That's Not Metal

A hyperspeed Hyperblast with Rou Reynolds joining the War of the Worlds cast, and the first returning track from the original Jane's Addiction line-up. Releases: Orange Goblin - Science, Not Fiction Deep Purple - =1 Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse - Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse Uprising - III Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked Dream Evil - Metal Gods Harvestmen - Triptych: Part Two State Faults - Children of the Moon Wormwitch - Wormwitch ColdCell - Age of Unreason Mayhemic - Toba Void Witch - Horripilating Presence Kaonashi - A Second Chance at Forever: The Brilliant Lies from Casey Diamond Ghost - Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The week Tenacious D implode in the least predictable circumstances, TNM reviews and gives judgement on albums from Scene Queen, Speed, Crossfaith, 200 Stab Wounds, Ulcerate, Crypt Sermon, & Blind Girls. Scene Queen 18:55 Speed 51:00 Crossfaith 1:03:30 200 Stab Wounds 1:22:57 Ulcerate 1:41:53 Crypt Sermon 2:03:52 Blind Girls 2:15:14

AC/DC hit Wembley Stadium, Palm Reader bid farewell, while also giving us new music from new band Vower. We get one of the year's more questionable covers, and get misty-eyed over closed venues from years past. Releases: Speed - Only One Mode Graphic Nature - Who Are You When No One is Watching? In Hearts Wake - Incarnation The Home Team - The Crucible of Life Mr. Big - Ten Webbed Wing - Vol. III Werewolves - Die for Us Sissy Spacek - Diaphonous Seth - La France des maudits Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating Totengott - Beyond the Veil Skelethal - Within Corrosive Continuums King 810 - Under the Black Rainbow

Outbreak Festival goes outdoors for an even bigger event, with sets from Have Heart, Basement, American Football, Thursday, Balance and Composure, The Hotelier, Poison the Well, & more. Releases: Scene Queen - Hot Singles In Your Area Crossfaith - ARK 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures Anvil - One and Only Wraith - Fueled by Fear Love Letter - Everyone Wants Something Beautiful Pijn - On Low Beams of Hope Limbonic Art - Opus Daemoniacal Enter Shikari - Dancing on the Frontline Visions of Atlantis - Pirates II - Armada Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear Wormed - Omegon Vulvodynia - Entabeni Krallice - Inorganic Rites Xasthur - Disharmonic Variations

We catch up to give our take on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Nex Gen, albums from The Story So Far, Joey Valance & Brae, Candy, Umbra Vitae, Rotting Christ, & Julie Christmas, and take a trip to the movies for Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now film. Ghost 1:59 Bring Me the Horizon 31:08 The Story So Far 1:15:50 Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47 Candy 1:43:00 Umbra Vitae 1:53:47 Rotting Christ 2:05:56 Julie Christmas 2:20:37

A huge live music summer continues with gigs galore but also the reports of drama, mismanagement, and poisoning coming out of Download Festival 2024. Releases: The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear Wage War - Stigma Kittie - Fire Alcest - Les Chants De l’Aurore earthtone9 - In Resonance Nexus Foreign Hands - What’s Left Unsaid Calcine - Common Love Common Nausea The Dangerous Summer - Gravity Sumac - The Healer Portrait - The Host Hyperdontia - Harvest of Malevolence Sarke - Endo Feight Kvaen - The Formless Fires Cavalera Conspiracy - Schizophrenia Black Veil Brides - Bleeders

The season of the big rock shows begins with Paramore supporting at The Eras Tour, double Metallica, Weezer + Pumpkins, as well as tonnes of new singles including big returns for Nails and The Black Dahlia Murder, and discussion of the Barclay's Boycott at Download Festival. Releases: Black Country Communion - V The Early November - Self-Titled Fu Manchu - The Return of Tomorrow Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose Lucifer’s Hammer - Be and Exist Rezn - Burden Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God Downfall of Mankind - Purgatory Malignancy - …Discontinued Embryonic Autopsy - Origins of the Deformed Groin - Paid In Flesh Fellwarden - Legend: Forged In Defiance

After last week's trip to Slam Dunk, we hop to the other side of the UK festival spectrum to the upcoming black metal event Fortress Festival, headlined by Triptykon and Wolves in the Throne Room and setting black metal at the beach. Releases: Bon Jovi - Forever Royal Republic - LoveCop Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2 Evergrey - Theories of Emptiness Joey Valance & Brae - No Hands Sect - Plagues Upon Plagues Candy - It’s Inside You Umbra Vitae - Light of Death Severe Torture - Torn from the Jaws of Death Torturers’ Lobby - Deadened Nerves Dysrhythmia - Coffin of Conviction Hippotraktor - Stasis Gurt - Satan Etc Ernte - Weltenzerstorer

We take a trip to 2024's Slam Dunk event, and Nile come out with the song title of the year. Releases: Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou Spiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell Thou - Umbilical CHVE - Kalvarie Four Stroke Baron - Data Diamond The Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception Rhapsody of Fire - Challenge the Wind Saltatio Mortis - Finsterwacht Cloven Hoof - Heathen Cross Bad Nerves - Still Nervous Bad Breeding - Contempt Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher Troops of Doom - A Mass to the Grotesque Shrapnel - In Gravity House by the Cemetery - The Mortuary Hauntings Haunted Plasma - I Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt Wormwood - The Star Graywave - Dancing in the Dust Exodus - British Disaster: The Battle of ‘89 (Live at the Astoria) Black Sabbath - Anno Domini 1989-1995

Def Leppard signal the dawn of the pop metal age with Pyromania, we evaluate if Fightstar's Grand Unification holds up, Comeback Kid make a modern hardcore classic Wake the Dead, and Autopsy set a bar for freakish death metal Mental Funeral. This episode was originally published April 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

May brings some of the biggest event releases in metal as we review Knocked Loose, Kerry King, Gatecreeper, Pallbearer, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, One Step Closer, Folterkammer, & Antichrist Siege Machine. 27:35 Knocked Loose 58:48 Kerry King 1:21:36 Gatecreeper 1:41:10 Pallbearer 2:00:36 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats 2:24:26 One Step Closer 2:39:41 Folterkammer 3:06:16 Antichrist Siege Machine

Live trips to Sick of It All and Green Lung, big new additions to Outbreak and Damnation's schedules, reactions to news of a certain controversial label signing, and more Steve Albini worship. Releases: Missiles - Weaponize Tomorrow Markgraf - Hohenbaden Kerry King - From Hell I Rise Gatecreeper - Darker Superstition Jasta - …And Jasta for All Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive Shellac - To All Trains One Step Closer - All You Embrace Rope Sect - Estrangement Nocturnus A.D. - Unicursal Pathology - Unholy Descent Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force Bat - Under the Crooked Claw Goden - Vale of the Fallen Ufomammut - Hidden Botanist - Paleobotany Softcult - Heaven Civil Elegies - No Life

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 To Like Moths to Flames - The Cycles of Trying to Cope Powerman 5000 - Abandon Ship Kill II This - Variant Hot Water Music - Vows Indoor Pets - Pathetic Apathetic Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Nell’ Ora Blu Unleash the Archers - Phantoma Freedom Call - Silver Romance Anette Olzon - Rapture Sebastian Bach - Child Within the Man Arab Strap - I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍 Riot V - Mean Streets Flamekeeper - Flamekeeper Take Offense - T.O.tality Six Feet Under - Killing for Revenge Necrophagia - Moribundis Grim Red 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 Jam 55:25 The Ghost Inside 1:14:48 Inter Arma 1:47:10 SeeYouSpaceCowboy... 2:05:26 Dool 2:25:13 Castle Rat 2:39:12 High On Fire 2:57:07 Dvne

Prayers are answered as news hits of letlive. returning to play a round of shows, Thursday release their first song in 13 years, Frank Turner attempts the impossible, and live reports from Blind Guardian and Midnight. Releases: Pearl Jam - Dark Matter The Ghost Inside - Searching for Solace SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace NOFX - Half Album Cloud Nothings - Final Summer High On Fire - Cometh the Storm My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding Melvins - Tarantula Heart Dvne - Voidkind Bongripper - Empty Big | Brave - A Chaos of Flowers Dool - The Shape of Fluidity Henrik Palm - Nerd Icon Haust - Negative Music Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight Nuclear Tomb - Terror Labyrinthian Antichrist Siege Machine - Vengeance of Eternal Fire Folterkammer - Weibermacht Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen unpeople - unpeople

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 Stories Castle Rat - Into the Realm Týr - Battle Ballads Riot V - Mean Streets Vulture - Sentinels Heavy Temple - Garden of Heathens Tarot - Glimpse of the Dawn Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers Heavenly Blue - We Have the Answer Whores. - War. Love Sex Machine - Trve Necrot - Lifeless Birth Benighted - Ekbom Exist - Hijacking the Zeitgeist Replicant - Infinite Mortality Heresiarch - Edifice Northlane - 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 Sun Feeder - Black/Red Alpha Wolf - Half Living Things ERRA - Cure Filth - Southern Hostility Strung Out - Dead Rebellion Bayside - There are Worse Things Than Being Alive Cock Sparrer - Hand On Heart Korpiklaani - Rankarumpu Ingested - The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams Hour of Penance - Devotion Iron Monkey - Spleen & Goad Friends of Hell - God Damned You to Hell Destroyer of Light - Degradation Years Horndal - Head Hammer Man Attic - Return of the Witchfinder Witch Vomit - Funeral Sanctum Funeral Leech - The Illusion of Time Diabolic Oath - Oracular Hexations Locrian - End Terrain Austere - Beneath the Threshold The Good The Bad and the Zugly - Decade of Regression Dreamcar - 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 Eyes Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night Crushed By Waves - More to Life Blanket - Ceremonia Restorations - Restorations Mastiff - Deprecipice BRAT - Social Grace Zombi - Direct Inject Hamferd - Men Guds hond er sterk Khold - Du dommes til Dod Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe Hideous Divinity - Unextinct Apparition - Disgraced Emanations from a Tranquil State Civerous - Maze Envy Aberration - Refracture Sylvaine - Eg Er Framand While She Sleeps - Self Hell Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell Boundaries - Death is Little More Wristmeetrazor - Degeneration Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet Vial - Burnout Teens In Trouble - What’s Mine Coffin Storm - Arcana Rising Mutiilation - Black Metal Cult Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star Verwoed - The Mother Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness Darkestrah - Nomad Coffins - Sinister Oath Hate Force - Systems of Terror Septage - 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 23:30 Bruce Dickinson 55:35 Midnight 1:24:56 Gouge Away 1:40:20 Chapel of Disease 1:58:20 Dödsrit 2:23:24