Album Club Pack returns for Round 2, landing a hard rocking grunge classic in Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, The Defiled's independent industrial metalcore debut Grave Times, a 2010s alt rock cornerstone in Basement's Colourmeinkindness, and an extreme metal Valentine's Day special on Bloodbath's Nightmares Made Flesh.

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

A lot later than intended due to the small matter of needing a whole new microphone, but finally the That's Not Metal review of Bloodstock Festival 2022 is here! Perran is joined by Elliot Paisley to talk the UK heavy metal event headlined by Behemoth, Mercyful Fate, and Lamb of God.

The first new music from Fugitive featuring members of Power Trip and Creeping Death is here, with Ozzy and Iommi appearing at the Commonwealth games, and trying to reach for what are the worst albums we still secretly love.

Releases:
Arch Enemy - Deceivers
The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost
Norma Jean - Deathrattle Sing for Me
Hollywood Undead - Hotel Kalifornia
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Locrian - New Catastrophisms
AEIR - A Frith Befouled
Acid Blade - Power Dive
Weregoat - The Devil’s Lust
Kreator - Live at Bloodstock 2021

There's festival news around the world from Music Midtown's gun-caused cancellation to theorising on the identity of Bloodstock's first ever secret band, picking what bands would be on a TNM tour in 2022, and we cast our eyes over the clues that suggest Botch might actually be reuniting after all. If they're not trolling.

Releases:
The Interrupters - In the Wild
Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army
Soulfly - Totem
Dub War - Westgate Under Fire
Savage Master - Those Who Hunt At Night
The Flatliners - New Ruin
Mercy Union - White Tiger
Hot Milk - The King and Queen of Gasoline
Psycroptic - Divine Council
Abaddon Incarnate - The Wretched Sermon
Ether Coven - The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail
Liminal Shroud - All Virtues Ablaze
Wampyric Rites - The Wolves Howl to the Moon

On the eve of their new album release we're joined by Cammie Gilbert of Oceans of Slumber to talk about Louisiana sludge, classic Seattle, turbulent Americana and Scandinavian folk-pop.

Agents of Oblivion - Agents of Oblivion

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral

Soundgarden - Superunknown

The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars

Eivør - Slør

This episode was originally published as early access on patreon.com/thatsnotmetal.

A heavy rock band are actually up for the Mercury Music Prize for once, we pick the best riffs of 2022 and the best songs to test your headphones with, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are back at it again.

Releases:
Ithaca - They Fear Us
Dune Rats - Real Rare Whale
Stick to Your Guns - Spectre
Bastions - Majestic Desolation
Dance Gavin Dance - Jackpot Juicer
Beach Rats - Rat Beat
Unwritten Law - The Hum
Anberlin - Silverline
Funeral Chic - Roman Candle
Krisiun - Mortem Solis
Triumvir Foul - Onslaught to Seraphim

It's time for one of modern metal's great traditions, the lowdown on a full new Slipknot era with reactions to new album, new songs and new masks. There's also a contentious new A Day to Remember single coming out of the You're Welcome cycle, as well as heavy discussion on what rising ticket prices at Download Festival could mean, and remembrance of one of heavy metal's great modern painters Mariusz Lewandowski.

Releases:
Deaf Havana - The Present is a Foreign Land
Senses Fail - Hell is in Your Head
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead - XI: Bleed Here Now
The Ever Living - Artificial Devices
Mantar - Pain is Forever and This is the End
Haunt - Windows of Your Heart
Fellowship - The Saberlight Chronicles
Behold! The Monolith - From the Fathomless Deep
Inhuman Condition - Fearsick
Molder - Engrossed In Decay
Maul - Seraphic Punishment
Hissing - Hypervirulence Architecture
Tombs - Ex Oblivion
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy
Oceans of Slumber - Starlight and Ash
Witchery - Nightside
Palisades - Reaching Hypercritical
Wake - Thought Form Descent
Castrator - Defiled In Oblivion
Nicolas Cage Fighter - The Bones That Grew From Pain
Teethgrinder - Dystopia
Nebula - Transmission from Mothership Earth
Karl Sanders - Saurian Apocalypse
Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain
Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
Pool Kids - Pool Kids

Album Club has a brand new home, giving you a month's worth of classic records in one swoop as our first episode positions Enter Shikari's A Flash Flood of Colour as the springboard for their next ten years, unearths Porcupine Tree's information age prog dystopia Fear of a Blank Planet, considers the untapped potential of Black Peaks' All That Divides, and tries to do justice to the profound heartbreaker that is Woods of Ypres' Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light.

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

Incredibly dense and rich albums populate reviews with a returning Porcupine Tree, Conjurer, Greg Puciato, Ithaca, Imperial Triumphant, Blood Command, Wormrot, and Oceans of Slumber, but news that Pantera are "reuniting" seems maddest of all.

Porcupine Tree 38:16
Conjurer 56:05
Greg Puciato 1:18:49
Ithaca 1:32:35
Imperial Triumphant 1:46:25
Blood Command 2:07:12
Wormrot 2:26:20
Oceans of Slumber 2:44:10

Having made Kate Bush the most popular artist on planet Earth, we talk about the Stranger Things train lifting Metallica's Master of Puppets to similar heights, as well as the best metalhead character in popular media in years.

Releases:
Wormrot - Hiss
Vomit Forth - Seething Malevolence
Altars - Ascetic Reflection
Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous
The Machinist - All is Not Well
Telekinetic Yeti - Primordial