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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 - LegendsBattle Beast - SteelboundMilitarie Gun - God Save the GunBiohazard - Divided We Fall84 Tigers - Nothing EndsCoroner - Dissonance TheoryTribal Gaze - Inveighing BrillianceInternal Bleeding - Settle All ScoresEvoken - MendaciumTombs - Feral DarknessAfsky - FælleskabWolvennest - ProcessionCzart - Czarty Polskie:Skull & Dawn: - The HarvestUnto Others - I Believe In Halloween IISpaced - No EscapeSunn O))) - Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & ReverentialCarach Angren - The Cult of Kariba

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 & Punisher - Nocturnal BirdingToday is the Day - Never Give InAgriculture - The Spiritual SoundWode - Uncrossing the KeysHooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments of ObscurationImpure - The Devil Sees My DreamsEphemeral - Envisaged Human CollapseCathedral - Society’s Pact With SatanSuffering Hour - Impelling RebirthCorpse Pile - In the Beginning…Yellowcard - Better DaysPerturbator - Age of AquariusTestament - Para BellumDead Heat - Process of EliminationGreyhaven - Keep It QuietSoul Blind - Red Sky MourningGod Alone - The Beep TestSanguisugabogg - Hideous AftermathFrayle - Heretics & LullabiesTerjiz de Horde - Our Breath

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.

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 Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful WorldGreywind - Severed Heart CityCardiacs - LSDTotal Wife - Come Back DownC4 - Payback’s a BitchIgorrr - AmenWerewolves - The Ugliest of AllNovembers Doom - Major ArcanaHeretoir - SolastalgiaAmnio - Psalms of ImmortalityFirmament - For Centuries AliveSecret World - Tomorrow is a Mystery to MeMissing Link - Miracle SmileThe Starting Line - Eternal YouthSprints - All That is OverDave Hause - …And the MermaidAmorphis - BorderlandRevocation - New Gods, New MastersVintersorg - Vattenkrafternas SpelMors Principium Est - Darkness InvisibleEsses - Pain at the Altar of JestPresident -

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 Dispute 1:38:16Modern Life is War 1:52:16Der Weg Einer Freiheit 2:01:20Die Spitz 2:11:20

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 - The WheelThe Rasmus - WeirdoThe Chameleons - Arctic MoonHo99o9 - Tomorrow We EscapeNot Enough Space - Weaponize Your RageSpite House - DesertionMaruja - Pain to PowerDer Weg Einer Freiheit - InnernYear of the Goat - AlucardaCrippling Alcoholism - CamgirlIntercourse - How I Fell in Love With the VoidSlomatics - AtomicultJo Quail - NotanBarrens - Corpse LightsHeruvim - MercatorCaesarean - Wretched Decrepitude

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 PartyThe Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The HivesNova Twins - Parasites & ButterfliesEnd It - Wrong Side of HeavenHelloween - Giants & MonstersSlow Crush - ThirstAdur - We Fail to Love OurselvesIn Mourning - The ImmortalMånegarm - EdsvurenVoid - Forbidden MoralsDeathhammer - Crimson DawnProscription - Desolate DivineTorso - Annihilation DayDeath Goals - Survival Is An Act Of Defiancewithpaperwings - Six Thousand DaysFleshwater - 2000: In Search of the Endless SkyTallah - Primeval: Obsession // Detachmentblessthefall - GallowsLa Dispute - No One Was Driving the CarModern Life is War - Life o

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 1:48:13Malthusian 1:56:18Faced Out: 2:14:25

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.

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 DoneKerosene Heights - Blame It On The WeatherUnleashed - Fire Upon Your LandsBaest - ColossalCastrator - Coronation of the GrotesquePanopticon - Laurentian BluePanopticon - Songs of HiraethPhosphorus - Frail Grasp of Broken HandsFell Omen - Caelid Dog SummerFirestarter - Still Holding On…Cult of Luna - Beyond III, IV, VDeftones - Private MusicPendulum - InertiaThree Days Grace - AlienationWe Came as Romans - All is Beautiful… Because We’re DoomedHot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It’s StillDinosaur Pile-Up - I’ve Felt BetterThe World is a Beautiful Place & I’m No Longer Afraid to Die - Dreams of Being Dustre

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.

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 - LuckyAttack Attack! - Attack Attack! IIBlackbraid - Blackbraid IIISinsaenum - In DevastationAsunojokei - Think of YouMalthusian - The Summoning BellCrypt Sermon - Saturnian ApprenticesAversions Crown - A Voice From the Outer Dark

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 Everything Needs to Be DestroyedFox Lake - New World HeatHammer - TrappedHedonist - ScapulimancyKayo Dot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under ReasonCar Bomb - Tiles Whisper DreamsSaphir Levi - Follow Your Shadow

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 1:20:14Blind Equation 1:32:06Crown of Anguish 1:45:16Stangarigel 1:55:58Nuvolascura 2:05:20

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 LonelinessZac Farro - OperatorLaura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes - Adventure ClubPanic Shack - Panic ShackBlind Equation - A Funeral In PurgatoryStomach - Low DemonBa’al - The Fine Line Between Heaven and HereEntrails - Grip of Ancient EvilAbigail Williams - A Void Within ExistenceHaunter / Cape of Bats - Black Magick Metal Punk

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 - Strung Out In HellFloating - Hesitating Lights

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 Murphys - For the PeopleWytch Hazel - V: LamentationsWe Lost the Sea - A Single FlowerStygian - DreadlandsGaupa - Fyr

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 - End Time LightningValdrin - Apex ViolatorDeadguy - Near-Death Travel ServicesHeaven Shall Burn - HeimatSodom - The ArsonistBlood Vulture - Die CloseJohan Langquist - The Castle - Johan Langquist - The CastleKing Witch - IIIFer de Lance - Fires on the MountainsideKilling of a Sacred Deer - A Visage of a Mangled BodyGreet Death - Die In LoveAll Men Unto Me - RequiemInhuman Condition - Mind TrapLord Belial - Unholy TrinityShining - Divided You’ll Stand and United You’ll FallCosmic Joke - Forced PerspectiveBotch - 061524Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums

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

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 - Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking StateKing Parrot - A Young Persons Guide ToGruesome - Silent EchoesGaahl’s Wyrd - Braiding the StoriesAutumn Nostalgie - MetanoiaAustere - The Stillness of DissolutionDimscûa - Dust EaterBuckcherry - Roar Like ThunderFallujah - XenotaphHexvessel - NocturneDolven - In My Grave…Silenceletlive. - The Blackest Beautiful RevisitedSigh - I Saw the World’s End - Hangman’s Hymn MMXXVThe Cure - Mixes of a Lost WorldQueens of the Stone Age - Alive in the CatacombsMetallica - Load (Remastered)