That's Not Metal

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 WinterCIVIL ELEGIES - CombatAltar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & InjuryModel/Actriz - DogsbodyEx Eye - Ex EyeDoomCannon - Renaissance

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 FictionDeep Purple - =1Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse - Paul Di’Anno’s WarhorseUprising - IIIPowerwolf - Wake Up the WickedDream Evil - Metal GodsHarvestmen - Triptych: Part TwoState Faults - Children of the MoonWormwitch - WormwitchColdCell - Age of UnreasonMayhemic - TobaVoid Witch - Horripilating PresenceKaonashi - A Second Chance at Forever: The Brilliant Lies from Casey DiamondGhost - 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 18:55Speed 51:00Crossfaith 1:03:30200 Stab Wounds 1:22:57Ulcerate 1:41:53Crypt Sermon 2:03:52Blind 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 ModeGraphic Nature - Who Are You When No One is Watching?In Hearts Wake - IncarnationThe Home Team - The Crucible of LifeMr. Big - TenWebbed Wing - Vol. IIIWerewolves - Die for UsSissy Spacek - DiaphonousSeth - La France des mauditsForgotten Tomb - NightfloatingTotengott - Beyond the VeilSkelethal - Within Corrosive ContinuumsKing 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 AreaCrossfaith - ARK200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic ProceduresAnvil - One and OnlyWraith - Fueled by FearLove Letter - Everyone Wants Something BeautifulPijn - On Low Beams of HopeLimbonic Art - Opus DaemoniacalEnter Shikari - Dancing on the FrontlineVisions of Atlantis - Pirates II - ArmadaOrden Ogan - The Order of FearWormed - OmegonVulvodynia - EntabeniKrallice - Inorganic RitesXasthur - 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 1:59Bring Me the Horizon 31:08The Story So Far 1:15:50Joey Valance & Brae 1:29:47Candy 1:43:00Umbra Vitae 1:53:47Rotting Christ 2:05:56Julie 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 DisappearWage War - StigmaKittie - FireAlcest - Les Chants De l’Auroreearthtone9 - In Resonance NexusForeign Hands - What’s Left UnsaidCalcine - Common Love Common NauseaThe Dangerous Summer - GravitySumac - The HealerPortrait - The HostHyperdontia - Harvest of MalevolenceSarke - Endo FeightKvaen - The Formless FiresCavalera Conspiracy - SchizophreniaBlack 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 - VThe Early November - Self-TitledFu Manchu - The Return of TomorrowJulie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of BloodCrypt Sermon - The Stygian RoseLucifer’s Hammer - Be and ExistRezn - BurdenUlcerate - Cutting the Throat of GodDownfall of Mankind - PurgatoryMalignancy - …DiscontinuedEmbryonic Autopsy - Origins of the DeformedGroin - Paid In FleshFellwarden - 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 - ForeverRoyal Republic - LoveCopApocalyptica - Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2Evergrey - Theories of EmptinessJoey Valance & Brae - No HandsSect - Plagues Upon PlaguesCandy - It’s Inside YouUmbra Vitae - Light of DeathSevere Torture - Torn from the Jaws of DeathTorturers’ Lobby - Deadened NervesDysrhythmia - Coffin of ConvictionHippotraktor - StasisGurt - Satan EtcErnte - 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 XristouSpiter - Enter the Gates of Fucking HellThou - UmbilicalCHVE - KalvarieFour Stroke Baron - Data DiamondThe Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression / Rule by DeceptionRhapsody of Fire - Challenge the WindSaltatio Mortis - FinsterwachtCloven Hoof - Heathen CrossBad Nerves - Still NervousBad Breeding - ContemptHellbutcher - HellbutcherTroops of Doom - A Mass to the GrotesqueShrapnel - In GravityHouse by the Cemetery - The Mortuary HauntingsHaunted Plasma - IWhoredom Rife - Den Vrede MaktWormwood - The StarGraywave - Dancing in the DustExodus - 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 Loose58:48 Kerry King1:21:36 Gatecreeper1:41:10 Pallbearer2:00:36 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats2:24:26 One Step Closer2:39:41 Folterkammer3:06:16 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 TomorrowMarkgraf - HohenbadenKerry King - From Hell I RiseGatecreeper - Darker SuperstitionJasta - …And Jasta for AllPallbearer - Mind Burns AliveShellac - To All TrainsOne Step Closer - All You EmbraceRope Sect - EstrangementNocturnus A.D. - UnicursalPathology - Unholy DescentTzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral ForceBat - Under the Crooked ClawGoden - Vale of the FallenUfomammut - HiddenBotanist - PaleobotanySoftcult - HeavenCivil 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 ToLike Moths to Flames - The Cycles of Trying to CopePowerman 5000 - Abandon ShipKill II This - VariantHot Water Music - VowsIndoor Pets - Pathetic ApatheticUncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Nell’ Ora BluUnleash the Archers - PhantomaFreedom Call - Silver RomanceAnette Olzon - RaptureSebastian Bach - Child Within the ManArab Strap - I’m totally fine with it

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 Jam55:25 The Ghost Inside1:14:48 Inter Arma1:47:10 SeeYouSpaceCowboy...2:05:26 Dool2:25:13 Castle Rat2:39:12 High On Fire2:57:07 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 MatterThe Ghost Inside - Searching for SolaceSeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de GraceNOFX - Half AlbumCloud Nothings - Final SummerHigh On Fire - Cometh the StormMy Dying Bride - A Mortal BindingMelvins - Tarantula HeartDvne - VoidkindBongripper - EmptyBig | Brave - A Chaos of FlowersDool - The Shape of FluidityHenrik Palm - Nerd IconHaust - Negative MusicCouch Slut - You Could Do It TonightNuclear Tomb - Terror LabyrinthianAntichrist Siege Machine - Vengeance of Eternal FireFolterkammer - WeibermachtHekseblad - Kaer Morhenunpeople - 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 StoriesCastle Rat - Into the RealmTýr - Battle BalladsRiot V - Mean StreetsVulture - SentinelsHeavy Temple - Garden of HeathensTarot - Glimpse of the DawnAaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of FlowersHeavenly Blue - We Have the AnswerWhores. - War.Love Sex Machine - TrveNecrot - Lifeless BirthBenighted - EkbomExist - Hijacking the ZeitgeistReplicant - Infinite MortalityHeresiarch - EdificeNorthlane - 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 SunFeeder - Black/RedAlpha Wolf - Half Living ThingsERRA - CureFilth - Southern HostilityStrung Out - Dead RebellionBayside - There are Worse Things Than Being AliveCock Sparrer - Hand On HeartKorpiklaani - RankarumpuIngested - The Tide of Death and Fractured DreamsHour of Penance - DevotionIron Monkey - Spleen & GoadFriends of Hell - God Damned You to HellDestroyer of Light - Degradation YearsHorndal - Head Hammer ManAttic - Return of the WitchfinderWitch Vomit - Funeral SanctumFuneral Leech - The Illusion of TimeDiabolic Oath - Oracular HexationsLocrian - End TerrainAustere - Beneath the ThresholdThe Good The Bad and the Zugly - Decade of RegressionDreamcar - 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 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