Sam catches a double helping of Better Lovers, and Sick New World announces its lineup for 2024.

Releases:
Creeper - Sanguivore
The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True
Beartooth - The Surface
Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
Twin Temple - God is Dead
Årabrot - Of Darkness and Light
Free Throw - Lessons That We Swear to Keep
The Keening - Little Bird
Gévaudan - Umbra
Body Void - Atrocity Machine
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Krieg - Ruiner
Gruzja - Koniec Wakacji
Slidhr - White Hart!
Laster - Andermans Mijne
Sadistic Force - Midnight Assassin
Acid Blade - Shooting Star

This week we review two new albums from bands who have changed the modern sonic make-up of hardcore in Harm's Way's industrial brutality Common Suffering, and Code Orange's latest (divisive as always) piece of their ongoing conceptual evolution as they go up into The Above.

Releases:
Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask
Of Mice & Men - Tether
Capra - Errors
Carnifex - Necromanteum
Citizen - Calling the Dogs
Prong - State of Emergency
Heavy Load - Riders of the Ancient Storm
Blodet - Death Mother
October Tide - The Cancer Pledge
Spider God - Blackened: Pink

Our September Album Club Pack is a Damnation Fest special as we look at four diverse records from heavy history being showcased at this event: Leprous' prog majesty Coal, Unearth's Oncoming Storm, Deadguy's deranged Fixation on a Coworker, and Akercocke's sexy suit Choronzon.

Album Club normally goes up at patreon.com/thatsnotmetal, but teaming up with Damnation Festival, this one's on us straight away. Enjoy!

Some weeks just get overrun by drama: Thy Art is Murder's quite unbelievable decision to replace the vocals on their album in a week has the extended discussion that such a subject warrants, Bloodstock complete their 2023 headliners, and there's an intriguing LiveNation merch cuts scheme. Simmering down, we talk Busted.

Releases:
Samurai Pizza Cats - You’re Hellcome
Heart of a Coward - This Place Brings Only Death
Guilt Trip - Severance
3TEETH - EndEx
KEN Mode - Void
Kill Devil Hill - Seas of Oblivion
Pkew Pkew Pkew - Siiick Days
Sincere Engineer - Cheap Grills
Profanatica - Crux Simplex
Final Gasp - Mourning Moon
Silence in the Snow - Ghost Eyes
Mourning - Hive of Resentment
Blood Command - World Domination
Code Orange - The Above
Harm’s Way - Common Suffering
Koyo - Would You Miss It?
Grove Street - The Path to Righteousness
Primordial - How It Ends
Maggot Heart - Hunger
Black Stone Cherry - Screamin’ At the Sky
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
Gunship - Unicorn
KK’s Priest - The Sinner Rides Again
Graveyard - 6
Asinhell - Impii Hora
Nervosa - Jailbreak
‘68 - Yes, and…
Filth is Eternal - Find Out
Ruin Lust - Dissimulant
Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
Woe - Legacies of Frailty
Iskandr - Spiritus Sylvestris
Wolves in the Throne Room - Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge

In the busiest month of the year TNM reviews Corey Taylor, Baroness, Sylosis, Blood Command, Kvelertak, Empire State Bastard, Cannibal Corpse, & Hexvessel, toast the achievements of the departing Dawn Ray'd, and ask... WHO did Stef Carpenter tell about the new Deftones album?!

Corey Taylor 38:00
Baroness 1:06:37
Sylosis 1:25:31
Blood Command 1:43:35
Kvelertak 2:06:11
Empire State Bastard 2:21:57
Cannibal Corpse 2:37:48
Hexvessel 2:55:27

Nickelback and Massacre both draw conversational lines in the sand, and While She Sleeps release a new track that goes full... something.

Releases:
30 Seconds to Mars - It’s the End of the World But It’s a Beautiful Day
Corey Taylor - CMF2
Baroness - Stone
Tesseract - War of Being
Ash - Race the Night
Danko Jones - Electric Sounds
Pain of Truth - Not Through Blood
Magnitude - Of Days Renewed…
Worriers - Trust Your Gut
Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night
Explosions in the Sky - End
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
Brujeria - Esto es Brujeria
Gridlink - Coronet Jupiter
Shining - Shining
Alkaloid - Numen
Fabricant - Drudge to the Thicket
Altarage - Worst Case Scenario
Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge
Mayhem - Daemonic Rites

Sleep Token have to call out impersonators and we call out "presidential bid" publicity stunts. Also a week of gig reports from Hot Mulligan/Spanish Love Songs, The Story So Far, Dawn Ray'd, and Full of Hell/Antichrist Siege Machine.

Releases:
Sylosis - A Sign of Things to Come
Kvelertak - Endling
Angel Du$t - Brand New Soul
UnityTX - Ferality
Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death
Myrath - Karma
Uada - Crepuscule Natura
Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns
Slomatics - Strontium Fields
Fire Down Below - Low Desert Surf Club
Domkraft - Sonic Moons
Nasty - Heartbreak Criminals
With Honor - Boundless
Captain Planet - Come On, Cat
Excarnated Entity - Mass Grave Horizon
Monolord - It’s All the Same
Acranius - Amoral

The Album Club Pack is back for a second year as we look at Linkin Park's experimental A Thousand Suns, Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese, the sleeper crossover influence of Iron Age's The Sleeping Eye, and cower beneath the unreachable pinnacle of caveman horror death metal meatheadedness that is Mortician's Chainsaw Dismemberment.

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

Job for a Cowboy finally release new music, Trivium hit the UK for their second tour of the year highlighting cuts from Shogun, and we talk the completed Damnation Festival bill and the bands we'd pay the most for.

Releases:
Holding Absence - The Noble Art of Self Destruction
The Armed - Perfect Saviors
Asking Alexandria - Where Do We Go From Here?
The Word Alive - Hard Reset
Hot Milk - A Call to the Void
Orbit Culture - Descent
Fiddlehead - Death is Nothing to Us
Dethklok - Dethalbum IV
Knife - Heaven Into Dust
Incantation - Unholy Deification
Godthrymm - Distortions
Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Nahab
Urfaust - Untergang
Drab Majesty - An Object In Motion
Full of Hell/Gasp - Split
Royal Blood - Back to the Water Below
Empire State Bastard - Rivers of Heresy
Polaris - Fatalism
Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode
Taking Meds - Dial M for Meds
Primal Fear - Code Red
Bio-Cancer - Revengeance
Grave Pilgrim - The Bigotry of Purpose
Undergang - De syv stadier af fordaerv

Some of the leaders in alt rock top reviews with Spanish Love Songs, The Xcerts, and Teenage Wrist, as well as new Skindred, Urne, Spirit Adrift, Horrendous, Celestial Sanctuary, and a conversation addressing recent comments from CJ McMahon.

Spanish Love Songs 37:20
The Xcerts 1:01:51
Teenage Wrist 1:22:55
Skindred 1:34:21
Urne 1:47:03
Spirit Adrift 2:01:35
Horrendous 2:12:22
Celestial Sanctuary 2:27:20