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2025 singles really start coming with Spiritbox, Architects, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, and Coheed and Cambria, W.A.S.P. go full mental, and we talk the "bad" albums we got into bands on.
Releases:
Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Body Count - Merciless
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
Ocean Grove - Oddworld
Polar - Nova
Fellowship - The Skies Above Eternity
Coilguns - Odd Love
MĂșr - MĂșr
Defeated Sanity - Chronicles of Lunacy
Gutless - High Impact Violence
Ante-Inferno - Deathâs Soliloquy
Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Kruelty - Profane Usurpation
Mallavora - Echoes
Doro - Rock âNâ Roll Xmas Party -
We hit that point of the year where we have Grammy nominations and Download headliners to either complain about or debunk complaints about, and a mega live review as Sepultura's farewell tour finally arrives on UK shores.
Releases:
Linkin Park - From Zero
As I Lay Dying - Through Storms Ahead
Poppy - Negative Spaces
Full of Hell / Andrew Nolan - Scraping the Divine
Primal Code - Opaque Fixation
Thy Catafalque - XII: A GyönyörĂŒ Ălmok EzutĂĄn Jönnek
Spider God - Possess the Devil
Chelsea Wolfe - Unbound
Less Than Jake - Uncharted
Mammoth Grinder - Undying Spectral Resonance
Deadbody / Tribal Gaze - Deadbody / Tribal Gaze
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated -
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We once again convene for a review of the UKâs biggest underground event at Damnation Festival and witness legendary returns from Dragged Into Sunlight, Nails, Cradle of Filth, Bleeding Through, Inter Arma, and so many other TNM faves absolutely tearing it up.
Elliot's audio is beaming in through the internet on this one, but we'll be back sounding proper soon.
Releases:
Make Them Suffer - Make Them Suffer
SĂłlstafir - Hin helga kvol
State Champs - State Champs
The Arrival Note - âŠHome is So Far From Here
The Body - The Crying Out of Things
Thank - I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed
Klone - The Unseen
Massacre - Necrolution
Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno
Paysage dâHiver - Die Berge
Counterparts - Heaven Let Them Die -
We convene on Halloween night to talk yet more big reunions at big American rock festivals, the news that Ithaca are calling it a day, and give the definitive answer on whether bands wearing their own shirts is cool or not and whether we're too focused on the size of bands in appreciating their art.
Releases:
Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol
Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt
Grand Magus - Sunraven
Ensiferum - Winter Storm
Swallow the Sun - Shining
Harvestman - Triptych: Part Three
Serpent Column - Tassel of Ares
Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
Devin Townsend - PowerNerd
Pixies - The Night the Zombies Came
Kids In Glass Houses - Pigs In Glass Houses
Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Meryl Streek - Songs for the Deceased
Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
Fit for an Autopsy - The Nothing That Is
PĂžltergeist - Nachtmusik
Butcher - On Fowl of Tyrant Wing
Gaerea - Coma
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
Black Curse - Burning In Celestial Poison
Living Gate - Suffer As One
Bunuel - Mansuetude
Behemoth - XXX Years Ov Blasphemy
Enforced - A Leap Into the Dark
Pest Control - Year of the Pest
Fifteen Rhema - Drawing Upon Lost Time
A Year Ago Today - A Year Ago Today
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Cane Hill - a piece of me i never let you find
Planes Mistaken for Stars - Do You Still Love Me?
Thirdface - Ministerial Cafeteria
Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Aeternum
Neon Nightmare - Faded Dream
Bombus - Your Blood
Nachtmystium - Blight Privilege
New Skeletal Faces - Until the Night
Mitochondrion - Vitriseptome -
We face some of our toughest Album Club challenges yet: Matchbox 20's Ken anthems Yourself or Someone Like You, ponder how Attila's About That Life achieved some kind of longevity, cheer originality in hardcore on Twitching Tongues' In Love There is No Law, and the troubling eternal mystique of Acid Bath's When the Kite String Pops.
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We convene for conversations on 2024's most monolithic potential landmark records, reviewing Blood Incantation, Undeath, Balance and Composure, High Vis, Touché Amoré, Oranssi Pazuzu, and Chat Pile, as well as scratching our heads at festival clues and Acid Bath(?!), and a toast to the late Paul Di'Anno.
Blood Incantation 45:58
Undeath 1:22:56
Balance and Composure 1:45:20
High Vis 2:00:55
Touché Amoré 2:19:41
Oranssi Pazuzu 2:42:46
Chat Pile 3:09:54 -
On this Album Club episode we return to the scene of the crime to again preview some of the must-see sets at this year's Damnation Festival: Cradle of Filth's old school origins with The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, Ne Obliviscaris' Citadel, Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, and Dragged Into Sunlight's terrifying Hatred for Mankind.
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We've got a big catch-up chat talking about Sam's trip to a Tokyo hardcore show, tours from Orange Goblin, Cannibal Corpse, and Frank Carter fronting the Sex Pistols, leading into a discussion of the surprising news around The Rattlesnakes calling a hiatus and their potential future, and questions around nostalgia festival booking double standards and which band we'd want to see "do a Wintersun".
Releases:
High Parasite - Forever We Burn
Weather Systems - Ocean Without a Shore
Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found
Adorior - Bleed On My Teeth
Spite - The Third Temple
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Undeath - More Insane
Fever 333 - Darker White
Trash Boat - Heaven Can Wait
Balance and Composure - With You In Spirit
Drug Church - Prude
Chubby and the Gang - And Then There WasâŠ
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
1349 - The Wolf and the King
Lowen - Do Not Go to War With the Demons of Mazandaran
Cosmic Putrefaction - Emerald Fires Atop the Farewell Mountains
Maul - In the Jaws of Bereavement
Motley Crue - Cancelled
Sylosis - The Path
The Offspring - Supercharged
Myles Kennedy - The Art of Letting Go
Real Friends - Blue Hour
Touche Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line
Envy - Eunoia
The Linda Lindas - No Obligation
Chat Pile - Cool World
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Doedsmaghird - Omniverse Consciousness
The Crown - Crown of Thorns
Vomit Forth - Terrified of God
De Mannen Broeders - Sober Maal -
Autumn releases arrive with the album for the season, a huge return, and several much hyped debuts to assess, from Unto Others, The Black Dahlia Murder, Nightwish, Zetra, Heriot, Vended, Vicious Blade, & The Jesus Lizard.
Unto Others 21:45
The Black Dahlia Murder 57:55
Nightwish 1:19:30
Zetra 1:37:58
Heriot 1:52:42
Vended 2:08:41
Vicious Blade 2:27:34
The Jesus Lizard 2:38:44 -
Album Club is back with Slayer's sunset on their imperial era Seasons in the Abyss, My Bloody Valentine's shoegaze starting gun Loveless, a comprehensive look back on the divisive effect of Cancer Bats' Searching for Zero, and Blood Incantation's Starspawn blasting death metal through the stargate.
This episode was originally published July 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal. -
Another UK live event hits with Cosmic Void Festival and Cirith Ungol's UK date on their final tour, Iron Maiden announce their huge 50th anniversary tour, The Cure start to finally tease new music, and there's the unfortunate Jane's Addiction punch-up implosion to deal with.
Releases:
Nightwish - Yesterwynde
Unto Others - Never, Neverland
Vended - Vended
Crimson Veil - Hex
Charlotte Wessels - The Obsession
Kublai Khan TX - Exhibition of Prowess
Regional Justice Center - Freedom Sweet Freedom
Giant Walker - Silhouettes
Alunah - Fever Dream
Demon Head - Through Holes Shine the Stars
Dungeon Crawl - Maze Controller
Glacial Tomb - Lightless Expanse
Coffin Rot - Dreams of the Disturbed
Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
Mork - Syv
Dreamless Veil - Every Limb of the Flood
Esoctrilihum - Döth-Dernià lh
Deathless Void - The Voluptuous Fire of Sin -
We take a trip to No Play Festival to see SeeYouSpaceCowboy and a day of UK hardcore bands, and follow up on last week's Linkin Park announcement with, well... all of that. Not the conversation we imagined having last time.
Releases:
Pyrrhon - Exhaust
Manâs Gin - The Reprobate
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
Cursive - Devourer
Nada Surf - Moon Mirror
Chastity - Chastity
Zetra - Zetra
Oceans of Slumber - Where Gods Fear to Speak
Satan - Songs In Crimson
Wolfbrigade - Life Knife Death
Slomosa - Tundra Rock
Torus - Torus
Dale Crover - Glossolalia
Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
Trelldom - âŠby the ShadowsâŠ
Taur-im-Duinath - Verso casa
NightWraith - Divergence -
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 Sky
Enumclaw - Home In Another Life
Boston Manor - Sundiver
40 Watt Sun - Little Weight
Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa
Aluk Todolo - LUX
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
Helvetets Port - Warlords
God is an Astronaut - Embers
God Dethroned - The Judas Paradox
PeelingFlesh - The G Code
Bodysnatcher - Vile Conduct
Laura 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 Here
Simone Simons - Vermillion
Within the Ruins - Phenomena II
Uniform - American Standard
Melt-Banana - 3+5
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire
Koldbrann - Ingen Skansel
Gravenoire - Devant La Porte Des Etoiles
Black Birch - Black Birch
Demiser - Slave to the Scythe
Nil / Castle of the Winds - Bastard Sons of Tyranny
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum XX
Wintersun - Time II
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
Leprous - Melodies of Atonement
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God
Thrown - Excessive Guilt
Oceano - Living Chaos
Satanâs Satyrs - After Dark
Phaëthon - Wielder of the Steel
Teeth - The Will of Hate
Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Deceased - Children of the Morgue
Concrete Winds - Concrete Winds
Avmakt - Satanic Inversion ofâŠ
Copse - MMXXIV
Cutdown - To the Grave
Chelsea Wolfe - Undone
Hellripper - 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 40:06
Nails 1:21:18
Zeal & Ardor 1:50:16
Twin Atlantic 2:06:28
Four Year Strong 2:24:22
Leprous 2:37:44
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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.
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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 - Meltdown
Four Year Strong - Analysis Paralysis
Dune Rats - If It Sucks, Turn It Up
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741
Oso Oso - Life Till Bones
Fucked Up - Another Day
Destroy Boys - Funeral Soundtrack #4
Mushroomhead - Call the Devil
HammerFall - Avenge the Fallen
And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna
Kurokuma - Of Amber and Sand
Tendrils - Long Dead
Mamaleek - Vida Blue
Fulci - Duck Face Killings
Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe
Malodorous - The Carrion Recoil
Viscera Infest - Teratoma
In Aphelion - Reaperdawn
Heilung - 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 Mei
Anberlin - Vega
Blues Pills - Birthday
Barbarian Hermit - Mean Sugar
Shadow Knell - Shadow Knell
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited
Footballhead - Before I Die
Poison Ruin - Confrere
Calderum - 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 Winter
CIVIL ELEGIES - Combat
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
DoomCannon - Renaissance - Mostrar más
