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Our first TNM reviews of 2025 hit the runway with The Night Flight Orchestra, Wardruna, The Halo Effect, The Great Old Ones, Trauma Bond, & Grief Ritual, and we pay tribute to one of the greatest left-field artists and dreamers of all time David Lynch.
The Night Flight Orchestra 45:00
Wardruna 1:07:53
The Halo Effect 1:28:45
The Great Old Ones 1:44:48
Trauma Bond 2:00:34
Grief Ritual 2:10:30
Album Club returns to start 2024 after a few months away with a bumper episode, setting the record straight on Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Survival Horror, destroying orcs with 3 Inches of Blood's Advance and Vanquish, Joyce Manor's micro-classic Never Hungover Again, and Reign Supreme with #WhyNotDyingFetus
This episode was originally published January 2024 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.
Hints of a Nine Inch Nails world tour, uncertainty in the SeeYouSpaceCowboy camp, Exodus swap their old singers again, and SpiritWorld go full cowboy.
Releases:
Eidola - Mend
Grave Digger - Bone Collector
Tokyo Blade - Time is the Fire
Trauma Bond - Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone.
Sarcator - Swarming Angels & Flies
Necrodeath - Arimortis
Necromaniac - Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable
Onirophagus - Revelations from the Void
Hierarchies - Hierarchies
Day By Day - Dust and Ashes
Dark Fortress - Anthems From Beyond the Grave - Live In Europe 2023
We're back for 2025 looking to our hopes and goals for the year ahead, announce our first 2025 special, get a first batch of promising to stupid new singles, and yet another reunion.
Releases:
Patriarkh - Prophet Ilja
Paleface Swiss - Cursed
Mutagenic Host - The Diseased Machine
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Stick to Your Guns - Keep Planting Flowers
Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out
Tremonti - The End Will Show Us How
The Halo Effect - March of the Unheard
The Cimmerian - An Age Undreamed Of
Haunted Horses - Dweller
Ex Deo - Year of the Four Emperors
Jota - Haven
For our last show before Christmas we arrive at the TNM Awards for 2024, as we gather to end the year with the successes, stories, downfalls and villain arcs that defined the year in heavy:
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
We round off the best rock and metal albums of 2024 with lists from Sam and Mark, plus the all important and really incredibly great this year listener poll from all of you to really see who gets crowned.
The That's Not Metal Albums of the Year for 2024 begins, with Perran and Elliot giving their lists of so much that the best in metal, the underground and beyond had to offer.
Our final reviews bag of 2024 happens to feature the biggest rock comebacks of the year and underground heroes, with Linkin Park, The Cure, Opeth, Better Lovers, Many Eyes, Tribulation & Neon Nightmare getting discussed.
Linkin Park 31:45
The Cure 1:01:04
Opeth 1:25:59
Better Lovers 1:49:56
Many Eyes 2:09:03
Tribulation 2:20:08
Neon Nightmare 2:41:53
2025 singles really start coming with Spiritbox, Architects, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, and Coheed and Cambria, W.A.S.P. go full mental, and we talk the "bad" albums we got into bands on.
Releases:
Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Body Count - Merciless
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
Ocean Grove - Oddworld
Polar - Nova
Fellowship - The Skies Above Eternity
Coilguns - Odd Love
Múr - Múr
Defeated Sanity - Chronicles of Lunacy
Gutless - High Impact Violence
Ante-Inferno - Death’s Soliloquy
Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
Kruelty - Profane Usurpation
Mallavora - Echoes
Doro - Rock ‘N’ Roll Xmas Party
We hit that point of the year where we have Grammy nominations and Download headliners to either complain about or debunk complaints about, and a mega live review as Sepultura's farewell tour finally arrives on UK shores.
Releases:
Linkin Park - From Zero
As I Lay Dying - Through Storms Ahead
Poppy - Negative Spaces
Full of Hell / Andrew Nolan - Scraping the Divine
Primal Code - Opaque Fixation
Thy Catafalque - XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután Jönnek
Spider God - Possess the Devil
Chelsea Wolfe - Unbound
Less Than Jake - Uncharted
Mammoth Grinder - Undying Spectral Resonance
Deadbody / Tribal Gaze - Deadbody / Tribal Gaze
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated
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