That's Not Metal

A mega edition of Hyperblasts finds TNM conducting a critical reflection on the legacy of YMAS with the news of their impending farewell, a moment you either feared would come or never come. There's also crazy new music in the form of Kaonashi's new EP, and some crazy choices in the form of Download's stage splits.

Releases:
Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow
Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
The Infernal Sea - Hellfenlic
Olhava - Sacrifice
Unsouling - Vampiric Spiritual Drain
Knoll - As Spoken
Eye Flys - Eye Flys
Junta - Junta
Death Killer - Total Destruction of the Entire Universe
Mountain Caller - Chronicle II: Hypergenesis
GUHTS - Regeneration
Slower - Slower
Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace
Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart
Vitriol - Suffer & Become
Cognizance - Phantazein
Whitechapel - Live in the Valley
Dream State - Still Dreaming
Kaonashi - The 3 Faces of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan Montgomery
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Sun
Jesu - Hard to Reach
Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology
Being as an Ocean - Death Can Wait
Reconciler - Art for Our Sake
meth. - Shame
Utopia - Shame
Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize
Myrath - Karma
Striker - Overpower
Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal
Dwarrowdelf - The Fallen Leaves
Stages of Decomposition - Raptures of Psychopathy
Ghoul - Noxious Concoctions
Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

One of the most farcical yet often great review gauntlets opens TNM 2024, with efforts from Green Day, Neck Deep, Saxon, Lucifer, Upon Stone, Rough Justice... and Lord of the Lost's 90 minute cover album.

Green Day 3:35
Neck Deep 34:19
Lord of the Lost 52:08
Saxon 1:18:19
Lucifer 1:41:15
Upon Stone 1:55:35
Rough Justice 2:13:36

New Year Hyperblasts continue with an in-depth report from Bring Me the Horizon's Nex Gen tour with Bad Omens, Cassyette, and Static Dress, representing a state of the address at the start of 2024.

Releases:
Green Day - Saviors
Neck Deep - Neck Deep
Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation
Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon
Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence
Slift - Ilion
Kontact - Full Contact
Master - Saints Dispelled
Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory
Vemod - The Deepening
Sexual Perverts - Sex Maniac…Forever
Heavy Sentence - Warriors of Madness

That's Not Metal is back for the first episode of 2024 covering the big news from the beginning of the year, announcement straight away of the year's first special, plus a big thank you.

Releases:
Peyton Parrish - Soul
Sprints - Letter to Self
Gray State - Under the Wheels of Progress
Haywire 617 - Conditioned for Demolition
Rejoice - All of Heaven’s Luck
Cancer Christ - God is Violence
Svdestada - Candela
Casey - How to Disappear
Rough Justice - Faith In Vain
Ryujin - Ryujin
Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two
Alluvial - Death is but a Door
Lifesick - Love and Other Lies
Extinction A.D. - Ruthless Intent
Escuela Grind - DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL

Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the house... The TNM Awards hit back crowning the heroes and villains, menaces and marvels of 2023:
Most Improved Band
Song of the Year
Worst Song of the Year
Hero of the Year
Villain of the Year
Best New Band
Biggest Disappointment
Gig of the Year
EP of the Year
Artwork of the Year
Movie of the Year
Comeback of the Year
Surprise of the Year
Outstanding Achievement
Worst Band of the Year
Unsung Heroes
Story of the Year
Band of the Year

The second load of That's Not Metal Albums of the Year come from Mark and Sam, and crucially in a year of some of the most divisive albums we announce the results of the listener AOTY poll.

The end of the year at TNM is nigh; it's time to cut the ribbon and begin crowning our top 20 albums, as Perran and Elliot start off with all of the great musical colour and invention that has graced our ears in 2023.

News show close for 2023 with acknowledgement of the passing of Killing Joke's Geordie Walker, before turning to more new music from ex-Black Peaks members and Video Nasties, and some very exciting Glenn Danzig news.

Releases:
Future Static - Liminality
Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions
Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul
Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness
Kvelgeyst - Blut, Milch und Thranen
Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation of Suffering
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
Mouth Culture - Mishaps of My Mid Twenties
Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang
Bjorko - Heartrot
Varathon - The Crimson Temple
Going Off - Kill List
Health - Rat Wars

The final reviews bag of 2023 is a brilliant one, with loads of late year contenders: The Gaslight Anthem, Green Lung, Dying Wish, NOBRO, Autopsy, Wayfarer, Underdark, & Malokarpatan.

The Gaslight Anthem 24:45
Green Lung 50:42
Dying Wish 1:11:20
NOBRO 1:27:30
Autopsy 1:42:46
Wayfarer 2:02:52
Underdark 2:22:46
Malokarpatan 2:37:30

When We Were Young pulls an insane choice, Slipknot drummer rumours abound, and live reports from Creeper and future Download headliners Queens of the Stone Age among others.

Releases:
Dolly Parton - Rock Star
High Spirits - Safe on the Other Side
Racetraitor - Creation and the Timeless Order of Things
C.L.S.M. - Infinity Shit
Plaguemace - Reptilian Warlords
Foetal Juice - Grotesque
Sadus - The Shadow Inside
Aeturnus - Philosopher
King - Fury and Death
Bewitcher - Deep Cuts & Shallow Graves
Earthside - Let the Truth Speak
Soars - Repeater
Celeste - Epilogue(s)