Fresh off one of the biggest weekends in UK rock festival history: the 20th anniversary Download Festival review, the full experience four day event featuring headlining sets from Slipknot, two unique Metallica sets, and a long-awaited graduation for Bring Me the Horizon.

Sam returns with a report on the organisational carnage at Slam Dunk as well as a trip to see Bruce Springsteen, and there's a very fresh look at the bizarre news surrounding Slipknot's activity and member change-ups.

Releases:
Godflesh - Purge
Torture Rack - Primeval Onslaught
Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
Geld - Currency // Castration
Johnny the Boy - You
Black Rainbows - Superskull
Superbloom - Life’s a Blur
Glass Casket - Glass Casket

A huge host of TNM faves are back with music as Creeper, Code Orange, Sylosis, Fever 333, and more offer themselves up, there's discussion around the news of Josh Middleton departing the Architects camp, Iron Maiden's Future Past tour setlist opened up, and everyone being in a right tizz at Royal Blood for saying some naughty words.

Releases:
Avenged Sevenfold - Life is But a Dream…
Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
Rancid - Tomorrow Never Comes
Buckcherry - Vol. 10
Pupil Slicer - Blossom
Tigercub - The Perfume of Decay
Bully - Lucky for You
Einar Solberg - 16
Tortured Demon - Rise of the Lifeless
Buggin - Concrete Cowboys
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
Bongzilla - Dab City
Necrofier - Burning Shadows in the Southern Light
Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis
American Nightmare - Dedicated to the Next World
Damim - World Turned Hell

Album Clubs look at some beloved cult records in Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time ahead of the Future Past tour, Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Descendents' foundational but thorny Milo Goes to College, and the murder psych rock breakthrough of Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' Blood Lust.

This episode was originally published October 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Sleep Token are taking the world by storm. It's the most significant heavy release of the year, and historically, none of us get it. In this podcast, we try and assess how as non-worshippers we interact with a record like this, and the role of the reviewer to take in everything.

Releases:
PONY - Velveteen
The Used - Toxic Positivity
The Ocean - Holocene
Botanist - VIII: Selenotrope
Vnder a Crvmbling Moon - I: Oblivion
Thulcandra - Hail the Abyss
Henget - Beyond North Star
Radien - Unissa palaneet
Vomitheist - NekoFvneral
Blood Cult - Tomb of the Unknown Redneck
Mystic Prophecy - Hellriot
The Dirty Nil - Free Rein to Passions
Immortal - War Against All
Incendiary - Change the Way You Think About Pain
Elegant Weapons - Horns for a Halo
Metal Church - Congregation of Annihilation
AJJ - Disposable Everything
Heart Attack Man - Freak of Nature
Legion of the Damned - The Poison Chalice
Vomitory - All Heads are Gonna Roll
Cloak - Black Flame Eternal
Speedwhore - Visions of a Parallel World
Usnea - Bathed In Light
Phlebotomized - Clouds of Confusion
Ondfødt - Det Österbottniska Mörkret
Darkthrone - Thulcandra
Mournful Congregation - The Exuviae of Gods - Part II
Som - Faith

Eurovision goes into metal overdrive, and we review six of the month's biggest heavy releases from The Dirty Nil, Cattle Decapitation, Frozen Soul, Immortal, Drain, & Hot Mulligan. Big time for ice-people and shirt-tuggers.

The Dirty Nil 26:34
Cattle Decapitation 44:19
Frozen Soul 1:14:55
Immortal 1:30:20
Drain 1:49:01
Hot Mulligan 1:59:20

TNM considers and salutes the careers of departing bands Sum 41 and Dark Fortress, looks at new music from Queens of the Stone Age, Thy Art is Murder, and 30 Seconds to Mars, asks whether Billy Corgan paying a ransom was worth it, and takes a brief look at the rising trend of AI music in metal.

Releases:
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow
The Acacia Strain - Step Into the Light
DevilDriver - Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
The Amity Affliction - Not Without My Ghosts
Veil of Maya - [m]other
Left to Suffer - Feral
Black Spiders - Can’t Die, Won’t Die
De Forbandede - Menneske
Island of Love - Island of Love
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise
Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse
Impetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
Esoctrilihum - Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac
Grave Desecrator - Immundissime Spiritus

Bring Me the Horizon are still making music for Emo Girls, we check out Metallica's opening setlists for their No Repeats tour, put some venues to the sword in order to save Brixton Academy, and take the moment to assess who the best live band in the world is in 2023.

Releases:
Drain - Living Proof
Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous
Therapy? - Hard Cold Fire
Dave Lombardo - Rites of Percussion
Currents - The Death We Seek
Death Goals - A Garden of Dead Flowers
Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
Enforcer - Nostalgia
Haunt - Golden Arm
Herod - Iconoclast
Shit Present - What Still Gets Me
Teeth - A Biblical Worship of Violence

September's Album Clubs see Anthrax making the Big 4 with Among the Living, Taking Back Sunday's Louder Now explosion, one of hardcore's most underloved albums in Gallows' self-titled, and ahead of deploying it at Damnation Festival Pig Destroyer's psychotic masterpiece Prowler in the Yard.

This episode was originally published September 2022 on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

Hyperblasts weighs in on the calls for Brixton Academy's license to be permanently revoked, the Trophy Eyes moshing debate, and a stinky Beartooth track, as well as a jubilant trip to Paramore's UK leg of the This is Way tour.

Releases:
Enforced - War Remains
Cradle of Filth - Trouble and Their Double Lives
Dangerface - Be Damned!
The Damned - Darkadelic
Crown the Empire - Dogma
Vamachara - No Roses On My Grave
Mat Kerekes - You Look Like a Stranger
Dave Hause - Drive It Like It’s Stolen
Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations
Austere - Corrosion of Hearts
Wallowing - Earth Reaper
Lucifuge - Monoliths of Wrath
Swollen Teeth - Swollen Teeth