That's Not Metal

Album Club toasts 20 years of AFI's goth punk masterpiece Sing the Sorrow, revisits one of the last big supergroups and the era it ended with Axewound's Vultures, and celebrates two underground punk and grind gems with Fall of Efrafa's Owsla and Genghis Tron's Dead Mountain Mouth.

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

We scheme the best ways to survive being a member of Slipknot and FMK with baddiecore, as the Summer Slaughter is confirmed to return, and Botch's reunion/final shows hit the UK in mindblowing style.

Releases:
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes
Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night
Crushed By Waves - More to Life
Blanket - Ceremonia
Restorations - Restorations
Mastiff - Deprecipice
BRAT - Social Grace
Zombi - Direct Inject
Hamferd - Men Guds hond er sterk
Khold - Du dommes til Dod
Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe
Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
Apparition - Disgraced Emanations from a Tranquil State
Civerous - Maze Envy
Aberration - Refracture
Sylvaine - Eg Er Framand
While She Sleeps - Self Hell
Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell
Boundaries - Death is Little More
Wristmeetrazor - Degeneration
Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet
Vial - Burnout
Teens In Trouble - What’s Mine
Coffin Storm - Arcana Rising
Mutiilation - Black Metal Cult
Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star
Verwoed - The Mother
Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness
Darkestrah - Nomad
Coffins - Sinister Oath
Hate Force - Systems of Terror
Septage - Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms)

That's Not Metal reviews for March are in absolute guitar heaven, and maybe hell, with Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Midnight, Gouge Away, Chapel of Disease, & Dödsrit.

Judas Priest 23:30
Bruce Dickinson 55:35
Midnight 1:24:56
Gouge Away 1:40:20
Chapel of Disease 1:58:20
Dödsrit 2:23:24

One of the biggest weeks for heavy touring in the UK peaks with a podcast-wide trip to Napalm Death's Campaign for Musical Destruction with Pig Destroyer, Primitive Man, and Wormrot, coming with sadly some sombre news from the PD camp.

Releases:
Kid Kapichi - There Goes the Neighbourhood
Scott Stapp - Higher Power
The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
Gouge Away - Deep Sage
Bleak - My Body is Not Where I Belong
DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors
Savage Oath - Divine Battle
Vltimas - Epic
Aborted - Vault of Horrors
Necrophobic - Into the Twilight Grey
Udåd -  Udåd
O ZORN! - Vermillion Haze
Greywind - Antidote
Comeback Kid - Trouble

Hyperblasts brings a report from London's Celestial Darkness Festival checking out rare bookings in the worlds of black, doom, & goth and sets from the likes of Primordial, Tribulation, & Ihsahn, and salute a formative band for TNM as Palm Reader announce their farewell.

Releases:
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond
Myrath - Karma
Kill the Lights - Death Melodies
Midnight - Hellish Expectations
Gost - Prophecy
Exhorder - Defectum Omnium
Skeletal Remains - Fragments of the Ageless
Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
Merrimack - Of Gravity and Grace
Isenordal - Requiem for Eirênê

The biggest piece of Slipknot drummer rumouring yet, some absolutely blistering tracks from Knocked Loose and Inter Arma, and probably the maddest band drama ever to unfold. We've all done it.

Releases:
Mick Mars - The Other Side of Mars
Ace Frehley - 10,000 Volts
Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is Over
Amaranthe - The Catalyst
Glitterer - Rationale
Shoreline - To Figure Out
Timelost - Drained
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being
The Body/Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven
Traveler - Prequel to Madness
Borknagar - Fall
Stygian Crown - Funeral for a King
Morta Skuld - Creation Undone
Vircolac - Veneration
Guiltless - Thorns
Paledusk - PALEHELL
Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project
Zakk Sabbath - Doomed Forever Forever Doomed
Ministry - Hopiumforthemasses
New Years Day - Half Black Heart
Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced
Firewind - Stand United
Suicidal Angels - Profane Prayer
Haunt - Dreamers
Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites
Sentry - Sentry
Messiah - Christus Hypercubus
Devastator - Conjurers of Cruelty
Saturnalia Temple - Paradigm Call
Celestial Sword - Nocturnal Divinity
Kontravoid - Detachment

February Album Clubs look at Fall Out Boy's initial send-off Folie a Deux, Kreator's proto-extreme masterpiece Pleasure to Kill, the oft brushed over Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent from Refused, and a decade of Beastmilk's last post-punk party at the end of the world Climax.

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

February reviews on TNM pop the hell off with Chelsea Wolfe, Alkaline Trio, Ihsahn, Job for a Cowboy, Darkest Hour, Spectral Voice, Hulder & Slope, and reactions to the bamboozling news of Slayer's return and Ascendancy + The Poison tours.

Chelsea Wolfe 57:00
Alkaline Trio 1:23:40
Ihsahn 1:39:18
Job for a Cowboy 2:01:12
Darkest Hour 2:19:57
Spectral Voice 2:35:21
Hulder 2:55:38
Slope 3:09:25

Hyperblasts checks out the new single from Pearl Jam, tours from Malevolence and The Menzingers, and very exciting headliner announcements from Outbreak and Damnation.

Releases:
Idles - Tangk
Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here
Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head
Ihsahn - Ihsahn
Bokassa - All Out of Dreams
Profiler - A Digital Nowhere
Shooting Daggers - Love & Rage
GVLLOW - Twin Flames
The Obsessed - Gilded Sorrow
Praise the Plague - Suffocating in the Current of Time
Darkspace - Dark Space -II
Pestilength - Solar Clorex

Kerry King is back on the scene with all of the details surrounding his first album since Slayer, as well as some spicy interview snippets, and there's huge tours on both sides of the Atlantic. The Grammys also exist.

Releases:
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Yellowcard + Hammock - A Hopeful Sign
The Chisel - What a F*cking Nightmare
The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This
The Last Ten Seconds of Life - No Name Graves
Haystack - Doomsday Goes Away
Morbid Saint - Swallowed By Hell
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
Hulder - Verses In Oath
Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light
Petrification - Sever Sacred Light
Zwielicht - The Aphotic Embrace
Theophonos - Ashes in the Huron River
Hannes Grossmann - Echoes of Eternity