First and foremost, we try to speak to the awful loss of Every Time I Die legend Andy Williams. From there we tackle new singles from Slipknot and Spiritbox, the hallucinatory hellscape stories related to Muse's Meta troubles and Breaking Benjamin's modder feud tirades, and put our tin foil hats to theorise that SURELY the Gallows teasing can't just be for vinyl reissues...

Releases:
Green Lung - Necropolitan
Brian Fallon - Not Bad for New Jersey
The Meffs - Business
Wrong Man - Here’s That Feeling
Killing of a Sacred Deer - Encephalic Angels
Harlott - Exsequiis
Dreadnought - Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light
Archgoat - Nightbringer, Lightbringer
Fluisteraars - Jacht der Mysterien
Epitaphe - III

This week we look back on a historic moment of live music for our podcast in our combined Big Goth Weekend with a run of shows from The Cure, Outbreak/All Points East with an epochal headlining set from Deftones, and our AFI watch finally being brought to an end with their first UK headline shows in 16 years.

Releases:
Mastodon - Marrow Deep
Beartooth - Pure Ecstasy
In This Moment - Witch
Dinosaur Jr. - There Near
Kamelot - Dark Asylum
Flotsam and Jetsam - Rats in the Temple
Exumer - Death Mask Messiah
Ninth Realm - Damnation’s Veil
Russian Circles - Nine
Kulk - Choosing to Die
Rat Cage - Not Asking for Much
Static Abyss - The Dying Hunt
Gorod - The Ember Gone
Epicardiectomy - Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular Cadaverosis
Turn of Phrase - Out in the Water 
President - Blood of Your Empire
Showing Teeth - A Fate Worse Than Loneliness
Gradience - Anomaly
Airbourne - Airbourne
Audrey Horne - Achilles
156/Silence - From a Distance
Judiciary - Stalagmite Angels
Movements - Happier Now
Sleep - Hempispheres
Chat Pile - Who Loves the Sun
Arab Strap - Half-Told Tales
Sigh - Goh-ka
Devil Master - Bloody Dreams
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex
Tales of Perdition - The Theatre of Existence
Behemoth - I, Scvlptor

Rivers Cuomo's QR code woes, some goth-pop flourish and questioning what even is an album lead the way for TNM reviews this time with Weezer's Gold Album, Chelsea Wolfe, Electric Callboy, Living Weapon, The Night Eternal, and Zorn going under the magnifying glass.

Weezer 30:05
Chelsea Wolfe 1:07:20
Electric Callboy 1:34:27
Living Weapon 1:58:41
The Night Eternal 2:14:36
Zorn 2:25:33

Chelsea Wolfe's new album release show and Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American set arrive for a lucky few in the UK, there's new music from Haywire, God's Hate, and Down, the sad news of the passing of legendary ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard, extreme legend Justin Broadrick's appearance on the new Phoebe Bridgers album, and the craziest stadium support act announcement of all time.

Releases:
Weezer - Weezer (The Gold Album)
Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark
The Night Eternal - Cold Velvet
Fen - Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth
Azatoth - Carnal Lust of Blasphemy
God’s Hate - Won’t Be Disgraced
Dark Funeral - A Beast to Praise

This week we discuss how Bloodstock's 2027 announcement doubles down on a new direction, and pull out some of the lesser discussed gems within the line-up.

Releases:
Various Artists - A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins: Sending Hearts to All My Dearies
Dead Tired - Hornets of Fall
Living Weapon - Death in the Family
Sweeping Promises - You Say I Romanticize
Invocation Ritual - Altered Reality
Holissstik - Chapter 1: This Endless Solitude

After a week of exasperating and confusing news we discuss the unconfirmed firing of Sid Wilson by Slipknot and Merauder's absolutely bizarre crashout, as well as big live announcements from Wacken, Megadeth, Mick Gordon, and the potential dungeon synth takeover of hardcore.

Releases:
Electric Callboy - Tanzneid
John Carpenter - Cathedral
Cancer Bats - Give Me Dirt
Citizen - Halcyon Blues
Jamie Lenman - Puke
Ceremony - Tell Me Your Dream
Public Opinion - The Curse of Public Opinion
Negative Frame - Break the Ice
Wealthy Women - Children
Hulder - Verbolgen
Dymna Lotva - Vyraj
Horrifier - Revelations of Gore

This humid summer gets that bit muckier as we check out the UK's growing slam, brutal death metal, and goregrind event at Offal Fest, as well as check in on Avenged Sevenfold's latest piece of craziness, and sadly speak to the passing of all time pillar of hardcore Lou Koller of Sick of It All.

Releases:
Waterparks - Jinx
No Pressure - NP Style
The Hu - Hun
Madball - Not Your Kingdom
REZN - Cycles in the Infinite Dream
Jordsjø - Pestkrønikene
Sallow Moth - Hydrophilous Brood
Linnéa RK Olsson - Perfect Wave
Five Finger Death Punch - Legacy
Disfiguring the Goddess - Bloom
Nothingness - Godslaughter
Altarage - Cogwheel
Lipoma - Infernal Wounds of Ravenous Flesh
Jig-Ai - Jigoku
Taake - En skog av nidstang
Long Goodbye - A Whispered Promise of Failure
Shearling - Don’t Look at Me the Way a Dog Might Look at Your Leg

At least one of the most anticipated heavy albums this decade hits our radars this month as Loathe, Muse, The Menzingers, The Xcerts, Fuming Mouth, No Cure, and Arise From Worms are reviewed, along with speculation about the seemingly imminent return of Gallows.

Loathe 37:32
Muse 1:09:13
The Menzingers 1:31:55
The Xcerts 1:49:20
Fuming Mouth 2:11:10
No Cure 2:24:04
Arise From Worms 2:33:29

It's the week where br00tal returned (and football season is over), as we make our way to Bring Me the Horizon's Count Your Blessings | Repented shows and into the re-recorded album for the biggest event in 2006 deathcore since... 2006.

Releases:
Final Resting Place - Third World Tribunal
Loathe - A Stranger to You
Motionless In White - Decades
Boundaries - Yearning: The unbeautiful after
Protest the Hero - Within
As It Is - As It Is
The Menzingers - Everything I Ever Saw
Quicksand - Bring on the Psychics
Fuming Mouth - The Ringing Bell
Fed Ash + HIRS - I AM BODY HORROR
Left to Die - Initium Mortis
Psycroptic - The Pulse of Annihilation
Imperium - Exodus Unknown
Emptiness - Nowhere Speaks
Haken - In a Fever Dream
Red Method - As In Life

Sound the charge, into glory ride, as Album Clubs look at the maddening effect Twenty One Pilots' ragga-pop Blurryface had on rock, the most metal band of all Manowar's debut Battle Hymns, Turnover's mastering of emo dreampop on Peripheral Vision, and one of the 21st century's greatest and wickedest rock bands The Devil's Blood with The Time of Time No Evermore.

This episode was originally published July 2025 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.