That's Not Metal
A weekly rock and metal podcast that delivers the latest news, honest reviews, and opinions with plenty of humor. The hosts are passionate and honest, promising 100% commitment every episode. Fans can join the discussion on Twitter and Instagram, and become part of the That's Not Metal Facebook Focus Group community.
Episodes
Pop Punk's Dead, Hardcore Did It Instead
We've got a reviews bag full of mavericks and outsiders making some big crazy choices and marching to their own drum with their records this month as we look at albums from Haywire, unpeople, New World Man, Wolves in the Throne Room, Noctule, Godflesh, Smoulder, & Bombstrap.Haywire 19:15unpeople 44:38New World Man 1:10:50Wolves in the Throne Room 1:26:35Noctule 1:42:04Godflesh 1:55:22Smoulder
Hyperblasts: Hetfield Woes, Deafheaven WOAHs
There's big surprise releases from Deafheaven and Power Trip, major Nightwish and Judas Priest line-up shifts, a tremendous festival announcement from Fortress, live shows from Joyce Manor, Blaze Bayley, and Khemmis, but no one wants to talk about any of it because the world's up in arms about James Hetfield.Releases:Caspian - CaspianThe Number Twelve Looks Like You - Howls from the Holographic He
Hyperblasts: At Least They're Not In Train
Nails tear through the UK, Trivium unveil their Eastern darkness-inspired new album, and Aerosmith plot their own Back to the Beginning style party.Releases:Slope - Same Kids. Just Louder.Greta van Fleet - Palace for the Peopleunpeople - we are unpeopleWage War - LandfallLeft to Suffer - Unwelcome GuestTwin Temple - Doomed LoversGraveyard - FeverMeryl Streek - Stories They Don’t Teach You At Schoo
Album Club Pack October 2026: Damnation Special
We've arrived at our annual Damnation Festival preview Album Club pack as we pull out Cult of Luna's 21st century post-metal benchmark Somewhere Along the Highway, Walls of Jericho's 00s metallic hardcore smackdown The American Dream, the 2010s sludgy powerviolence of Weekend Nachos' Worthless (featuring "Pat Patterson" and "Troe Johman"), and The Berzerker's Aussie gabber death metal Dissimulate.
Hyperblasts: Lay Down Your Soul to the Gods Rock 'n' Roll
It's real highs and lows in the news for rock music this week, with incredibly exciting reveals from Disfear and Repugnant, the 2027 line-up announcements from Slam Dunk and ArcTanGent, but also the news of Enter Shikari's incoming hiatus and the mountain-moving loss of Venom's Cronos, the forefather of extreme metal without whom our world is unthinkable.Releases:Amon Amarth - The Allfather Awaken
Hyperblasts: Justice for Glenn
There are surprising pivots towards our world from the pop sphere this time from Miley Cyrus and Chvrches alongside new singles from Bullet for My Valentine & several others, live trips to see Electric Wizard & more, there's a mindblowing milestone for Judas Priest's Ian Hill, a bizarre multi-pronged bust-up with Frankie Palmeri at the centre, and sadly another passing of a punk and hardco
Getting Down with the Organ
September gets us all sludgy as reviews pore over new Mastodon, Green Lung, Anthrax, Chat Pile, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Sleep, Devil Master, & Wrong Man, Evanescence playing the UK's biggest arena, and Tony Iommi being the boss yet again.Mastodon 38:10Green Lung 1:22:40Anthrax 1:48:34Chat Pile 2:07:25Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats 2:26:18Sleep 2:42:26Devil Master 2:52:30Wrong Man 3:10:
Hyperblasts: Gallows Cope (RIP Andy Williams)
First and foremost, we try to speak to the awful loss of Every Time I Die legend Andy Williams. From there we tackle new singles from Slipknot and Spiritbox, the hallucinatory hellscape stories related to Muse's Meta troubles and Breaking Benjamin's modder feud tirades, and put our tin foil hats to theorise that SURELY the Gallows teasing can't just be for vinyl reissues...Releases:Green Lung - Ne
Hyperblasts: Big Goth Weekend (The Cure, AFI, Outbreak x All Points East)
This week we look back on a historic moment of live music for our podcast in our combined Big Goth Weekend with a run of shows from The Cure, Outbreak/All Points East with an epochal headlining set from Deftones, and our AFI watch finally being brought to an end with their first UK headline shows in 16 years.Releases:Mastodon - Marrow DeepBeartooth - Pure EcstasyIn This Moment - WitchDinosaur Jr.
Mathcore Massage Therapy
Rivers Cuomo's QR code woes, some goth-pop flourish and questioning what even is an album lead the way for TNM reviews this time with Weezer's Gold Album, Chelsea Wolfe, Electric Callboy, Living Weapon, The Night Eternal, and Zorn going under the magnifying glass.Weezer 30:05Chelsea Wolfe 1:07:20Electric Callboy 1:34:27Living Weapon 1:58:41The Night Eternal 2:14:36Zorn 2:25:33
Hyperblasts: Bleeding American In The Dark
Chelsea Wolfe's new album release show and Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American set arrive for a lucky few in the UK, there's new music from Haywire, God's Hate, and Down, the sad news of the passing of legendary ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard, extreme legend Justin Broadrick's appearance on the new Phoebe Bridgers album, and the craziest stadium support act announcement of all time.Releases:Weezer - Weez
Hyperblasts: Bloodstock's Electric Gamble
This week we discuss how Bloodstock's 2027 announcement doubles down on a new direction, and pull out some of the lesser discussed gems within the line-up.Releases:Various Artists - A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins: Sending Hearts to All My DeariesDead Tired - Hornets of FallLiving Weapon - Death in the FamilySweeping Promises - You Say I RomanticizeInvocation Ritual - Altered RealityHolissstik - Ch
Hyperblasts: Sorry, Who Commits Crime?
After a week of exasperating and confusing news we discuss the unconfirmed firing of Sid Wilson by Slipknot and Merauder's absolutely bizarre crashout, as well as big live announcements from Wacken, Megadeth, Mick Gordon, and the potential dungeon synth takeover of hardcore.Releases:Electric Callboy - TanzneidJohn Carpenter - CathedralCancer Bats - Give Me DirtCitizen - Halcyon BluesJamie Lenman -
Hyperblasts: Wading in at Offal Fest 2026
This humid summer gets that bit muckier as we check out the UK's growing slam, brutal death metal, and goregrind event at Offal Fest, as well as check in on Avenged Sevenfold's latest piece of craziness, and sadly speak to the passing of all time pillar of hardcore Lou Koller of Sick of It All.Releases:Waterparks - JinxNo Pressure - NP StyleThe Hu - HunMadball - Not Your KingdomREZN - Cycles in th
Loathe to Say
At least one of the most anticipated heavy albums this decade hits our radars this month as Loathe, Muse, The Menzingers, The Xcerts, Fuming Mouth, No Cure, and Arise From Worms are reviewed, along with speculation about the seemingly imminent return of Gallows.Loathe 37:32Muse 1:09:13The Menzingers 1:31:55The Xcerts 1:49:20Fuming Mouth 2:11:10No Cure 2:24:04Arise From Worms 2:33:29
Hyperblasts: Count Your Blessings Repented (Football Season is Over)
It's the week where br00tal returned (and football season is over), as we make our way to Bring Me the Horizon's Count Your Blessings | Repented shows and into the re-recorded album for the biggest event in 2006 deathcore since... 2006.Releases:Final Resting Place - Third World TribunalLoathe - A Stranger to YouMotionless In White - DecadesBoundaries - Yearning: The unbeautiful afterProtest the He
Album Club Pack July 2025
Sound the charge, into glory ride, as Album Clubs look at the maddening effect Twenty One Pilots' ragga-pop Blurryface had on rock, the most metal band of all Manowar's debut Battle Hymns, Turnover's mastering of emo dreampop on Peripheral Vision, and one of the 21st century's greatest and wickedest rock bands The Devil's Blood with The Time of Time No Evermore.This episode was originally publishe
Hyperblasts: MCR and Metallica Stadium Extravaganza
Both Metallica's No Repeats weekend and My Chemical Romance's 20th anniversary Black Parade musical theatre reimagining hit UK stadiums, plus Damon Albarn beefs with an unlikely underground metal target.Releases:Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings | RepentedThe Plot In You - The Plot In YouThe Xcerts - i think i want to go home nowShow Me the Body - Alone TogetherDevilDriver - Strike and K
Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2026, and Acid Bath Arrive
Two hard and heavy events hit the UK heat this week, as Outbreak Festival brings Hatebreed, Converge, Alexisonfire, Basement, & loads more, and Acid Bath's mad reunion brings the swamp to town their first ever UK appearance.Releases:Muse - The WOW! SignalThe Pretty Reckless - Dear GodButthole Surfers - After the AstronautThe Dead Pioneers - Wagon BurnerTruck Violence - The Weathervane is My Bo
Kurt Ballou Déjà Vu
From twenty year waits to four month breaks, we mop up some of the biggest heavy records of the last few weeks reviewing Converge's second album of 2026, Marmozets, Static Dress, Turnover, Guilt Trip, Warning, Stormkeep, & Funebrarum.Converge 26:04Marmozets 48:34Static Dress 1:15:35Turnover 1:30:00Guilt Trip 1:41:39Warning 1:53:38Stormkeep 2:20:01Funebrarum 2:38:26
Hyperblasts: Bloodaxe Ninja Flips
Sam returns from Asia (and through a robo-mic, sorry about that) to talk about Japanese hardcore hijinks at Bloodaxe Festival, Voivod and Midnight speed through the UK together, and we unpack the news no one saw coming that Faith No More are returning in 2027.Releases:Warning - Rituals of ShameThere Were Wires - VesselChainlacing - MessuageIron Kobra - Eternal DaggerSaidan - Fangdriller: Scars Ben
Hyperblasts: The Week Bananas Tore Hardcore Apart
On top of a stream of new music from across the heavy spectrum, we weigh in on the debate following End It's targeting of the man in a banana costume at their show, why the frustration and resentment towards meme behaviour and influencer culture exists at subcultural events, and whether this particular incident went too far.Releases:Sublime - Until the Sun ExplodesSleeping With Sirens - An Ending
Hyperblasts: Fortress Festival 2026 Review
Fortress Festival returns bringing worldwide black metal exclusives to the British seaside, with Gallowbraid, Old Man's Child, Dødheimsgard, Misþyrming, A Forest of Stars & more darkening the skies over the 2026 bill.Releases:Devin Townsend - The MothTurnover - Down on EarthStatic Dress - Injury EpisodeSparta - Cut a Silhouette‘68 - They Are SurvivedHealing Wound - Bodies of Heavenly ViolenceD
Steady Away Boys! Poop Poop!
It's all about vaporwave prog, French oi, and choo choo train black metal as a whip round the underground picks up Basement, Frozen Soul, Haggard Cat, Fire-Toolz, Prisonnier du temps, A Forest of Stars, Panopticon, and Scimitar for the month's most blistering records.Basement 15:40Frozen Soul 33:44Haggard Cat 51:10Fire-Toolz 1:05:09Prisonnier du temps 1:15:41A Forest of Stars 1:25:27Panopticon 1:4
Hyperblasts: Anthrax Splashback
Anthrax's first single in ten years leads us to consider the thrash legends' creative relevancy in 2026, and Avenged Sevenfold going fully indepedent by buying back their rights brings reminiscing on ten years of their album The Stage.Releases:Marmozets - CO.WAR.DICE.A - ProngDimmu Borgir - Grand Serpent RisingXCOMM - Time to BurnArmored Saint - Emotion Factory ResetDavid Eugene Edwards - Mercuria
Hyperblasts: Burning Ambition
Iron Maiden's brand new documentary Burning Ambition hits cinema screens, and there's new singles from Green Lung announcing their new album Necropolitan and from brat superstar Charli XCX making ro-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ck music.Releases:Periphery - A Pale White DotThe All-American Rejects - SandboxSuper Sometimes - Show the World What’s UnderneathHeld. - GreyVon Groove - Born to RockPro-Pain - Stone Col
Hyperblasts: Incineration Festival 2026 Review
This week we make our way back to Incineration to once again kick off the festival season with a scorching of black and death metal as the likes of Dragged Into Sunlight, Of Feather and Bone, Tomb Mold and Scimitar rip it up across London stages.Releases:Black Veil Brides - VindicateBasement - WIREDKoyo - Barely HereSocial Distortion - Born to KillThe Flatliners - Cold WorldHaggard Cat - The Pain
Hyperblasts: The Sangui-Tour
Creeper's vampire extravaganza Sangui-Tour hits small venues in the UK for a full celebration of blooddrinking and leather.Releases:Foo Fighters - Your Favorite ToyThe Amity Affliction - House of CardsAtreyu - The End is Not the EndFailure - Location LostTerror - Still SufferRoman Candle - UnadulteratedArmed for Apocalypse - The Earth is Breathing Beneath MePlini - An Unnameable DesireEinar Solber
Last Ride At the Gates
Viral microtonal aliens, surprise drops, and defiant, powerful final bows rule the month with At the Gates, Enter Shikari, Corrosion of Conformity, Spirit Adrift, Angine de Poitrine, Portrayal of Guilt, Poison Ruïn, and Immolation. One last time: Go!At the Gates 18:20Enter Shikari 49:18Corrosion of Conformity 1:18:23Spirit Adrift 1:33:43Angine de Poitrine 1:49:00Portrayal of Guilt 2:14:02Poison Ru
Album Club Pack April 2025
We launch the polaris and get into one of our giddiest ever album clubs on Megadeth's delirious Rust In Peace, the suffocating global anger of Killing Joke 2003, the launchpad for second wave emo in Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary, and Gorguts returning to once again up the game for avant-garde death metal with Colored Sands.This episode was originally published April 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmet
Hyperblasts: Recount Your Blessings
Bring Me the Horizon make the genuinely absurd announcement of Count Your Blessings 20th anniversary celebrations, Nine Inch Noize owns Coachella, and Evanescence lead the singles in their team-up with the Fish.Releases:Nine Inch Noize - Nine Inch NoizeSkindred - You Got This.gif from god - DissimulationThe Last Ten Seconds of Life - The Dead OnesPrince Daddy & the Hyena - Hotwire Trip SwitchH
Hyperblasts: 40 Squat Sun
Tracks from Warning, Holding Absence, Health and more head up the week's music, and we announce our first massive band special for 2026.Releases:Bilmuri - Kinda HardLord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 3Truckfighters - MasterflowAs Everything Unfolds - DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?Tigercub - Nets to Catch the WaveLove Rarely - Pain TravelsBodysnatcher - Hell is Here, Hell is HomeMetal Church - Dead to
Hyperblasts: Krushing On Tour
A lot of heavy feelings this week sadly, with the losses of Bo Lueders, James Lollar of Gost, and Ross the Boss. Elsewhere the Kreator/Carcass/Exodus/Nails package lights up the UK, Damnation 2026 unveil all their headliners, Converge unveil a second album, and another messed up story comes out of the world of hardcore so... yeah, one of those weeks.Releases:Don Broco - Nightmare TrippingBlack Lab
NeurIsis Lives
TNM March reviews bag just catches the most brain-breaking, beautiful return as Neurosis emerge with a whole new album, alongside another return from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, Gaerea, Hellripper, Aggressive Perfector, Mallavora, & Sweet Pill.Neurosis 11:30Poison the Well 56:10Lamb of God 1:17:13Gaerea 1:39:08Hellripper 1:59:30Aggressive Perfector 2:15:00Mallavora 2:25:00Sweet Pill 2:31:51
Hyperblasts: Big Ass WOW!
Muse beam back down to us with their new album announcement, along with music from Black Veil Brides, Stormkeep, and Dropkick Murphys/Haywire, there's a live report from deathcore central with Bodysnatcher, Ingested, Psycho-Frame and Big Ass Truck, and we pay tribute to Motörhead's second-longest serving member Phil Campbell.Releases:Poison the Well - Peace In PlaceExodus - GoliathGaerea - LossFil
Album Club Pack March 2025
A curtain of biblical darkness falls upon Album Club in the unofficial Sabbath album The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell, 16 Horsepower's dark country classic Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, Cave In's space rock leap Jupiter, and metalcore pioneers Integrity making their most no fucks given record Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume.This episode was originally published March 2025 on patreon.com/tha
Hyperblasts: Eternal Synth Champions
New singles from the likes of Gouge Away, Drug Church, and Devin Townsend hit our ears, epic metal heroes Eternal Champion surprise drop a bold and ambitious new EP, and there's hardcore drama cause when is there not?Releases:Lamb of God - Into OblivionAngus McSix - Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral EyeSweet Pill - Still There’s a GlowShoreline - Is This the Low Point or the Moment After?Unity
Hyperblasts: Godspeed, Godflesh
Basement, Blackbraid, and Portrayal of Guilt give us a diverse pack of new songs to chew in, questions on what is the greatest musical city and generationally phased out songs, and we respond to the news that industrial giants Godflesh are hanging up their live instruments for good.Releases:Rob Zombie - The Great SatanCarpenter Brut - Leather TempleThe Gloom in the Corner - Royal DiscordanceNothin
Caped Cryptic Cosmic Adventure Rock
This month brings us one of the most daunting, monolithic, and outlandish reviews bags we've ever had, as we tackle Converge, Sylosis, Mayhem, Worm, Pony, Cryptic Shift, Hällas, and Killing Pace. Slap on your spacesuit, we're adventure rocking.Converge 27:36Sylosis 56:02Mayhem 1:12:56Worm 1:30:33Pony 1:43:00Cryptic Shift 1:52:40Hällas 2:12:10Killing Pace 2:30:20
Hyperblasts: AFI Watch... Is Over?
Party time at TNM: the mythical drought comes to an end, alongside new tracks from the Foo Fighters and Don Broco/Nickelback and grand line-up unveilings from Arch Enemy and Nevermore.Releases:Sylosis - The New FleshNew Found Glory - Listen Up!Killing Pace - HCPMExhumed - Red AsphaltCoscradh - Carving the Causeway to the OtherworldThe Magus - DaemonosophiaLead Injector - Witching Attack
Hyperblasts: The Fate of the Sleeps
Hyperblasts is back to cover what we missed from the Grammys, UK live shows from Home Front to Korpiklaani, Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry's collab single, and the discussion around While She Sleeps' video announcement for their stepping back from touring.Releases:Hällas - PanoramaSoftcult - When a Flower Doesn’t GrowKarnivool - In VesesPuscifer - Normal Isn’tTailgunner - Midnight BlitzTumour - Hu
Explosion on Blue Planet
Looking back at the records January gave us we give an honest assessment of the final album from Megadeth, alongside Kreator, Urne, Møl, Joyce Manor, The Ruins of Beverast, and Backengrillen. Thanks for all the riffs, MegaDave.Megadeth 20:11Kreator 1:06:31Urne 1:22:47Møl 1:38:35Joyce Manor 1:49:44The Ruins of Beverast 2:02:15Backengrillen 2:14:11
Hyperblasts: None So Vile as the Leppard
TNM talks bands we would have introduced to ourselves at an earlier age, a breadth of new tracks from Def Leppard, Exodus, Immolation and Haggard Cat, and Cryptopsy take to the UK with 200 Stab Wounds for 30 years of None So Vile.Releases:Megadeth - MegadethPoppy - Empty HandsCrystal Lake - The Weight of SoundTextures - GenotypeThe Damned - Not Like Everybody ElseBackengrillen - BackengrillenBarba
Album Club Pack January 2025
2025 Album Clubs come from the land where the mullet attacks: Sabaton's Swedish concept album Carolus Rex, Hatebreed's hardcore benchmark Satisfaction is the Death of Desire, Visigoth's dungeon-keeping The Revenant King, and Family Force 5 give us Business Up Front/Party in the Back.This episode was originally published January 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
Hyperblasts: Gorerotting the Well
New album singles from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, and Static Dress keep 2026 starting up, along with a killer first band announcement from Damnation Festival, and announcement of our first Patreon special for 2026.Releases:Kreator - Krushers of the WorldKid Kapichi - Fearless NatureGreywind - Severed Heart CityOv Sulfur - EndlessBlanket - True BlueSerpent Column - Aion of StrifeRifle - RiflePus
Hyperblasts: 2026, Let's Cook
TNM usher in the new year with hopes, questions and predictions for 2026, and some familiar faces already poking their heads above the parapets for the year ahead.Releases:Ulver - NeverlandFuath - IIIWoe - Legacies of Human FrailtyPaleface Swiss - The Wilted EPAlter Bridge - Alter BridgeThe Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf
TNM Awards 2025
Right before Christmas our last bash for 2025 is TNM Awards looking back over the highs and lows, the stories, the icons, the presidents, and the circuses that made the year in rock music what it was:Most Improved BandSong of the YearWorst Song of the YearHero of the YearVillain of the YearBest New BandBiggest DisappointmentGig of the YearEP of the YearArtwork of the YearMovie of the YearComeback
TNM Albums of the Year 2025: Round 2
Our second go of albums of the year for 2025 with Sam and Mark celebrating records from hair metal to hardcore, and your results for the TNM listener poll as we see who's bringing it home in a year filled with past winners and big dog contenders.
TNM Albums of the Year 2025: Round 1
2025 Album of the Year time begins on That's Not Metal, with our first lists from Perran and Elliot celebrating everything from synth-punk to goth-doom, power-goregrind to jazz-death, post-metal to metalcore, legendary rock icons to grimy dungeon crust bands that this year gave us.
Hyperblasts: A Blast of Bloody Valentine
This week we've got reports from My Bloody Valentine's first shows since 2018 as we see one of the loudest bands in the world, reaction to Alissa White-Gluz being out of Arch Enemy, and we tell you how to get involved in our 2025 end of year shows.Releases:The Algorithm - Recursive InfinityThe Pretty Wild - zero.point.genesisDanko Jones - Leo RisingGasket - GasketStryper - The Greatest Gift of All
Vamping at the Disco
2025's final reviews is a crazy bag of disco mania with Creeper's Sanguivore II, Pupil Slicer, Drain, Astronoid, Home Front, Lamp of Murmuur, and Master's Hammer, bid farewell to Svalbard on tour, a new single from Converge, and about half an hour before our record, doing cartwheels at the reunion of Black Breath.Creeper 31:51Pupil Slicer 1:09:19Drain 1:24:17Astronoid 1:35:08Home Front 1:47:29Lamp
Damnation Festival 2025 Review
The UK's biggest dedicated extreme music fest at Damnation Festival goes bigger than ever for its 20th anniversary with a bonkers two day line-up featuring Corrosion of Conformity, Napalm Death, Deafheaven, Perturbator, Anaal Nathrakh, Amenra, Warning, Wormrot, Castle Rat, and so many more to crack our skulls.Releases:Of Mice & Men - Another MiracleThe Devil Wears Prada - FlowersRise of the No
Hyperblasts: Monster Mashing Marmozets
It's that week in November where every big festival announces their lineup so we assess the bills of Download, Outbreak, 2000 Trees, & Slam Dunk 2026, Turnstile come through Ally Pally, and finally one of the UK's great rock bands Marmozets return with first new music in over 8 years.Releases:Drain - …Is Your FriendPupil Slicer - FleshworkAstronoid - StargodSet It Off - Set It OffAgnostic Fron
Hyperblasts: Halloween Hagar Horror
For Halloween we take the time for some horror movie questions including our pitch for a 2025 Freddy vs Jason, discuss Dogma's fracturing and Megadeth choosing to cover Metallica on their final album, live trips to Common Thread and Igorrr with Imperial Triumphant, and there is a Hagar horror on the loose...Releases:Soulfly - ChamaMammoth - The EndDayseeker - Creature in the Black NightDownswing -
Post-Black Mahna Mahna
With autumn chill in the air we plunge into a stacked October reviews bunch of new AFI, Thrice, Miltarie Gun, Conjurer, Perturbator, Sanguisugabogg, Tribal Gaze, & Agriculture.AFI 24:01Thrice 47:28Militarie Gun 59:04Conjurer 1:11:12Perturbator 1:23:08Sanguisugabogg 1:33:37Tribal Gaze 1:44:21Agriculture 1:50:37
Hyperblasts: Parkway Incantation Take the World
Perran and Mark catch up to talk about some of 2025's massive event tours with both Parkway Drive and Blood Incantation blazing trails to put on some of modern metal's most ambitious shows.Releases:All Time Low - Everyone’s Talking!Sabaton - LegendsBattle Beast - SteelboundMilitarie Gun - God Save the GunBiohazard - Divided We Fall84 Tigers - Nothing EndsCoroner - Dissonance TheoryTribal Gaze - In
Hyperblasts: Quizzing with Megadave
We're drowning in news with Oathbreaker and Rush both coming back, Alex Bent stepping out of Trivium, Bleeding Through & Darkest Hour hitting the UK, and a slew of new metal songs from Lamb of God, Ice Nine Kills, and Megadeth revealing their favourite game show.Releases:AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…Thrice - Horizons/WestOrbit Culture - Death Above Life50 Lions - New RealityAuthor & P
Album Club Pack October 2025: Damnation Special
For this week's show Album Club returns with an eye once again on this year's Damnation Festival with Warning's monument of misery Watching from a Distance, Wormrot's early 10s grind detonation Dirge, Devil Sold His Soul's innovative post-metalcore A Fragile Hope, and Code's bizarro black metal genius on Resplendent Grotesque.
Hyperblasts: Biffy Clyro Futique and Dying Wish Flesh Stays Together Reviews
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 - AscensionCastle Rat - The BestiaryMotion City So
Under a Serpent Sun
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 42:50Fleshwater 1:06:56Scorpion Milk 1:21:44La Disput
Hyperblasts: Systems, Queens & Baths
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 MeBetween the Buried and Me - The Blue NowhereSpinal Tap - The End ContinuesSilverstein - Pink MoonI See Stars - Th
10 Years Of TNM, What Are The Chances
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
Private Music in the Drunken Dragon
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 24:30Dinosaur Pile-Up 1:1:29The World is a Beautiful Place & I'm No Longer Afraid to Die 1:14:36Feuerschwanz 1:29:53Pool Kids 1:48:13Mal
Album Club Pack August 2024
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.
Hyperblasts: The Last Baron
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 - RicochetJoey Valance & Brae - HYPERYOUTHJustice for the Damned - Stay RelentlessPool Kids - Easier Said Than Done
Bloodstock Festival 2025 Review
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.
Hyperblasts: The Fabulous Gruffalo
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 ForthHalestorm - EverestGood Charlotte - Motel Du CapLord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 1As December Falls - Everything’s On Fire But I’m FineFirstborne - Luck
Hyperblasts: The Drummer Transfer Window
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 CooperPost Animal - IronScalp - Not Worthy of Human CompassionKontusion - Insatiable Lust for DeathNuovo Testamento - TroubleFit for a King - Lonely GodThe Armed - The Future is Here and Ever
Goodbye to Romance
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 46:49Blood Vulture 1:04:23Psycho-Frame 1:20:14
Hyperblasts: 2000 Trees 2025 Review (& The Paul Ledney Glitterbomb)
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-filesDaron Malakian and Scars On Broadway - Addicted to the ViolenceBush - I Beat Loneli
Hyperblasts: Back to the Beginning
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 - motionblurCalva Louise - Edge of the Abyssdead7 - Love What You Can While You’ve Still Got Something Left to LoveWard XVI - ID3NTITYBorn of Osiris - Through ShadowsMargarita Witch Cult - S
Hyperblasts: Revenge of the Stoff
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 ItPig Pen - Mental MadnessDropkick Murphy
Hyperblasts: Outbreak Festival 2025 Review
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 ViolenceHelms Deep - Chasing the DragonHaggus - Destination ExtinctionWitherer - Shadow Without a HorizonUpon Stone - E
Hot Hardcore Summer
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 34:18Malevolence 1:18:45Stray from the Path 1:39:00Kaonashi 1:57:44Deadguy 2:18:16Hexvessel 2:35:50
Hyperblasts: Fortress & Mystic Festivals 2025
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 EnoughVolbeat - God of Angels TrustKaonashi - I Want to Go HomeOrthodox - A Door Left OpenView From the Soyuz - UbiquitousKatatonia - Ni
Album Club Pack May 2024
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.
Hyperblasts: Sam Says Nice Things About Electric Callboy At Slam Dunk
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 TruthMidnight - Steel, Rust and DisgustThus Spoke Zarathustra - I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time for Others’ HarmH
Were Black Flag Alive?
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 30:52Machine Head 1:17:32Behemoth 1:42:36PUP 2:06:43The Callous Daoboys 2:21:42Model/Actriz 2:47:50Age of Apocalypse 3:00:55Sijjin 3:14:07
Hyperblasts: Bullet for My Catfight
We rummage through the wreckage as Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine's Poisoned Ascendancy tour comes to a sudden stop with fingers generally being pointed at one party, and we ask big questions like: are four-sided longsleeves good?Releases:Bury Tomorrow - Will You Haunt Me, With That Same PatienceCallous Daoboys - I Don’t Want to See You in HeavenNovelists - CodaPridian - Venetian DarkHundredt
Hyperblasts: Incineration Festival 2025 Review
TNM's 2025 festival summer begins with Incineration descending upon Camden for extreme metal sets from the likes of Lamp of Murmuur, Blackbraid, Spectral Wound, Blood Incantation debuting Absolute Elsewhere in the UK, & a mountain-moving Celtic Frost performance by Triptykon. Ough.Releases:Sijjin - Helljjin CombatPUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs?Propagandhi - At PeacePress Club - To All The
