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Bring Me the Horizon make the genuinely absurd announcement of Count Your Blessings 20th anniversary celebrations, Nine Inch Noize owns Coachella, and Evanescence lead the singles in their team-up with the Fish. Releases: Nine Inch Noize - Nine Inch Noize Skindred - You Got This .gif from god - Dissimulation The Last Ten Seconds of Life - The Dead Ones Prince Daddy & the Hyena - Hotwire Trip Switch Hold My Own - Pay No Mind Mat McNerney - The Bones of the Dead, or Three Turns Counterclockwise Crippled Black Phoenix - Sceaduhelm Leila Abdul-Rauf - Andros Insidium Ordh - Blind In Abyssal Realms Reeking Aura - On the Promise of the Moon Pissrot - Absolute Form Muerto - Eclipsed Realms Nekrogoblikon - The Boiling Sea Gout - Actual Bastard

Tracks from Warning, Holding Absence, Health and more head up the week's music, and we announce our first massive band special for 2026. Releases: Bilmuri - Kinda Hard Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 3 Truckfighters - Masterflow As Everything Unfolds - DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE? Tigercub - Nets to Catch the Wave Love Rarely - Pain Travels Bodysnatcher - Hell is Here, Hell is Home Metal Church - Dead to Rights Spirit Adrift - Infinite Illumination The Melvins with Napalm Death - Savage Imperial Death March Immolation - Descent Archspire - Too Fast to Die Vomitory - Death Throes Uada - Interwoven Blush Puppy - Here You Dream Melechesh - Sentinels of Shamash Cissné - Awake Children Under the Moon JK Flesh / Monrella - Shouting the Odds

A lot of heavy feelings this week sadly, with the losses of Bo Lueders, James Lollar of Gost, and Ross the Boss. Elsewhere the Kreator/Carcass/Exodus/Nails package lights up the UK, Damnation 2026 unveil all their headliners, Converge unveil a second album, and another messed up story comes out of the world of hardcore so... yeah, one of those weeks. Releases: Don Broco - Nightmare Tripping Black Label Society - Engines of Demolition Myrath - Wilderness of Mirrors Moodring - death fetish Chamber - this is goodbye… A Winter’s Remorse - The Day Our Gods Abandoned Us Concealer - This Room Could Be Heaven Divine Chaos - Hate Reactor Zerre - Rotting on a Golden Throne The Twilight Sad - It’s the Long Goodbye Tigers Jaw - Lost on You Free Throw - Moments Before the Wind Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season Këkht Aräkh - Morning Star Cruel Force - Haneda Cryptworm - Infectious Pathological Waste Growth - Under the Under Enslaved & Storm Weather Shanty Choir - Enslaved & Storm Weather Shanty Choir Corrosion of Conformity - Good God / Baad Man Sunn O))) - Sunn O))) Poison Ruïn - Hymns From the Hills Lantlôs - Nowhere In Between Forever Knumears - Directions Masca - Love Letters LavaLove - Tan Lines Nervosa - Slave Machine Commitment - Fear Of Jarboe - Sightings Angine de Poitrine - Vol.II

TNM March reviews bag just catches the most brain-breaking, beautiful return as Neurosis emerge with a whole new album, alongside another return from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, Gaerea, Hellripper, Aggressive Perfector, Mallavora, & Sweet Pill. Neurosis 11:30 Poison the Well 56:10 Lamb of God 1:17:13 Gaerea 1:39:08 Hellripper 1:59:30 Aggressive Perfector 2:15:00 Mallavora 2:25:00 Sweet Pill 2:31:51

Muse beam back down to us with their new album announcement, along with music from Black Veil Brides, Stormkeep, and Dropkick Murphys/Haywire, there's a live report from deathcore central with Bodysnatcher, Ingested, Psycho-Frame and Big Ass Truck, and we pay tribute to Motörhead's second-longest serving member Phil Campbell. Releases: Poison the Well - Peace In Place Exodus - Goliath Gaerea - Loss Filth is Eternal - Impossible World Gladie - No Need to Be Lonely Stainless - Lady of Lust and Steel Egregore - It Echoes in the Wild The Silver - Looking Glass Hymnal Blue Gutvoid - Liminal Shrines Mclusky - I Sure Am Getting Sick of this Bowling Alley Annul Noir - Inexistence Dropkick Murphys / Haywire - New England Forever

A curtain of biblical darkness falls upon Album Club in the unofficial Sabbath album The Devil You Know by Heaven & Hell, 16 Horsepower's dark country classic Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, Cave In's space rock leap Jupiter, and metalcore pioneers Integrity making their most no fucks given record Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume. This episode was originally published March 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

New singles from the likes of Gouge Away, Drug Church, and Devin Townsend hit our ears, epic metal heroes Eternal Champion surprise drop a bold and ambitious new EP, and there's hardcore drama cause when is there not? Releases: Lamb of God - Into Oblivion Angus McSix - Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye Sweet Pill - Still There’s a Glow Shoreline - Is This the Low Point or the Moment After? UnityTX - Somewhere, In Between Gong - Bright Spirit Monstrosity - Screams from Beneath the Surface No/Más - No Peace Wolfbastard - Satanic Scum Punks Transilvania - Magic Posthuma Witchcraft - A Sinner’s Child Eternal Champion - Friend of War

Basement, Blackbraid, and Portrayal of Guilt give us a diverse pack of new songs to chew in, questions on what is the greatest musical city and generationally phased out songs, and we respond to the news that industrial giants Godflesh are hanging up their live instruments for good. Releases: Rob Zombie - The Great Satan Carpenter Brut - Leather Temple The Gloom in the Corner - Royal Discordance Nothing - A Short History of Decay Final Gasp - New Day Symptoms Matador - Above, Below and So Harrowed - The Eternal Hunger Possession - The Mother of Darkness Necrofier - Transcend Into Oblivion Erra - silence outlives the earth Lost Society - Hell is a State of Mind Whiplash - Thrashquake Surfbort - Reality Star Temple of Void - The Crawl Bosse-de-Nage - Hidden Fires Burn Hottest Vreid - The Skies Turn Black Blackbraid - Nocturnal Womb Black Stone Cherry - Celebrate Moon Tooth - Bastard Nailed Shut MA - A Promise Made, A Promise Kept

This month brings us one of the most daunting, monolithic, and outlandish reviews bags we've ever had, as we tackle Converge, Sylosis, Mayhem, Worm, Pony, Cryptic Shift, Hällas, and Killing Pace. Slap on your spacesuit, we're adventure rocking. Converge 27:36 Sylosis 56:02 Mayhem 1:12:56 Worm 1:30:33 Pony 1:43:00 Cryptic Shift 1:52:40 Hällas 2:12:10 Killing Pace 2:30:20

Party time at TNM: the mythical drought comes to an end, alongside new tracks from the Foo Fighters and Don Broco/Nickelback and grand line-up unveilings from Arch Enemy and Nevermore. Releases: Sylosis - The New Flesh New Found Glory - Listen Up! Killing Pace - HCPM Exhumed - Red Asphalt Coscradh - Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld The Magus - Daemonosophia Lead Injector - Witching Attack

Hyperblasts is back to cover what we missed from the Grammys, UK live shows from Home Front to Korpiklaani, Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry's collab single, and the discussion around While She Sleeps' video announcement for their stepping back from touring. Releases: Hällas - Panorama Softcult - When a Flower Doesn’t Grow Karnivool - In Veses Puscifer - Normal Isn’t Tailgunner - Midnight Blitz Tumour - Human Salvage Uncultivates - This Will Become Clear Later, Like the French Revolution Mayhem - Liturgy of Death Night of the Vampire - The Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade Kanonenfieber - Soldatenschicksale Power Snatch - EP1 Afraid to Die - Hell is a Place In My Mind Predatory Void - Atoned In Metamorphosis Infinite Misery - Altar of Extracted Teeth Converge - Love is Not Enough TX2 - End of Us Angel Du$t - COLD 2 THE TOUCH Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx IV Pony - Clearly Cursed Yakkie - Kill The Cop Inside Your Head Worm - Necropalace Fossilization - Advent of Wounds Guilt Trip - God Forgives

Looking back at the records January gave us we give an honest assessment of the final album from Megadeth, alongside Kreator, Urne, Møl, Joyce Manor, The Ruins of Beverast, and Backengrillen. Thanks for all the riffs, MegaDave. Megadeth 20:11 Kreator 1:06:31 Urne 1:22:47 Møl 1:38:35 Joyce Manor 1:49:44 The Ruins of Beverast 2:02:15 Backengrillen 2:14:11

TNM talks bands we would have introduced to ourselves at an earlier age, a breadth of new tracks from Def Leppard, Exodus, Immolation and Haggard Cat, and Cryptopsy take to the UK with 200 Stab Wounds for 30 years of None So Vile. Releases: Megadeth - Megadeth Poppy - Empty Hands Crystal Lake - The Weight of Sound Textures - Genotype The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else Backengrillen - Backengrillen Barbarian - Reek of God Ligation - After Gods

2025 Album Clubs come from the land where the mullet attacks: Sabaton's Swedish concept album Carolus Rex, Hatebreed's hardcore benchmark Satisfaction is the Death of Desire, Visigoth's dungeon-keeping The Revenant King, and Family Force 5 give us Business Up Front/Party in the Back. This episode was originally published January 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

New album singles from Poison the Well, Lamb of God, and Static Dress keep 2026 starting up, along with a killer first band announcement from Damnation Festival, and announcement of our first Patreon special for 2026. Releases: Kreator - Krushers of the World Kid Kapichi - Fearless Nature Greywind - Severed Heart City Ov Sulfur - Endless Blanket - True Blue Serpent Column - Aion of Strife Rifle - Rifle Push - Plowing Ahead Crush Your Soul - Ice Water I Promised the World - I Promised the World Lights Out - Fall on Your Sword Gylt - In 1,000 Agonies, I Exist Sin Against Sin - Demo 2

TNM usher in the new year with hopes, questions and predictions for 2026, and some familiar faces already poking their heads above the parapets for the year ahead. Releases: Ulver - Neverland Fuath - III Woe - Legacies of Human Frailty Paleface Swiss - The Wilted EP Alter Bridge - Alter Bridge The Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf

Right before Christmas our last bash for 2025 is TNM Awards looking back over the highs and lows, the stories, the icons, the presidents, and the circuses that made the year in rock music what it was: 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

Our second go of albums of the year for 2025 with Sam and Mark celebrating records from hair metal to hardcore, and your results for the TNM listener poll as we see who's bringing it home in a year filled with past winners and big dog contenders.

2025 Album of the Year time begins on That's Not Metal, with our first lists from Perran and Elliot celebrating everything from synth-punk to goth-doom, power-goregrind to jazz-death, post-metal to metalcore, legendary rock icons to grimy dungeon crust bands that this year gave us.

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 Within the Astral Crypts Terror Corpse - Ash Eclipses Flesh Flesher - Gore On Gore Dome Runner - World Panopticon Spanish Love Songs - A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time The Halo Effect - We Are Shadows ExitWounds - An Offering to Tragedy Master’s Hammer - Maldoror Disco male//gaze - Too Late Now Excide - Bastard Hymns Equilibrium - Equinox Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons The Ominous Circle - Cloven Tongues of Fire Phobocosm - Gateway Fessus - Subcutaneous Tomb 1349 - Winter Mass