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That's Not Metal

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Episodes

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...
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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 - ...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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
...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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.
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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 ...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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-files
Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway - Addicted to the Violence
Bush - I Beat Loneliness
Zac Farro - Operator
Laura Jane ...
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July 10, 2025 67 mins
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 - motionblur
Calva Louise - Edge of the Abyss
dead7 - Love What You Can While You’ve Still Got Something Left to Love
Ward XVI - ID3NTITY
Born of Osiris - Through Shadows
Margarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In Hell
Floating - Hesitat...
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