That's Not Metal

We've got a big catch-up chat talking about Sam's trip to a Tokyo hardcore show, tours from Orange Goblin, Cannibal Corpse, and Frank Carter fronting the Sex Pistols, leading into a discussion of the surprising news around The Rattlesnakes calling a hiatus and their potential future, and questions around nostalgia festival booking double standards and which band we'd want to see "do a Wintersun".

Releases:
High Parasite - Forever We Burn
Weather Systems - Ocean Without a Shore
Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found
Adorior - Bleed On My Teeth
Spite - The Third Temple
Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Undeath - More Insane
Fever 333 - Darker White
Trash Boat - Heaven Can Wait
Balance and Composure - With You In Spirit
Drug Church - Prude
Chubby and the Gang - And Then There Was…
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
1349 - The Wolf and the King
Lowen - Do Not Go to War With the Demons of Mazandaran
Cosmic Putrefaction - Emerald Fires Atop the Farewell Mountains
Maul - In the Jaws of Bereavement
Motley Crue - Cancelled
Sylosis - The Path
The Offspring - Supercharged
Myles Kennedy - The Art of Letting Go
Real Friends - Blue Hour
Touche Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line
Envy - Eunoia
The Linda Lindas - No Obligation
Chat Pile - Cool World
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Doedsmaghird - Omniverse Consciousness
The Crown - Crown of Thorns
Vomit Forth - Terrified of God
De Mannen Broeders - Sober Maal

Autumn releases arrive with the album for the season, a huge return, and several much hyped debuts to assess, from Unto Others, The Black Dahlia Murder, Nightwish, Zetra, Heriot, Vended, Vicious Blade, & The Jesus Lizard.

Unto Others 21:45
The Black Dahlia Murder 57:55
Nightwish 1:19:30
Zetra 1:37:58
Heriot 1:52:42
Vended 2:08:41
Vicious Blade 2:27:34
The Jesus Lizard 2:38:44

Album Club is back with Slayer's sunset on their imperial era Seasons in the Abyss, My Bloody Valentine's shoegaze starting gun Loveless, a comprehensive look back on the divisive effect of Cancer Bats' Searching for Zero, and Blood Incantation's Starspawn blasting death metal through the stargate.

This episode was originally published July 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Another UK live event hits with Cosmic Void Festival and Cirith Ungol's UK date on their final tour, Iron Maiden announce their huge 50th anniversary tour, The Cure start to finally tease new music, and there's the unfortunate Jane's Addiction punch-up implosion to deal with.

Releases:
Nightwish - Yesterwynde
Unto Others - Never, Neverland
Vended - Vended
Crimson Veil - Hex
Charlotte Wessels - The Obsession
Kublai Khan TX - Exhibition of Prowess
Regional Justice Center - Freedom Sweet Freedom
Giant Walker - Silhouettes
Alunah - Fever Dream
Demon Head - Through Holes Shine the Stars
Dungeon Crawl - Maze Controller
Glacial Tomb - Lightless Expanse
Coffin Rot - Dreams of the Disturbed
Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
Mork - Syv
Dreamless Veil - Every Limb of the Flood
Esoctrilihum - Döth-Derniàlh
Deathless Void - The Voluptuous Fire of Sin

We take a trip to No Play Festival to see SeeYouSpaceCowboy and a day of UK hardcore bands, and follow up on last week's Linkin Park announcement with, well... all of that. Not the conversation we imagined having last time.

Releases:
Pyrrhon - Exhaust
Man’s Gin - The Reprobate
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
Cursive - Devourer
Nada Surf - Moon Mirror
Chastity - Chastity
Zetra - Zetra
Oceans of Slumber - Where Gods Fear to Speak
Satan - Songs In Crimson
Wolfbrigade - Life Knife Death
Slomosa - Tundra Rock
Torus - Torus
Dale Crover - Glossolalia
Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
Trelldom - …by the Shadows…
Taur-im-Duinath - Verso casa
NightWraith - Divergence

The fruits of Linkin Park's rollout emerge with all of the details of their reunion and return, Slam Dunk leads with its first announcements for 2025, there's trouble in the W.A.S.P. camp, and there's a live report from NWOBHM cult legends Satan.

Releases:
Rat Lord - Blazed in the Northern Sky
Enumclaw - Home In Another Life
Boston Manor - Sundiver
40 Watt Sun - Little Weight
Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa
Aluk Todolo - LUX
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
Helvetets Port - Warlords
God is an Astronaut - Embers
God Dethroned - The Judas Paradox
PeelingFlesh - The G Code
Bodysnatcher - Vile Conduct
Laura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals - Give An Inch

Album Clubs kick off with an EP that set it all alight with Nine Inch Nails' Broken, Baroness make modern rock's great double album Yellow & Green, The Hotelier hit an emo revival high Home, Like Noplace Is There, and Satyricon take black'n'roll to the mainstream with Now, Diabolical.

This episode was originally published May 2023 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

The big reunion the world was apparently waiting happens with Oasis, but it was nearly two in week with Deryck Whibley finding himself at the centre of a storm of confusion, plus talk on the comedy metal albums we actually like.

Releases:
Stand Atlantic - Was Here
Simone Simons - Vermillion
Within the Ruins - Phenomena II
Uniform - American Standard
Melt-Banana - 3+5
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire
Koldbrann - Ingen Skansel
Gravenoire - Devant La Porte Des Etoiles
Black Birch - Black Birch
Demiser - Slave to the Scythe
Nil / Castle of the Winds - Bastard Sons of Tyranny
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum XX
Wintersun - Time II
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
Leprous - Melodies of Atonement
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God
Thrown - Excessive Guilt
Oceano - Living Chaos
Satan’s Satyrs - After Dark
Phaëthon - Wielder of the Steel
Teeth - The Will of Hate
Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Deceased - Children of the Morgue
Concrete Winds - Concrete Winds
Avmakt - Satanic Inversion of…
Copse - MMXXIV
Cutdown - To the Grave
Chelsea Wolfe - Undone
Hellripper - Fork-Tongued Messiah

Actual mythical albums lead this month's album reviews, as we discuss the actually real Wintersun album Time II, the comeback of Nails, Zeal & Ardor, Twin Atlantic, Four Year Strong, Leprous, & Nile.

Wintersun 40:06
Nails 1:21:18
Zeal & Ardor 1:50:16
Twin Atlantic 2:06:28
Four Year Strong 2:24:22
Leprous 2:37:44
Nile 2:51:32

We're back for our annual report from Bloodstock Festival where Opeth, Architects, & Amon Amarth headlined atop Malevolence, Clutch, Satyricon, Whitechapel, Hatebreed, Green Lung, & plenty more.