That's Not Metal

Paramore add to the Taylor Swift ticket buying crisis, Lil Uzi Vert drops collabs with Bring Me the Horizon and Babymetal on unsuspecting hip-hop listeners, and Iron Maiden's Future Past tour hits the UK.

Releases:
Will Haven - VII
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
Fen - Monuments to Absence
Astral Tomb - Total Spiritual Death
Bloodbound - Tales from the North
The Raven Age - Blood Omen
Better Lovers - God Made Me An Animal

We return to Outbreak Fest to see how the UK's biggest hardcore fest with sets from Code Orange, Converge & more integrates huge hip-hop acts into its bill for one of the now most innovative and genre-experimental weekends in the heavy music calendar.

Releases:
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
Royal Thunder - Rebuilding the Mountain
Creeping Death - Boundless Domain
Sunami - Sunami
Vulture Industries - Ghosts from the Past
Home is Where - The Whaler
Saturnus - The Storm Within
Thy Catafalque - Alföld
Swans - The Beggar
Trophy Eyes - Suicide and Sunshine
Mental Cruelty - Zwielicht
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun
Burner - It All Returns to Nothing
Tsjuder - Helvegr
Xasthur - Inevitably Dark
Ebony Pendant - Ebony Pendant
Wilt - Huginn
Loma Prieta - Last
Static Abyss - Aborted From Reality
Coffin Mulch - Spectral Intercession
Grotesqueries - Vile Crematory
Khanate - To Be Cruel
Divide and Dissolve - Systemic

We close the year's Album Club packs with the last time Tom DeLonge returned to Blink-182 with Neighborhoods, the returning Heck's Instructions, Anaal Nathrakh releasing the most venomous metal record ever made The Codex Necro, and remembering the time Christopher Lee made heavy metal records about Charlemagne and shed the blood of the Saxon men.

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

Avenged Sevenfold make the most daring and unhinged album of their generation, in a review episode colossus with new works from Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Rancid, Pupil Slicer, Vexed, Godflesh, & PONY.

Avenged Sevenfold 9:21
Foo Fighters 1:14:53
Queens of the Stone Age 1:37:15
Rancid 1:59:05
Pupil Slicer 2:09:30
Vexed 2:27:49
Godflesh 2:39:32
PONY 2:54:09

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