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 -...

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...

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...

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 -...

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

One of the biggest weeks for heavy touring in the UK peaks with a podcast-wide trip to Napalm Death's Campaign for Musical Destruction with Pig Destroyer, Primitive Man, and Wormrot, coming with sadly some sombre news from the PD camp. Releases: Kid Kapichi - There Goes the Neighbourhood Scott Stapp - Higher Power The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards Gouge Away - Deep Sage Bleak - My Body is Not Where I Belong DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors Savage Oath - Divine Battle Vltimas -...

Hyperblasts brings a report from London's Celestial Darkness Festival checking out rare bookings in the worlds of black, doom, & goth and sets from the likes of Primordial, Tribulation, & Ihsahn, and salute a formative band for TNM as Palm Reader announce their farewell. Releases: Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond Myrath - Karma Kill the Lights - Death Melodies Midnight - Hellish Expectations Gost - Prophecy Exhorder - Defectum Omnium Skeletal...

The biggest piece of Slipknot drummer rumouring yet, some absolutely blistering tracks from Knocked Loose and Inter Arma, and probably the maddest band drama ever to unfold. We've all done it. Releases: Mick Mars - The Other Side of Mars Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is Over Amaranthe - The Catalyst Glitterer - Rationale Shoreline - To Figure Out Timelost - Drained Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being The Body/Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile...

February Album Clubs look at Fall Out Boy's initial send-off Folie a Deux, Kreator's proto-extreme masterpiece Pleasure to Kill, the oft brushed over Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent from Refused, and a decade of Beastmilk's last post-punk party at the end of the world Climax. This episode was originally published February 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

February reviews on TNM pop the hell off with Chelsea Wolfe, Alkaline Trio, Ihsahn, Job for a Cowboy, Darkest Hour, Spectral Voice, Hulder & Slope, and reactions to the bamboozling news of Slayer's return and Ascendancy + The Poison tours. Chelsea Wolfe 57:00 Alkaline Trio 1:23:40 Ihsahn 1:39:18 Job for a Cowboy 2:01:12 Darkest Hour 2:19:57 Spectral Voice 2:35:21 Hulder 2:55:38 Slope 3:09:25

Hyperblasts checks out the new single from Pearl Jam, tours from Malevolence and The Menzingers, and very exciting headliner announcements from Outbreak and Damnation. Releases: Idles - Tangk Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head Ihsahn - Ihsahn Bokassa - All Out of Dreams Profiler - A Digital Nowhere Shooting Daggers - Love & Rage GVLLOW - Twin Flames The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow Praise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of Time Darkspace - Dark Space...

Kerry King is back on the scene with all of the details surrounding his first album since Slayer, as well as some spicy interview snippets, and there's huge tours on both sides of the Atlantic. The Grammys also exist. Releases: Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She Yellowcard + Hammock - A Hopeful Sign The Chisel - What a F*cking Nightmare The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This The Last Ten Seconds of Life - No Name Graves Haystack - Doomsday Goes Away Morbid Saint -...

A mega edition of Hyperblasts finds TNM conducting a critical reflection on the legacy of YMAS with the news of their impending farewell, a moment you either feared would come or never come. There's also crazy new music in the form of Kaonashi's new EP, and some crazy choices in the form of Download's stage splits. Releases: Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs The Infernal Sea - Hellfenlic Olhava - Sacrifice Unsouling - Vampiric...

One of the most farcical yet often great review gauntlets opens TNM 2024, with efforts from Green Day, Neck Deep, Saxon, Lucifer, Upon Stone, Rough Justice... and Lord of the Lost's 90 minute cover album. Green Day 3:35 Neck Deep 34:19 Lord of the Lost 52:08 Saxon 1:18:19 Lucifer 1:41:15 Upon Stone 1:55:35 Rough Justice 2:13:36

New Year Hyperblasts continue with an in-depth report from Bring Me the Horizon's Nex Gen tour with Bad Omens, Cassyette, and Static Dress, representing a state of the address at the start of 2024. Releases: Green Day - Saviors Neck Deep - Neck Deep Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence Slift - Ilion Kontact - Full Contact Master - Saints Dispelled Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory Vemod - The Deepening Sexual Perverts - Sex...

That's Not Metal is back for the first episode of 2024 covering the big news from the beginning of the year, announcement straight away of the year's first special, plus a big thank you. Releases: Peyton Parrish - Soul Sprints - Letter to Self Gray State - Under the Wheels of Progress Haywire 617 - Conditioned for Demolition Rejoice - All of Heaven’s Luck Cancer Christ - God is Violence Svdestada - Candela Casey - How to Disappear Rough Justice - Faith In Vain Ryujin - Ryujin Neal Morse -...

Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house... The TNM Awards hit back crowning the heroes and villains, menaces and marvels of 2023: Most Improved Band Song of the Year Worst Song of the Year Hero of the Year Villain of the Year Best New Band Biggest Disappointment Gig of the Year EP of the Year Artwork of the Year Movie of the Year Comeback of the Year Surprise of the Year Outstanding Achievement Worst Band of the Year Unsung Heroes Story of the Year Band of the Year

The second load of That's Not Metal Albums of the Year come from Mark and Sam, and crucially in a year of some of the most divisive albums we announce the results of the listener AOTY poll.

The end of the year at TNM is nigh; it's time to cut the ribbon and begin crowning our top 20 albums, as Perran and Elliot start off with all of the great musical colour and invention that has graced our ears in 2023.

News show close for 2023 with acknowledgement of the passing of Killing Joke's Geordie Walker, before turning to more new music from ex-Black Peaks members and Video Nasties, and some very exciting Glenn Danzig news. Releases: Future Static - Liminality Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness Kvelgeyst - Blut, Milch und Thranen Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation of Suffering Panopticon - The Rime of...

The final reviews bag of 2023 is a brilliant one, with loads of late year contenders: The Gaslight Anthem, Green Lung, Dying Wish, NOBRO, Autopsy, Wayfarer, Underdark, & Malokarpatan. The Gaslight Anthem 24:45 Green Lung 50:42 Dying Wish 1:11:20 NOBRO 1:27:30 Autopsy 1:42:46 Wayfarer 2:02:52 Underdark 2:22:46 Malokarpatan 2:37:30

When We Were Young pulls an insane choice, Slipknot drummer rumours abound, and live reports from Creeper and future Download headliners Queens of the Stone Age among others. Releases: Dolly Parton - Rock Star High Spirits - Safe on the Other Side Racetraitor - Creation and the Timeless Order of Things C.L.S.M. - Infinity Shit Plaguemace - Reptilian Warlords Foetal Juice - Grotesque Sadus - The Shadow Inside Aeturnus - Philosopher King - Fury and Death Bewitcher - Deep Cuts & Shallow...