosaur Pile-Up - I’ve Felt Better The World is a Beautiful Place & I’m No Longer Afraid to Die - Dreams of Being Dust really big really clever - …huh? Faced Out - At Eternity’s Edge Feuerschwanz - Knightclub Burning Witches - Inquisition Signs of the Swarm - To Rid Myself of Truth Arcadea - The Exodus of Gravity Malevich - Under a Gilded Sun Desaster - Kill All Idols Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence Zetra - Believe Fates Messenger - Eternal War

TNM returns to a monster edition of Bloodstock Festival where Trivium, Machine Head, Gojira, Mastodon, Emperor, Nailbomb, Ministry, & more bring heavy metal to the fields of England once again.

There's gothy new AFI and even more dramatically new Davey Havok facial hair as we wonder who is really under there, and pay our respects to the sadly passed Erik Wunder behind the revolutionary USBM outlaws Cobalt. Releases: Babymetal - Metal Forth Halestorm - Everest Good Charlotte - Motel Du Cap Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 1 As December Falls - Everything’s On Fire But I’m Fine Firstborne - Lucky Attack Attack! - Attack Attack! II Blackbraid - Blackbraid III Sinsaenum - In Devastation Asunojokei - Think of You Malthusian - The Summoning Bell Crypt Sermon - Saturnian Apprentices Aversions Crown - A Voice From the Outer Dark

Musical drum stools strikes again, Dying Wish and Fleshwater set new records for the autumn, and the Poisoned Ascendancy shadiness raises its sassy head once again. Releases: Alice Cooper - The Revenge of Alice Cooper Post Animal - Iron Scalp - Not Worthy of Human Compassion Kontusion - Insatiable Lust for Death Nuovo Testamento - Trouble Fit for a King - Lonely God The Armed - The Future is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed Fox Lake - New World Heat Hammer - Trapped Hedonist - Scapulimancy Kayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason Car Bomb - Tiles Whisper Dreams Saphir Levi - Follow Your Shadow

We shake up the reviews with looks at plenty of smaller newcomer bands with TNM fave The Dirty Nil plus Blood Vulture, Psycho-Frame, Blind Equation, Crown of Anguish, Stangarigel, & Nuvolascura, and of course we do our best this week to speak to the seismic passing of the Prince of Darkness, heavy metal's hugest figure, Ozzy Osbourne. The Dirty Nil 46:49 Blood Vulture 1:04:23 Psycho-Frame 1:20:14 Blind Equation 1:32:06 Crown of Anguish 1:45:16 Stangarigel 1:55:58 Nuvolascura 2:05:20

TNM makes a long overdue return to 2000 Trees Festival to see Alexisonfire, Coheed and Cambria, the return of letlive., a massively contested slot from Kneecap, plenty more from punk rock spectrum, and in the same episode somehow, we face the great Profanatica jar controversy. Releases: Bring Me the Horizon - Lo-files Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway - Addicted to the Violence Bush - I Beat Loneliness Zac Farro - Operator Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes - Adventure Club Panic Shack - Panic Shack Blind Equation - A Funeral In Purgatory Stomach - Low Demon Ba’al - The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here Entrails - Grip of Ancient Evil Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence Haunter / Cape of Bats - Black Magick Metal Punk

The biggest metal weekend of all time maybe arrives, with our impressions of Black Sabbath's Back to the Beginning and Ozzy's retirement party, plus trips to the return of Slayer in the UK. Releases: Split Chain - motionblur Calva Louise - Edge of the Abyss dead7 - Love What You Can While You’ve Still Got Something Left to Love Ward XVI - ID3NTITY Born of Osiris - Through Shadows Margarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In Hell Floating - Hesitating Lights

It's a rock show extravaganza as we chat about one of the highest profile weeks for live heavy music in the UK ever with Deftones, Linkin Park, King Diamond, and Iron Maiden, as well as a sobering discussion of the fallout of Bob Vylan's appearance at Glastonbury and removal from Radar Festival. Releases: Higher Power - There’s Love In This World If You Want It Pig Pen - Mental Madness Dropkick Murphys - For the People Wytch Hazel - V: Lamentations We Lost the Sea - A Single Flower Stygian - Dreadlands Gaupa - Fyr

Outbreak returns in 2025 in a different guise, with a new site in London for a different kind of mass hardcore experience with sets from Turnstile, Sunny Day Real Estate, Speed, Model/Actriz, plus bonus appearances from Deafheaven and God's Hate. Releases: Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence Helms Deep - Chasing the Dragon Haggus - Destination Extinction Witherer - Shadow Without a Horizon Upon Stone - End Time Lightning Valdrin - Apex Violator Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services Heaven Shall Burn - Heimat Sodom - The Arsonist Blood Vulture - Die Close Johan Langquist - The Castle - Johan Langquist - The Castle King Witch - III Fer de Lance - Fires on the Mountainside Killing of a Sacred Deer - A Visage of a Mangled Body Greet Death - Die In Love All Men Unto Me - Requiem Inhuman Condition - Mind Trap Lord Belial - Unholy Trinity Shining - Divided You’ll Stand and United You’ll Fall Cosmic Joke - Forced Perspective Botch - 061524 Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums

A glut of huge hardcore storms TNM reviews with albums from Turnstile, Malevolence, Stray from the Path, Kaonashi, Deadguy (& Hexvessel, not very hardcore), and Nine Inch Nails kick off their incredible Peel It Back arena production. Turnstile 34:18 Malevolence 1:18:45 Stray from the Path 1:39:00 Kaonashi 1:57:44 Deadguy 2:18:16 Hexvessel 2:35:50

TNM returns from a week off with a cross continent double fest report as we hit up Yorkshire's Fortress and Poland's Mystic Festival, seeing every band under the sun from Agalloch to Ulcerate, W.A.S.P. to King Diamond, Bullet to Beherit. Releases: Turnstile - Never Enough Volbeat - God of Angels Trust Kaonashi - I Want to Go Home Orthodox - A Door Left Open View From the Soyuz - Ubiquitous Katatonia - Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State King Parrot - A Young Persons Guide To Gruesome - Silent Echoes Gaahl’s Wyrd - Braiding the Stories Autumn Nostalgie - Metanoia Austere - The Stillness of Dissolution Dimscûa - Dust Eater Buckcherry - Roar Like Thunder Fallujah - Xenotaph Hexvessel - Nocturne Dolven - In My Grave…Silence letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful Revisited Sigh - I Saw the World’s End - Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV The Cure - Mixes of a Lost World Queens of the Stone Age - Alive in the Catacombs Metallica - Load (Remastered)

A bumper Album Club dissection as Mötley Crüe go horribly wrong on Generation Swine. Crossfaith's electronicore captures a moment on Zion, Have Heart's melodic hardcore landmark Songs to Scream at the Sun, and Suffocation invent/perfect brutal death metal with Effigy of the Forgotten. Brandon. We love you. This episode was originally published May 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Sam is lured back to the UK's pop punk home for Slam Dunk 2025 and has to think long and hard about Electric Callboy, and we doff our caps to Svalbard's decision to drop the curtain on a decade plus career as one of the UK's favourite heavy bands. Releases: Skunk Anansie - The Painful Truth Midnight - Steel, Rust and Disgust Thus Spoke Zarathustra - I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time for Others’ Harm Home Is Where - Hunting Season Witchcraft - Idag Witchrot - Soul Cellar Year of No Light - Les Maitres Fous Hellcrash - Inferno Crematorio Sexmag - Sexorczym Chepang - Jhyappa Ossuary - Abhorrent Worship …And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary Magus Lord - In the Company of Champions House of Protection - Outrun You All MSPAINT - No Separation Crowquill - Crowquill Swans - Birthing Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be the Light Stray from the Path - Clockworked Desolated - Finding Peace The Haunted - Songs of Last Resort Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil Vildhjarta - Där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar KUSANAGI - Paramnesia Planning for Burial - It’s Closeness, It’s Easy Cwfen - Sorrows Grin - Acid Gods Coltsblood - Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk Trivax - The Great Satan Svartsyn - Vortex of the Destroyer Obsidian Tongue - Eclipsing Worlds of Scorn Lord Vigo - Walk the Shadows Vader - Humanihility Wormrot - TNT

In a month that saw two no. 1 metal albums, we go through 2025's biggest reviews gauntlet with Ghost, Machine Head, Behemoth, PUP, The Callous Daoboys, Model/Actriz, Age of Apocalypse, & Sijjin. Ghost 30:52 Machine Head 1:17:32 Behemoth 1:42:36 PUP 2:06:43 The Callous Daoboys 2:21:42 Model/Actriz 2:47:50 Age of Apocalypse 3:00:55 Sijjin 3:14:07