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Episodes
November 27, 2025 • 45 mins
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 Infinity
The Pretty Wild - zero.point.genesis
Danko Jones - Leo Rising
Gasket - Gasket
Stryper - The Greatest Gift of All
Speedclaw - Stardust
Morbikon - Lost...
Releases:
The Algorithm - Recursive Infinity
The Pretty Wild - zero.point.genesis
Danko Jones - Leo Rising
Gasket - Gasket
Stryper - The Greatest Gift of All
Speedclaw - Stardust
Morbikon - Lost...
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November 21, 2025 • 157 mins
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 31:51
Pupil Slicer 1:09:19
Drain 1:24:17
Astronoid 1:35:08
Home Front 1:47:29
Lamp of Murmuur 1:59:08
Master's Hammer ...
Creeper 31:51
Pupil Slicer 1:09:19
Drain 1:24:17
Astronoid 1:35:08
Home Front 1:47:29
Lamp of Murmuur 1:59:08
Master's Hammer ...
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November 13, 2025 • 193 mins
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 Miracle
The Devil Wears Prada - Flowers
Rise of the Northstar - CHAPTER 04: RED FALCON SU...
Releases:
Of Mice & Men - Another Miracle
The Devil Wears Prada - Flowers
Rise of the Northstar - CHAPTER 04: RED FALCON SU...
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November 6, 2025 • 75 mins
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 Friend
Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork
Astronoid - Stargod
Set It Off - Set It Off
Agnostic Front - Echoes In Eternity
Cold Steel - ...
Releases:
Drain - …Is Your Friend
Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork
Astronoid - Stargod
Set It Off - Set It Off
Agnostic Front - Echoes In Eternity
Cold Steel - ...
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October 30, 2025 • 83 mins
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 - Chama
Mammoth - The End
Dayseeker - Creature in the Black Night
Downswing - And Everything Was Dark
Action/Adve...
Releases:
Soulfly - Chama
Mammoth - The End
Dayseeker - Creature in the Black Night
Downswing - And Everything Was Dark
Action/Adve...
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October 23, 2025 • 125 mins
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 24:01
Thrice 47:28
Militarie Gun 59:04
Conjurer 1:11:12
Perturbator 1:23:08
Sanguisugabogg 1:33:37
Tribal Gaze 1:44:21
Agriculture 1:50:37
AFI 24:01
Thrice 47:28
Militarie Gun 59:04
Conjurer 1:11:12
Perturbator 1:23:08
Sanguisugabogg 1:33:37
Tribal Gaze 1:44:21
Agriculture 1:50:37
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October 16, 2025 • 76 mins
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 - Legends
Battle Beast - Steelbound
Militarie Gun - God Save the Gun
Biohazard - Divided We Fall
84 Tigers - Nothing Ends
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
Tribal Gaze - Inveighing Brilliance
Internal Bleedin...
Releases:
All Time Low - Everyone’s Talking!
Sabaton - Legends
Battle Beast - Steelbound
Militarie Gun - God Save the Gun
Biohazard - Divided We Fall
84 Tigers - Nothing Ends
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
Tribal Gaze - Inveighing Brilliance
Internal Bleedin...
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October 9, 2025 • 63 mins
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/West
Orbit Culture - Death Above Life
50 Lions - New Reality
Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding
Today is...
Releases:
AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…
Thrice - Horizons/West
Orbit Culture - Death Above Life
50 Lions - New Reality
Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding
Today is...
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October 2, 2025 • 127 mins
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.
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September 25, 2025 • 84 mins
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 Wond...
Releases:
Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Paradise Lost - Ascension
Castle Rat - The Bestiary
Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wond...
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September 18, 2025 • 139 mins
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
...
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
...
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September 11, 2025 • 35 mins
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 Chame...
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 Chame...
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September 3, 2025 • 158 mins
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 - Th...
Releases:
Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
The Hives - Th...
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August 28, 2025 • 143 mins
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
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
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August 26, 2025 • 142 mins
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.
This episode was originally published August 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
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August 22, 2025 • 74 mins
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 ...
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 ...
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August 14, 2025 • 198 mins
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.
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August 7, 2025 • 34 mins
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
...
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
...
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July 31, 2025 • 36 mins
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 Lak...
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 Lak...
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July 24, 2025 • 135 mins
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 Angu...
The Dirty Nil 46:49
Blood Vulture 1:04:23
Psycho-Frame 1:20:14
Blind Equation 1:32:06
Crown of Angu...
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