Didn't Go Platinum is off to Orange County, California. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Jordan Gaw, singer for rising American metallers Against The Grave, to dress up like Spartans and discuss Declaration by Bleeding Through.

Upon its release, the band was engaged in a very public feud with their record label. However, this controversy appears to have overshadowed the music itself. Declaration is really bloody good.

The lads do a deep dive into this oft-overlooked metalcore album and explain why it deserves to be rediscovered. Plus, Tim makes an absolutely massive factual error about Corrosion Of Conformity, which we're all going to politely ignore. We shan't be telling Metal Hammer about that now, shall we?

You can check out Against The Grave on Instagram and listen to their music on Spotify.

You can also follow Didn't Go Platinum on Instagram and Threads at @dngplatinum or check out Tim's Substack.

And of course, check out Declaration by Bleeding Through on Spotify.

Stay positive, stay metal.

We're travelling into space with the Mechanicus Cult on the latest episode of Didn't Go Platinum. Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by the returning Fae Scott Dench (aka the Death Metal Mum) to discuss Labyrinth by Dissentient.

This hour-long slice of highly technical, futuristic death metal is barely mentioned outside some very small circles, but it's excellent. Dissentient are Canada's unsung heroes of future death and Labyrinth is a blast. Find out why.

You can find Fae on Instagram and discover more about her own podcast here.

Follow Didn't Go Platinum on Instagram and Threads at @dngplatinum or email us at [email protected]

And of course, check out Labyrinth by Dissentient (not Dissentient by Labyrinth as Tim mistakenly calls it at one point) on Bandcamp.

It's another special episode! Hardcore expert Ellis Heasley returns to Didn't Go Platinum to discuss this year's Outbreak Festival with Tim and talk about which bands you can't afford to miss.

Over the course of an hour, they give shoutouts to bands like Converge, Dynamite, Fiddlehead, Ingrown, Harm's Way, Sanction, Gridiron, Suicidal Tendencies, Hatebreed, and many others. They also give a brief history of Outbreak, and get excited about vegan brownies.

You can learn more about Outbreak, discover the full line-up, and arrange your trip to the UK's premier hardcore festival at their official website. It takes place on the 26th - 28th June at the B.E.C. Arena in Manchester.

You can follow Didn't Go Platinum on Instagram and Threads, email Tim at [email protected], and subscribe to his Substack account.

It's a special episode of the Didn't Go Platinum podcast, as Tim is joined by Dr Hell and Count Gravedigga of Evil Scarecrow for a trip to the cinema! We're revisiting the soundtrack to Last Action Hero, the cult classic Arnold Schwarzenegger movie from 1993.

With a host of artists on the track list, including AC/DC, Cypress Hill, Queensryche, Alice In Chains, and Anthrax (kinda), this soundtrack is a snapshot of nineties alt-music. Hard rock, rap, and thrash metal sit side-by-side as Arnie delivers one-liners, bad guys get gunned down, and Charles Dance portrays a character so evil, he'd make Tywin Lannister wince.

And along the way, we discover the origin of the word 'wanker.'

There are a few tangents in this episode.

You can find Evil Scarecrow online at Facebook and Instagram.

You can also follow Didn't Go Platinum on Threads and Instagram at @dngplatinum, or email us at [email protected]

Big thank you to Jimi from Bangers and Mosh for making the thumbnail for this episode at short notice.

Listen to metal.

Didn't Go Platinum visits the worst neighbourhoods in Detroit, as we explore Cold As Life's excellent second album, a forgotten gem of nineties hardcore. Cold As Life might be the most dangerous band to ever emerge from the American underground, whose songs of brutal slice violence and urban paranoia mask a tragic, heartbreaking career.

Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Loudstakk mainman Ron D. Rock, and the two discuss their favourite tracks, the band's history, and the mythology of the nineties hardcore scene. And given that this is a Detroit-heavy episode, Chicago gets a minor kicking.

You can explore Loudstakk and their premium MIDI grooves for metalheads by visiting their website, or checking out their Instagram page.

Follow Didn't Go Platinum on Instagram and Threads at @dngplatinum, or email [email protected]

Tim also just started a Substack which you can find here.

And of course, check out Declination of Independence on Spotify here.

Didn't Go Platinum asks the big question: can being very well-dressed and incredibly good-looking be a drawback?

Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Kris Kielich of the Psychic Warfare podcast to discuss Love And Other Disasters, the third full-length from Swedish metallers Sonic Syndicate. They're a band that Tim once dismissed as "Hot Topic Mall Goth metal," but it turns out that they're much better than that.

Join us as we revisit an irresistibly catchy album that may infuriate heavy metal traditionalists, but is actually really good. And let's find out why Sonic Syndicate didn't become megastars.

You can find Kris and the Psychic Warfare podcast on Instagram and Spotify, and as part of the wider Noizze Podcast Network.

You can find Didn't Go Platinum on Threads and Instagram at @dngplatinum, email us at [email protected], or follow Tim's newly created Substack.

And you can listen to Love And Other Disasters on Spotify.

Are Mercenary the unsung heroes of melodic death metal? We tackle this question with an in-depth look at the band's 2004 album 11 Dreams on the latest episode of Didn't Go Platinum.

Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Brother Dave of the Menn, Metal Mayhem podcast to discuss the Danish underdogs. 11 Dreams is a very strong album, and a viable alternative to some of the more popular acts of the early 2000's, but is it too long?

You can follow Didn't Go Platinum on Threads and Instagram at @dngplatinum or email [email protected]

You can find Brother Dave, the rest of the Brothers Menn, and the Menn, Metal Mayhem podcast here.

And of course, you can listen to 11 Dreams on Spotify here.

Stay metal.

We're off to the trenches with the pals battalions as Didn't Go Platinum revisits an overlooked classic: it's Those Once Loyal by Bolt Thrower.

This WW1-themed death metal album was deemed so good, that the band decided to stop recording once it was released. And yet, it's got a reputation as one of those albums that loads of people have heard of, but never listened to.

Regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by enthusiastic metal journalist and fellow Distorted Sound writer Phil Cooper, the two discussing everything from their favourite songs to Blackadder Goes Fourth.

You can follow Didn't Go Platinum on Instagram and Threads at @dngplatinum, or email [email protected]

Phil is on Instagram here.

And you should definitely check out Those Once Loyal on Spotify.

Please ignore the fact that Tim calls it 'To Those Once Loyal' for the entire episode.

Put on your finest flannel shirt and lather your beard in fresh oil, Didn't Go Platinum returns to discuss Mastodon's divisive fifth album, The Hunter.

This record was a critical smash for the band, but is a long way from being a fan favourite and seems to have fallen out of the conversation. Host Tim Bolitho-Jones is joined by Bruce from the Noizze Podcast Network for a deep dive into a fantastic, if misunderstood album. And we find out what a burl is.

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The Megalodon is definitely extinct.

Didn't Go Platinum travels to Germany, circa 2006, to look at what may be the best metalcore album that most of you have never heard of: it's When Worlds Collide by Maroon.

Joining regular host Tim Bolitho-Jones is the one and only Dazz Freeman of the Bangers And Mosh podcast. The lads talk everything from veganism to mosh calls and that absolutely killer bit where Maroon go full power metal for around thirty seconds.

They also mercilessly rip the piss out of Brokencyde.

You can follow Didn't Go Platinum on Instagram and Threads at @dngplatinum or email us at [email protected]

You can find Dazz on Instagram.

And you can check out When Worlds Collide itself on Spotify.

No we don't mean Maroon 5, this is definitely not about Maroon 5.