That's Not Metal

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

TNM returns to Bloodstock Festival for the 2023 event as Perran reports on sets from Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Triptykon, Meshuggah, Knocked Loose, Employed to Serve, and generally more heavy metal than you could shake a stick at.

We pore over the first Wacken announcement looking for festival clues for 2024, debate the worth of rock's various one hit wonders, and learn some mad stats about AC/DC's setlists.

Releases:
The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Urne - A Feast on Sorrow
Caskets - Reflections
Kataklysm - Goliath
Werewolves - My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me
Slugchild - Wounds Untold

Wacken caps its attendees early, Marmozets tease a return, Skindred announce their first Wembley show, and we poke the bands sitting on albums for too long. The return of Toolwatch?

Releases:
Teenage Wrist - Still Love
Skindred - Smile
Mammoth WVH - Mammoth II
Humanity’s Last Breath - Ashen
An Autumn for Crippled Children - Closure

TNM's Barbenheimer musical double bill moments, Roger Waters re-records Dark Side of the Moon like a mumbling lunatic, and as the aliens are confirmed here we pick our albums to try to communicate with them.

Releases:
Greta van Fleet - Starcatcher
As December Falls - Join the Club
James and the Cold Gun - James and the Cold Gun
Oxbow - Love’s Holiday
Mizmor - Prosaic
Agriculture - Agriculture
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium
Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes
Mutoid Man - Mutants
The Sun’s Journey Through the Night - Wordless
Sevendust - Truth Killer
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Slaughter On First Avenue

We spotlight a bunch of underground acts and fresh faces as we review new albums from Blackbraid, Mutoid Man, Torture Rack, Outer Heaven, Calligram, The Sun's Journey Through the Night, Temple of Angels, and Home is Where.

Apologies for the lower quality microphone recording as Elliot calls in, we'll be back to full capacity in no time.

Blackbraid 32:21
Mutoid Man 48:00
Torture Rack 56:20
Outer Heaven 1:05:06
Calligram 1:13:14
The Sun’s Journey Through the Night 1:20:53
Temple of Angels 1:29:59
Home is Where 1:40:55

The Ghost Inside make a stylistic shift and there's new album announcements from everybody, but it's all about the potential activity going on in the Creed camp as we wait with arms wide open.

Releases:
Voyager - Fearless In Love
Evile - The Unknown
Cavalera Conspiracy - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation
Eleine - We Shall Remain
Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit
Calligram - Position | Momentum
Chamber - A Love to Kill For
End Reign - The Way of All Flesh is Decay
Deitus - Irreversible