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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 Bleeding - Settle All Scores
Evoken - Mendacium
Tombs - Feral Darkness
Afsky - Fælleskab
Wolvennest - Procession
Czart - Czarty Polskie
:Skull & Dawn: - The Harvest
Unto Others - I Believe In Halloween II
Spaced - No Escape
Sunn O))) - Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential
Carach 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/West
Orbit Culture - Death Above Life
50 Lions - New Reality
Author & Punisher - Nocturnal Birding
Today is the Day - Never Give In
Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
Wode - Uncrossing the Keys
Hooded Menace - Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
Impure - The Devil Sees My Dreams
Ephemeral - Envisaged Human Collapse
Cathedral - Society’s Pact With Satan
Suffering Hour - Impelling Rebirth
Corpse Pile - In the Beginning…
Yellowcard - Better Days
Perturbator - Age of Aquarius
Testament - Para Bellum
Dead Heat - Process of Elimination
Greyhaven - Keep It Quiet
Soul Blind - Red Sky Mourning
God Alone - The Beep Test
Sanguisugabogg - Hideous Aftermath
Frayle - Heretics & Lullabies
Terjiz de Horde - Our Breath is Not Ours Alone
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 - Ascension
Castle Rat - The Bestiary
Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World
Greywind - Severed Heart City
Cardiacs - LSD
Total Wife - Come Back Down
C4 - Payback’s a Bitch
Igorrr - Amen
Werewolves - The Ugliest of All
Novembers Doom - Major Arcana
Heretoir - Solastalgia
Amnio - Psalms of Immortality
Firmament - For Centuries Alive
Secret World - Tomorrow is a Mystery to Me
Missing Link - Miracle Smile
The Starting Line - Eternal Youth
Sprints - All That is Over
Dave Hause - …And the Mermaid
Amorphis - Borderland
Revocation - New Gods, New Masters
Vintersorg - Vattenkrafternas Spel
Mors Principium Est - Darkness Invisible
Esses - Pain at the Altar of Jest
President - King of Terrors
PeelingFlesh - PF Radio 2
Elder - Liminality / Dream State Return
Tetragrammacide - Cyber-Tantric Paradigm of Radical Sri-Vidya
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
Der Weg Einer Freiheit 2:01:20
Die 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 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 Chameleons - Arctic Moon
Ho99o9 - Tomorrow We Escape
Not Enough Space - Weaponize Your Rage
Spite House - Desertion
Maruja - Pain to Power
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern
Year of the Goat - Alucarda
Crippling Alcoholism - Camgirl
Intercourse - How I Fell in Love With the Void
Slomatics - Atomicult
Jo Quail - Notan
Barrens - Corpse Lights
Heruvim - Mercator
Caesarean - 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 Party
The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
Nova Twins - Parasites & Butterflies
End It - Wrong Side of Heaven
Helloween - Giants & Monsters
Slow Crush - Thirst
Adur - We Fail to Love Ourselves
In Mourning - The Immortal
Månegarm - Edsvuren
Void - Forbidden Morals
Deathhammer - Crimson Dawn
Proscription - Desolate Divine
Torso - Annihilation Day
Death Goals - Survival Is An Act Of Defiance
withpaperwings - Six Thousand Days
Fleshwater - 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
Tallah - Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
blessthefall - Gallows
La Dispute - No One Was Driving the Car
Modern Life is War - Life on the Moon
Still In Love - Recovery Language
Glenn Hughes - Chosen
Dark Angel - Extinction Level Event
Primal Fear - Domination
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores of Melancholia
Faetooth - Labyrinthine
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
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 - Ricochet
Joey Valance & Brae - HYPERYOUTH
Justice for the Damned - Stay Relentless
Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done
Kerosene Heights - Blame It On The Weather
Unleashed - Fire Upon Your Lands
Baest - Colossal
Castrator - Coronation of the Grotesque
Panopticon - Laurentian Blue
Panopticon - Songs of Hiraeth
Phosphorus - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands
Fell Omen - Caelid Dog Summer
Firestarter - Still Holding On…
Cult of Luna - Beyond III, IV, V
Deftones - Private Music
Pendulum - Inertia
Three Days Grace - Alienation
We Came as Romans - All is Beautiful… Because We’re Doomed
Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still
Dinosaur Pile-Up - I’ve Felt Better
The World is a Beautiful Place & I’m No Longer Afraid to Die - Dreams of Being Dust
really big really clever - …huh?
Faced Out - At Eternity’s Edge
Feuerschwanz - Knightclub
Burning Witches - Inquisition
Signs of the Swarm - To Rid Myself of Truth
Arcadea - The Exodus of Gravity
Malevich - Under a Gilded Sun
Desaster - Kill All Idols
Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence
Zetra - Believe
Fates Messenger - Eternal War
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